Feed the Future Bangladesh Nutrition Activity

Job Description

Position: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager (FSN 11)

Abt Associates seeks a qualified Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager for USAID/Bangladesh’s Nutrition Activity (BNA). The goal of BNA is to contribute to improvements in nutrition outcomes for children under five, pregnant and lactating women, and adolescent girls in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence (ZOI) by (1) increasing consumption of nutritious, diverse, and safe diets by rural households; (2) increasing social and economic empowerment of girls and women; and (3) improving adoption of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) practices. BNA will implement nutrition-sensitive interventions that complement and reinforce ongoing nutrition-specific activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Supervise the Monitoring, Adaptation, and Learning Specialist and the Data Quality Management Officer, including identifying capacity building needs and coordinating with Abt Home Office to ensure that these needs can be met.
  • Lead the implementation of the project MEL Plan, indicators, and learning agenda, including developing relevant indicators.
  • Contribute to the development of project performance monitoring databases.
  • Monitor and manage project performance monitoring databases.
  • Manage a rigorous approach to M&E to measure performance toward specific goals and objectives, including quantitative, qualitative, and participatory methodologies.
  • Design data collection tools, schedules, analysis methods, and applied learning approaches for stakeholder training.
  • In consultation with the GIS Specialist at USAID/Bangladesh, provide program/activity location data as derived from GPS units or through a digital map interface.
  • Be responsive to all USAID/Bangladesh requests for BNA-related geographically-referenced data.
  • Support Abt Head Office Team to oversee implementation of a baseline study, annual surveys, mid-term reviews, and/or final evaluations on the indicators, including review of tools and survey methodology and review of data quality.
  • Support Abt Head Office Team to review baseline analysis and provide feedback, as requested, on a timely basis.
  • Oversee and lead quantitative data collection processes and strategies.
  • Contribute to quarterly strategy reviews as well as drafting core components of program progress reports to the donor.
  • Drive the project’s overall learning agenda to derive lessons learned and best practices from project activities, and contribute to quarterly program evaluations.
  • Design and maintain integrity of project’s MEL database by ensuring all staff have passwords relevant to their job responsibility to ensure security of the database, in coordination with Abt Home Office.

Qualifications: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in statistics, social science, development economics or a related field (Masters preferred)
  • At least seven years of experience in data management and analysis for M&E, learning, and adaptive management
  • Skills in quantitative analytical methods, data collection and analysis, and establishing MEL systems
  • Experience in managing complex databases, integrating GIS modules into databases, and designing mobile data collection tools to facilitate population of databases
  • Experience in leading teams
  • Demonstrated ability to lead baseline data collection
  • Basic understanding of qualitative analytical models in order to support execution of responsibilities of Knowledge Management Specialist
  • Knowledge of and experience with M&E frameworks and reporting systems
  • Experience with USAID programming highly preferred
  • Proficiency in Excel, Word, and other MS Office software; data analysis software, e.g. SPSS or Stata, ODK, Kobi
  • Demonstrated leadership skills and ability working collaboratively and independently
  • Demonstrated team leader and player with effective cross-cultural interpersonal skills; able to develop and communicate a common vision among diverse partners and lead multidisciplinary teams
  • Ability to resolve sensitive and complicated work issues with senior high-level country counterparts, donor representatives, and senior-level staff
  • Verbal and written fluency in both English and Bangla along with strong communications, interpersonal, and presentation skills
  • Experience in Bangladesh in similar positions

 

If you are interested, please apply by sending a resume and a 1 page cover letter to AsiaJobs@abtassoc.com. Deadline for application is July 11, 2019. Only short listed candidates will be contacted for further recruitment process.