Talent Pool: International Monitoring, Evaluation & Data Specialists

McColm and Company•St. Petersburg, FL

About The Position

McColm & Company is building a talent pool of international monitoring, evaluation, and data specialists for multiple project personnel and subject matter expert consultant roles. Engagement type varies by project and may be full-time employment, part-time employment, or consultancy as a 1099 independent contractor. Work may be on site, hybrid, or remote. Joining the pool does not guarantee an engagement; candidates may be contacted when an assignment matches their expertise to discuss the role, level of effort, and availability. The Justice and Resilience Practice supports international technical assistance projects addressing labor rights, trade, and global supply chains, including efforts to combat child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking. Roles may include Project Manager, Lead Evaluator, evaluation team lead or senior evaluator, sector and country specialist, rapid evaluation and political economy analyst, data analyst, data visualization specialist, facilitator or trainer, and editor or accessibility specialist. Duties and requirements vary by role and project. Candidates are asked to indicate their preferred role types, technical and sector expertise, countries or regions of work, languages and proficiency, and whether they seek full-time, part-time, or consulting work. Individuals with lived experience of forced labor, child labor, or human trafficking are encouraged to apply; lived experience may be considered in place of some formal education or professional experience. U.S. citizenship or other authorization to work in the United States and fluent written and spoken English are required. Travel may be required for some roles. Prior experience supporting U.S. Government clients is highly desirable. Compensation depends on job requirements, market dynamics, and the successful candidate’s experience and skills. Full-time employees are eligible for McColm’s standard benefits package; contract and consultant roles are not eligible for benefits. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Requirements

U.S. citizen or otherwise authorized to work in the United States.
Fluent written and spoken English.
Project Manager role: Bachelor’s degree or higher.
Project Manager role: 5 or more years of contract management experience in an international development context.
Project Manager role: 5 or more years performing and overseeing multiple types of monitoring, evaluation, and learning services.
Project Manager role: 5 or more years managing deadlines and deliverable preparation and submission.
Project Manager role: 5 or more years building and maintaining stakeholder relationships.
Project Manager role: ability to produce and edit high-quality deliverables and availability during core Eastern Time business hours, with flexibility during fieldwork periods.
Lead Evaluator role: Master’s degree or higher.
Lead Evaluator role: 8 or more years of recent monitoring, evaluation, and learning experience with international development projects.
Lead Evaluator role: demonstrated experience facilitating trainings and cross-team learning workshops.
Lead Evaluator role: experience with portfolio approaches and thematic analysis.
Lead Evaluator role: experience within the past three years leading evaluation teams virtually and in hybrid settings.
Lead Evaluator role: demonstrated experience with at least one of Adaptive Evaluation, Collaboration, Learning and Adaptation (CLA), Rapid Evaluation, or use of AI in Evaluation.
Applicants should indicate their role interests, technical and sector expertise, countries or regions of work, languages and proficiency, and desired engagement type.
Travel may be required for some roles.

Nice To Haves

Additional language fluency for Lead Evaluator roles.
Experience evaluating labor rights programs is strongly preferred for Lead Evaluator roles.
Prior experience supporting U.S. Government clients is highly desirable.
Relevant specialist expertise may include labor rights, child labor, forced labor, human trafficking, labor law enforcement, trade and labor compliance, critical minerals and mining supply chains, maritime industry and workforce, or global supply chain due diligence.
Relevant data analysis skills may include Excel and Power Query.
Relevant data visualization skills may include Tableau or Power BI.
Lived experience of forced labor, child labor, or human trafficking is valued and may be considered in place of some formal education or professional experience.

Responsibilities

Depending on the project, oversee contract operations, deliverable quality and timeliness, budgets, staffing, and bench workflow, and serve as the primary liaison with the Government client.
Provide technical leadership across monitoring, evaluation, and learning tasks; match specialists to assignments; review and approve technical work; mentor bench members; and verify the accuracy of AI-assisted analysis.
Lead performance and rapid evaluations, draft Terms of Reference, manage IRB and ethical clearance, and produce utilization-focused reports.
Conduct rapid evaluation and political economy analysis through desk review and key informant interviews, delivering credible findings on compressed timelines.
Assess data quality, including validity, reliability, timeliness, precision, and integrity, and conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of indicator data.
Develop dashboards, infographics, network models, and other data visualization products for non-technical audiences.
Facilitate in-person, virtual, and hybrid sense-making sessions; design learning activities; and provide monitoring and evaluation capacity building.
Copy-edit materials and produce Section 508-compliant documents.