Exciting Career Opportunity at LINC
ROLE: Deputy Chief of Party / Performance Monitoring Specialist
About the company
LINC is a small business with its main office in Washington, DC, that has a goal to improve local actors and systems. At LINC, we think that international development is more effective and lasts longer when there is a practical way to involve committed, skilled local actors.
In 2017, USAID gave us the “Small Business of the Year” award. We are a team of reflective practitioners who are passionate and energetic about our work and dedicated to locally-led development.
We have made tools that are completely new for mapping organizational networks, measuring social capital, and using systems-based approaches to growth. Also, We work with big universities, foundations, local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), consulting companies, USAID, and FCDO, among others. Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe are just some of the places we’ve lived. To find out more about LINC, go to www.linclocal.org.
Job Description
The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Platform program in Ghana is being run by LINC with funding from USAID. This Activity will give USAID/Ghana expert monitoring, evaluation, and learning services. It will do this by providing high-quality, demand-driven technical assistance and analytical services for monitoring and evaluation to USAID/Ghana staff, implementing partners, and local country stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Help the COP lead the Platform as a whole, including program planning, technical execution, financial management, and operations, making sure all parts work together, and making sure the office is a place where quality, respect, and skill are valued.
- Work with the LINC headquarters to make sure that Platform activities and operations are managed well and that contract tasks are done on time.
- Oversee how all assessments, performance and effect evaluations, and Data Quality Assessments are planned, carried out, staffed, and checked for quality.
- Design and make sure evaluation methods, data collection methods, tools, and protocols are of good quality and have the right level of complexity.
- Help to implement partners collect, analyze, and present data while making sure it is accurate and of high quality. Oversee any data gathering and analysis done by the Platform.
- As needed, train the partners who are doing the work.
- Draft expert scopes of work for consultants and subcontractors and keep an eye on how they do their jobs.
- Plan, organize, and help USAID staff and partners with learning tasks.
- Help Platform staff with things like management, training, and coaching.
- Help USAID’s implementing partners and Ghanaian partner groups with MEL technical support and coordination.
- As needed, coordinate and consult with USAID, the Ghanaian government, implementation partners, and other key parties and audiences. Build a professional and consultative partnership with USAID, and do this to help COP.
- Make sure that all USG, USAID, and LINC rules and laws are followed.
Skills or Experience Needed
- A master’s degree in evaluation, economics, international development, social sciences, or a related area.
- At least eight years of experience supporting complex tasks funded by donors in a team setting, preferably for USAID.
- At least five years of experience hiring people and leading teams well, with a focus on making good products.
- You need to have worked in Ghana before and know a lot about the country’s history and culture.
- Familiarity with USAID’s framework for collaborating, learning, and adapting is needed, and familiarity with innovative MEL approaches and operational protocols/systems is desirable.
- Showed experience managing learning and adaptable management methods with USAID or other donors.
- Proven skills in working with stakeholders inside and outside of USAID, leading a team, and managing strategically.
- They are very good at both writing and speaking.
- The ability to speak and write English well.
- Understand the rules and policies of USAID, such as the Automated Directives System 201, the Evaluation Policy, and the Journey to Self-Reliance, among others.
How to Apply for this LINC Career Opportunity
Please send an application or CV to GhanaMEL@linclocal.org with the subject line “Ghana MEL – Deputy Chief of Party/Performance Monitoring Specialist” by July 14, 2023. Please don’t call. Only those who make the cut will be called. LINC LLC gives everyone the same chances.
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