Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist Jobs at CAMRIS International

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Job Title:  Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Democracy & Governance
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The M&E Specialist, Democracy and Governance will serve as the M&E expert, as well as training and capacity development lead for M&E activities related to USAID/Nigeria DO 3: Strengthened Good Governance. The M&E Specialist, Democracy and Governance will:

• Design and implement impact and performance evaluations, surveys, analyses, and assessments focused on democracy and governance programming in Nigeria.
• Present findings, recommendations and conclusions to USAID, implementing partners and other stakeholders.
• Serve as primary point of contact for USAID/Nigeria DO 3, Democracy and Good Governance.
• Lead, facilitate and participate in M&E workshops, training and capacity building activities with USAID, implementing partners, and other stakeholders.
• Conduct data quality assessments in the field.
• Attend local, regional and international meetings, as required.
• Review, revise, and maintain the USAID/Nigeria Mission Performance Management Plan (PMP), project M&E plans, and activity M&E plans related to DO 3: Strengthened Good Governance.
• Manage the process of high quality performance monitoring by project staff and implementing partners including: data collection, monitoring, reporting, dissemination, and related tasks.
• Integrate gender, disability-inclusive, and conflict sensitive measures into M&E activities, ensuring that they align with established standards, are consistently and systematically tracked and reported in accordance with USAID data reporting requirements.
• Travel throughout Nigeria as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Advanced degree in the field of international relations, economics, political science, public policy or other relevant fields.
• Experience using technological innovations when conducting monitoring, such as tablets, smartphones, evaluation-related software applications, etc.
• Expertise in complexity theory as it relates to M&E of democracy and governance programming a plus.
• Professional fluency in English. Professional working proficiency in Hausa preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint required.
• Proficiency in qualitative analysis software such as NVivo or ATLAS-ti preferred
• Minimum of seven years of experience in monitoring and evaluation.
• At least five years of M&E experience of elections, democratic governance, civic engagement, advocacy, and conflict programming. Direct programming experience in these fields a plus.
• Familiarity with USAID’s objectives, approaches and operations, particularly as they relate to monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
• Experience developing and facilitating M&E training and capacity development.
• Familiarity with Nigerian landscape: culturally, linguistically, historically, and economically. Prior work experience in Nigeria is preferred.

Nigerian nationals are encouraged to apply.

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