Senior Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Specialist at IBTCI, Kigali, Rwanda

Senior Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Specialist at IBTCI, Kigali, Rwanda - DEADLINE: 30/09/2013

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 local Senior M&E Specialist for an anticipated Monitoring and Evaluation Support Project in Rwanda, funded by USAID. This project will provide a range of technical assistance to USAID/Rwanda’s portfolio of programs which focuses on: agriculture/food security; Democracy, Rights & Governance; Economic Growth and Trade; Education; Global Health; Water; Community Development and Civil Society Capacity Building.

Technical services provided under this contract are expected to include:

• Evaluation Assistance

• M&E Mission Training and Technical Assistance (TA)

• M&E Support for Implementing Partners

• Review/establish Baselines and Targets, including Surveys and Studies

• Strategic Communication and Strengthened Collaboration

• Support Implementation of the Mission Performance Management Plan (PMP)

• Collection, Analysis and Reporting of PMP data

• Data Quality Assessment (DQA)

POSITION SUMMARY

The local Senior M&E Specialist will provide technical leadership to the program. Expected responsibilities include:

• Lead and oversee the review of project level M&E plans;
• Support technical work such as reviewing reporting methods, carrying out training needs, designing reporting tools and advising M&E technical assistance;
• Oversee, recruit for, and participate in evaluations and assessments throughout the life of the contract;
• Ensure the short-term technical experts and evaluation team members recruited under this contract are of a high caliber and possess the required technical expertise;
• The Senior M&E Specialist may also serve as the evaluation team leader of select evaluations conducted under this contract to be identified;
• Contribute substantively to the design and field testing of the evaluation methodology, participatory data collection methods and protocols, data verification techniques, and other technical evaluation and analytical tasks conducted under this contract;
• • Responsible for the design, quality, development and completion of all assessments, analytical reports and evaluations.

QUALIFICATIONS

• An advanced university degree in international relations, economics, statistics, political science, public policy, or other relevant field;
• Indicator development, data collection and analysis, data quality assessments, and/or performance monitoring and reporting;
• Providing guidance to technical teams in developing and updating performance monitoring plans;
• Creating and managing performance monitoring plans;
• Leveraging performance monitoring data for improving ongoing project management;
• Designing and implementing evaluations of development interventions;
• Designing and field testing surveys and other data collection instruments;
• Designing, working on and preferably leading an evaluation team;
• Project management skills are desirable;
• Familiarity with USAID policies related to evaluation and performance management highly desirable.

TO APPLY

Please send an updated CV to recruiting@ibtci.com with the subject line “Local Rwanda Senior M&E Specialist”. No phone calls please. Only final candidates will be contacted. IBTCI is an equal opportunity employer.