Performance Monitoring Specialist (Senior) – USAID/India, Accelerating The U.S.-India Partnership Platform (APP)

Position Description

EnCompass LLC seeks (Senior) Performance Monitoring Specialist candidates for an anticipated five-year United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Accelerating the U.S.-India Partnership Platform (APP) Activity to be based in New Delhi, India. The APP Activity will support USAID/India staff and stakeholders to be more efficient, effective, transparent and skilled in achieving planned development outcomes by providing design, monitoring, evaluation, assessment, and learning, and organizational development services as well as integrating collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) throughout the design and implementation of USAID/India’s activities.

The position will be full-time and be based in in New Delhi, India, with travel throughout the country. Citizens of India are encouraged to apply.

Position Duties and Responsibilities

The (Senior) Performance Monitoring Specialist will lead and support performance monitoring and conducting evaluability assessments, evaluation synthesis for India APP. They will support USAID/India on Data Quality Analyses, lead/oversee the review of activity-level MEL plans, and work to ensure the quality and utility of performance monitoring data. They will also participate in the design and delivery of training on MEL to Mission staff and partners, as appropriate on latest performance management and monitoring techniques including complexity aware monitoring approaches and on remote monitoring and data collection. They will also support the site visits by reviewing reporting methods, carrying out training needs analysis, designing reporting tools, and advising technical offices on ways to improve on-site monitoring performance.

Position Duties and Responsibilities

Essential functions:

• Coordinate and develop the organizational learning tools and outcomes process including developing “Top Outcomes/results” process.
• Support the quarterly/annual analysis and documentation of outcomes across the Mission by gathering, analyzing and sharing information about Mission’s activities and outcomes
• Work with the Mission technical offices to create a better system for capturing the outcomes information for analysis and adaptive management
• Build on efforts to learn from failure, including organizing events such as the annual “Fail Forward” and after-action reviews
• Help to create a culture of learning at the Mission, through staff communications and events and through collecting and sharing best practices from staff and coordination of the MEL and CLA Community of Practice
• Support need-based trainings on MEL and collaborating, learning, and adapting, as needed
• Support the activity design teams during technical assistance as needed
• Support the use of the new design guidance, including responding to questions from staff, supporting structured trainings / brown bags, preparing presentations, dashboards and reports, and other tasks as needed
• Capture lessons learned from strategy refresh processes through participation in programmatic strategy retreats and meetings, write internal knowledge products such as blogs and organize brown bags
• Support communications for results reporting and learning
• Support smooth functioning of various other tasks with assigned tasks as necessary and other responsibilities as identified

Position Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years’ experience; or Master’s degree and 8 years’ experience in a social science, organizational development, development studies or a related field highly preferred

Experience and Skills

• Prior experience in indicator development (including context indicators), data collection and analysis, data quality assessments, and statistical methods
• Demonstrated ability in using monitoring data to review programming, trends, and activity needs and willingness to be flexible and adaptable to respond to new information
• Experience in the creation and use of spreadsheets and databases is desirable
• Experience managing complex relationships with a variety of stakeholders
• Strong familiarity with USAID’s Evaluation Policy and CLA practices preferred
• Understanding of knowledge management as it relates to USAID programs an asset
• Ability to work with host-country governments at different levels
• Strong communication, supervision, and management skills required
• Working knowledge of and experience with USG-funded program management, policies, regulations and procedures
• Previous work experience in India required
• Familiarity with USAID/India Mission is preferred
• Superior skills in written and verbal English required
• Citizens of India are strongly encouraged to apply

How to Apply

Please submit CV and cover letter and complete the application 

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