Senior Impact and Performance Evaluation Specialist, Tanzania

Social Impact (SI) is a Washington, DC-area international development management consulting firm. SI's mission is to improve the effectiveness of international development programs in improving people's lives. We provide a full range of management consulting, technical assistance, and training services to strengthen international development programs, organizations, and policies. We provide services globally in the areas of monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, project and program design, organizational capacity building, and gender and social analysis. SI services cross-cut all development sectors including democracy and governance, health and education, the environment, and economic growth. SI's clients include US government agencies such as USAID, theMillennium Challenge Corporation, the US Department of State, bilateral donors, multilateral development banks,foundations, and non-profits.

Proposal Objective:

The proposed contract is to provide USAID/Tanzania with technical and advisory services for evaluation activities at the Mission (operating unit) level, including all democracy and governance, health, education, and economic growth program activities. This may include designing and implementing both quantitative and qualitative evaluation studies and assessments as well as providing evaluation technical assistance for USAID/Tanzania development programs. These efforts will facilitate informed program management decisions, shape the longer-term strategic direction of programs and decision-making within the Mission, and enable USAID/Tanzania to comply with USAID's Evaluation Policy.

Position Description:

SI is seeking a full-time Senior Impact and Performance Evaluation Specialist to lead the design and implementation of requested evaluations and assessments for the USAID/Tanzania MELP project. The Specialist would be based in Dar Es Salaam, and would report to the Chief of Party.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee monitoring and evaluation, analyses and assessments throughout the life of the project, including the data collection, design of the evaluation methodology and participatory data collection methods and protocols, and data quality verification techniques.
• Responsible for the design, quality development and production of all evaluations reports and any assessments, population based surveys and studies including the testing of the development hypotheses.
• Lead the design of the evaluation methodology and participatory data collection methods and protocols for both performance and impact evaluations.
• Oversee the maintenance of Mission and IPs PMPs.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in international development, statistics or economics, or a Master's degree with minimum of five years demonstrated experience in the requested field.
• At least 10 years of demonstrated experience in the design and management of evaluations (impact and performance), analyses and assessments, including the dosing of the evaluation methodology, population based surveys, developing performance management plans, participatory data collection methods and protocols, and data quality verification techniques from large development projects.

HOW TO APPLY:

Please submit your application to: http://chc.tbe.taleo.net/chc02/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=SOCIIMPA2...

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