Evaluation Specialist Consultant

CAMRIS International

USAID’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Activity, Nepal

Consultancy Title: Evaluation Specialist Consultant (1)

CAMRIS is an international development and research firm that realizes innovative solutions to health and development challenges through high-quality, cost-effective program and research management services. With experience working in more than 80 countries, we combine our proven systems with today’s most effective, evidence-based best practices to improve the lives of people around the world. We apply a customized, customer-centric, cost-effective business approach to offer greater value to our clients and challenge the way things have always been done in our field.

CAMRIS clients include U.S. government agencies and multilateral and private organizations. Our core practice areas include public health, agriculture, and food security, economic development, education, environment, humanitarian assistance, democracy and governance, monitoring, evaluation and learning, and medical research. 

In support of the CAMRIS-implemented, USAID/Nepal Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Activity, we seek an Evaluation Specialist for the upcoming Midterm Performance Evaluation of USAID/Nepal’s Global Health Supply Chain – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project. The purpose of this midterm performance evaluation is to better understand the extent to which aspects of the GHSC-PSM/Nepal Results Framework still hold, determine whether the project is on track to meeting its stated objectives and results, and the project’s capacity to provide quality technical assistance to the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) in achieving the national supply chain objectives. This evaluation also will assess USAID/Nepal’s management processes in advancing the project objectives. The findings from the evaluation will be used to strengthen current activities through the identification of course-correcting actions to ensure the project will meet its objectives, develop recommendations for future activities, and provide recommendations to the Government of Nepal and External Development partners in Nepal with evidence of good supply chain management practices.

Responsibilities 

• Serve as a key member of the evaluation team by providing expertise and quality assurance on evaluation methods and issues.
• With supervision from team leader the incumbent will be responsible for supporting in evaluation design and methodology, training and monitoring field researchers, data management, analysis and report writing.
• Participate in planning and briefing meetings, data collection, data management, data analysis, and development of presentations and reports.
• Support evaluation team to ensure timely and quality delivery of outputs (deliverables).

Qualification 

• Master’s degree or higher level of education in a relevant technical area (public health, pharmacy, nursing, social science).
• At least five years of experience in health program implementation and monitoring and evaluation, including design and implementation of evaluations.
• Strong qualitative evaluation and analytical skills.
• Good presentation and writing skills, including report writing experience.
• Familiarity with USAID health programs/projects.
• Familiarity with USAID M&E policies and practices, including evaluation policies, results frameworks, and performance monitoring plans.
• Fluency in Nepali is required.

Interested qualified applicants are requested to apply by March 06, 2019 through following link:

https://careers-camris.icims.com/jobs/4237/evaluation-specialist/job