Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist/Sn Monitoring&Evaluation Specialist

Job #: 112288 Title: Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist/Sn Monitoring&Evaluation Specialist Job Stream: Technical Assistance & Advisory Services Location: Cairo, Egypt Close Date: 20-Nov-2011

Background / General description: IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in developing countries. We create opportunity for people to escape poverty and improve their lives. We do so by providing financing to help businesses employ more people and supply essential services, by mobilizing capital from others, and by delivering advisory services to ensure sustainable development. The Monitoring & Evaluations Specialist is a member of the MENA Advisory Services team. S/he works closely with the regional team to design well structured advisory programs and ensure that IFC is able to adequately track and report results. S/he is supported in this effort by a small team of dedicated and part-time resources throughout the region. The M&E Specialist reports to the Regional Head of Advisory and works closely with the regional and global AS Portfolio Management and M&E/Results Measurement officers to meet IFC standards for M&E processes and practices. This includes supervising evaluations, ensuring quality and accuracy of results reporting, informing project-level and programmatic strategies, supporting the donor officer with information for partners/stakeholders, and sharing knowledge and lessons internally and externally. The key challenge going forward is to improve the real-time feedback into operations, as an input into both strategy and new business decision-making. IFC has recently piloted the IFC Development Goals (IDGs) as a way to prioritize and track the reach of its investment and advisory initiatives. The M&E Specialist will be the point person in MENA for maintaining and aggregating IDG data across both businesses. In addition, the position may provide further M&E support for IFC Investment Services in the future. The M&E Specialist is also a member of the global Results Measurement Network. As a senior member of that network, s/he will play an active role in ensuring that the network delivers significantly more than the sum of its parts, helping IFC implement its changing business model with development impact becoming the key driver of the Corporation. Duties and Accountabilities: Promote a results measurement culture in regional operational staff by building skills and common approaches to monitoring and evaluation. Guide creation and improvement of results reports for the Regional Management Team. Ensure lessons learned from evaluations and from monitoring data are incorporated into the structure of new programs and M&E practices. Continuously raise the bar for how the region measures and reports on impact of its advisory business, including participation in joint target setting with investment colleagues as appropriate Ensure compliance with standards for quality of Approvals, Supervision (PSR) and Completion Reports (PCR). Be responsible for ensuring that the IFC Development Goals (IDGs) are recorded, monitored and aggregated across MENA for both advisory and investment services. Drive analysis across all aspects of results-metrics. Identify potential problems in the portfolio and work with the teams to proactively deal with them. Provide guidance to colleagues on key M&E processes (indicators, IDGs, governance, timelines, purpose of project management tools in the AS Portal). Ensure that new staff are trained on M&E processes/tools. Contribute to the enhancement and/or development of corporate systems, locally and globally Provide quality assurance for the data on project results and ensure appropriate back up of information Task manage major evaluation studies, including the preparation of terms of reference and draft and final reports. Present results to internal and external audiences. Contribute to the formulation of corporate M&E guidelines, indicators and methodologies Contribute to regional strategies, target-setting, and other deep-dive analytical exercise Represent IFC's regional M&E expertise before internal and external partners, including high-level corporate and government officials Provide M&E support, as needed, to regional investment activities. Travel up to 30-40% of the time. Selection Criteria: Masters degree in Business Administration or other relevant field or relevant working experience A minimum of 10 years professional, relevant experience including at least 8 years in monitoring and evaluation Excellent analytical and quantitative skills Experience with statistical analysis and evaluations a strong plus Ability to synthesize and deliver complex messages Track record of results and understanding of what makes businesses succeed Ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders, in written and oral form English language fluency, regional languages (Arabic and French) strongly preferred Self-driven, motivated to learn Ability to question and challenge supervisors and colleagues in a constructive manner Demonstrated ability to manage processes and tasks Innovative and open-minded approach Ability to balance rigor with pragmatism Relentless attention to detail

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