Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Consultant

About The Kaizen Company

The Kaizen Company (Kaizen) is an international development consulting firm and an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven organizational and institutional performance improvements and establish communities of practice that facilitate peer-to-peer learning and the achievement of shared goals. We aspire to transform the nature and impact of development assistance and work to strengthen organizations and institutions through innovative approaches to organizational development, reform, and change.

Jordan Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Activity (MELA) Overview

MELA is designed to ensure that USAID’s activities in Jordan achieve their intended results through monitoring and evaluation, strategic assessments, and USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting approach (CLA). Kaizen will help USAID/Jordan create a dynamic learning environment among development actors, focused on innovation, quality, and knowledge sharing. Through the Kaizen Accelerator, a rapid procurement mechanism, a cohort of Jordanian firms will work with Kaizen's MELA team to successfully deliver activities while simultaneously strengthening their management and compliance systems. The Kaizen approach will provide USAID with high-quality MEL services across its portfolio, build the capacity of local MEL institutions, and ensure programs meaningfully incorporate local participation. The MELA team will ensure program sustainability by building the technical and institutional capacity of one or more local firms that can manage the follow-on MEL Activity in the future.  

Responsibilities and Tasks

The MEL Consultant will report to and work closely with the Senior MEL Specialist overseeing activities.

Responsibilities and tasks may include, but are not limited to:

• Conduct a technical review for assessments, evaluations, learning studies, annual polls, population-based surveys, baseline surveys etc
• Conduct Data Quality Assurance (DQA)
• Support the USAID mission in PMP and CDCS reviews
• Performance monitoring, accountability measures, and data verification
• Conduct technical review of Activity MEL Plans of the USAID’s implementing partners. This includes reviewing of Theory of Change (ToC), results frameworks, Performance Indicator Reference Sheets (PIRS), etc
• Support the evaluation teams in data collection and data analysis
• Other USAID MEL related tasks, as requested by the Mission

Qualifications

• University degree in MEL or related fields, including subject matter experts.
• Minimum of five years of experience in MEL.
• Familiarity with the USAID MEL processes and tools.
• Experience working in Jordan is an asset.
• Experience working in USAID MEL Activities is an asset.
• Ability to communicate quickly, clearly, and concisely, both orally and in writing, in fluent English. Extensive report writing experience is required. Proficiency in Arabic is an asset.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including experience successfully interacting with host government officials, USAID staff, and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate meetings and present logically and persuasively to senior officials and partners in a multi-cultural context.
• Open to CCN, TCN and USN consultants.

Specialization Development Areas (including but not limited to):

• Economic growth, private sector engagement.
• Water sector programming.
• Democracy, human rights, and governance programs.
• Education, health, and resilience programs for vulnerable groups.
• Gender, social inclusion, women, and youth across all development objectives.
• Other development areas supported by USAID.

Kaizen, a Tetra Tech company, is a progressive Equal Opportunity Employer. We promote, celebrate, and support a diverse and inclusive organizational culture and workforce. We are committed to providing all of our employees with an environment free from discrimination and harassment, where all are treated with dignity and respect. Our continuing commitment to the principle of Equal Opportunity Employment for all means all employment decisions are based only on the job requirements, the candidate’s qualifications, and the needs of Kaizen as a business—not on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, belief, sex (including pregnancy and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability status, veteran status, genetic information, family/marital/parental status, or any other status protected by the laws and regulations in the jurisdictions where we work.

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