Monitoring and Evaluation/Impact Project Director

Monitoring and Evaluation/Impact Project Director

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Monitoring and Evaluation/Impact Project Director

DAI works at the cutting edge of international and US-based development, combining technical excellence, professional project management, and exceptional customer service to solve our clients' most complex problems. Since 1970, DAI has worked in 150 countries, providing comprehensive development solutions in areas including economic development, private sector development and financial services, digital development, democratic governance and public sector management, economics and trade, and energy and climate change among other sectors. Clients include private corporations and foundations, international development agencies, international lending institutions, and host-country governments.

DAI seeks a Monitoring and Evaluation/Impact Project Director , for a potential project position supporting a philanthropic funder and their grantees to showcase the impact of its grantmaking activities. This role will be responsible for designing a consistent and comprehensive approach to measuring the impact of individual grants, identifying broader trends and learnings across the portfolio, benchmarking progress against internal and sector performance, and surfacing data insights and trends that drive communications as well as new and innovative approaches to grant making. The position entails an understanding and guidance of how these results are communicated to internal and external stakeholders. This role will also oversee the delivery of training and capacity building support to grantees.

Responsibilities:

The Monitoring and Evaluation/Impact Project Director will be responsible for the strategic direction of the program inclusive of client management and external stakeholders, implementation of MEL systems across the funder's portfolio of grantees, quality assurance of data integrity, technical and programmatic oversight of research and framework development, generation and communication of learnings from evaluations and thought leadership- to meet client and external stakeholder needs. They will oversee the long-term staff and short-term experts in achieving project results. They will be responsible for making sure the funder's activities are executed efficiently, with rigor and technical excellence. Other responsibilities include:

Client Management

• Oversee the delivery of timely and accurate reporting to the client across program areas;

• Provide world-class client engagement, anticipating and responding to client's needs.

• Lead presentations and briefings with the funder's board and internal stakeholders

• Serve as thought partner to the funder's staff in the design, implementation, and assessment of new and existing grant MEL frameworks and activities; Use of portfolio data in strategic decision making.

Team and Project Management

• Provide overall leadership and supervision of all project staff, consultants, subcontractors, and sub-grantees in achieving project results.

• Ensure timely delivery of high-quality services across diverse grant programs.

• Lead the DAI team's execution of the strategic roadmap for successful implementation of the funder's program, aligning it with the program's overall vision and objectives.

• Offer direction and support for successful implementation by the core team.

• Oversee project administration, implementation, and financial management to ensure project implementation aligns with budget allocations and DAI internal policies.

• Coordinate program activities with other client-funded programs.

• Build staff capacity to develop and manage grant MEL activities from proposal to grant close.

Technical Excellence

• Lead design, planning and implementation of the funder's measurement and reporting strategy, including refinement of measurement systems, tools, and procedures; Ensure new systems are responsive to the funder's staff and grantee needs.

• Develop and build staff capacity to deliver high quality quantitative and qualitative methods and participatory methodologies to monitor portfolio performance and results.

• Lead the research and development of a strategic measurement frameworks including a financial security theory of change and measurement plan, research theory of change and measurement plan.

• Lead the design of evaluation mechanisms for grant activities, programs, and partnerships.

• Design a comprehensive data collection, management, reporting, and visualization system that efficiently records the outcomes of individual grants and provides data-driven insights across the entire portfolio. Provide strategic, technical, and intellectual direction and leadership in the development and implementation of metric frameworks and prioritization.

• Contribute to the fund's strategic communications efforts through insights, learnings, and evidence generated from their grantmaking activities.

Stakeholder Management

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including internal stakeholders, external stakeholders, grantees, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and other relevant entities, to drive collaboration and ensure program success.

• Source and establish strong partnerships with industry leaders in the small business ecosystem to drive collaboration and ensure program success.

Communications and Thought Leadership

• Support the development of communications deliverables that tell compelling stories about the outcomes the funder's grants have helped drive.

• Coordinate with the funder's staff and key stakeholders to support the development and dissemination of learning and knowledge products.

Qualifications

Required

• Minimum of10 years of relevantexperience and a college degree -including at least 5 years of experience serving in leadership positions for similar programs with technical, client engagement and impact measurement responsibilities.

• Demonstrated ability to mix innovative thinking with strong program execution.

• Experience designing and managing large and complex MEL operations in the public or private sector.

• Experience building and managing dynamic, flexible teams.

• Experience building relationships and engaging across multiple stakeholders.

• Experience with strategic partnership-building / coalition-building.

• A familiarity with the impact measurement sector, ideally in the financial inclusion and/or international development space

• Demonstrated experience leading large and complex research programs in public or private sector settings preferred.

• Documented participation in learning communities, industry groups, or committees relevant to the specific technical area

• Ability to collaborate and work effectively across various teams within projects and organization, and build and sustain positive working relationships with NGOs, private sector, government, and other stakeholders. Experience with development of manuals, tools, or guidance documents.

• Development of publications, presentations, and reports including ability to articulate technical information clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Demonstrated expertise and skills in quantitative and qualitative methods for routine monitoring, assessment, evaluation, or learning.

• Proficiency with relevant statistical analysis and data visualization software (Stata, SAS, SPSS, Epi Info, Tableau, PowerBI)

Preferred

• A Master's degree in political or social science, law, public/business administration, data science, impact and measurement or related field.

• Integration of impact or reporting into communications campaigns.

• Strategy development of large complex programs.

• Experience leading / managing corporate-funded social impact programs.

• Experience designing and implementing MEL systems for grant programs.

• Understanding of and/or engaging in national-level policy discussions in the community financial inclusion / small business ecosystem space, a plus.

Compensation and Benefits

For employees working the United States, the full-time equivalent annual base salary for this position is expected to be between $155,000 to $195,000. Salary for part-time employees will be prorated based on actual hours worked. Actual offers will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, qualifications, relevant education, experience, skills, seniority, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Eligible U.S. based employees, will be able to enroll in medical, dental and vision insurance, plus a 401(k)-retirement plan with a company match. Additionally, employees will be eligible for company-paid annual leave (vacation & holidays), sick leave, parental leave; as well as short- and long-term disability coverage. Detailed information will be provided at the time a formal offer is extended.

For employees working outside of the United States, compensation and benefits will vary based on location.

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