**Location**:Bogotá, Colombia **Position Status**:Full-time employee **About LINC** **Position Description** LINC is seeking a Senior Evaluation Specialist for the anticipated USAID-funded Compass - Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Activity in Colombia. Compass will provide USAID/Colombia with technical and advisory services related to the monitoring, evaluation, and learning of USAID/Colombia’s strategy and activities. This includes providing monitoring support services; designing and implementing rigorous baseline, performance and impact evaluations, as well as other studies and assessments, and supporting their use and dissemination; developing collaborating, learning and adapting initiatives, and providing data management services. These efforts will inform the Mission’s strategy, learning, programmatic designs, decision-making, and adaptation, and will enable USAID/Colombia to comply with USAID’s Evaluation Policy and USAID Automated Directives System (ADS) 201. The Senior Evaluation Specialist will provide targeted technical support to USAID/Colombia and implementing partners and oversee all analytical activities including evaluations, assessments, and research studies. This is a full-time position contingent upon USAID award. **Colombian nationals are strongly encouraged to apply** **Responsibilities** - Oversee the design, implementation, resourcing, and quality assurance of all assessments, performance and impact evaluations. - Design evaluation methodology, data collection methods, instruments, and protocols for evaluations. - Oversee data collection and analysis ensuring rigor and quality assurance. - Draft technical scopes of work for and supervise the performance of consultants and subcontractors supporting analytical activities. - Disseminate and present evaluation findings and key learnings in reports and workshops, meetings, conferences, and seminars. - Ensure learnings from evaluations and assessments inform adaptive management by USAID and implementation partners. **Skills and Qualifications** - Master’s degree in social sciences, economics, statistics, monitoring and evaluation, or a related field. - Minimum eight years of demonstrated experience research, evaluation, statistics and/or monitoring projects related to development, USAID experience preferred. - At least five years of experience in design, implementation, management, and analysis of performance and impact evaluation of development projects. - Proficiency in qualitative and quantitative research methods, familiarity with innovative MEL approaches a plus. - Familiarity with USAID policies related to evaluation and performance management. - Experience with statistical packages such as SPSS or STATA. - Excellent collaboration, management, and communication skills. - Fluency in spoken and written English and Spanish. - Prior experience working in Colombia or Latin America required. - Understanding of USAID regulations and policies, including but not limited to the Automated Directives System 201, the Evaluation Policy, and the Local Capacity Strengthening Policy. **Application Instructions