Talent Pool: International Monitoring, Evaluation & Data Specialists

McColm and Company•Arlington, VA

About The Position

McColm & Company is building a talent pool of international monitoring, evaluation, and data specialists for multiple project roles. McColm is a mission-driven professional services firm supporting U.S. federal customers in foreign affairs, international development, human services, and national security. Its 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. The pool is open to candidates at all career levels, including senior evaluators and program leaders, sector and country specialists, data analysts, and visualization experts. Engagement type varies by project and may be full-time employment, part-time employment, or consultancy as a 1099 independent contractor. Work may be onsite, hybrid, or remote. Joining the pool does not guarantee an engagement; candidates may be contacted when an assignment fits their expertise to discuss the role, level of effort, and availability. Duties and qualifications vary by project and role. Potential assignments include project management, evaluation leadership, sector and country expertise, rapid evaluation and political economy analysis, data analysis and visualization, facilitation and training, editing, and accessibility 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. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship or other authorization to work in the United States.
Fluent written and spoken English.
For Project Manager roles: a bachelor's degree or higher.
For Project Manager roles: at least 5 years of contract management experience in an international development context.
For Project Manager roles: at least 5 years performing and overseeing multiple types of monitoring, evaluation, and learning services.
For Project Manager roles: at least 5 years managing deadlines and deliverable preparation and submission.
For Project Manager roles: at least 5 years building and maintaining stakeholder relationships.
For Project Manager roles: ability to produce and edit high-quality deliverables and availability during core Eastern Time business hours, with flexibility during fieldwork periods.
For Lead Evaluator roles: a master's degree or higher.
For Lead Evaluator roles: at least 8 years of recent monitoring, evaluation, and learning experience with international development projects.
For Lead Evaluator roles: demonstrated experience facilitating trainings and cross-team learning workshops.
For Lead Evaluator roles: experience with portfolio approaches and thematic analysis.
For Lead Evaluator roles: experience within the past three years leading evaluation teams virtually and in hybrid settings.
For Lead Evaluator roles: demonstrated experience with at least one of Adaptive Evaluation, Collaboration, Learning and Adaptation (CLA), Rapid Evaluation, or use of AI in evaluation.
Specialist qualifications depend on the assignment and may include experience in evaluation leadership, labor and supply-chain sectors, rapid evaluation and political economy analysis, data analysis, visualization, facilitation, training, editing, or accessibility.
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.
Prior experience supporting U.S. Government clients is highly desirable.
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

Oversee contract operations, deliverable quality and timeliness, budgets, staffing, and bench workflow; 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.
Provide sector and country expertise in areas such as 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, and global supply chain due diligence.
Conduct desk reviews and key informant interviews to deliver 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 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.

Benefits

Full-time employees are eligible for the company's standard benefits package, including health insurance, paid holidays, paid time off, and 401(k).
Contract and consultant roles are not eligible for benefits.

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