Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Design and Management of Mission
Performance-Management Plans and Systems: 30%
- Provides high-level professional subject-matter expertise and guidance to all Mission technical teams and implementing partners (IPs) in the design, implementation and update/revision of performance monitoring plans for all Mission-funded activities.
- Reviews, approves, and modifies, as necessary, the performance-management plans for all Mission activities in accordance with Agency M&E policy guidance, in order to determine actual results achieved in comparison to targets; and interprets the significance of those results for broader Mission performance objectives and goals, and makes final determinations on behalf of the Mission regarding whether the intended result or target was achieved.
- Oversees the development of, and provides final Mission-level approval of, the M&E plan of the Mission’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS).
- Makes formal recommendations to Mission Management, as required, for any revisions of, or adjustments to, performance targets, intermediate results, development objectives and strategic goals.
2. Development, Implementation and Oversight of
the Mission Analytic Agenda: 30%
- Leads the Mission to develop an annual analytic agenda that conforms to Agency Evaluation Policy and its Collaborating, Learning and Adapting agenda and to the USAID/Uganda standardized Mission Order on Evaluation, identifying specific programs, activities, technical areas and issues requiring in-depth analysis and/or evaluation in order to meet Mission assistance-program objectives and goals; reviews and approves all Mission evaluation designs; and manages the Mission M&E budget for third-party evaluations and assessments of programs and activities.
- Keenly reviews all Mission evaluation reports and makes final determination on behalf of the Mission as to whether they meet the standards required by Agency and Mission policy.
- Leads the PPD M&E and Learning Team in advancing the Mission’s M&E and Learning agenda, identifying all data and analytical requirements for improving program management, impact and oversight.
3. Data Collection,
Verification, Analysis and Reporting on Program Performance: 25%
- Serves as the senior Mission authority and arbiter on all issues related to program-performance data identification, collection, quality-assessment, interpretation and dissemination.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
NOTE: All
applicants must address each selection criterion detailed below with specific
and comprehensive information supporting each item.
- The applicants for the US Embassy Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist job placement should hold a Master’s degree, or host country equivalent, in a field related to monitoring and evaluation and performance/statistical research and analysis, which may include economics, applied mathematics/statistics, public or business administration, organizational/management theory and practice, demography is required
- A minimum of ten years’ experience in professional level experience in the performance monitoring and evaluation of development-assistance programs, 4 years of which should be with a U.S. Government (USG) agency or other bilateral or multilateral official aid donor organization.
- Previous experience must include the development and management of performance monitoring plans, oversight/management of computer and/or web-based performance data recording and reporting systems, design and management of program/project evaluations and assessments, data source selection and quality analysis, report writing, and work in diverse team settings.
- Broad working knowledge of the economic, social and political contest of developing countries such as Uganda; of official development assistance theory and practice; detailed professional practitioner-level knowledge of M&E and organizational learning theory and practice, including data selection, collection, and analytical methodologies, and data-quality assessment.
- Knowledge of computer and/or web-based M&E data-management systems.
- The incumbent will be able to provide expert technical advice to assist Mission Management and the Executive Office in identifying Mission training needs related to monitoring and evaluation, including the incumbent’s own training required to maintain an effective Mission leadership role in M&E and Learning and any necessary certification requirements.
- Language: Level IV English ability Oral and written professional-level (Fluent) is required
How to Apply:
All
those interested in working with the US mission in Kampala should send
their applications and strictly adhere to the following:
- Download a completed and signed Universal Application for Employment as a Locally Employed Staff, Download it Here.
- Any additional documentation that supports or addresses the requirements listed above (e.g. transcripts, degrees, etc.)
Submit Application To:
Human Resources Office
By email at KampalaHR@state.gov
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