Skills
Roles
- Community Partner. Committed to co-creating and participating in partnerships that bridge and bond various assets.
- Builder of Capacity. Supporting capacity development for organizations, communities, and systems through organizational development.
- Catalyst, Convener, and Facilitator. Encouraging change by supporting innovative thinking, promising practices, and policy development by bringing people and organizations together.
- Educator. Providing people and organizations with timely and relevant information.
Professional Qualifications
- Extensive experience facilitating small and large groups of diverse participants
- Master’s Degree, with ten or more years of monitoring and evaluation experience
- Deep experience using diverse quantitative data analysis methods (e.g., tests of significance, t-tests, ANOVA, chi-square, regression, and factor analysis, and related statistical analysis software, i.e. SPSS)
- Deep experience in qualitative methods (e.g., structured focus groups, interviews, photovoice, etc.)
- Strong understanding of trends in Monitoring & Evaluation, characteristics of effective programs, leading organizations and initiatives, etc.
- Experience working directly with a foundation’s and implementing organization’s program (non-evaluation) staff to use data for program improvement
- Strategic planning and data-driven decision-making
- Managing complex relationships with multiple stakeholders
- Working in an international context
- Working with and designing IT data systems; able to translate measurement needs in ways that allow technologists to design, maintain and support state of the art evaluation systems.
Personal Qualities
- Effective communicator:
- A skilled presenter and professional with an ability to represent organizations and groups internally and at external events and conferences
- A compelling writer able to distill essential information and tailor messages for a variety of audiences spanning academic publication to practitioner materials
- Relationship-builder able to facilitate communication between professionals from a variety of cultural and professional backgrounds and nonprofessional in a respectful and diplomatic manner
- Entrepreneurial and energized by working in a fast-paced environment (including comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to be flexible in work roles and responsibilities)
- Flexibility to work across multiple methods of measurement and evaluation; balancing what is most rigorous with what is most practical
- Team player who enjoys coaching and developing others’ abilities
- Highly self-motivated, with impeccable ethical standards, confidentiality and personal integrity
- Ability to operate as an effective tactical as well as strategic thinker
- Fluency in English
Example Responsibilities
Performance Monitoring Operations
- Manage the inner workings of foundation’s performance monitoring system
- Manage the theory of change and recommend improvements based on data
- Manage logic models, metrics, data collection instruments, and reports; seeking opportunities to streamline, and simplify what partners are asked to collect
- Manage foundation’s performance monitoring IT data system, working with technology staff to ensure a user-friendly, reliable, and secure interface for inputting and analyzing data
- Conduct sophisticated analyses to understand outcomes and drivers
- Work directly with partners to collect, analyze, and manage data
- Refine, implement and communicate processes that ensure partners’ performance monitoring data is submitted on time, validated, and in the appropriate format
- Conduct site visits to key partners to conduct observations as well as ensure reported data is accurate and provide on-the-ground training and oversight; train the Program Officers to integrate M&E into their programmatic oversight
- Manage the ‘learning community’ of partners through coordination of gatherings, individual meetings, and online best-practice sharing
- Work with the Program Officers to use data for program management
- Use monitoring data to ensure that program implementation is consistent across sites and achieving results
- Extract and identify implications from the measurement findings and formulate recommendations that support partners to refine their individual programs
- Develop and implement trainings and ongoing professional development for grantee staff
- Engage, guide and motivate staff to instill a deep sense of connection and common purpose
M&E Strategy and Knowledge Sharing
- Oversee reports for leadership that
- report the outputs and outcomes of the initiative and individual partners
- synthesize across the complexity of findings to identify key insights and implications that inform key decisions
- recommend improvements to the measurement system itself
- Engage and manage third-parties to conduct impact assessments; identify and coordinate with these third-parties as they establish technical design and methods, undertake their field work, review findings, and distill key messages for internal and external audiences
- Develop a broad and strategic knowledge sharing plan that shares important findings in targeted ways to multiple audiences
- Represent results and impact with key internal and external stakeholders at leading conferences, meetings, and other important gatherings