Senior Monitoring Specialist

1 week ago


Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam USAID Learns - Social Impact Full time

Senior Monitoring Specialist
USAID Learns
Hanoi, Vietnam

About Social Impact:

Social Impact (SI) is a global development management consulting firm. We provide monitoring, evaluation, strategic planning, and capacity building services to advance development effectiveness. We work across all development sectors including democracy and governance, health and education, the environment, and economic growth.

Since 1997 we have worked in over 100 countries for clients such as US government agencies, bilateral donors, multilateral development banks, foundations, and nonprofits.


Project Objective:

SI is implementing the USAID Learns Contract (Learns).

The scope of the five-year project is to support USAID/Vietnam staff and its implementing partners (IPs) to implement more efficient, effective, and transparent programs by: (1) improving IP knowledge and skills in Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) and Collaborating, Learning & Adapting (CLA); (2) advancing evidence-informed decision-making; and (3) strengthening strategic collaboration between staff and local stakeholders.


Position Description:


Learns seeks to hire a full-time Senior Monitoring Specialist to actively support Learns Monitoring team members, USAID/Vietnam staff and USAID-funded projects to improve quality and use of data across the Mission.

Under the leadership of the Monitoring Director, the Senior Monitoring Specialist will play multiple and complementary roles, including:

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Monitoring Specialist - assuming the technical responsibilities of a Monitoring Specialist, including technical capacity building support and advisory services to both USAID and IP staff as may be required (e.g., leading on the review of partner Activity Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plans (AMELPs); and conducting ongoing Data Quality Assessments (DQAs), while also
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Lead team coordinator - offering ongoing, active and daily coordination, quality control, issue raising, thought-leadership support to the Monitoring Director and the overall Monitoring team,
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Lead on Vietnamese-speaking SME capacity building efforts
  • Actively supporting the Monitoring Director overall's coaching, mentoring and capacity building role, especially when capacity building efforts are most effectively done in the Vietnamese language.


The position is an exciting opportunity to help USAID and implementing partners use performance monitoring information to manage adaptively and improve programming.

For more on using performance monitoring data, see SI's write-up on this topic. We are looking for someone who has the passion and skills to make this vision a reality.

This position will be based in Hanoi, Vietnam reporting to the Learns Monitoring Director.

Please note:
This is a local position. Only Vietnamese citizens are eligible to apply


Responsibilities:

The Senior Monitoring Specialist will be working closely, day-to-day, with all Monitoring team members, as well as other USAID Learns colleagues, to collaboratively carry out the following roles and responsibilities:

_ 1) Monitoring Specialist Role_
Building on existing tools/processes and USAID guidelines, and in alignment with the responsibilities of other Monitoring Specialists, provide technical assistance to USAID and IP staff, including, but not limited to:

  • Conduct DQAs and offer related technical support to help IPs strengthen any identified areas of weakness (and highlight strength areas)
  • Review new or revised AMELPs submitted to USAID, and offer related technical support to help IPs improve the quality of their plans and associated tools and processes
  • Offer ongoing technical advice to IPs and USAID on improving their Monitoring Plans, data quality, data use, and monitoring practices that are evidencebased, collaborative, and adaptive
  • Support IPs on the deeper use of monitoring, and other types of data to support learning and improve performance
  • Provide or actively support ondemand technical assistance to USAID and IPs, including in areas related to the development of performance indicators/AMELPs and related dataquality.
When applicable,
- contribute to the development of training materials, guidance materials, and platforms or tools supporting Learns' overall project goals.
- work closely with the team to develop monitoring milestones and /or other technical materials.
- support the design and facilitation of training sessions on targeted topics.
- participate in / contribute to events and technical assistance meetings, and
- lead on a designated technical area(s) or assignments, internally.

_2) Monitoring lead coordinator_
In direct support of and under the leadership of the Monitoring Director, the Senior Monitoring Specialist will act as a lead coordinator, actively supporting the team in the following ways:

  • _Task management -_ ongoing status tracking/oversight of the timeliness of all active Monitoring tasks under the responsibility of various team


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