MONITORING AND EVALUATION SPECIALIST (M&ES) ACCRA, GHANA

CARE seeks a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (M&ES) for an upcoming, four (4) year program in Ghana. This project has a heavy focus on providing technical expertise in scaling up the National Literacy Acceleration Program (NALAP) which uses the mother tongue to teach reading skills to early primary students. The project aims to improve reading skills in 2 million primary students by 2016.

Summary

The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (M&ES) will have primary responsibility to develop and implement monitoring, evaluation and research activities for all components of the project. The candidate should have both strong qualitative and quantitative evaluation skills, and significant experience with multiple types of evaluations – impact evaluations, process evaluations, formative evaluations etc.

REquired Qualifications:

• At least 10 years relevant experience in project and program evaluation, research and survey implementation.
• At least 2 years experience on a large international project.
• PhD in Evaluation, Measurement, Statistics or other related fields such as Education is desired.
• Fluency in English
• The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees with this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Position Specifics:

• Number of Positions: 1
• Location: Accra Ghana
• Schedule: Full-time
• Status: Accompanied
• Anticipated start date: October 2012

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MONITORING AND EVALUATION SPECIALIST (M&ES) ACCRA, GHANA