CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty.

Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources.

CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.

Description Of Job

CARE seeks a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (M&ES) for an upcoming, four (4) year program in Ghana. This project has a heavy focus on providing technical expertise in scaling up the National Literacy Acceleration Program (NALAP) which uses the mother tongue to teach reading skills to early primary students.

The project aims to improve reading skills in 2 million primary students by 2016.

SUMMARY

•  The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (M&ES) will have primary responsibility to develop and implement monitoring, evaluation and research activities for all components of the project.
•  The candidate should have both strong qualitative and quantitative evaluation skills, and significant experience with multiple types of evaluations – impact evaluations, process evaluations, formative evaluations etc.

Qualification Required & Experience

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

•  At least 10 years relevant experience in project and program evaluation, research and survey implementation.
•  At least 2 years experience on a large international project.
•  PhD in Evaluation, Measurement, Statistics or other related fields such as Education is desired.
•  Fluency in English

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees with this classification.

It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

How To Apply For The Job

Apply on-line today at:

www.care.org/careers

or send detailed CV to

Charity.Gyasi@co.care.org

Our diversity is our strength; we encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences, particularly women, to apply.

Closing Date:  31 August, 2012