OTI Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist At US Agency for International Development

The OTI Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist is a full-time Personal Services Contract (PSC) position at the GS-13 equivalent level and located in Washington, DC. Offers for this position are due no later than November 4, 2021 at 1:00pm Eastern Time. For full information about this position, as well as instructions on how to apply, please read the entire solicitation at www.OTIjobs.net.

INTRODUCTION:

As a member of the Monitoring and Evaluation Team, the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist position utilizes the experience and skills gained from working with community development, political transition, stabilization, and conflict mitigation programs, to provide M&E support and guidance to country program staff. The Monitoring and Evaluation Team is one of several sub-teams within the Program Performance Management (PPM) Team, which is part of the Field Programs Division (FPD). The Field Program Division also currently includes six regional teams: West and Central Africa (AFR), Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Southern and Eastern Africa (SEA), Europe, and Asia. These regional teams manage the implementation of OTI programs worldwide. PPM helps to support effective programming through guidance and technical assistance in the areas of strategic design, program performance management, monitoring and evaluation, data visualization and mapping, and media analysis.

Working collaboratively with DC and field-based regional teams within FPD and other PPM teams, the M&E Specialist supports OTI’s mission to provide fast, flexible, short-term assistance targeted at key political transition and stabilization needs by building the knowledge, skills, and abilities of OTI staff to continually improve country program performance. The M&E Specialist does this by providing technical assistance and guidance to country program staff and partners that are adapted to OTI’s fast-paced global needs; developing and facilitating learning and training events; and facilitating access to resources and mechanisms to support monitoring, evaluation and learning.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide technical assistance, guidance, and training to OTI, implementing partner staff, and local partners to support the development and refinement of appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems and processes; and to support strategic design, program implementation and evaluation;
• Develop relationships with and regularly coordinate with OTI and implementing partner (IP) field and DC-based country program staff, to provide ongoing technical support, guidance, and training;
• Serve as Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) or Alternate, overseeing contractual implementation and budgets, or otherwise support task orders and other technical support mechanisms that provide monitoring, evaluation, and research services to OTI programs and the Office;
• Design and deliver training and learning events on key monitoring and evaluation concepts or skills for diverse audiences, including but not limited to OTI, implementing partners, local partners, USAID, and other USG or non-USG stakeholders;
• Coordinate with key stakeholders to routinely conceptualize, update and revise OTI guidance related to action learning, monitoring and evaluation, and program performance management processes;
• Design, participate in, and/or lead evaluative efforts of OTI country programs and interventions;
• Serve as an active member of OTI’s PPM Team by contributing to knowledge management, coordination, and learning; and develop and maintain collaborative relationships across OTI’s three divisions – Field Programs Division (FPD), Program, Learning and Innovation (PLI), and Operations and Management Division (OMD) – to support OTI programs;
• Facilitate and provide support for the implementation and ongoing adaptation of a range of program performance management processes designed to integrate learning into strategic design, program implementation and evaluation throughout the lifecycle of each OTI country program;
• Represent and articulate OTI’s mission, global programs, and approach to program performance management to select visitors, officials from international organizations, bilateral donors, and national and foreign government officials. Serve as a liaison with other CPS offices, USAID divisions and the State Department, to develop appropriate program and policy direction;
• Fill critical needs for program advisement, management and implementation in Washington, D.C. and the field, including providing support to new OTI country program start-ups, management and close-out; and,
• Serve on temporary details within OTI, other USAID bureaus/offices, or other USG agencies under this scope of work for a period not to exceed six months. Duties performed while on detail must be directly related to the scope of work. Contracting Officer (CO) approval is required for the temporary detail. Any extension past the six months requires CO approval.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

At the GS-13 level:

1. A Master’s Degree with five (5) years of work experience;

OR

A Bachelor’s Degree with seven (7) years of work experience;

AND

1. Two (2) years of project management experience with any of the following organizations, including but not limited to: a non-governmental organization in community development, mediation/arbitration, conflict mitigation/resolution, stabilization, democracy and governance, international law, human rights activities, and/or political analysis; an international assistance organization, and/or a U.S. Government foreign affairs agency;
2. Two (2) years of experience designing, implementing, and managing monitoring and evaluation efforts for community development, economic development, mediation/arbitration, conflict mitigation/resolution, stabilization, democracy and governance, international law, and/or human rights initiatives or programs;
3. Demonstrated experience working closely with diverse stakeholders whose background, experiences, or language differ from that of the candidate.

Please direct questions about this position or the offer process to the OTI Recruitment Team at otijobs@usaid.gov.