USAID Project Jobs – Senior M&E Specialist – Economic Growth & Food Security at QED Group, LLC

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Organization: QED Group, LLC
Project: USAID/Uganda
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Project
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: M&E Team
Lead
About QED:
The QED Group,
LLC is a full-service international development firm that provides practical
solutions to social problems through sound analysis, proven management
techniques, and creative implementation. We focus our efforts on two core
practice areas: Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management. We work
with U.S. agencies and overseas governments, international donors,
private-sector clients, and PVOs/NGOs in more than 80 countries around the
world. Key clients include USAID, the U.S. Department of State, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the
U.S. Trade and Development Agency.
About USAID Project:
The
USAID/Uganda Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning project (Learning Contract) is
the five-year organizational program support vehicle through which USAID/Uganda
will pursue realizing its development objectives within the complicated and
shifting Ugandan development context. 
The purpose of the Learning Contract is to provide monitoring,
evaluation and learning support services and build capacity of USAID/Uganda to
implement USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting methodology to
strengthen the implementation of USAID/Uganda’s Country Development Cooperation
Strategy and enhance USAID’s organizational effectiveness. 
Job Summary: The Senior
M&E Specialist-Economic Growth & Food Security will report to, and
support the M&E team lead in overseeing and ensure the successful provision
of M&E and learning services to USAID/Uganda.  The primary responsibilities of the Senior
M&E Specialist – Economic Growth /Food Security  (EG/FS) is to provide M&E, analytical and
sectoral technical assistance in the areas of economic growth, food security,
natural resource management, private sector, biodiversity and climate change.
All deliverables must be submitted to the M&E team lead, not the client,
unless otherwise directed.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:  
·        
Keenly review and guide Monitoring, Evaluation and
Learning Plans (MELPs) development process by implementing partners (IPs) to
strengthen their M, E&L systems.
·        
The incumbent will support the design and assessment
of M, E&L systems and capabilities of economic growth & food security
IPs.
·        
Oversee DO M & activities and liaise with the
Organizational Learning / Knowledge Management team to integrate learning
activities.
·        
Aggregate and analyze Performance Reporting System
(PRS) sector data, to support Mission portfolio reviews and reporting
(Performance Plan and Report (PPR) and other routine reporting) requirements.
·        
Offer independent verification of performance data
reported by IPs through monitoring, assessment, and evaluation of USAID/Uganda
programs.
·        
Work in liaison with EG/FS IPs to ensure timely and
accurate reporting of PRS data.
·        
The incumbent will review and guide in drafting
scopes of work and reports for evaluations and assessments; and manage
implementation of evaluations and assessments.
·        
Regularly review and guide production and submittal
of technical reports and other deliverables.
·        
Help scope requests for evaluations, assessments,
cost-benefit analyses, proofs of concept, and other “on demand” services with
USAID.
·        
Offer direction on the use of quantitative,
qualitative and mixed methods; and other M&E methodologies as required
implementing partners and Mission.
·        
Assess the mission’s progress towards achieving its
Development Objectives (DOs) by using Mission and project-level Performance
Monitoring Plan (PMP) data to review actual results against Results Frameworks.
·        
Plan and support implementation of Data Quality
Assessment (DQA) with a view to understanding and verifying the validity of
data provided by EG/FS IPs.
·        
Offer M&E technical support and training to
economic growth & food security IPs 
in order raise the profile and understanding of M, E&L and the
principle of “Managing for Results” to improve program implementation and
programmatic and resource decision-making.
·        
Use performance management best practices and the
data collected through monitoring, assessments, and evaluations as well as
learning reviews, after action reviews and other learning modalities to assist
in the development and maintenance of a knowledge and performance management
system that enhances the Mission’s capacity to respond in a timely fashion to
diverse information requests from internal and external stakeholders, including
Mission management, USAID/Washington, the U.S. Embassy in Uganda, Congress, and
audit agencies.
·        
The incumbent will support the M&E team lead
with outreach and engagement with the private sector, Government of Uganda and
other donors, as required.
·        
Support in the drafting, editing, and implementation
of annual work-plans and other project internal tools as required.
·        
Perform other tasks from time to time as required
and agreed upon by the M&E Team Lead.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:  
·        
The Senior M&E Specialist Economic Growth &
Food Security should preferably hold a Master’s Degree or higher in monitoring
and evaluation, economics, agriculture, natural resource management, social
science, bio statistics, statistics, or a related field is required.
·        
A minimum of ten years’ experience supervising
monitoring, evaluation and research efforts, preferably with respect to
economic growth, agricultural production and natural resource management. 
·        
The ideal candidate must have strong quantitative or
mixed-method and analytical skills and ability to articulate technical
information clearly and effectively to both technical and nontechnical
audiences.
·        
Computer skills using MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint and
Access, and at least one data management software program (SAS, STATA or SPSS)
and experience training others in its use is highly desirable.
·        
Demonstrated leadership qualities, depth and breadth
of technical and management expertise and experience, and strong interpersonal,
writing, and oral presentation skills. 
·        
Prior experience in contemporary M&E will be
added advantage
·        
Knowledge in systems change
·        
Complexity aware monitoring
·        
Skills in collaboration and learning
·        
Knowledge of most significant change
·        
Skills in outcome mapping
·        
Skills in outcome harvesting
·        
Ugandan national preferred.
How to Apply:
All suitably
qualified and interested Candidates who meet the above criteria should send
their CV, Cover letter and Bio Data Form, download here,
expressing interest to this E-mail address thelearningcontract.recruit@gmail.com with the subject
line as “ATTN: Senior M&E Specialist Economic Growth and Food Security.
Deadline: 13th May, 2016 by
5:00 pm
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