Monitoring and Evaluation Training Specialist

The M&E Specialist will support all work that the M&E team provides to the Department of State, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs under its Statement of Work (SOW), to include program design, performance monitoring, evaluation, and learning initiatives.

Alutiiq Information Management, LLC (AIM) seeks a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Training (MET) Specialist to join its M&E team, which supports the Department of State’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Office of Press and Public Diplomacy (SCA/PPD). Under this task order, the M&E team is embedded at the client site (The Department of State), and is responsible for improving program design, performance monitoring, and evaluation of foreign assistance programming managed by the Bureau . SCA/PPD manages The Department’s larges grants program, covering issues such as educational exchange, capacity building, journalism, entrepreneurship, cultural heritage preservation, and countering violent extremism.

AIM seeks a MET Specialist to join its M&E team under this Task Order. The MET Specialist will support all work that the M&E team provides to SCA/PPD under its Statement of Work (SOW), to include program design, performance monitoring, and evaluation. The MET Specialist will report directly to the Senior MET Specialist under this Task Order.

Primary responsibilities will include drafting and editing results frameworks and monitoring plans, managing data collection activities, analysis and reporting to a variety of principals, and conducting trainings on monitoring duties and best practices to Embassy and/or Consulate staff, and implementing partners.

Further examples of responsibilities may include:
Conducting performance monitoring of projects and programs to provide routine feedback on foreign assistance programming

Overseeing data collection activities to ensure quality standards are applied and procedures in place, and ensure achievements and reporting match

Analyzing data to highlight emerging patterns, and presenting clear findings and conclusions

Contributing to and authoring evaluations requested by the client on select projects, programs, or thematic issues to improve programs and to inform policy

Contributing to efforts to improve program design for projects and programs

Participating in field visits to collect data for both monitoring and evaluation purposes, and/or mentoring available staff on site visit best practices

Providing formal and ad-hoc training to Embassy and/or Consulate staff as needed

Identifying lessons learned to improve programming

Demonstrating adaptive communication techniques with a variety of audiences

Effectively collaborating with fellow MET team members to deliver high-quality work

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs, History, Political Science, or social science discipline

At least three (3) years of experience in the international affairs field and/or in monitoring and evaluation and/or qualitative research

Experience conducting monitoring and evaluation of foreign assistance programs

Team player and ability to work well collaboratively, including the ability to adapt and pick up unexpected tasks to ensure overall team objectives are met

Preferred Requirements

Master’s degree in relevant discipline

Active Secret Security Clearance through DoDCAF (Preferred, but not required-open to candidates without active security clearances eligible to hold a Secret Security Clearance)

Thorough understanding of monitoring frameworks, and demonstrated ability to apply them in varied settings

Experience managing mixed-method evaluations

Experience with foreign assistance programming, ideally public diplomacy grants programs

Regional experience with South and/or Central Asian issues

Experience conducting fieldwork/travel

Relevant language experience (e.g. Bangla, Dari, Hindi, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Pali, Pashto, Russian, Sanskrit, Tajiki, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Urdu, Uzbek, etc.

Mentorship and training experience with adult learners.