Director for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning, Building Climate Resilience, Honduras 211 views

Director for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning, Building Climate Resilience

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About Palladium – Palladium is an international development consultancy with more than 50 years of experience and a presence in 90 countries and hub offices in Australia, Washington DC, Dubai, and London. We work with USAID, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). and Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) as well foundations and directly with private sector. Our work covers a range of technical areas, but focuses on economic development, environment and Climate change, trade promotion, governance, workforce development, and logistics.

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Director of Measurement, Evaluation, and Learning, Honduras
Palladium is
seeking a Director of Measurement, Evaluation, and Learning for an upcoming
Honduras Building Climate Resilience (BCR) activity funded by USAID. The purpose of this
activity is to strengthen the capacity of Honduran systems to withstand and
respond to climate variability and change, thereby helping address underlying
factors that contribute to irregular migration. The BCR will aim to improve
water resources management, protect vulnerable sub-watersheds, and forest
ecosystems, and develop climate mitigation strategies.

 
The Director
of Measurement, Evaluation, and Learning will be responsible for designing and operationalizing
a monitoring, evaluation, and learning framework, managing information flows, maintaining
data validity, ensuring compliance of monitoring and evaluation activities,
integrating collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) into all aspects of
implementation, and reporting out to stakeholders. This individual will be also
responsible for the learning and knowledge management aspect of the Activity,
including leading the development and implementation of the collaborating, learning
and adapting agenda, engaging technical, management and operational staff,
USAID and other stakeholders throughout the process managing adaptively.

 
Duration: 5 years
Location: This position will be based in Honduras
with the need to travel to
project areas throughout the year.

 
Responsibilities
The candidate’s responsibilities will likely include:

•  Developing and implement the BCR MEL strategy.
• Leading development of the BCR Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning plan based on the BCR project strategy.
• Leading development of BCR MEL standards, policies, and structure for managing MEL across BCR core funding and buy-ins.
• Participating in BCR senior management team, ensuring that MEL plays a critical role in all project planning and execution.
• Leading development and management of systems to aggregate and visualize program data, including dashboards and GIS, to facilitate data use including analysis for learning and adaptive program management.
• Collaborating with the Communications team to support cross project collaboration and learning with other stakeholders.
•  Collaborating with the Communications team to develop and address learning agendas.
•  Other duties as assigned.??

Qualifications

• At least ten (10) years of experience monitoring and evaluating complex environmental
  programs, including data analysis,
  interpretation, knowledge management, and designing
  and utilizing monitoring and evaluation
  tools and systems. 
• Proven experience in computer knowledge on database software, including MS Excel,
  SPSS, and GIS.
• Full professional proficiency in English and Spanish is required – Level III Interagency
  Language Roundtable (ILR) scale.