Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) & Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Director

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) & Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Director

ACDI/VOCA

Cairo, Egypt

ACDI/VOCA is seeking an MEL/CLA Director for an upcoming Climate Resilient Agricultural Market Systems Activity in Egypt funded by USAID. The anticipated program will transform the agriculture and food system toward sustainable production, economic growth, and efficient climate resilient practices. The activity will aim to strengthen Egypt’s agricultural market systems including the capacity of farmers, enterprises, and organizations to expand their operations sustainably.

The MEL/CLA Director will develop and facilitate learning workshops with technical leads and partners, including engaging local teams in developing learning priorities and questions and identifying evidence-based ways to adapt and scale interventions. They will design and manage the CLA and MEL plan and Activity learning agenda to systematically generate, synthesize, share, and apply learning and employ adaptive management processes. The program is anticipated to start in 2024 and this position will be based in Cairo, Egypt.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic leadership and oversight for learning and knowledge exchange;
  • Ensure that programmatic learning and results are fully documented, shared, and used to drive adaptive management processes;
  • Lead the collection, analysis, documentation, dissemination, and use of best practices and lessons learned;
  • Design and implement internal and external knowledge exchange and learning events to improve peer-to-peer learning, knowledge sharing and application;
  • Develop strategic relationships with relevant stakeholders to promote effective coordination, collaboration, and dissemination of program learning;
  • Support the design of and manage the MEL framework and plan that incorporates CLA principles and components;
  • Lead/oversee the baseline data collection process and ensure effective reporting and monitoring systems are in place;
  • Provide capacity building and technical assistance to ACDI/VOCA and partner organization staff in the utilization and management of monitoring and impact assessment tools;
  • Conduct/oversee qualitative and quantitative program impact surveys to ensure that activity goals are met and that all information required for submission to donor is collected in a valid, reliable, and timely manner;
  • Complete/oversee impact assessment, midline, and end line surveys to assess positive and negative, intended and unintended impacts of Activity interventions;
  • Ensure the activity sets informed Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GYSI) targets, establishes appropriate indicators, and adequately monitors for, measures, and reports on results.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in monitoring and evaluation, development studies, research methods, quantitative or qualitative analysis, economics, statistics, or relevant field is required; master’s degree is desired;
  • Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible experience managing the MEL and/or CLA component of a donor-funded project, USAID preferred;
  • Proven experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods, survey design and implementation, and statistical data analysis is required;
  • Familiarity with applying the CLA approach to management is desired;
  • Demonstrated experience building the capacities of staff and partners in research methods and design preferred;
  • Experience working in Egypt preferred;
  • Fluency in English is required.

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