Afghanistan: Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist - USAID/Afghanistan

COMPANY PROFILE

International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), a U.S. based international development consulting company established in 1987, has worked in over eighty-five countries and has implemented over one hundred and fifty projects. IBTCI has served governments, private sector companies and several donor agencies in the practice area of Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) across many sectors including education, health, economic growth and democracy & governance.

PROPOSAL SUMMARY

IBTCI is currently seeking a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialistfor an upcoming five-year Education Support Project in Afghanistan funded by USAID. This will be a full-time, key position

POSITION SUMMARY

The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist establishes, manages, and analyzes the overall activity system to track progress towards meeting program goals, outcomes, and benchmarks, and overseeing the operations research. The individual will ensure that performance monitoring, monitoring & evaluation, operations research, and evaluations are consistent with the program and track progress towards achieving goals, outcomes, and benchmarks. S/he will manage and coordinate field-based monitoring and evaluation specialists, and any other staff responsible to performance monitoring and Program monitoring & evaluation, including the oversight of data collection and reporting. The individual must ensure that the methodologies proposed by the Applicant to measure the programs impact on access, retention, reading and learning outcomes, school safety, community engagement, gender, disability-inclusive, and conflict sensitive measures, are being consistently and systematically tracked and reported.

QUALIFICATIONS

· A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree (or foreign equivalent) in education, public/business administration, international relations, other social sciences, or a similar relevant field

· At least six years’ experience with performance monitoring, monitoring and evaluation, or operations research related to a mix of education and development work.

· At least four years monitoring and evaluating programs (in the education sector preferred).

· Must have demonstrated experience in monitoring results and indicators of education quality, learning outcomes, access, retention, and community engagement

· Must be professionally proficient and fluent in written and spoken English and Dari or Pashto

TO APPLY

No phone calls please. Only final candidates will be contacted. IBTCI is an equal opportunity employer. Please submit all application materials along with three references here https://ibtci.devhire.devex.com/.

Any questions please contact yinanli [AT] ibtci [dot] com