Background
The MEASURE USAID/Bosnia and Herzegovina M&E Support Project has two primary objectives. The first is to provide USAID/Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) with technical, analytic, advisory, training, monitoring, evaluation and related support services to assist USAID/BiH in effectively monitoring, evaluating, and relaying information about interventions. The second objective is to develop local capacity to conduct high quality independent evaluations and other studies for USAID/BiH and other donors.
The DCOP/Senior Evaluation Specialist will be responsible for leading and managing technical work related to performance monitoring and evaluation under this contract.
Responsibilities
- Lead/oversee the review of project level M&E plans, and support such technical work as reviewing reporting methods, delivering training
on performance monitoring, designing reporting tools and advising project teams on their M&E work
- Design evaluation scopes of work and develop methodological designs for both performance and impact evaluations
- Oversee, recruit for, and participate in evaluations and assessments throughout the life of the contract, including serving as team leader
for evaluations and assessments on occasion
- Ensure the short-term technical experts and evaluation team members recruited under this contract are of a high caliber and possess the
required technical expertise
Requirements
- A master’s or higher university degree in economics, public policy, statistics, political science, public policy, or other relevant field
- Experience in performance monitoring, including: indicator development, data collection and analysis, designing and field testing surveys,
data quality assessments, and reporting
- Experience creating and managing performance monitoring plans, and leveraging performance monitoring data for improving ongoing
project management
- Experience designing and implementing performance and impact evaluations of development interventions preferred, as well as experience
working on or leading an evaluation team
- Familiarity with USAID policies related to evaluation and performance management desirable
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English and excellent interpersonal skills
Deadline: 09 April 2014