Organization: Crown Agents USA
Country: Guatemala
Closing date: 09 Jun 2017
We are change agents for greater global prosperity, delivering practical innovations in economic governance and trade; humanitarian solutions and food security, health systems, monitoring, evaluation, and learning; and, supply chain as a partner of the US Government.
As a subsidiary of Crown Agents Limited, we leverage the expertise, resources, and network amassed from over 180 years of international development experience. Crown Agents works in 100+ countries, with on-the-ground presence in more than 35 and 13 permanent corporate offices in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We are wholly owned by a nonprofit foundation, allowing us to combine corporate agility with a commitment to reinvesting our profits in transforming lives.
Located in Washington, DC and incorporated in 1998, Crown Agents USA provides technical assistance and support to clients such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the U.S. Department of State (DoS), and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).
The anticipated Metrics Project will serve to provide monitoring, learning, and evaluation to USAID/Guatemala. This will help USAID/Guatemala to better understand and document programmatic outcomes, adapt current projects, comply with USAID regulations and requirements, rapidly reports progress, better use evidence in project design and generally contribute to the learning and adaptation agenda at USAID/Guatemala. The anticipated program will last five years.
The Evaluation Specialist will assist in technical work related to performance evaluation; participate in all activities related to evaluation services; and ensure production and completion of quality reports. Specific responsibilities include:
• Under direction of Senior Evaluation Specialist, contribute to the development of tools across programs for data collection such as surveys, interviews and focus groups.
• Work with Senior Evaluation Specialist to develop draft evaluation questions and scopes of work for mid- and final performance evaluations of USAID projects
• Work with implementing partners to prepare for evaluations
• Collaborate with the monitoring counterpart to ensure that information from M&E activities for the Metrics Project are properly analyzed and collected with high quality reporting.
• Collaborate with the CLA counterpart to ensure that evaluation findings are properly documented, disseminated and archived.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.
Job Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences Economics, Political Science, Sociology Evaluation Sciences, or a related field required.
• Fluency in Spanish and English is required; Legal ability to live and work in Guatemala is required.
• A minimum of 3 years of progressively responsible experience in evaluation, analysis, assessments including the design of the evaluation methodology, particularly data collection methods and protocols and data verification techniques.
• Must demonstrate personal attributes such as loyalty and integrity in addition to being determined and thorough, which is inherent in this position.
• Contributed to:
• Design and field testing of surveys, questionnaires, and/or other data collection instruments
• Technical expertise in evaluation design, including experimental and quasi-experimental methods
• Previous substantive experience working on an evaluation team
How to apply:
https://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj06/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=CROWNAGENTSUSA&cws=37&rid=3251
