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Panagora Group

Monitoring Specialist

Panagora Group
Location: Kathmandu
Salary:As Per Organization's Rule
Posted Date: 2020-07-24 Deadline: 2020-07-31
  • Nos. of Opening : 1
  • Location : Kathmandu
  • Qualification Degree : Bachelor's Degree
  • Salary : As Per Organization's Rule
  • Category : NGO / INGO / Social work
  • Nature : Full Time
Job Description

Panagora Group, a woman-owned small business specializing in global health and international development, seeks a monitoring specialist for the anticipated 5-year USAID/Nepal Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Activity. The MEL Activity will provide USAID/Nepal with technical and advisory services for monitoring; evaluation; research, assessment, and data analysis; geographic information services (GIS); and collaborating, learning, and adapting activities. 

Responsibilities: 

  • Support and follow-up all activities related to monitoring. 
  • Implement indicator standardization efforts of the MEL Activity.  
  • Support the design, dissemination, implementation, and supervision of monitoring methodologies for USAID/Nepal and its implementing partners.   
  • Support data management from internal and external sources, including the collection and processing of quantitative and qualitative data. 
  • Implement quality assurance procedures for information provided by other sources (implementing partners, strategic partners, or other sources of monitoring information). 
  • Use data from USAID’s monitoring database or other information obtained from governmental data sources to elaborate internal or external reports. 
  • Work with technical staff to determine the best strategies to creatively present qualitative and quantitative data, including telling stories and using data visualization to convey messages to different audiences. 
  • Other duties as required. 

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree: international relations, economics or related social science.
  • ​Experience: At least 5 years of experience monitoring USAID-funded activities, including:  
    • Creating USAID performance and context indicator reference sheets. 
    • Developing specialized data reports (quarterly, annual and/or monitoring specific) as needed. 
    • Applying USAID ADS 201.  
    • Designing data visualization products based on monitoring information, such as dashboards. 
  • Excellent reporting and writing skills; fluency in English and Nepali, both verbal and written. 
  • Ability to clean, manage and analyze large data sets. 
  • Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite (especially Excel), Adobe Acrobat, and Gmail service platforms. 
  • Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to communicate effectively with clients, colleagues, and management across the organization and apply assertive communication. 
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and switch between tasks quickly, detail oriented, problem-solver, proactive, and organized. 

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Organization Summary

Panagora Group is a woman-owned small business (WOSB) dedicated to high-impact international development. Our goal is to provide innovative solutions that build national capacity and promote sustainability through robust local participation and capacity building, utilizing highly integrated and private sector solutions. Throughout our work, we embrace a virtuous circle of knowledge stewardship, collaborative learning, and application of evidence to heighten and accelerate positive health and development outcomes. Panagora is a social enterprise with an established USAID NICRA.

EXPERTISE
Panagora offers a range of international development and global health services and experts. We provide short- and long-term technical assistance at the country level or in Washington, D.C. Drawing on decades of experience across all developing regions, our team offers a range of foundational international health and development services, with specialized expertise in:

- Global Health
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
- Private Sector Solutions
- Capacity-Building
- Knowledge Management and Communications

SERVICES
As a small business, we are able to implement novel and innovative approaches using highly participatory approaches to mobilize community, civil society, and government energy in defining and owning solutions, and to promote inclusive development that benefits all groups. Ultimately, we work to promote country ownership and sustained performance so that our efforts help achieve our mission of making the world a better place for good. To that end, we offer the following services:

- Strategic planning
- Participatory assessment, design, and evaluation
- Performance monitoring and data use
- Knowledge curation and learning
- Capacity building and institutional strengthening
- Market and best practices studies
- Training and facilitation
- Activity implementation, from start to finish

ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Betsy Bassan, Panagora’s President and CEO, has held a variety of executive and leadership positions, e.g., at Chemonics International, Save the Children, Society for International Development, and the Small Business Association of International Companies. She brings a proven track record of transformational leadership, spurring teams to achieve ambitious strategies in highly pragmatic ways, from policy advocacy in Washington, D.C., to community-level programming in developing countries. Insights Success Magazine named Betsy as one of “The 30 Most Inspiring Women in Business” in 2017.

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