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MarketShare Associates (MSA) is a socially-driven global consulting firm dedicated to creating a more equitable world by facilitating better access to economic opportunities.

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Learning Advisor job at Marketshare Associates

Job Description

MSA seeks a talented professional with exceptional experience managing a monitoring, evaluation and learning system to join the team in the position of Learning Advisor based in Kampala, Uganda.This position is for a recently-awarded United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project. Working closely with the implementation team and reporting to Chief of Party and the MSA MERL Lead, the Learning Advisor will play a critical role in the project’s success. The Learning Advisor will guide the project through an adaptive, evidence-based approach to project activities, in which monitoring findings rapidly feed into project learning and decision-making. The position will be responsible for cultivating a culture for adaptive management within the team and implementing the systems that support it. The position will also be responsible for ensuring that project results meet a high standard for rigor.

Duties and Responsibilities

Specific Responsibilities include:

Support the technical team to articulate the anticipated causal logic of project interventions, including through creating results chains. Contribute to the development and periodic updating of the project's collaborating, learning and adapting component of the AMELP and / or strategy, as applicable.
Build the processes and culture in the project to implement the CLA strategy and take an adaptive and predictive orientation
Develop and apply quasi-experimental and other methodologies for short cycle testing of multiple pilots simultaneously with appropriate statistical rigor
Drawing from monitoring data and evidence, provide guidance on the design, implementation, and adaptation of innovative market development approaches applied to the various market segments targeted by the program
Foster effective collaboration among staff and external stakeholders
Manage the results measurement system and team
Ensure the quality of the data being collected and reported
Conduct and/or support analyses and evaluations of interventions and the target market systems
Package and disseminate learning to key stakeholders
Establish a knowledge management system that supports project learning

Qualifications and Competencies

Required Qualifications:

Minimum five years of experience applying M&E methods and approaches
Experience using results chains or other methods to visualize intervention theories of change
Excellent quantitative skills with a very good grasp of statistical methods and small-N designs
Strong ability to design and conduct qualitative research that addresses project learning priorities
A passion for learning, investigation and for working in economic development
A positive, collaborative attitude
Familiar with private sector development, market systems facilitation and/or other economic development approaches (e.g., economic strengthening, inclusive business)
Ability to build the capacity of colleagues and partners in monitoring
Excellent English written and oral communication skills
Excellent ability to collaborate with and influence colleagues to ensure that monitoring findings are used
Capacity to take initiative and be a self-starter
Advanced computer literacy, including strong Excel and PowerPoint skills

Desired Qualifications:

Experience with agricultural market systems
Experience working on USAID-funded projects or other bilateral or multi-lateral funded projects
Graduate degree
Experience applying the DCED Standard for Results Measurement