Senior M&E Specialist -- Let's Read Together Activity -- Tanzania

CAMRIS International seeks a Senior M&E Specialist to serve on the upcoming USAID Tanzania's "Let's Read Together Activity". The purpose of this contract is to acquire technical assistance and instructional materials targeted at improving lifelong learning skills, defined as mastery of early grade reading, writing, and arithmetic. Technical assistance will cover: (1) improving quality of basic skills instruction at the early primary level; (2) strengthening Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) skills delivery systems; and (3) increasing community and parental engagement in early primary education. These three components align with the Government of Tanzania (GoT)’s ten-year Education Development Sector Plan (EDSP)(see Attachment 5, item 22) and other reforms underway, such as Big Results Now (BRN), Performance4Results (P4R), and Global Partnership for Education Literacy and Numeracy Support (GPE LANES) program on 3R’s (reading, writing, and arithmetic) reform.

Responsibilities:

• The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist establishes and manages the overall activity system to track progress towards meeting program/contract results, indicators and targets.
• The individual will ensure that performance monitoring, action research, and evaluations are consistent with program results and track activity progress towards achieving targets and results.
• He/she will manage and coordinate field-based monitoring and evaluation specialists, and any other staff responsible to performance monitoring, oversight, and data collection and reporting.
• The individual must ensure that the methodologies proposed by the Contractor 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:

Education: Requires a Master’s Degree in international development, economics, statistics, research methods, political science, public policy, social science, or a related field.

Skills and Experience: At least eight years designing, monitoring, and evaluating programs (in the education sector preferred). This individual must have demonstrated success and experience in monitoring results and indicators of education quality, learning outcomes, access, retention, and community engagement.

Language: The candidate must be professionally proficient and fluent (IELTS level 7 or above; or TOEFL 94 or above) in written and spoken English. It is preferred, but not required, that the candidate be conversant and fluent in written and spoken Kiswahili (FS 2+).

HOW TO APPLY:

If interested in this opportunity please submit an updated copy of your resume to include three professional references with contact information (email and phone) to https://careers-camris.icims.com/jobs/1595/senior-m%26e-specialist----le...