Senior Consultant
About Edvise ME: Edvise ME is a leading development consulting company offering advisory and technical services to organizations working to advance education and empower youth. Edvise ME supports core functions at entities that offer education, youth, and workforce development services to help them become more strategic, competitive and able to plan and implement their respective initiatives. Edvise ME’s services are tailored and targeted to meet needs in the following main areas: 1) Education and Youth Policy Support; 2) Monitoring and Evaluation Systems and Evaluation Services; 3) Program Design and Technical Support and 4) Capacity Building.
Edvise ME is looking to hire a Senior Consultant who will support the team in managing and delivering M&E projects in addition to leading the business development function.
This position will report directly to the Partners and will require working with other staff members working on specific projects under implementation.
Duties and Responsibilities:
General Responsibilities – Project Management
1. Planning and overseeing assignments from award through to completion monitoring deliverables, timelines and budgets.
2. Managing human resource availability & allocation – both internal and external expertise, including the development of scopes of work, onboarding and monitoring progress and quality of deliverables throughout the assignment.
3. Developing project budget, manage spending and ensure alignment with the signed contract.
4. Managing client relationships throughout project implementation through consistent follow-up and communication
Specific Responsibilities – Managing Monitoring and Evaluation Assignments
1. Prepare deliverables including inception reports, development of quantitative/qualitative data collection tools.
2. Conduct and facilitate primary data collection (Surveys, interviews, focus group discussions, …etc.)
3. Lead data analysis and report writing (Analytical Reports, PowerPoint presentations, progress reports, workplans, Theory of Change…etc.)
4. Support capacity building efforts including training content and delivery
Support Edvise ME functions:
- Conduct market research to identify new business opportunities and keep up to date with sector developments.
- Lead the development of technical and financial proposals development toward submission, this includes:
· Writing proposal components
· Support proposal recruitment efforts by identifying experts/consortiums
· Writing tailored capability statements
· Support the development of proposal budgets
Required Qualifications:
– Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field. Master’s Degree or/and PMP certification is preferred.
– At least 5 years’ experience in project management
– Experience in monitoring and evaluation
– Experience and/ or knowledge working with international agencies, NGOs and government.
– Financial literacy and knowledge in developing project budgets
– Knowledge of Jordan’s development context, challenges and opportunities specifically in education, youth and workforce development.
– Excellent communication skills; both verbal and written in both Arabic and English
