Program Strategic Planning and Implementation

• Provide advice on and insights into how to enhance HDMES services and responsiveness
• Contribute substantively to HDMES contractual deliverables.
• Lead on the development of the HDMES Technical Manual and help ensure the successful uptake and institutionalisation of technical standard operating processes, procedures and tools and contribute substantively to other key internal documents.
• Identify and help establish ways for HDMES to ‘work smarter’, including greater uptake and use of software applications.
• Be familiar with and keep up-to-date on HDMES financial management and respective sector service orders.
• Support new business development and preparation activities including direct contribution into technical and cost proposals. 
• Assist with recruitment and screening of appropriate and competent consultants and technical firms. 
• Help ensure compliance with HDMES and DFAT and GoPNG policies and requirements.
• Fulfill an acting role in the Team Leader’s absence.

Assignment Planning and Management 

• Draft Terms of Reference for consultants, subcontractors, and service providers. 
• Serve as a primary point of contact for consultants for specific assignments.
• Lead the internal approval process for contracts for services and procurement for the assigned project. 
• Establish and oversee plans, budgets and consultant person days for respective assignments.
• Track and ensure timely submission of all deliverables, including reviewing, editing and finalising all deliverables for submission to DFAT. 
• Ensure proactive, timely and excellent operational and logistical support for assignments.
• Ensure timely and proactive attention to tasks.
• Identify and introduce efficiencies in planning and management of assignments.
• Proactively identify and communicate issues to the Team Leader and assist in risk mitigation.

High Quality Client Products

• Help ensure the quality of consultants’ outputs. 
• Contribute high quality and accurate written content for documents such as review/evaluation reports, concepts notes, short analytical papers, PowerPoint presentations, briefings, workshops, workshop reports, HDMES contractual deliverables, etc.
• Produce and contribute to data visualisations using pivot tables, etc.
• Provide thoughtful and knowledgeable critiques of/feedback on own and others’ written products and presentations.
• Gap-fill in the event of non- or under-performance by consultants.
• Deliver and/or support any other technical tasks as assigned. 

Relationships

• Establish and maintain collaborative and constructive relationships with HDMES colleagues, HDMES consultants/technical firms, DFAT PNG, Government of PNG agencies, and organisations implementing DFAT PNG projects.
• Communicate proactively up, down, and laterally with colleagues to build an open, transparent, creative, effective, and efficient work environment, including within the HDMES Port Moresby Office.

Other Reasonable Tasks

• Undertake other reasonable tasks as and when required. 

The ideal candidate will have: 

• A minimum of a Master’s degree from a reputable university, preferably with concentrations in monitoring and evaluation, project implementation or business administration or development studies.
• Knowledge of and demonstrated experience in health, education, and other sectors.
• Knowledge of and demonstrated experience in planning for and managing monitoring, evaluation and research projects or assignments including producing and/or quality assuring methodology plans, data collection, management, analysis, visualisation, and reporting.
• Excellent skills in written English, especially in producing and critiquing technical documents such as program reports, review and evaluation reports, concept notes, briefing papers, workshop designs, etc and assignment planning documents such as terms of reference. 
• Demonstrated experience in project management, including preparing for, managing, and overseeing fast-moving assignments with many moving parts and many stakeholders/interested parties.
• Demonstrated skills in software applications that enable a team to ‘work smarter’ and more efficiently and the ability to find, learn and introduce new applications.
• Demonstrated ability to be creative, flexible, and well-organised with excellent and timely follow-through on tasks.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a small team and to support the program (or organisation) head to achieve expected results and to assist junior colleagues to develop and to work effectively and efficiently.
• Demonstrated experience working with individuals and work colleagues from diverse local and international backgrounds and demonstrated ability to work effectively and appropriately with donor (client) personnel.
• Demonstrated capacity to live and work in high security or fragile environments.
• Demonstrated ability to be adaptable and to work successfully in a fluid operating context and to step in as and when needed to fill gaps.

Applications for the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist position will be evaluated against the selection criteria provided above. 

Shortlisted applicants will be invited for an interview with the HDMES Selection Panel and may be asked to provide examples of work. Depending on the outcome of the interview and work samples, HDMES may contact referees. The preferred candidate will be selected based on the strength of the applicant’s CV/resume, outcome of the interview, work samples, referee letters, and a background check. 

How to Apply:

Please prepare the following and begin applying through this website:

• A 1-2-page (max) letter describing how you meet the requirements for the role as listed in the Qualifications and Experience section above
• Your CV / Resume.

Your application must be received no later than 5:00pm (PGT) 23 August 2024.