Organization: ACDI/VOCA
Country: Honduras
Closing date: 23 Oct 2017
For over 50 years and in 145 countries, ACDI/VOCA has empowered people in developing and transitional nations to succeed in the global economy. Based in Washington, D.C., ACDI/VOCA is a nonprofit international development organization that delivers technical and management assistance in agribusiness, financial services, enterprise development, community development and food security in order to promote broad-based economic growth and vibrant civil society. ACDI/VOCA currently has approximately 44 projects in 31 countries and revenues of $151 million.
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation (CLA) Director, Honduras
ACDI/VOCA is seeking a M&E/CLA Director for the USAID-funded Honduras Transforming Market Systems (TMS) Project. The objective of TMS is to foster competitive, resilient, and inclusive market systems that provide increased economic opportunities that incorporate poor, marginalized Hondurans and reduce incentives to migrate. The M&E/CLA Director is responsible for overall project data collection, monitoring, reporting and learning of results. The ideal candidate should have proven experience helping teams apply information and knowledge generated through M&E systems in order to inform adaptive management approaches as part of a collaboration, learning, and adaptation (CLA) approach.
Responsibilities
- Develop the Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL) plan incorporating feedback from project staff, partner organizations, host governments and other donors and stakeholders.
- Work with technical leads to develop a learning agenda which will incorporate CLA strategies within each of the proposed technical activities.
- Oversee the development and implementation of beneficiary tracking and database management systems to collect, process and manage project data.
- Track and analyze project indicators and other useful statistics and prepare high-quality and timely reports using the recommended formats and communication channels.
- Serve as the activity’s internal leader for MEL, including both monitoring of performance and implementation and sharing of lessons learned.
- Supervise implementation of action-based learning and other prospective, complexity-aware monitoring tools such as network analysis, most-significant-change, etc.
- Assist the Chief of Party in facilitating collaboration with key stakeholders in sharing findings and gathering inputs to inform an adaptive management approach.
- Coordinate regularly with ACDI/VOCA’s headquarters office in Washington, DC, especially the program management M&E teams.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and a minimum of 5 years’ experience managing the performance monitoring plans, evaluation, collaboration and learning, preferably with knowledge of USAID’s CLA approach and measuring systemic change.
- Experience with USAID programs and knowledge of USAID rules and regulations desired. Demonstrated ability to apply analytical methods practically in the complex setting of the day-to-day lives of project beneficiaries highly preferred.
- Fluent spoken, written, and reading abilities in English and Spanish is required.
How to apply:
Please apply online at https://internationaljobs-acdivoca.icims.com/jobs/5077/m%26e-and-cla-director%2c-honduras/job?mode=view. No phone calls please. Only finalists contacted. Women and minorities encouraged to apply. EOE.
