Technical Director – Burkina Faso & Niger At SoCha LLC

Company Profile

SoCha (a portmanteau of Social and Change) is an independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) firm that provides bespoke solutions to social challenges. We are a US-registered, veteran-owned small business and staff support offices in Nairobi, Bangkok, and Mauritius. SoCha currently supports multiple foreign assistance interventions across Asia and Africa.

Background: SoCha, LLC is contracted to provide Monitoring, Reporting, and Capacity Strengthening (MRCS) support to complement and augment USAID Senegal’s Sahel Regional Office (SRO) performance management of activities within its portfolio. MRCS will support Sahel Regional technical Office (SRTO), Sahel Regional Program Office (SRPO), the Niger Mission, the Burkina Faso Country Office, the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) Resilience Food Security Activities (RFSAs) in Niger and Burkina Faso.

Scope of Work: The Technical Director will report directly to the Chief of Party. The proposed roles and responsibilities of the Technical Director are as follows

• Responsible for leading and managing the technical work related to monitoring, evaluation, and learning under the resulting task order.
• Assist the Chief of Party (COP) in performance management systems, financial management, and timely completion and submission of all activity deliverables.
• Support the recruitment and outreach to identify a wide pool of technically sound local and international evaluators and MEL specialists.
• Ensure that the short-term technical experts and team members recruited under this contract are of a high caliber and possess commensurate technical expertise.
• Assume overall responsibility for the Activity in the absence of the COP, serve as focal point for the technical work request systems shared with USAID and manages the overall delivery of work requests within the team.

Minimum qualifications and experience:

• A minimum of 10 years progressively responsible professional experience involving international development.
• Master’s degree (or an additional 5 years of work experience in lieu of a masters) in international development, project management, statistics, economics, or other relevant social science field.
• Thorough technical knowledge of monitoring, evaluation methods, and performance management.
• Strong understanding of how MEL and CLA improve USAID’s programs and expertise.
• Managerial and operational experience, and preferably experience in supporting complex activities involving coordination with multiple program partner institutions.
• Strong interpersonal and oral communications and presentation skills.
• Experience working with a diverse group of stakeholders, including donor/development organizations, government officials, civil society leaders, community leaders, and project beneficiaries.
• Fluent English and French.

Location: Niamey, Niger or Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.