• Full Time
  • Rwanda

RTI INTERNATIONAL

                                                       JOB DESCRIPTION

Company Name: RTI INTERNATIONAL
Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Advisor
Job Classification: Professional
Reports to: Chief of Party
Job Grade: I/11

Project Description
RTI International is an independent, nonprofit research institute providing research, development, and technical services to government and commercial clients worldwide. The Food Security and Agriculture division within the International Development Group is implementing the Feed the Future Rwanda Kungahara Wagura Amasoko boost economic growth by facilitating increased high value agricultural export.
Kungahara Wagura Amasoko applies a market systems approach supporting Government of Rwanda, the Private Sector and Civil Societies to fulfill their mandates and align incentives to promote investment. Focusing on 13 districts, the project aims to foster an inclusive and resilient environment in which high-value agricultural export businesses can thrive.
This is being achieved through 2 key objectives

  1. facilitating an inclusive and resilient policy and regulatory environment and

(ii) supporting local actors to attract investment.

Job Summary:
The MEL Advisor provides overall strategic leadership for monitoring, evaluation and learning components of this Activity. The Advisor is responsible for updating project’s MEL Plan that includes appropriate indicators, Annual Household data, and results and produces timely, accurate, and complete reports. The MEL Advisor also is responsible for implementing the collaboration plan and managing learning and adaptation.
The MEL Advisor reports to the Chief of Party.

Essential Duties:
Main purpose of job

  • Provide overall strategic leadership for MEL components.
  • Responsible for research, information, and knowledge management.
  • Develop monitoring and learning tools and build staff capacity to use tools.
  • Lead evaluation, assessments, reporting, and learning activities.
  • Develop and oversee implementation of Activity MEL Plan (AMELP).
  • Develop and implement a clear plan for collaboration.
  • Develop strategy for sharing learning and adaptation.
  • Supervise MEL team

Minimum Required Education & Experience

  • Master’s degree and 10 years of experience
  • Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of experience managing, monitoring and evaluating complex development activities.
  • Demonstrated experience with monitoring and evaluation tools/ approaches/ practices, including data analysis and report writing, that emphasize system- or market-wide results and impacts across multiple programs/ activities, stakeholders and geographic regions.
  • Demonstrated experience with USG-funded program management, policies, regulations, and procedures.
  • Demonstrated experience in facilitating and leading learning and adaptation processes within an activity based framework.

Physical/Mental Demands
Physical and mental demands of this role include those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job, as outlined above.
Examples include: remaining in a stationary position for long periods of time; operating a computer and other office machinery; thinking, learning, and concentrating effectively and frequently communicating with other people, both within RTI and outside of RTI; frequently moving about inside and travel between offices and laboratories; frequently conducting laboratory site inspections (if applicable), ability to handle the stress associated in meeting frequent, multiple and tight deadlines, ability to work in excess of 40 hours per week as workload and deadlines may require, ability to have regular, reliable and predictable attendance.

Disclaimer
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Note: The deadline for the application is no later than Friday, September 27th 2024. 
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

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