Lebanon Water Project - Monitoring And Evaluation Manager

      Lebanon Water Project (LWP)   Call for Resumes   Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Long term position   Background: DAI seeks Monitoring and Evaluation Manager candidates for the USAID-funded “Lebanon Water Project (LWP).” This five year project will work to increase reliable and sustainable access to potable water for Lebanese citizens; improve water management practices and enhance the efficiency and sustainability of public water utilities, while raising awareness on sustainable water use practices and promote better water governance to help assure long-term protection of Lebanon’s water resources.   General Objective:   The M&E Manager has primary responsibility for the design and implementation of the project’s M&E plan and data collection system to measure overall project performance against established goals and objectives. S/he ensures that project leadership has timely data on program progress that will help on management decision making and performance improvement. In addition, the M&E Manager oversees the preparation of regular project reports and deliverables for USAID and highlights best practices and approaches for all project counterparts.   Responsibilities:   Design, develop, and institutionalize monitoring and evaluation systems and approaches that provide useful data for reporting, communications, and organizational learning. Oversee implementation of data quality assessment processes and procedures. Develop/adapt tools for data collection; designs and implements surveys and other data collection tasks, including overseeing implementation of the project’s baseline, mid- and end-of-project surveys. Institutes regular use of performance monitoring data among component leads and technical staff. Identifies best practices and state-of-the art approaches to the program activities and evaluates them. Use data to systematically and consistently document achievements, success stories, and best practices. Provides technical assistance and training to program teams and partner organizations as necessary. Provide overall guidance and manage all the M&E related efforts, communicating and coordinating as needed with headquarters staff. Designs/adapts project performance monitoring database to report national and global indicator and performance indicator data quarterly to technical team leads, COP, and DAI headquarters. Supervise the M&E Specialist and ensure timely and high-quality reporting of M&E data including entry into TrainNet systems and DevResults (when applicable). Ensure coordination between M&E, communications and technical teams.    Qualifications:   Degree in business, education, public administration, or related field required. At least 10 years of progressively responsible relevant experience required. At east 5 years of experience collecting, analyzing and managing donor funded project data, experience with water management, infrastructure data preferred. Experience with USAID or other international donors required. Experience designing, developing, and overseeing M&E tools and systems required; experience with M&E tools and systems for workforce development projects preferred. Experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis required. Experience using information and communication technologies (ICT) for data collection desired. Experience leading a project team in M&E activity design and implementation and collaborating with technical staff to build capacity and share information to support decision-making. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with various constituencies including headquarters, donor agencies, international and local partners, host country government agencies, and other stakeholders. Solid communication skills - both written and oral. Must have excellent English and Arabic language proficiency, verbal and written.   Qualified candidates should email their CV to DAILebanonRecruitment@dai.com with the subject line “LWP-M&E Manager” in the subject line. Only short listed applicants will be contacted for additional information in relation to this position. Thank you. Only short listed applicants will be contacted for additional information in relation to this position. Thank you.