United States Institute of Peace-posted 7 months ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Washington, DC
Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

The full-time Personal Services Contractor will provide Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) support to the El Salvador Team Lead including: coordination and collaboration with project staff, key stakeholders, and USIP's Learning, Evaluation, and Research (LER) team to collect and compile the project's performance indicators; store, manage, analyze, and present written reports on results and lessons learned; oversee the Learning component including the creation of learning tools; and the development of communications materials to disseminate this learning within and outside USIP. This is a full-time term host country Personal Services Contractor position, that based in San Salvador, El Salvador. This is a Personal Services Contractor (PSC) position for a host-country national in Latin America. The contract can be renewed pending good performance, funding, and business needs. In March 2024, USIP's Latin America Program (LAP) launched the "Fostering Citizen Support for the Rule of Law" project in San Salvador, El Salvador under an Inter-Agency Agreement (IAA) with the United States Department of State - Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs- for a period of three years to increase public support for the rule of law by building stakeholder networks, facilitating dialogues between citizens and authorities, engaging the public on rule of law issues, and equipping local youth with peacebuilding and leadership skills. The project will work in three municipalities and activities will include: community characterization studies, capacity-building exercises with community, international exchanges to learn best practices, dialogues between coalitions of civil society and local authorities, support for small youth and community-led projects, peacebuilding and dialogue trainings for youth, mentoring activities for youth, and youth-led dialogues within communities.

  • Develop and maintain a Project Monitoring Plan (PMP) which includes data to be collected and frequency of measurement.
  • Support the development of effective mechanisms to monitor progress and impact of activities, including through surveys, interviews, and focus groups.
  • Establish and implement a data collection methodology/process to enable systematic collection, management, and reporting of data against performance indicators.
  • Develop all required data collection instruments and tools for surveys needed to collect data on output and outcome level program indicators.
  • Coordinate with USIP partners to ensure that their MEL efforts align with USIP's MEL objectives.
  • Provide ongoing support to USIP partner organizations to ensure MEL data is collected and shared with USIP program staff.
  • Work closely with staff to develop evaluations of all activities and ensure their timely execution.
  • Ensure that all indicators are accurately tracked and measured, and different MEL tools are up-to-date and disseminated in a timely manner.
  • Contribute to analysis of MEL data, including drafting monitoring reports.
  • Systematize all results in a timely manner.
  • Coordinate research initiatives implemented by USIP contractors and team, including compiling, verifying and analyzing data provided by key stakeholders.
  • Ensure compliance with Institutional Review Board (IRB) processes, when necessary.
  • Coordinate and review teams' inputs to the Change Map and PMP, as well as any other internal reports on project progress.
  • Write detailed baseline, midpoint, and endline reports including graphics on indicators and suggestions for modifications and improvements.
  • Support the development of graphic and written summaries of survey information which evaluate key indicators.
  • Maintain a repository of project lessons learned, offering strategic recommendations on ways to improve impact.
  • Support the writing and editing needs of the El Salvador project, including proofreading documents for diverse audiences.
  • Spearhead communications materials such as project factsheets, presentation PowerPoints, and success stories.
  • Bachelor's degree in communications, statistics, economics, development, sociology, peacebuilding or related field required.
  • Four (4) or more years of relevant work experience, with at least two years of experience in Monitoring and Evaluation.
  • Experience in the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.
  • Experience in qualitative research principles, tools and techniques with specific experience in participatory qualitative methodologies.
  • Demonstrated experience in report writing in an international donor context.
  • Ability to engage and coordinate with staff across teams, as well as to develop the capacity of others on MEL.
  • Strong critical thinking and analytical skills.
  • Excellent writing and communications skills, as well as cross-cultural skills and the ability to tailor work to multiple audiences.
  • Independent worker and self-starter.
  • Knowledge of peacebuilding and culture of lawfulness theories and programs is a plus.
  • Advanced English as well as proficient Spanish language is required.
  • Ability to travel overnight to the municipalities where the project will work.
  • Advanced skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Microsoft 365 suite a must. Preferably well versed with Power BI.
  • Knowledge of peacebuilding and culture of lawfulness theories and programs is a plus.
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