Monitoring Coordinator

**Monitoring Coordinator**
**& Data Management Focal Point**
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:
The Monitoring Coordinator will act as the primary focal point for Learns’ on data-management needs and work closely with other Learns Monitoring Specialists to support USAID-funded IPs to build and update their data-management systems and practices, based on ongoing lessons learned. They will also work closely with other Learns members, including the Capacity Building team, to achieve more strategic engagements and sustainable results.

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

**Responsibilities**:
**_ 1. Support Learns internal Data Management (DM) needs_**_ _

Building on Learns existing DM practices/systems, help Learns maintain strong data management practices on an on-going basis, including through:

- Internal DM coordinator, responsible for the day-to-day upkeep and maintenance of all data related to Learns’ Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan (AMELP) and Learns’ Task Tracker, and the quality of its data.
- Support the creation of task completion surveys for Monitoring team members on Survey Monkey.
- Work closely with relevant colleagues to make sure that all raw data (especially Learns indicator-related data) is reliable and timely.
- Periodic collection, data-quality control, aggregation and analysis of Learns data, including quarterly AMELP results.
- Perform data-entry and seek associated approvals for the submission of Learns AMELP results on the Development Information Solutions (DIS).
- Ongoing production/sharing of key Learns data (and associated visuals) for Learns quarterly and annual reports, as well as other ad-hoc communications or strategic reviews.
- Other emerging data-quality, data-visualization and data-analysis in support of Learns’ reporting, communication and learning needs.

**_2. Support to USAID/Vietnam DM needs_**_ _
- Support the maintenance of the Mission Indicator Library
- Support the maintenance of the Mission Data Quality Assessment calendar
- Working closely with other Learns colleagues, support the design of the Mission’s DM needs (on demand)

**_3. Support to IP DM capacity building needs_**_ _
- Working in close collaboration with other Monitoring team members (if and when appropriate, including the Learns DM consultants), support the provision of on-demand Technical Assistance to IPs, including:

- ‘Situation Analysis’ exercises to help inform DM-related recommendations,
- Proposed solutions to help IPs design more efficient data collection and visualization tools and monitoring systems
- Proposed solutions to help IPs design/build/maintain their own data management/systems through in-person capacity building, knowledge transfer, and/or other events/workshops.
- Ad-hoc Technical Assistance (depending on strategic priorities/needs/availability) such as AMELP, indicators and data collection tools development.
- Help identify peer-to-peer learning by linking partners for direct peer-to-peer or mentorship technical engagements (i.e., without Learns’ own engagement).

**_4. Other Monitoring support_**_ _
- Support and work closely with Capacity Building (CB) team to design and co-facilitate data management-training modules to help motivate improved techniques and practices.
- To conduct Data Quality Assessments (DQAs), including desk reviews, data verification, report writing, cleaning and formatting. Providing technical support to IPs on Data Quality Assessments (if needed)
- Provide other technical support to USAID or IP, working in close collaboration with other Learns team members, when appropriate.
- Develop or update Monitoring resources (leaflets, training materials, pagers, etc.) and review monitoring documents before delivery.? Support the capacity-building and transfer of knowledge to new team members and the upkeep & upgrade of other knowledge m