Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist – West Africa Staple Foods Markets Programme
Employer: Development Associate, Inc. (DAI)
Location: Africa
Location Details: Based in Accra, Ghana – with travel to Burkina Faso, Niger and Nigeria
Department: Private Sector Development
Division: Economic Growth
DAI is an employee-owned global development company. For 40 years, we have worked on the frontlines of international development, tackling fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governments, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering results that matter in some 60 countries. Our integrated development solutions turn ideas into impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and innovation across multiple disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability operations, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS and disease control, water and natural resources management, and energy and climate change. Our clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and national governments.
Objective of the programme: – The focus of the programme is on providing support to the production and trade in staple food markets between Ghana and Burkina Faso, and between Nigeria and Niger. The programme will work to enable policies that allow for equitable and efficient regional market development and will aim to tackle the cause of multiple market failures by deploying carefully targeted interventions across the region. The anticipated outcomes of the five year project are; better business models for agricultural production; better business models for agricultural marketing and; agriculture and trade policies and regulations rationalised and improved. – The programme consists of two main activities; 1) Challenge fund to provide finance to innovative business models in food production and marketing and 2) Policy Facility to provide evidence, analysis and advocacy for policy and regulatory reform.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Develop project monitoring systems and processes
• Ensure baseline data collection at the start of the programme and that data is collected regularly against indicators
• Develop and drive a sound project performance monitoring and evaluation plan
• Develop monitoring and evaluation reports
• Develop monitoring and evaluation strategy so lessons learned are incorporated in activities to achieve greater impact
• Developing sound performance management indicators
• Develop monitoring and evaluation systems and processes for value chain and grants management
Requirements:
• 15 years' experience in monitoring and evaluation
• Excellent project management skills
• Understanding of key approaches to monitoring and evaluation and the delivery of value for money
• Experience in working on donor funded projects
• Experience in monitoring and evaluating Agricultural Value Chain Projects and Grant Fund/ Challenge Fund Projects
• Fluency in English and French (both written and oral) is essential.
• Experience working in West Africa
• Good people and communications skills
Project Location: The Project will be based in Accra, Ghana with travel to Burkina Faso, Niger and Nigeria
Length of the project: 5 years
Anticipated Project Start date: October 2013
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