Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Closing date: 06 Jun 2016
Education Specialist/Co-Deputy COP,
Monitoring, Evaluation and Coordination Contract (MECC),
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Proposal Summary: **
The Contractor will provide to USAID performance management services to monitor, evaluate, and assess implementation of the Mission's Country Development Cooperation Strategy. The Contractor will also provide coordination, monitoring, evaluation, analytic, and research services for the USAID/ DFID Joint Education Program.
\DRC citizens and Expatriates are encouraged to apply for this position.**
Position Summary:
The Education Specialist will provide leadership and technical expertise for Component 2 planning, implementation, and evaluation as well as lead coordination with USAID, DFID, the Government of the (GDRC) and Implementing Partners.
He/she must develop and maintain collaborative relationships across the Joint Education Program with DFID, USAID, Activity IPs and the GDRC. He/she must manage and coordinate provincial and sub-province monitoring and evaluation specialists, and any administrative staff responsible for performance monitoring, oversight, and data collection and reporting. He/she must ensure that the methodologies used to measure the Joint Education Program results include gender, disability-inclusive, and conflict sensitive measures, and that they are consistently and systematically tracked and reported in accordance with USAID data reporting requirements. He/she oversees and supervises data collection systems including, instrument development and testing, the training of data-collectors, data entry, data cleaning and statistical analyses. He/she will set-up and operate the Joint Education Program M&E System so that data is collected in accordance with the Joint Education Program M&E Plan, its protocols and procedures. As Co-Deputy, the Education Specialist will support the COP on all contract reporting and document production related to the Joint Education Program.
Responsibilities:
- Advising other personnel on technical aspects of intervention delivery and sharing knowledge of current educational practices.
- Oversee procuring further technical assistance from the home office as needed, and help staff ensure that the monitoring and evaluation tasks are aligned with the educational perspectives of the GDRC, schools and communities.
- Support Joint Education Program related assessments and analyses. This may include: providing background materials, studies and data on relevant education issues such as school related gender-based violence (SRGBV) or out-of-school children.
- Participating in the Joint Education Program evaluation design process to ensure good intersect between the evaluation purpose and the education context.
- Visit target Joint Education Program sites for monitoring.
- May be required to build the capacity of local organizations and make presentations during workshops with stakeholders.
- Support and participate in collection of data, refinement of data collection instruments, writing analytic reports, and participating in research design.
- Ensure that data collection and reporting protocols are followed to maintain research design integrity and manage data entry and processing in conformance with data specifications and analytic needs.
Qualifications:
- A graduate degree in education or equivalent, or a bachelor's degree and 5 years' experience in addition to the required minimums.
- At least 8-10 years demonstrated experience working on improving access and/or quality of basic education with a focus on gender equality education, SRGBV, violence against women, conflict-affected children, early grade reading, teacher training, or education service delivery. With at least 3-5 of those years having significant M&E responsibilities.
- Demonstrated management and technical experience on projects aimed at enhancing education opportunities for marginalized communities.
- Professional level oral and written skills in English and French.
- Knowledgeable of USAID Education Strategy Technical Notes regarding monitoring and evaluation.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
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