MONITORING AND EVALUATION SPECIALIST

World Learning is seeking a Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist for a new 5-year project called RESPECT: Religious and Social Pluralism, Equity and Tolerance.

The RESPECT Program aims at strengthening democratic civic culture including a more intensive focus on changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. Crosscutting elements of the program is to promote pluralism, religious diversity, and the rights of women and minority groups. The program will partner with community, faith based, non governmental organizations, government institutions, private sector and mass organizations to achieve the program objectives.

Working with the programmatic and financial staff in Jakarta and the field, RESPECT's M&E Specialist will have the following specific duties and responsibilities:
- Review the program results framework and advise management
- Develop and evaluate project indicators at output, outcome and impact levels
- Develop a performance management plan and maintain it updated
- Assist the program to institutionalize the principals of managing for result
- Develop data collection tools appropriate to collects data for all indicators
- Design, implement or manage baseline survey data collection and other evaluative studies
- Assist program management to set baseline values/benchmarks
- Training field officers and grantees to implement data collection tools
- Data quality assurance
- Facilitate periodic performance reviews
- Responsible for timely and accurate performance reporting as required in the cooperative agreement. This may involve developing a web-based real-time database
- Design, develop and maintain a database with all program performance data
- Coordinate closely with implementing partners and grantees in order to identify and implement lessons learned from ex-post evaluation into the structure of new programs and M&E practices

Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in economics, sociology, anthropology, statistics, business administration, research methodology or other related field with three to five years experience implementing M&E systems for development programs. Bachelor's degree in relevant field with five to eight years experience may be considered.
- Strong M&E background with a good understanding of the M&E concepts

The M&E Specialist will be located in the RESPECT project office in Jakarta, but will upon occasion be required to visit project offices in the field.

Interested persons should submit a cover letter, resume and salary history by e-mail no later than 15 February 2008 to info@respect- wl.org. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.