Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting Specialist

Project Description

If you love transforming data into actionable insights and decisions, Georgian partners want to collaborate you!

As nonprofit organizations explore new growth opportunities and funding models, they need critical assistance in strengthening their project monitoring, evaluation, and reporting capacity that will enable their teams to build strong frameworks and meet the standards set by various types of funders. Educational institutions, on the other hand, wish to equip their graduates with monitoring and evaluating (M&E) skills to be competitive candidates in the labor market.

As a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting Specialist, you will collaborate with community leaders to strengthen needs assessments, program design, data management, and reporting. Your daily collaborations will help organizations better communicate their achievements, foster transparency, and strengthen credibility with funders, partners, and the public.

Required Skills

Competitive candidates must meet all of the following criteria:

Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science in Public Health, International Development, Statistics, Social Science, or related field
AND
2 or more years of experience with monitoring, evaluation and learning, including experience with M&E tools and software/systems

Living Conditions

Volunteers will live in a mid-sized town or city in western Georgia. Housing is a reasonable distance by foot or public transportation to the work site.

Job Highlights

Channel your passion for data to make a difference.
Become a valued colleague and member of your community.
Experience the rich Georgian culture firsthand.

Activities

Create detailed plans for monitoring and evaluating projects or programs.
Develop questionnaires, interview guides, and data collection tools.
Conduct field visits to program sites to observe, collect data, and provide feedback.
Utilize software and digital tools to analyze data and identify trends.
Create report templates that communicate program progress and findings.
Train program staff to strengthen monitoring and evaluation skills.
Develop evaluations for project activities, including impact assessment and staff performance.

You may also work on additional projects that meet the community’s interests and priorities, such as resume writing workshops and summer youth camps.

Training

After a 3-week orientation on topics such as health and safety, you will move to an urban community where you will collaborate with a non-profit organization or university. You will work with the partner and your community to assess the local needs and develop a work plan in line with their established goals.

Peace Corps/Georgia will equip you with Georgian language resources and you may work with a local tutor who can help you build basic language skills to connect with the community.