About The Kaizen Company
The Kaizen Company is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven organizational and institutional performance improvements and establish communities of practice that facilitate peer-to-peer learning and the achievement of shared goals.
We leverage existing knowledge, technology, and new media, and local peer networks to support local reforms. Since our inception, we have provided support to more than 100 government, private-sector, and non-profit organizations in markets worldwide. We have created solutions that achieve outcomes across a broad range of sectors including education, governance, economic growth, environment and water, energy, and global law enforcement.
Project Description:
The USAID Training for Pakistan project provides turn-key participant training and capacity development services that are uniquely specialized for USAID/Pakistan Mission teams and public and private implementing partners. The primary purpose of this program is to provide participant training and capacity development services to USAID/Pakistan’s contractors, grantees, and partners under Government to Government assistance programs, and at times to the Mission directly. This Mission-wide program will support all USAID sector teams interested in exchanges or training of host-country Pakistani nationals.
Scope and Objectives
The M&E Specialist will be responsible for supporting the DCoP on the monitoring, evaluation, and learning plan, data collection and analyzation, and establishing indicators for project success.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement the monitoring and evaluation system, including standard indicators for data collection, analyses, and assessments throughout the life of the project
- Support the design, quality development, and production of all reports, assessments, surveys, and studies
- Provide technical assistance on the utilization of data and evidence to build project staffs capacity
- Contribute to the design of methodologies and data collection methods and protocols for performance and impact evaluations
- Support the maintenance of Performance Management Plans and the development and maintenance of M&E Plans
- Ensure compliance with program standards expected and required by USAID
- Provide guidance and support to projects to develop annual work plans and project monitoring plans
- Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Reporting
The M&E Specialist position will be based out of the TFP office in Islamabad. S/he will report to the Deputy Chief of Party.
Qualifications
- A minimum of a relevant under graduate degree in education, statistics, international development or related field required. Higher qualification will be viewed as an advantage.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience with quantitative and qualitative statistical processing and designing, monitoring and evaluating programs in the education sector.
- Demonstrated knowledge of impact evaluations, qualitative research, evaluation designs and experience collaborating with a range of stakeholders providing technical and managerial; oversight and direction on monitoring, evaluation, and learning in international development.
- Experience in providing technical assistance, change management, mentoring, and training.
- Experience evaluating and supporting other USAID-funded projects highly preferred.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.