Ethiopia: Chief of Party The Ethiopia Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Service Project, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Ethiopia

Chief of Party

The Ethiopia Performance Monitoring and

Evaluation Service Project, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Company Profile

MSI is an international development firm in the Washington, D.C., metro area with a 30-year history of helping to deliver results across the developing world. In 2008, we became part of Coffey International Limited. Since that time, we have greatly expanded our ability to respond seamlessly and flexibly to client needs with Coffey’s international development offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. We operate in some of the most challenging political and economic climates in the world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and South Sudan. MSI currently employs 800 development experts in the fields of public sector management, monitoring and evaluation, governance, and anticorruption. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.

Position Summary:

The Chief of Party will serve as the individual bearing primary responsibility for technical aspects of contract performance, including design and advice on methods, provide central oversight, and maintaining acceptable standards of quality for tasks assigned.

Responsibilities:

Manage the field office, including supervision of Ethiopia-based expatriate and Ethiopian staff.

Work with Contractor home office and local office staff to identify and nominate, for USAID approval, technical specialists/consultants for short-term technical assistance to meet the objectives of the project.

Coordinate, as requested by USAID/Ethiopia, with USAID partner organizations, in conducting evaluation and performance management support tasks in accordance with work plan.

Advise and educate other partners/USAID teams/other Contractors on policies and services offered by the project.

Supervise the development, implementation and reporting of evaluation and performance management support activities tasks in accordance with the work plan.

Assure compliance with contract provisions, including annual work plans and other reports; and transfer knowledge to local staff.

Qualifications:

Fifteen (15) years of experience in public or private sector management, administration, and planning; international development, preferably in developing countries; monitoring and evaluation; and project design.

Eight (8) years of supervisory experience.

Strong background in project management and organizational development, and monitoring and evaluation to ensure adequate liaison with USAID/Ethiopia and provide comprehensive monitoring and evaluation support.

Graduate degree in management, organizational development, international development, social science, or a related field (or career/experience equivalent).

Experience managing similar multi-faceted projects in the past. In addition, the capacity to manage large complex programs (including subcontracts) in a multi-cultural environment and providing consulting services in helping clients analyze problems, devise solutions and adopt solutions thereto is essential.