Zaid Abu Awad, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor

Zaid Abu Awad

Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor

GIZ

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering
Experience
14 years, 11 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 11 months

Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor at GIZ
  • Jordan - Amman
  • My current job since October 2019
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Generations for Peace (GFP)
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 2018 to September 2019

- Designing and implementing the M&E of all GFP Programmes (Sport, Advocacy, and Dialogue for peace) based on M&E frameworks in use by GFP for learning and for reporting to Donors.
- Monitoring the Jordan and International Programmes activities on a regular basis
- Processing M&E data collection & analysis and preparing Programme Evaluation Reports for the Programmes, based on baseline/endline data and Participatory Evaluations
- Preparing monthly/quarterly reports on Programmes progress for use by GFP and Donors/Partner.
- Preparing executive summaries and thought-pieces based on Evaluation Reports

Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant at International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC)
  • Jordan - Amman
  • March 2018 to July 2018

- Supervise and assure quality of monitoring and evaluation activities among staff, partners, consultants and volunteers involved in the project.
- Develop and maintain the monitoring and evaluation system, including the processes for data collection, cleaning and processing, and use of data.
- Develop data collection tools based on rigorous methodologies and appropriate to context.
- Produce monitoring checklists and conduct quarterly joint field process monitoring, quality assessment and data validation, and provide feedbacks and recommendations for timely improvement.
- Facilitate annual review sessions, data interpretation sessions and lessons learned.
- Lead and coordinate the baseline, the mid-term and end line studies, and the tracer studies.
- Implement a database of all outputs and results of the project and maintain it.
- Conduct internal evaluation surveys to measure the impact of implemented projects.

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at Climate Change Adaptation Project
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2017 to March 2018

Develop M&E system, which includes M&E Plan, Theory of change, Logical Framework and Indicators Tracking Table.
- Develop a monitoring strategy for the project, support the project team in developing and maintain a database with the collected updated information.
- Monitor all project activities and progress towards achieving the project output.
- Plan and oversee data collection processes, ensuring that high quality data is gathered in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Analyze and synthesize data for the purposes of quality control and adherence to standards, gap identification, and program development.
- Update Risk and Issue logs, and capture lessons learnt to reflect in the future plans.
- Assist Project Managers in the preparation of reports on the findings and lessons learned from project innovations

Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at Millennium Challenge Account-Jordan
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 2014 to January 2017

- Manage the information-gathering process to report performance quarterly and annually.
- Institutionalize monitoring activities including, data collection, reports preparation, and documentation. This includes also exchanging and communicating information, results and lessons learned, with MCA-J and stakeholders.
- Document good practices, analysis trends, and cross-cutting implementation issues.
- Provide support in the oversight of data quality control and review.
- Ensure the periodic reports are made publicly available on the MCA’s web page.
- Manage data collection processes which are conducted by (Department of Statistics) through panel surveys that include a huge data base using electronic tools and new features of data collection methodologies.
- Provide any other required assistance and guidance to the M&E unit; this includes working with external evaluators in the implementation of impact evaluation missions, responding to MCC (Millennium Challenge Corporation) requests for information on: data sources, data measurement methods, frequency of data collection, disaggregation, etc.

Management Consultant at Dajani Consulting
  • Jordan - Amman
  • November 2012 to August 2014

- Monitoring & Evaluation.
- Projects management
- Research and development.
- Strategic planning.
- Monitoring and following up the implementation of the strategic objectives.
- Feasibility studies.
- Impact assessment for developmental projects.

Operations Team member at Aramex company(Global Support office)
  • Jordan - Amman
  • February 2011 to May 2012

Operations Team member

customer care representative at Jordanian Company for Mobile Service (ZAIN)
  • Other
  • September 2008 to July 2010

customer care representative

Education

Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering
  • at University of jordan
  • July 2010

Specialties & Skills

Performance Analysis
Microsoft applications, PowerPoint, Excel, Word & internet.
Management Consulting, Business Process Improvement, Research, HR Restructuring
Research & Development
Monitoring & Evaluation
Business Analysis
Strategic Planning
Market Research
Projects Management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Jordan Development Evaluation Association/ EvalJordan
  • Board member/ Secretary
  • March 2015
Jordan Engineers Association
  • Member
  • October 2010
EvalYouth
  • Member
  • July 2017

Training and Certifications

Organizational Monitoring & Evaluation Foundations (Training)
Training Institute:
Fhi360- USAID Project
Date Attended:
November 2014
- Evaluation Research Methods - M&E Frameworks and Fundamentals - Performance Measurement for Govern (Training)
Training Institute:
The Evaluator Institute, Washington DC
Date Attended:
January 2015
PMP Certification Preparation Program (Training)
Training Institute:
Method Technology
Date Attended:
April 2017
ILO Executive Course: Evaluating Labour Market Programmes (Training)
Training Institute:
ILO,IFAD
Date Attended:
July 2017
Certificate Program in Evaluation (CPE) (Training)
Training Institute:
USAID Monitoring And Evaluation Support Project MESP
Date Attended:
April 2018