أخصائي رفيع في الرصد والتقييم/ قائد توليد الأدلة، MELA (Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist/Evidence Generation Lead, MELA)

Job Summary

The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist/Evidence Generation Lead will provide technical leadership for performance monitoring, evaluations, assessments, and research within the Jordan MELA work order. This role supports evidence generation, data use, and adaptive management, working closely with various stakeholders to ensure rigorous and actionable monitoring and evaluation outputs.

Responsibilities

• Lead performance management, monitoring, evaluations, assessments, and research activities under the Jordan MELA scope of work.
• Support the design and improvement of performance monitoring systems, indicator tracking, and data review processes.
• Develop and maintain scopes of work, methodologies, and work plans for evaluations and assessments.
• Oversee the design and implementation of evaluations, assessments, political economy and market studies, situational analyses, rapid appraisals, and other research assignments including data collection and reporting.
• Create and maintain indicator reference documents, reporting schedules, and analytics products to aid decision-making.
• Analyze performance data with contextual information to identify trends, risks, gaps, and opportunities for adaptive management.
• Conduct or supervise data quality assessments and follow up on findings and corrective actions.
• Prepare dashboards, performance summaries, evaluation and assessment reports, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in international development, economics, public policy, social sciences, statistics, evaluation, or related field; doctoral degree preferred.
• At least 7 years of experience designing and implementing evaluations, assessments, research studies, or applied social science research.
• Experience with qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches.
• Proven ability to develop evaluation scopes of work, research designs, and actionable reports for donor or government clients.
• Knowledge of evaluation standards, human subjects protection, and ethical research practices.
• Experience working in Jordan and/or the MENA region is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with U.S. Government foreign assistance programming and evaluation requirements is strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical, writing, and presentation skills with ability to communicate findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines in dynamic environments.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Arabic.

What the company offers

• Comprehensive and market-competitive benefits.
• Merit-based financial rewards.
• Flexibility and commitment to work/life balance.
• Collaborative team atmosphere valuing employee contributions.
• Learning and development opportunities for professional growth.

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