Honduras: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Collaborative, Learning, and Adapting Specialist

Organization: Creative Associates International
Country: Honduras
Closing date: 30 Nov 2017

Position Summary:

Creative Associates seeks a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Collaborative, Learning, and Adapting Specialist for an upcoming USAID-funded program in Honduras. The overall goal of the activity is to foster competitive, resilient, and inclusive market systems that provide increased opportunities that incorporate poor, marginalized Hondurans and recue incentives to migrate. The position will provide technical leadership to data collection, monitoring, reporting, and learning of results.

Reporting & Supervision:

The position will report to the Chief of Party.

Expected Outcomes:

Expert-level contributions to the team;
Technical direction, managerial support and fiscal oversight of assigned activities;
Dynamic representation of Creative before clients and critical audiences; and
Supervision and nurturing of staff in the field and the corporate office.

Primary Responsibilities:

Develop the M&E/CLA plan incorporating feedback from client, project staff, partner organizations, government agencies, and other relevant stakeholders.
Work with COP, DCOP, and technical leads to develop a learning agenda which will incorporate CLA strategies within each of the proposed technical activities
Support the comprehensive assessment on public/private actors’ capacity, market linkages, constraints, and potential to meet demands of domestic and international markets;
Support all technical activities that require data collection and analysis;
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 appropriate formats;
Lead M&E/CLA activities and champion them throughout the life of the project, securing its application;
Supervise implementation of action-based learning and other prospective, complexity-aware monitoring tools such as network analysis, feedback loops, etc.
Support project efforts on stakeholder engagement and knowledge sharing;
Coordinate with client and other related programs to maximize CLA impact through learning sharing;
Contribute as a member of the program’s senior management team in terms of defining and implementing program strategy.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Advanced degree in business, economics, statistics, finance, or other relevant field, or equivalent work experience;
Minimum of 10 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation of agriculture, economic development, livelihoods, business enabling environment, or similar programs;
Minimum five years applying CLA, preferably under USAID or donor program-funded projects;
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing M&E plans;
Demonstrated ability to apply analytical methods in complex settings, and to transform findings into actionable plans;
Preferred experience in M&E/CLA of projects that used M4P or market system approaches;
Experience integrating gender and youth programming into program design and M&E;
Experience in knowledge sharing best practices, design, and development of activities;
Demonstrated experience working with senior-level host country counterparts;
Ability to work and quickly adapt in a complex and fluid environment;
Understanding of Central America and/or Honduran’s operating environments; and
Strong written and oral communication skills and fluency in Spanish required, knowledge of English preferred. National Honduran strongly encouraged to apply.
Willingness to travel within Honduras up to 40% of time.