Team Leader and Principal Evaluator for Two MCC Evaluations

• Provide overall leadership, management, and technical direction for both the Gambia and Togo independent evaluations.
• Develop and finalize the integrated Work Plan and the two Evaluation Design Memos, ensuring they respond to the evaluation questions and MCC guidance.
• Oversee all data collection, cleaning, analysis, and interpretation, and author the two draft and final evaluation reports.
• Manage the team, budget, and timeline, submitting monthly progress reports and leading dissemination events.

This role contributes to effective international development by leading evaluations that assess the impact of MCC threshold programs in The Gambia and Togo, helping to improve future development initiatives and resource allocation.

• Master’s degree or PhD in International Development, Economics, Public Policy, Evaluation, or a related social science field.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience leading complex, mixed-method project evaluations in developing country contexts.
• Experience working in Francophone Africa, with experience in The Gambia and Togo desirable, and previous experience with MCC greatly preferred.
• Proven leadership of at least two evaluations of policy/institutional reform or systems strengthening programs using performance evaluation methodologies.

No specific benefits, compensation, or salary information provided in the job description.

SoCha is a US-based international development monitoring and evaluation (M&E) firm that prepares to bid on Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) evaluations of threshold programs in developing countries.