Qualifications/Expereince required:

• Master’s degree in international development, politics, business, education, statistics, social science, public policy, or related field
• 10 years of demonstrated experience in applied Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, preferably on USAID projects
• 5 (five) years of demonstrated significant, relevant, progressively increasing responsibility in the design, implementation, and management of activities of similar scope in Malawian and/or a similar context
• Expertise in large-scale MEL including, but not limited to: performance monitoring methods, evaluation designs and statistical sampling), analytical methods, and knowledge management, learning and adaptive management processes
• Sectorial Experience in education, youth, gender, curriculum design, social behavior communication and change, community development, or governance, inclusivity
• Prior experience as COP or DCOP working on complex USAID-funded projects, as well as managing sizeable USG-funded contracts and budgets strongly preferred
• Experience building MEL capacities of USAID staff, implementing partners, and government counterparts, as well as operational capacities of organizations strongly preferred
• Significant experience leading and supervising multi-cultural high-performing teams and managing group dynamics.
• Familiarity with USAID collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) and capacity development practices
• Demonstrated leadership, strategic thinking/planning, management, and communication/presentation skills.
• Experience working in international development and with government in Malawi.
• English proficiency is a requirement