Field Coordinator, USAID/Central Africa Regional Third-Party Monitoring Project, Central African Republic

Field Coordinator,

USAID/Central Africa Regional Third-Party Monitoring Project,

Central African Republic

Company Profile:

MSI, a Tetra Tech Company, is a Washington, D.C. metro area international development firm with a 35-year history of delivering development results across the world. Our core expertise is in the fields of monitoring and evaluation (M&E), institutional development, public sector management, peace and stability, governance and anti-corruption. MSI has implemented projects in 90 countries around the world such as Jordan, Kenya, Indonesia, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Colombia and Mexico. As one of the leading companies in our field, MSI has partnered with organizations across all sectors of international development to support clients ranging from large bilateral and multilateral donors such as USAID, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program to national and local governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), think tanks, foundations and universities. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.

Project Summary:

This three-year USAID Central Africa Regional Third Party Monitoring (CART) project will establish independent, impartial, timely, responsive, contextualized, and forward-looking third party monitoring (TPM) and operational support services. CART will provide a comprehensive range of verification and outcome monitoring, and learning services that will increase USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance and its implementing partners’ (IP) understanding of the outputs, outcomes, progress, challenges, successes, results, and lessons learned for both emergency and non-emergency activities within CAR, DRC and ROC. This project seeks to improve USAID/BHA’s capability to utilize humanitarian assistance resources to ameliorate the drivers of poverty and malnutrition characterized by complex emergencies within the region.

**Please note: Only CAR citizens are eligible for this position

Position Summary:

The Field Coordinator will work with the Deputy Chief of Party to oversee the data collection process. The Field Coordinator will closely coordinate with the project data collection partner staff, including during recruitment, training and fielding of data collection teams.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and coordinate all field research across Central African Republic

• Remotely manage teams of field monitors and coordinate field assignments and deployments, including ensuring that security protocols for daily field movements are followed

• Coordinate and ensure proper training of all field staff and oversee the first-stage data entry process and data quality review

• Coordinate site visits with IPs and work with local authorities to obtain access to sites

• Provide first-level data quality assurance, including assessing data for quality, strength, completeness, and veracity

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required
• Minimum of five years of experience in the humanitarian, development, or transition field, preferably in a role managing the activities of field research teams, preferably with an NGO or development organization
• Experience in training data collection teams and ensuring data collection quality
• Strong attention to detail
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint)
• Ability to work with minimal oversight
• Knowledge of the CAR operating context and the ongoing dynamics across some or all these countries
• Experience and comfort working with online collaboration platforms
• Experience supervising junior to mid-level staff as well as sub-contractors and/or partners
• Fluency in French required
• Advanced-level English preferred

Reasonable Accommodations: MSI is dedicated to hiring an inclusive workforce. If you would like to request reasonable accommodations during the application process, please email [email protected] with Reasonable Accommodations in the title. Our recruitment team looks forward to engaging in an interactive process to provide reasonable accommodations for candidates.

Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer.

Please submit application by no later than November 20, 2020.

To apply: Please visit our website, www.msiworldwide.com

PI125069380

Apply Here