LEARNING AND CAPACITY BUILDING MANAGER, USAID SENEGAL MONITORING, EVALUATION AND LEARNING PROJECT, DAKAR, SENEGAL

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Project Summary:

This anticipated, five-year project will provide USAID/Senegal with strategic and technical support to improve performance management and advance Mission learning. The project will provide comprehensive MEL services, including capacity strengthening and technical support, to USAID/Senegal, local organizations, and potentially the Government of Senegal.

Position Summary:

The Learning and Capacity-Building Manager will be responsible for managing the day-to-day implementation of capacity-building and learning activities. This includes supporting the development of learning agendas and events, tracking performance data and reports focused on developing learning summaries, supporting the design and implementation of capacity-building efforts. The Learning and Capacity Building manager will be responsible for scope, technical quality, and budget for the learning and capacity-building technical tasks under their purview, with the oversight and guidance of the Learning and Capacity-Building Specialist. The Learning and Capacity Building Manager should bring expertise in tracking performance measurement data, designing and implementing multi-stakeholder learning events, research, and capacity-building efforts in Senegal.

Responsibilities:

• Support the selection and engagement of local partners and consultants for learning and capacity-building tasks. For each activity, design and co-facilitate training of partner/consultant teams, support team building and establishment of roles, and ensure teams are positioned for success.
• Design performance measurement and learning systems to provide regular tracking and learning of target activities.

• Manage day-to-day learning and capacity-building activities, including coordination and oversight of consultants and local partners engaged in these activities.

• Manage and arrange all learning and capacity-building events including proper protocols for requesting participation with Government of Senegal officials.

• Ensure regular communications and updates to USAID POCs on learning and capacity-building tasks.

• Collect all background documents and ensure aggregated learning summaries are maintained to guide targeted learning events.

• Support the Senior Learning and Capacity Building Specialist on scoping and design of technical activities. Ensure teams are efficiently implementing activities in line with established good practices, within budget, and on time. Manage implementation calendars.

• Provide on-going coaching of local partners and implementers in M&E standards and practices.

• Support development and implementation of monitoring systems through technical assistance on the range of performance monitoring topics that may include indicator development, system buildout, and other requirements as specified by ADS 201.

• Support analysis or synthesis of data across partners as needed by the Mission.

• Support capacity development colleagues’ by providing subject matter expertise on M&E topics, includes designing or co-facilitating training content.

• Provide surge support on monitoring, research, and evaluation activities as needed.

• Employ strong collaboration, learning, and adapting (CLA) practices throughout the work, with an understanding of the USAID Program Cycle.

• Engage fully as a member of the project staff team, including participating in staff meetings and other projects events, and providing administrative support to other team members as needed.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in social sciences, demography, development studies, or a related field.
• Minimum of four (4) years of demonstrated experience managing concurrent monitoring, learning, and capacity building activities for improved development outcomes.
• Experience playing a management role on complex, multi-stakeholder learning and capacity building efforts, including scoping, designing, data collection, analysis, and reporting to implement evaluations and other assessments.
• Experience supporting design or implementation of complex monitoring systems required. This includes designing indicators and data collection tools, conducting data collection, and analyzing/reporting on monitoring data to support learning events as part of CLA approach.
• Computer literacy and competency in use of Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
• Use of quantitative and qualitative software analysis programs such as Dedoose, NVivo, Stata, SPSS or others.
• Experience in supporting collaboration and learning events with combined Government of Senegal, USAID and implementing partner participation.
• Experience developing the evaluation capacity of research/evaluation teams highly preferred.
• Experience managing complex relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including with government officials at different levels.
• Working knowledge of and experience with USG-funded program management, policies, regulations and procedures. Strong familiarity with USAID’s Evaluation Policy, ADS 201, CLA, and the Program Cycle. Experience with USAID’s Gender Policy and ADS 205 highly desired.
• Strong communication, supervision, and management skills required.
• Experience implementing these MEL activities in Senegal required; familiarity with USAID/Senegal Mission is preferred.
• Authorization to work legally in Senegal required.
• Superior written and verbal skills in French and working knowledge of written and spoken English required.

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