Senegal
Technical Director, USAID Senegal Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

Organization
• OSC Ltd.

Posted
17 May 2021

Closing date
11 Jun 2021

Overseas Strategic Consulting, Ltd. is seeking an experienced Technical Director for the anticipated USAID Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning in Senegal activity.
This proposed activity will complement and augment USAID/Senegal’s bilateral performance management, and more effectively disseminate learning within the Mission and to a range of local stakeholders. This Platform will advance USAID/Senegal’s commitment to program effectiveness across all sectors, and will support USAID/Senegal to make informed strategic and management decisions.
The Platform will have a distinct focus on strengthening MEL capacity in the Government of Senegal, as well as sub-national state institutions, local civil society organizations, community-based organizations, and implementing partners in the country.
The Technical Director will be responsible for leading and managing the technical work related to monitoring, evaluation, and learning under the resulting task order.
He/She will assist COP in performance management systems, financial management, and timely completion and submission of all activity deliverables.
The Technical Director will support the recruitment and outreach to identify a wide pool of technically sound Senegalese and international evaluators and MEL specialists.
She/he will ensure that the short-term technical experts and team members recruited under this contract are of a high caliber and possess commensurate technical expertise.

Required Qualifications:
• Senegalese national
• A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in similar positions is required.
• Master’s degree in relevant field such as international development, project management, statistics, or economics.
• Thorough technical knowledge of monitoring, evaluation methods, and performance management, including, but not limited to, data collection and analysis, evaluation planning, evaluation design and management, dissemination of evaluation results, and learning.
• Managerial and operational experience, and preferably experience in supporting complex activities involving coordination with multiple program partner institutions.
• Strong interpersonal and oral communications and presentation skills.
• Experience working with a diverse group of stakeholders, including donor/development organizations, government officials, civil society leaders, community leaders, and project beneficiaries.
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English and French.
• Working experience in West Africa or similar developing country context

How to apply
To apply- Please email resume and three professional references to mail address. Please indicate “Senegal Technical Director” and the position of interest in your subject line.

OSC is committed to recruiting, employing, promoting, and retaining the best-qualified individuals without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, genetic information, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
This position is contingent upon contract award from USAID.