Senior monitoring and evaluation specialist

Chemonics seeks a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) specialist for the five-year, $60 to 70 million USAID Tusome Pamoja ("Let's Read Together" in Kiswahili) Program in Tanzania. The program aims to improve lifelong learning skills, defined as mastery of early grade reading, writing, and arithmetic. It will support five regions of Tanzania in improving quality of basic skills instruction at the early primary level, strengthening Ministry of Education and Vocational Training skills delivery systems, and increasing community and parental engagement in early primary education. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.

Responsibilities​ include:

• Establish and manage the program's overall system to track progress toward meeting program/contract results, indicators, and targets
• Ensure​ that performance monitoring, action research, and evaluations are consistent with program results and track program progress toward achieving targets and results
• Manage and coordinate field-based monitoring and evaluation specialists, and any other staff responsible to performance monitoring, oversight, and data collection and reporting
• Ensure that the methodologies proposed for measuring the program's impact on access, retention, reading and learning outcomes, school safety, community engagement, gender, disability-inclusiveness, and conflict-sensitivity are being consistently and systematically tracked and reported

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in international development, economics, statistics, research methods, political science, public policy, social science, or a related field required; minimum eight years designing, monitoring, and evaluating programs in the education sector preferred
• Minimum eight years designing, monitoring, and evaluating programs (in the education sector preferred)​
• Demonstrated success and experience in monitoring results and indicators of education quality, learning outcomes, access, retention, and community engagement
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
• Professional proficiency and fluency (IELTS level 7 or above; or TOEFL 94 or above) in written and spoken English required; fluency in written and spoken Kiswahili (FS 2+) preferred

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HOW TO APPLY:

Application Instructions:

Send electronic submissions to TanzaniaReadingMERecruit@chemonics.com by May 31, 2015. Please include "Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist" in the subject line. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted.

In addition, please download and complete Chemonics' equal employment opportunity self-identification form and submit it separately to EEOselfidentify@chemonics.com with only "Senior M&E Specialist - Tanzania Tusome Pamoja" in the subject line. If you prefer not to disclose your sex, race, or ethnicity, you may check "I do not wish to complete the information requested." Thank you for completing the form and supporting our equal employment opportunity reporting requirements.

Chemonics is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, age, or other legally protected characteristics.