Chief of Party, USAID Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning Activity, Nepal
Location: Nepal
Description
Chief of Party, USAID Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning Activity, Nepal
Proposal Summary:
The anticipated five-year, USAID project will provide technical assistance to the Nepal mission in planning, designing, conducting, disseminating and learning from M&E activities such as evaluations and assessments.
Position Summary:
The COP will be responsible for leading and managing the technical work related to performance monitoring and evaluation under this contract. S/he must be able to design and lead performance evaluations, experimental and especially quasi experimental impact evaluations conducted under this contract.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and be ultimately responsible for all data collection, monitoring, report generation, evaluation and related tasks.
- Primary liaison with COR and Contracting Officer.
- Ensure quality control and the overall responsiveness of technical assistance provided under the contract, including necessary adjustments to operations to fit the requirements of USAID.
- Contribute substantively to the design and field testing of the evaluation methodology, participatory data collection methods and protocols, data verification techniques, and other technical evaluation and analytical tasks conducted under this contract.
- Lead/oversee the design, quality, development and completion of all assessments, analytical reports and evaluations.
Qualifications:
- An advanced degree (PhD preferred) in a sector relevant to monitoring and evaluation of USAID/Nepal activities (e.g., economics, public policy, international relations, statistics, political science, health, education, agriculture, etc.).
- Prior COP experience or experience managing a similar project.
- Experience in organizational capacity development, knowledge management, and managing group dynamics and high-performing teams.
- Significant expertise in leading the design and implementation of performance and impact evaluations of development interventions.
- Significant experience in indicator development, data collection and quantitative/statistical analysis, data quality assessments, and/or performance monitoring and reporting.
- Experience creating and managing performance monitoring plans.
- Strong written and oral communication and excellent interpersonal skills.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
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