Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Assistant - USAID Future Growth Initiative

Информация

Общие сведения

USAID's Future Growth Initiative (FGI) works to increase the competitiveness of high-growth industries in Central Asia through a market systems approach that incentivizes private and public sector behavior change. The activity facilitates the regionalization of business advisory and enabling environment ecosystems, harmonizes policies and regulations, fosters trade, and market linkages, and aligns the skills of women, youth, and vulnerable populations with private sector needs.  From September 2023, the second phase of the initiative, FGI 2.0, launched and will additionally support the growth and competitiveness of digital and green economies, increase the participation and competitiveness of women entrepreneurs, promote greater involvement of youth in entrepreneurship and startup ecosystem development, and strengthen inclusion of vulnerable populations in national economies.

Palladium is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Assistant support the USAID FGI project. The Assistant will work with the MEL Director in collecting and aggregating data, drafting reports, managing the project's database, and coordinating data accumulation with the project's technical and country teams. 

Location: 

This position will be located in Almaty, Kazakhstan; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Dushanbe, Tajikistan; or Tashkent, Uzbekistan. 

Duration 

 The performance period of the USAID E4 IDIQ Activity will end on September 30, 2026. 

Reporting and Supervision:

 The MEL Assistant will report to the MEL Director.

Требования

Key Competencies Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Economics, Social Studies and/or other relevant fields
• Two (2) years of experience in international development projects in Central Asia
• Experience in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) position(s)
• Experience in database and/or data management positions or responsibilities  
• Professional level of MS Word and Excel, Power BI, and Access
• Fluency in English and Russian
   

Competencies Preferred: 

• Master's degree in IT, Economics, Social Studies and/or other relevant fields
• Fluency in Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, and/or Uzbek 

Обязанности

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Support the systematic communication with the FGI project Partnership Specialists
• Assist the maintaining the data/knowledge management system
• Support the systematic data collection from the Partnership Specialists
• Updating the database of the FGI projects
• Support to the updating the FGI projects and Grants trackers
• Draft the MEL related weekly updates
• Support the data collection process for the quarterly/annual reports  
• Assist to the organizations of MEL Site visits
• Participate in the MEL activities that may include but not limited: learning events, site visits, spots checks, data quality assessment etc.  
• Support for drafting the survey and other MEL tools
• Assist the data collection, data aggregation of the MEL studies – Annual Survey, MEL study/assessments, interviews, focus group discussions etc.
• Organize the meetings with the FGI project partners when needed
• Visualize the results for formative (progress) and summative (annual/final) reports
• Back up the MEL Director during his/her absence
• Support the FGI projects’ GIS data collection and data entering process for USAID
• Other tasks assigned by the supervisor 

Условия

Application Deadline

All applicants should submit their CVs and cover letter no later than August 31, 2024, through the Palladium website.