Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, December 21 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Who we want:
MSA seeks a talented professional with exceptional experience managing a monitoring, evaluation and learning system to join the team in the position of Learning Advisor based in Kampala, Uganda.This position is for a recently-awarded United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project. Working closely with the implementation team and reporting to Chief of Party and the MSA MERL Lead, the Learning Advisor will play a critical role in the project’s success. The Learning Advisor will guide the project through an adaptive, evidence-based approach to project activities, in which monitoring findings rapidly feed into project learning and decision-making. The position will be responsible for cultivating a culture for adaptive management within the team and implementing the systems that support it. The position will also be responsible for ensuring that project results meet a high standard for rigor.

Specific Responsibilities include:
• Support the technical team to articulate the anticipated causal logic of project interventions, including through creating results chains. Contribute to the development and periodic updating of the project's collaborating, learning and adapting component of the AMELP and / or strategy, as applicable.
• Build the processes and culture in the project to implement the CLA strategy and take an adaptive and predictive orientation
• Develop and apply quasi-experimental and other methodologies for short cycle testing of multiple pilots simultaneously with appropriate statistical rigor
• Drawing from monitoring data and evidence, provide guidance on the design, implementation, and adaptation of innovative market development approaches applied to the various market segments targeted by the program
• Foster effective collaboration among staff and external stakeholders
• Manage the results measurement system and team
• Ensure the quality of the data being collected and reported
• Conduct and/or support analyses and evaluations of interventions and the target market systems
• Package and disseminate learning to key stakeholders
• Establish a knowledge management system that supports project learning

Required Qualifications:
• Minimum five years of experience applying M&E methods and approaches
• Experience using results chains or other methods to visualize intervention theories of change
• Excellent quantitative skills with a very good grasp of statistical methods and small-N designs
• Strong ability to design and conduct qualitative research that addresses project learning priorities
• A passion for learning, investigation and for working in economic development
• A positive, collaborative attitude
• Familiar with private sector development, market systems facilitation and/or other economic development approaches (e.g., economic strengthening, inclusive business)
• Ability to build the capacity of colleagues and partners in monitoring
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills
• Excellent ability to collaborate with and influence colleagues to ensure that monitoring findings are used
• Capacity to take initiative and be a self-starter
• Advanced computer literacy, including strong Excel and PowerPoint skills

Desired Qualifications:
• Experience with agricultural market systems
• Experience working on USAID-funded projects or other bilateral or multi-lateral funded projects
• Graduate degree
• Experience applying the DCED Standard for Results Measurement



Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Interested and qualified? Click here to apply


All Jobs

QUICK ALERT SUBSCRIPTION