Job Information Project/Activity: MELSA Industry: USAID Location: Bogota, D.C. Country: Colombia Highest Level of Education: Master's Work Experience: 7-10 years Panagora Group is a U.S. small business that provides monitoring and evaluation services in the international development industry and currently implements the USAID/Colombia Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Short-Term Activity (MELSA). MELSA provides technical and advisory services to USAID in the following components: • Monitoring • Performance and Impact Assessments • Research, Assessments, and Data Analysis • Geographic Information Services (GIS) • Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation tasks (CLA) The USAID/Colombia Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Short-Term Activity (MELSA) is conducting the performance evaluation of the Partners for Transparency (PfT) Activity. This mid-term performance evaluation aims to collect evidence about results and process-level lessons of key components, interventions, deliverables, and outcomes of the Partners for Transparency (PfT) Activity. The evaluation will also provide a context analysis to support USAID/Colombia in making informed decisions about designing and managing programming in transparency. The purpose of PfT is to support locally driven solutions to increase transparency and accountability and effectively reduce corruption in Colombia. The Activity helps strengthen citizen-responsive governance and increase citizen trust. The Activity accomplishes this purpose by leveraging targeted stakeholders' expertise, engagement, and unique positions of influence to achieve the following objectives: • Advance national-level government transparency and accountability initiatives. • Promote local-level civic participation. • Strengthen oversight and control institutions' efforts to fight corruption. MELSA seeks a Citizen Participation Expert to join the evaluation team. Responsibilities • Support the Team Leader with the evaluation design, including the construction of indicators, data collection methods for qualitative information, and an analysis plan. • Review primary and secondary information sources related to citizen participation, the culture of transparency, open government, citizen-state relations, public dialogue, trust, citizen oversight initiatives, institutions related to transparency, and other related issues. • Oversee quantitative and qualitative data collection quality related to thematic points. • Lead thematic topics in the quantitative and qualitative data collection instrument design related to citizen participation, the culture of transparency, open government, citizen-state relations, public dialogue, trust, citizen oversight initiatives, institutions related to transparency, and other related issues. • Participate in the qualitative instruments coding process and contribute with a thematic revision of the process in creating the codebook. • Support the qualitative and quantitative data analysis for the reports and presentations mentioned in the deliverables. • This covers the data triangulation process and its corresponding qualitative and quantitative analysis to answer each evaluation question as requested by the team leader. • Support the Team Leader in preparing reports and presentations for USAID and the Implementing Partner. • This includes any required participation in the final presentation and report.