Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Activity Specialist
Company Profile
The Q2 Impact is a full-service international consulting firm committed to solving complex global challenges through innovative solutions. Q2 Impact is determined to provide its clients with best-value services, so they increase their efficiency, learning capacity, and accountability to the public in an ever more complex and interconnected world.
Project Background
The purpose of the USAID/Rwanda Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) Activity is to improve USAID/Rwanda’s performance monitoring, evaluation, collaboration, learning, and adapting processes to ensure the Mission effectively utilizes data in all decision-making processes. The USAID/Rwanda CLA will achieve this through three objectives:
- Collaboration: Strengthened collaboration, both internally and with external stakeholders, enables USAID to better leverage expertise, learning and resources; and deepens local ownership.
- Learning: Systematic learning, through applied research, monitoring, and evaluation, informs and improves the relevance, quality, and cost- effectiveness of programs and operations
- Performing Adaptive management of program implementation and meta-level interventions to improve the quality of USAID program outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical expertise as needed to support mission monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) and collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) activities, including the development of practices that support knowledge capture and transfer, collaboration, learning, sharing, and adaptive management.
- Conduct, facilitate, and/or arrange logistics and other support for collaboration and learning events as needed, including Mission-wide learning events, meetings with implementing partners, staff retreats, technical team meetings with implementing partners or other donors, stakeholder consultations, technical team learning events, and field visits for mission leadership.
- Develop high quality capacity building products and processes and train USAID activity managers, implementing partners, project staff, and Rwandan firms to lead future work.
- Assist in building the capacity of locals’ monitoring and evaluation and CLA expertise.
Key Requirements
- MEL Proficiency: Demonstrated experience in designing, implementing, and managing Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) systems. Proficiency in analyzing data for informed decision-making.
- Adaptive Management: Ability to facilitate iterative learning processes to enhance project outcomes. Expertise in guiding teams to make real-time adjustments and fostering a culture of adaptation.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Strong interpersonal skills for effective engagement with diverse stakeholders. Demonstrated experience facilitating events, building relationships, fostering collaboration, and involving stakeholders in decision-making processes.
- Training and Capacity Building: Proficiency in designing and delivering training programs to enhance teams’ capacity in CLA practices.
- Communication Skills: Excellent English language writing, editing, and oral communication skills. Ability to present findings and recommendations effectively to diverse audiences.
- Education: A relevant degree in international development, organizational development, or a related field is advantageous.
- Experience: Minimum of five (5) years of experience in a similar role. Previous experience supporting USAID in a similar capacity preferred.
This position is open to Rwandan citizens only. To apply, click: https://bit.ly/3MeWn7n not later than 26th November 2023.
