Senior Strategic Planning and Performance Management Technical Advisor, USAID/PPL

Background:

Social Impact (SI) is a Washington, DC-area international development management consulting firm. We provide a full range of innovative program evaluation, management consulting, technical assistance, and training services to strengthen international development programs, organizations and policies. Our global services are in the areas of democracy and governance, health and education, agriculture, the environment, and economic growth.

Objective:

Social Impact is crafting a proposal in response to a task order issued by USAID requesting services for the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) to leverage the existing ProgramNet web platform to build the capacity of USAID staff to implement the ‘program cycle.’ The goals are to directly determine strategic priorities, opportunities and tradeoffs for better planning, design and implement results-based projects, to monitor and evaluate what is working and what is not, and to collaboratively learn and feed knowledge back into strategic planning, programming and future policy development for better development results. SI is seeking a Senior Strategic Planning and Performance Management Technical Advisor to work with the PPL team to provide content development for this project.

Responsibilities and Tasks:

The Senior Strategic Planning and Performance Management Technical Advisor will be responsible for:

• Preparing and/or editing briefers, how to, notes, case studies, and other content on priority topics (About one-third strategic planning, one-third project design, and one-third performance management);
• Support content editing;
• Ensuring consistency of branding, formatting, tone substance, and length;
• Assisting the team with designing effective communication products.

Qualifications:

Candidates must meet the following requirements to be considered:

• Advanced degree in relevant field from accredited university;
• Expertise in strategic planning and performance management
• Expertise in program design and management
• A minimum 15 years of experience conducting strategic planning and performance management for US government agencies;
• Ability to design effective communication products;
• Excellent writing skills;

To learn more about Social Impact, please visit our website: http://www.socialimpact.com

Interested candidates, please respond to this advertisement through our Devex DevHire platform.

We will contact only eligible candidates to further discuss their availability. Please no phone calls. Social Impact is an equal opportunity employer.