South Sudan: Project Monitoring Specialist MEL, MESP USAID/South Sudan, Juba, South Sudan

Project Monitoring Specialist, MEL,MESP USAID/South Sudan,

Juba, South Sudan

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Project Summary:
The Monitoring and Evaluation Support Project (MESP) in Juba supports the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in South Sudan to effectively monitor, evaluate, learn from-, and improve USAID-funded interventions. MESP provides USAID/South Sudan with flexible, demand-driven technical, analytic, advisory, training, monitoring, evaluation, and related support services for performance measurement, planning, monitoring, evaluation, reporting, activity mapping, and performance information management and dissemination activities. These services assist the Mission in complying with new evaluation, monitoring, and project design requirements under USAID Forward. They also include monitoring and evaluation technical support to the Mission for performance management at all levels.

Position Summary:
The Project Monitoring Specialist will be a performance measurement systems design expert. The individual will provide technical support to the team leader with the Mission's Operational Framework (OF) by reviewing, further developing, updating and then finalizing the three-level Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework – the strategic, learning, and decision support tool that links activities to strategy. The individual will also conduct meetings with Mission technical staff, participate in technical report writing, and make presentations to the USAID mission. He/she will also provide necessary technical guidance during the entire time of the assignment.

In support to the realization of the OF, the MEL will support the following Mission priorities:

• Adaptive management;
• Performance reporting and accountability; and
• Management learning and decision-making.

Responsibilities:

The Project Monitoring Specialist shall be tasked with the following responsibilities:

1. Assist the Technical Director with preparation of the above outputs and deliverables below.
2. Reprise earlier MESP OF-related work such as the 2016 “Options Paper” and prepare a proposed methodology to collect MEL framework data, particularly at Level 2, during FY 2016/2017.
3. Develop OF assumptions and context indicators. In the process consider:
   • Possible data sources – primary and secondary sources – identify other stakeholders and types of secondary data they collect that can be used to answer MEL indicator data requirements;
   • Data collection methods;
   • Identify responsible persons for data collection;
   • Estimate cost parameters for data collection;
   • Outline data analysis and reporting requirements; and
   • Identify likely information users.
4. Document review.
5. Support discussions and interviews with Mission technical teams.
6. Assemble the basic pieces of the MEL at each framework level, including:

Level 3:

• Update and record the AC's trend analysis conducted to date to establish a time series dataset for use by the AC during its 2nd year of operation. This analysis will also inform the AC stocktaking exercise;
• Map assumption context indicators to the two Transition Objectives, most likely using indices for AC trend analysis;

Level 2:

• Review the Operational Framework assumptions for relevance and establish an approach to tracking them.
• Develop context indicators, including a monitoring system, possibly including triggers when mitigation might be called for.
• Work with the Mission to define critical questions for immediate learning, considering that information is time sensitive.

Level 1:

• Review and drawing from the PM&R Report, prepare a comprehensive list of activity-level (i.e., outcome/objective) indicators, including those reported in the Mission PPR and others used by COR/AORs for performance measurement purposes and relating to the sub-TO level. This will help understand technical team contributions to the OF.

Qualifications:

1. A Master's degree in a relevant field.
2. At least 10 years of experience in international development, with preference given to candidates with some portion of that experience gained in conflict-afflicted countries, countries-in-transition, or during periods of complex emergency.
3. Familiarity with USAID's Program Cycle and in particular the project design process gained from an understanding of the ADS 200 series and ideally from actual experience serving the Agency as a Program or Project Development Officer.
4. Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
5. Fluency in spoken and written English.

Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

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