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Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, USDA Food for Education

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Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Full-time

Save the Children is seeking a Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Specialist for an anticipated three to five-year USDA-funded program in Sri Lanka.  The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program (McGovern-Dole) feeds schoolchildren, reduces hunger, enhances food security, and improves literacy (especially for girls) in low-income, food-deficit countries around the world.  By providing school meals, teacher training, and related education and nutrition support, McGovern-Dole helps boost school enrollment, attendance, and literacy results.  McGovern-Dole also provides support to maternal and child nutrition (MCN).

The Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist develops, implements, and continuously improves Monitoring and Evaluation systems for all project activities. S/he incorporates best practices to ensure information collected is accurate, timely and disseminated appropriately in high quality reports.  The M&E Specialist will use these findings to improve the program and achieve the objectives.  S/he will also be actively involved in promoting learning through an external evaluation of the program and documentation of lessons-learned and developing approaches for community analysis and using data for making decision.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Provide leadership, training and mentoring to develop M&E Plans, M&E tools, survey design, methodology, and data analysis to assess program impact;
  • Develop systems for capturing and documenting data and relevant information on project activities, beneficiaries, outputs, outcomes, and impact;
  • Design methodology and coordinate research activities for project operations and assessments;
  • Effectively roll out M&E collection and reporting systems to all staff and partners through training, site visits, manuals, and other technical support as needed;
  • Capture appropriate cost and financial information to track money indicators, including bench marking information to analyze program effectiveness and cost effective inputs;
  • Ensure programming is aligned to targets and indicators contained in project proposal, and use the information from the M&E systems and tools to improve the program effectiveness;
  • Support all project reviews and evaluation activities, including coordinating baseline assessment, mid-term and final evaluations, and supporting donor and external reviews;
  • Provide on-going support to maintain M&E systems; identify skills gaps and build capacity among project team;
  • Prepare high quality, accurate and timely reports for Save the Children, project partners and donors as required.
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics or related field is required; Master’s degree preferred.
Skills/Experience: 
  • Advanced training in quantitative methodologies, including database management; experience in qualitative research techniques a plus;
  • Minimum five years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation related to education and nutrition
  • Experience designing and/or conducting research studies using experimental and/or quasi-experimental methods;
  • Strong analytical skills and an understanding of monitoring, evaluation and assessment tools to promote evidence-based learning;
  • Ability to analyze complex data and summarize it for a range of audiences;
  • Ability to gain support from staff across teams and to build the capacity of others;
  • Sound strategic thinking and planning skills, including ability to think creatively and innovate and to set priorities, manageable work plans and evaluate progress;
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English. Knowledge of local language preferred;
  • Familiarity with the political, social, and cultural context of Sri Lanka is preferred.

Organization Info

Save the Children US

Overview
Headquarters: 
Fairfield, CT, United States
Annual Budget : 
More than $500M
Founded: 
1964
About Us
Mission: 

Save the Children is the world's leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in nearly 120 countries, including the United States. We aim to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to create immediate and lasting change in their lives by improving their health, education and economic opportunities. in times of acute crisis, we mobilize rapid assistance to help children recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters. Save the Children is a member of the International Save the Children Alliance, a global network of 30 independent Save the Children organizations working to ensure the well-being and protection of children in more than 120 countries.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Feb 26 2018
Active Until: 
Mar 27 2018
Hiring Organization: 
Save the Children US
industry: 
Nonprofit