• Has overall responsibility for providing coordination and leadership for monitoring, evaluation and learning of the grant, including both formative (pre-intervention) and summative research (post-intervention).
• Develop the overall framework for grant M&E in accordance to the design document and donor requirements
• Guide staff and partners in preparing their progress reports in accordance with approved reporting formats and ensure their timely submission. This includes quarterly progress reports, annual project reports, inception reports, and ad-hoc technical reports.
• Establish a learning culture within the organization and among implementing partners to document learnings and best practices for ongoing and future programing
• Network with external and WV internal partners to promote learning and achieve M&E excellence

Knowledge/Qualifications For The Role

Required Professional Experience

• Minimum of 7 years of directly relevant experience, including at least 5 years USAID grant experience
• Masters’ degree in Business Administration, Economics, Social Sciences, Information Systems, or Development related field
• Familiarity with USAID’s Collaborating, Learning and Adaption (CLA) approach
• Report writing, research, monitoring and evaluation skills
• Ability to design and manage assessments, baselines, and evaluations
• Proven experience in conducting research studies, baseline and impact evaluation surveys, preferably within multi-sector approaches
• Strong capacity building skills using different methodologies
• Proven competence in Statistical package including but not limited to SPSS, STATA, ODK, etc.
• Knowledge of various technologies that can leverage programming, such as GIS, Mobile solutions in research, etc
• Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification
• Minimum of Masters’ degree in Business Administration, Economics, Social Sciences, Information Systems, or Development related field
• Excellent communication and writing skills in Amharic and English.

Applicant Types Accepted : Local Applicants Only