Job Description
Research Triangle Institute (RTI) has over 30 years’
experience assisting governments, communities, and the private sector in
managing their environment and natural resources. We have delivered innovative,
breakthrough solutions in key development sectors, including countering
wildlife crime, forestry, protected area management, climate
change, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), economic livelihood
development, community engagement, and institutional capacity building.
Project Description:
The USAID Tuhifadhi Maliasili activity aims to address
dynamics that threaten habitat connectivity and the long-term persistence of
biodiversity in Tanzania in a manner that: i) increases private sector
engagement in conservation and natural resource management (NRM); ii) builds
the capacity of the public sector and civil society; iii) strengthen the policy
and regulatory framework for conservation and NRM; and iv) enhances knowledge
management across sectors. This is an anticipated 5-year project.
Position Description:
RTI is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
(MEL) and GIS officer to join the USAID Tuhifadhi Maliasili activity. The
candidate will provide assistance on tools, frameworks, and data collection
methods and support GIS data collection to include the location of
implementation activities, infrastructure, and environmental features and data
from the applied Political Economic Analysis (PEA) and Land Use Plans (LUPs).
The MEL and GIS officer will report to the M&E Specialist.
Responsibilities:
- Supports
the development, implementation, refinement, and harmonization of
project’s MEL system; develops and operationalizes indicators, sets
targets, and monitors progress; ensures they are informed by and feed into
program decisions.
- Supports
all project activities to capture data on indicators and to identify best
practices and lessons learned as required by USAID.
- Supports
the collection, analysis, and reporting on performance indicators by other
team members and project counterparts.
- Works
closely with partners and grantees to comply with mandatory data
collection requirements and supports MERLA capacity building activities.
- Works
with technical staff to support tools for data collection, storage, and
analysis and guide data collection, management, and analysis in a
consistent, standardized, and disciplined manner.
- Analyze
satellite imagery for data variables such as forest cover, vegetative
cover, and habitat fragmentation.
- Supports
the team on identifying Learning Questions, knowledge gaps and puts the
mechanisms in place to respond to these questions/gaps.
- As
part of a comprehensive learning agenda, designs needs-based operations
research studies and protocols to generate evidence for which innovations
work, which do not work, and why.
- Proactively
reviews/analyzes project activities and their outputs and outcomes to
continuously learn from and adapt ongoing project implementation; provides
feedback to the technical team on where to improve.
- Ensures
appropriate disaggregation of project data to understand risks and
benefits for actions based on demographics (e.g., youth, gender).
- Ensures
gender, youth, and social inclusion considerations are mainstreamed
across all activities.
- Ensures
methodological rigor of research undertaken.
- Other
activities as assigned
Qualifications:
- Master’s
degree in education, social sciences, statistics, or related field and/or
Bachelor’s degree with minimum of 1 year of experience designing and
implementing M&E systems for international donor-funded projects,
including USAID-funded projects.
- Knowledge
of reporting procedures, best practices, guidelines, methods, and
approaches for MEL.
- Excellent management,
communication, and organizational skills (attention to detail is
required); flexibility and capacity to multi-task.
- Familiarity
and experience with indicators relevant to natural resources management,
biodiversity and conservation, wildlife trafficking, and/or climate
change adaptation.
- Ability
to articulate and apply CLA principles.
- Demonstrated
experience in analytical skills and data visualization.
- Computer literacy, with ability
to analyse and interpret data using Excel, online reporting tools, and
statistical packages.
- Experience working with ArcGIS.
- Experience working with PowerBI
and Tableau is desirable.
- Experience
with MEL that measures and promotes gender and social inclusion.
- Ability
to work effectively, responsively, and collaboratively with government
counterparts, development and private sector partners, civil society organizations
(CSOs), and academic/research institutions.
- Experience
building capacity of or mentoring CSOs, NGOs, small businesses, or
associations is desirable.
- Great
communication and interpersonal skills in English.
- Ability
to travel and work throughout Tanzania