BACKGROUND
Alutiiq Information Management, LLC (AIM) Regional Peace and Security seeks a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist to join its M&E team, which supports the Department of State’s Bureau of African Affairs, Office of Regional Peace and Security (AF/RPS). Under this task order, the M&E team is embedded at the client site (the Department of State) and is responsible for improving program design, performance monitoring, and evaluations for the foreign assistance programming that the Bureau of African Affairs, Office of Regional Peace and Security manages. AF/RPS manages a range of different foreign assistance programs, covering issues such as security sector reform and governance, counter-terrorism, countering violent extremism, professional military education, maritime security, and counter-wildlife trafficking.
POSITION
AIM seeks an M&E Specialist to join its M&E team under this Task Order. The M&E Specialist will support all work that the M&E team provides to AF/RPS under its Statement of Work (SOW), to include program design, performance monitoring, and evaluation. The M&E Specialist will report directly to the M&E Team Lead under this Task Order.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will be responsible for the following:
Conducting performance monitoring of projects and programs to provide routine feedback on foreign assistance programming
Contributing to and author evaluations requested by the client on select projects, programs, or thematic issues to improve programs and to inform policy
Contributing to efforts to improve program design for projects and programs
Participating in field visits to collect data for both monitoring and evaluation purposes
Identifying lessons learned to improve programming
Working effectively and collaborating with fellow M&E team members to deliver high-quality work
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
Requirements
A Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs, History, Political Science, or social science discipline
At least three (3) years of experience in the international affairs field and/or in monitoring and evaluation and/or qualitative research
Experience conducting monitoring and evaluation of foreign assistance programs
Team player and ability to work well collaboratively
Preferred Requirements
Master’s Degree
Active Secret Security Clearance through DoDCAF (Preferred, but not required-open to candidates without active security clearances eligible to hold a Secret Security Clearance)
Experience with foreign assistance, and ideally, with security assistance in particular
Experience working on Africa issues
Experience conducting fieldwork/travel in Africa
Relevant language experience (e.g. French, Arabic, Swahili, Portuguese, Somali, etc.)
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