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MEL/CLA Director
Resilience through Agriculture in South Sudan (RASS)
Project Description
DAI seeks a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) & Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Director to be proposed on the USAID-funded Resilience through Agriculture in South Sudan (RASS) activity. The purpose of the RASS activity is to significantly improve household and community resilience to shocks and stresses through improved agriculture, market systems, and food security practices. The position is contingent upon contract award.
Responsibilities
The MEL/CLA Director will oversee the design and implementation of the project’s collaboration, learning, and adaption agenda, including monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), and MEL-related communications. S/he will also synthesize lessons learned from implementation in South Sudan and facilitate incorporation of these lessons learned into project-wide reporting and internal learning.
Other responsibilities will include:
• Oversee the development and maintenance of performance measurement systems, collect annual periodic reporting documents, and ensure technical and analytical rigor in all deliverables from tool development to final reporting.
• Provide facilitative leadership support to all MEL functions carried out by the technical implementation team.
• Identify, analyze, and synthesize lessons learned from RASS activity implementation and facilitate the incorporation of those lessons into broader RASS activity MEL efforts.
• Lead Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) activities to promote utilization of findings.
• Participate in strategic planning and work plan review as part of RASS adaptive management.
• Conduct data quality assessments as well as broader MEL assessments to determine the validity, reliability and integrity of performance data gathered to monitor and enhance program activities as required.
• Review activity-level baselines and targets, and support collection of baseline data where such data do not exist and suggest revisions to targets.
• Support RASS activity to identify appropriate performance indicators for tracking results and monitoring critical assumptions and/or preparing comprehensive performance monitoring plans.
• As needed, assist in training project staff and implementing partners.
• Identify, analyze, and synthesize lessons learned from activity implementation and facilitate the incorporation of those lessons into broader efforts, including contributing sections of project-wide reports.
Qualifications
• At minimum, a university degree in a social sciences subject area. Master’s degree strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience providing monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) support to donor-funded projects;
• Good understanding of standard M&E and data analysis tools and approaches with preference towards MEL experience working on a USAID-funded project;
• Experience in developing and implementing M&E systems, methodologies, tools and approaches;
• Experience working with programs focused on the core concepts of resilience, livelihoods, and food security;
• Good communication and report writing skills in English with additional skills in Arabic writing and speaking desired, but not required;
• Good computing capabilities with working knowledge of MS Word and Excel;
• Experience working with local communities, NGOs and/or international organizations within and outside Juba preferred; and
• Willingness to travel throughout South Sudan.
Application Instructions
Interested applicants can apply to this position in two ways.
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Follow this link to DAI’s career page: https://phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf04/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=DAINC&cws=1&rid=5793. Once there, select the “apply for this position” button at the bottom of the page and begin the application process.
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Submit a CV (in English), contact information, and three professional references to this email: southsudan_jobs@dai.com by March 25, 2021. Furthermore, since DAI is recruiting for multiple positions, all applicants MUST indicate the job title in which they are applying for in the application email. For instance, if the applicant is interested in this position, they would say “applying for MEL/CLA Director.”
Any questions a candidate may have must send their inquiries to southsudan_jobs@dai.com.
Applicants will only be contacted if they meet the minimum qualifications for the position.