Turkey: Monitoring and evaluation manager

Chemonics seeks a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) manager for the Syria Sub-Granting Management Program (Idarah), funded by the U.S. Department of State through the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs/Assistance Coordination and the United Kingdom Department for International Development. Chemonics is implementing Idarah through our branch office, International Sustainability and Development, in Gaziantep, Turkey. The program is working to provide subawards to support governance through education in Idlib, Aleppo, and Rural Damascus. The M&E manager, reporting directly to the chief of party, will develop and maintain all Idarah's M&E systems and records to monitor, verify, and document work contracted and completed. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.

Responsibilities include:

• Review the program contract and other background documentation such as the client's strategic objectives, results framework, M&E plan, and country strategy to understand how the program helps to achieve the client's goals
• Support the field team in refining the project's results framework and participate in work planning sessions
• Support the development of the program's M&E plan by helping to identify indicators and complete indicator reference sheets
• Ensure the program's staff understands their roles and responsibilities in the collection of data for the M&E system
• Hold a briefing session with program staff to ensure the M&E plan meets their requirements and the rationale for each indicator is clearly understood
• Ensure that all memoranda of understanding, services agreements, or other contractual arrangements with partners stipulate their responsibilities for data collection and monitoring
• Develop an M&E plan for each sub-grant activity that includes program-level indicators from the results management plan; identifies additional indicators specific to the sub-grant activity; includes information on baselines, targets, and frequency of data collection; and identifies who is responsible for collection and reporting
• Contribute to the development of annual work plans, using data for strategic decision-making, and review the relevance of the results management plan against these work plans
• Design and share databases and spreadsheets, as well as formats, for reporting information
• Organize the collection of baseline data and the setting of targets
• Organize the collection of data in accordance with the M&E plan
• Supervise one M&E assistant and train other program staff to help collect data
• Ensure data quality and integrity by periodically conducting field visits and spot-checks to verify data and investigate any data anomalies

Qualifications ​

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field required
• Minimum three years of experience monitoring and evaluating the delivery of project activities, to determine and measure outputs and their affect on the selected communities or selected benefactors
• Willingness and ability to travel to and from Turkey
• Demonstrated experience working with communities and villages and their leaders and local populations in evaluating, selecting, designing, and managing projects preferred
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, diplomacy, and ability to work with multi-ethnic groups
• Ability to contribute to lessons learned from projects and to contribute to the development of best management practices and write community project reports
• Ability to draft project performance reporting, and contribute to identifying and disseminating lessons learned and best management practices
• Experience working for international donors preferred; experience with Department for International Development or U.S. government contracts a plus
• Experience and ability to work in Turkey and Syria required
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
• Fluency in writing and speaking both English and Arabic required

​​Send electronic submissions of your CV to recruitment@idarah.org with "Monitoring and Evaluation Manager" in the subject line by March 17, 2017. No telephone inquiries, please. Only finalists will be contacted.