Uganda: Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Advisor, Uganda

Since 1963 and in 146 countries, ACDI/VOCA has empowered people in developing and transitional nations to succeed in the global economy. Based in Washington, D.C., ACDI/VOCA is a nonprofit international development organization that delivers technical and management assistance in agribusiness, financial services, enterprise development, community development and food security in order to promote broad-based economic growth and vibrant civil society. ACDI/VOCA currently has 44 active projects in 31 countries and total revenues of approximately $151 million.

ACDI/VOCA is currently seeking a Collaborating, Learning, and Adaptation (CLA) Advisor for the anticipated USAID Title II Development, Food Assistance Program (DFAP) in Uganda. This multi-year, is integrated with USAID strategies to improve and sustain the food and nutrition security of vulnerable populations through work at the individual, household and systems level to address the underlying causes of chronic food insecurity and strengthen transformative opportunities.

The CLA Advisor will be responsible for the following:

Key Responsibilities:

• Promote a systematic application of a thoughtful and deliberate CLA approach to programs achieved better results
• Lead an integrated and inclusive process of results measurement and learning/evaluation plan, including a holistic learning agenda, soundly integrated with the program’s M&E plan and framework.
• Manage the measurement of achievements in each technical thematic area, including the programs results chains, and coordinate with partners, host governmental structures and other stakeholders to inform program learning and support the program’s adaptive management approach
• Coordinate with key stakeholders including, other FFP implementers, and USAID-funded projects and Feed the Future projects to share lessons learned and best practices and channel learning into USAID’s CLA and communications strategy and to inform USAID’s strategic planning and program design.
• Provide training to staff and lead the implementation of the project’s series of assessment including barriers analysis, resilience analysis, Theory of Change (ToC) refinement, and communications functions
• Supervise staff, and ensuring overall quality control and responsiveness, and facilitating integration throughout project components.
• Lead the development of the project communications strategy, ensure quality control of project communications and marketing media, and provide high level editorial assistance and quality control to the publication of all project reporting and communications.
• Work directly with the technical project component leads to plan, design, and or/manage specific CLA strategies and activities, such as supporting incorporation of technical, contextual and experiential learning into technical strategies, interventions, and processes.
• Assist in developing, capturing, sharing, and testing methods, models, and tools to advance these objectives.
• Leverage a mix of informational sources and research methods – project M&E data, observations from staff and partners, primary and secondary market research - to (i) analyze project progress towards goals and learning objectives, (ii) communicate those findings externally (e.g. to donor, external partners) and internally (e.g. to project staff), and (iii) apply that learning into improved work-planning and project activities.
• Participate in regular senior management planning meetings, and provide analytical feedback and support to inform technical decisions by senior management and the technical component leads.
• Making presentations and facilitating workshop for sharing lessons learned, best practices and implementing approaches
• Coordinating country-level CLA initiatives directly with donor and other donor funded projects.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in economics, agricultural economics, statistics, bio-statistics, nutrition or other relevant subject with strong quantitative background, and at least six years of experience in progressively increasing CLA or learning responsibility in international development projects.
• Familiarity with the concept of adaptive management/CLA, and demonstrated experience using a mix of informational sources and research methods to analyze project progress, communicate findings to a range of external and internal stakeholders, and apply learning to work planning.
• Experience providing leadership, supervising staff, managing multiple complex project components, and convening people across technical teams to build consensus and achieve an outcome.
• Experience contributing to the design and implementation of a development project’s strategic communications strategy required.
• Superior, demonstrated writing, reporting, and oral presentation skills (ability to provide an original writing sample required).
• Skills in PowerPoint presentation, graphic design (preferably Adobe InDesign), as well as video and web editing skills, desired but not required.

Please apply online at www.acdivoca.org/international-jobs or at http://acdivoca.bosmaxhire.net/cp/?E55564361D43717B7E59192F77501D6202627B4D. No phone calls please. Only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted. ACDI/VOCA is an equal opportunity employer. Women, minorities and people from diverse groups are encouraged to apply. ACDI/VOCA will never solicit a payment from any applicant.