This position is part of the U.S. African Development Foundation and will serve as the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Impact Officer. The incumbent reports directly to the Financial Director & CFO, supporting USADF's Evidence Act requirement implementation centered around monitoring, evaluation, learning, and capacity assessment. The incumbent designs, develops, and evaluates the Agency's program impact and performance indicators.

Duties

Lead and establish performance measures, collects, analyzes performance and impact information, plan and manage evaluations. Assist the senior leadership in using the performance information for decision-making and resource allocation. Provide technical assistance in general program monitoring and evaluation. Utilize a Web-based management information system and develop indicators for monitoring U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) performance. Develop and maintain the USADF Performance Management Plan and project-level monitoring and evaluation plans. Support project design, produce annual reports on USADF performance and support USADF to learn from and make decisions based on monitoring and evaluation data.

Requirements

Qualifications

At the GS-14 level you must possess at least one year of specialized experience that is equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the GS-13 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience includes demonstrated experience with leading and managing the technical work related to performance monitoring and conducting evaluability assessment and evaluation synthesis; leading and overseeing the review of project-level Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) plans and work to ensure the quality and utility of performance monitoring data; leading the creation of the agency Performance Monitoring Plan, including assessing the validity of the information and indicators that contribute to that plan; and utilizing performance information and designing reporting tools. Applicants must carefully review the information in the "How You Will Be Evaluated" section for important information and instructions pertaining to the multi-hurdle assessment process for this position. Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered. TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

If qualifying based on EDUCATION you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

Only education from institutions which are accredited or preaccredited/candidate for accreditation may be used to meet education requirements.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/

Contacts

• Address African Development Foundation 1400 I Street NW Washington, DC 20005 US
• Name: Tyler Olson
• Phone: (303) 969-7087
• Email: [email protected]