Job Description

Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Consultant

• 4350 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA

ME&A is a woman-owned international development firm based in Bethesda, Maryland providing innovative solutions for economic development and social progress in more than 80 countries. We provide services across six practice areas: monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL); performance improvement through capacity development; regional and local economic development; water, environment, and climate change; and democracy and governance; and program support services.

ME&A is recruiting a Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Consultant for the MEL Practice. The Senior MEL Consultant will lead and/or provide technical oversight and quality assurance to MEL activities, including designing, overseeing, and assuring the quality of MEL activities. The Senior MEL Consultant is responsible for 1) leading and participating in a significant level of MEL Practice proposal and business development activities, including writing the MEL technical language for MEL-related proposals, working in close collaboration with ME&A's business development team, and 2) providing a significant level of project management and technical oversight and quality assurance to ME&A's MEL activities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Business Development:

1. Serve as the lead MEL technical writer and reviewer for MEL-related expressions of interest, concept notes, and proposals working closely with ME&A's business development team.
2. Serve as the MEL Team lead overseeing technical aspects of MEL proposals, in close coordination with the business development team.
3. Help lead MEL Practice business development initiatives (i.e., teaming strategies, proposal design, proposal writing, etc.) and provide technical leadership, guidance, and inputs.
4. Research and pursue potential or new business development opportunities and marketing initiatives, including but not limited to identification, initiation, and follow-through on new opportunities.
5. Help write MEL Practice marketing materials and support partnership development for upcoming and live solicitations.
6. Contribute to strategic business development decisions throughout the proposal cycle (from design to submission).

Project Management and Technical Input:

1. Manage all aspects of the project management cycle by:

1. Providing contract quality assurance and quality control from start-up to close-out.
2. Serving as the Project Director and primary project Home Office-based point-of-contact, especially with the client and project staff.
3. Overseeing project compliance; preparation and submission of deliverables/outputs, developing scopes of work (SOWs), recruiting personnel and subcontractors, designing project activities, and overseeing contract level of effort (LOE) and budget tracking.
4. Supervising/Managing project staff at home and project offices, including Chiefs of Party, Project Managers, Project Coordinators, consultants, etc., as well as partners and subcontracts.

1. Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of client MEL policies and requirements.
2. Advise the CEO and COO on adherence to contract interventions and processes to fulfill required deliverables and tasks and to fill any temporary gaps in staffing.
3. Ensure personnel recruited under contracts are of a high caliber and possess the required technical expertise.

Technical:

1. Provide short-term technical assistance and thought leadership for MEL activities and deliverables.
2. Review, edit (both technical and copy), and author technical reports to ensure the highest quality deliverables.
3. Provide qualitative and/or quantitative analysis in support of ongoing projects as needed.
4. Lead or participate in the design of data collection instruments, performance management systems, evaluation frameworks, methodologies, research protocols, and learning tools.
5. Provide MEL training to HO staff, project staff, consultants, local partners, and other specialized services as required.

Other:

1. Provide in-house training to home and field staff on MEL topics.
2. Travel for project management, technical, or business development activities.

QUALIFICATIONS

1. An advanced university degree in international relations, economics, statistics, public policy, research methods, program assessment, evaluation/measurement, or another relevant field to international development.
2. Demonstrated experience and success in proposal writing and other aspects of the business proposal process, including capture strategy management, teaming/partnering, research, recruitment, writing, red-teaming, and costing.
3. A minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in similar positions.
4. Demonstrated experience managing and providing technical input to international donor-funded program performance monitoring, evaluation, learning, and research initiatives, especially those funded by USAID.
5. Fluency in spoken and written English.
6. Professional proficiency in other commonly used languages (e.g., Spanish, French, Swahili, Arabic, Russian) is preferred but not required.

All applications and CVs must be submitted in English.

ME&A, Inc. is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. ME&A will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. For our EEO Policy Statement and a copy of our EEO Policy Statement and information on your EEO rights under the law.

ME&A is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all applicants.

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