Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist
Management Systems International
Total years of experience :10 years, 8 Months
• Managing the Yemen Continuous Learning and Evaluation (YCLE) project’s third-party monitoring
of four education and health USAID-funded development activities implemented in Yemen
• Coordinating with implementing partners to receive up-to-date implementation plans, designing
third-party monitoring tools, distributing the work among the YCLE team, drafting and reviewing
reports, and participating in debrief meetings with the partners
• Leading collaboration, learning and adaptation (CLA) activities to ensure third-party monitoring,
evaluation and assessment data contributes to learning and adapting
• Designing, supporting and leading data quality assessments (DQAs) to ensure the reliability and
validity of performance data
• Coordinated with program colleagues to ensure good quality and timely strategic reporting by
assisting in the drafting of reports as well providing guidance and quality control on donor reporting
and requirements, in addition to reporting requirements in emergencies.
• Proposed action on operational procedures to ensure there are effective work processes that
ensure compliance with requirements and conditions of donors and of UNICEF on donor report
submissions in the Country Office.
• In collaborated with colleagues in the UNCICEF Headquarters, provides oversight, technical
support and guidance to the country office regarding contribution management and reporting
issues.
• Nearly 100 donor and emergency situation reports on the Syria and COVID-19 crises were
delivered on-time, while also addressing donors’ ad hoc requests and inquiries.
• Team lead in the execution of projects exploring a spectrum of sectors to inform economic policy
• Assist in team member capacity building and coordination
• Led monitoring of cross-border humanitarian assistance from Jordan to southern Syria by leading a team at the Food Assistance Program for Syria
• Led the reporting on progress through data collected from remote interviews, on-the-ground data collection and field monitoring and reporting security challenges
• Managed investigations of misuse of humanitarian assistance and ensuring reporting to the Chemonics Office of Business Conduct, who then report to the Office of the Inspector General
• Managed the project's comprehensive performance monitoring systems to track progress of all activities and outputs and provide relevant and timely information to project stakeholders
• Managed internal and external indicators in DAI’s proprietary project database (TAMIS)
• Established baselines for reporting
• Supported the establishment of reporting procedures in compliance with USAID and DAI home office policies and procedures
• Managed implementation of USAID data quality assessment processes and procedures, adapt tools for data collection; design and implement surveys and other data collection tasks
• Supported data reporting for USAID databases including TraiNet and DevResults
• Provided M&E support to the project’s key government counterpart (Vocational Training Corporation) and grantees
• Ensured valid and reliable reporting on AMEP indicators in alignment with USAID requirements, including reporting of training data to TraiNet
• Designed and supervised procedures for the auditing of sub-grantee non-governmental organizations’ data to ensure that their reported results, based on which monetary bonuses were rewarded, met strict standards of validity
• Managed and audited over ten internal monitoring databases that were used to update the project’s dashboard on a monthly and quarterly basis
• Designed and oversaw the implementation of multiple evaluation studies and ensured that all research adheres to Abt Associates’ Institutional Review Board requirements
• Conducted data analysis using Stata and drafted multiple research reports, including three randomized controlled trials with support from Abt Associates’ headquarters
• Assisted the project through an audit by the Office of the Inspector General, a USAID commissioned program evaluation and multiple Data Quality Assurance procedures
• Ensured that all evaluation studies were in compliance with Abt’s Institutional Review Board’s policies
• Established a monitoring and evaluation log frame with specific monitoring and evaluation input, output and outcome indicators for all program components
• Responsible for the programmatic monitoring of components through field visits, maintaining correspondences with implementing partners and collecting monitoring indicator data
• In charge for summative evaluation study design and implementation in conjunction with a senior researcher in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Provided technical assistance for formative research including pretesting of tools, publications and mass-media ads
• Conducted data analysis using Stata and report drafting for all component process and summative evaluations
• Ensured that all evaluation studies were in compliance with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Institutional Review Board’s policies
I attained a Masters in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) in 2010, where I was awarded the Global Health Scholarship and successfully completed the Health in Crisis and Humanitarian Assistance concentration. This concentration allotted me with the competencies and skills required to develop public health care responses to refugees/displaced person; to measure crisis-related indicators; to plan for food, water and sanitation provisions for refugees/displaced populations in adherence with SPHERE standards; and to monitor and evaluate such efforts. Additionally, this training provided me with the biostatistical and epidemiological skills necessary to properly assess situations and evaluate programmatic initiatives. I am also experienced in qualitative research methods, particularly from an ethnographic perspective
• Cumulative GPA of 3.75/4.00, major GPA of 3.76/4.00 • Graduated with general honors and was consecutively on the Dean’s List • Specialized in immunology • Editor-in-Chief of The Chicago Biological Investigator, the University of Chicago undergraduate biological research journal from May 2005 till June 2007