Technical Advisor at Navanti

Job Description

• The Technical Advisor will work with MEL Support Activity technical staff to ensure quality control on all written deliverables sent the USAID/Nigeria Mission.
• This position requires knowledge of the MEL field with a specialization in a particular development sector preferred.
• This role will work with MEL Specialists to ensure that reports, presentations, 2-pagers, and other deliverables are of high quality in terms of content, writing, and formatting.

Core Responsibilities:

• Review all MEL Support Activity deliverables for content, writing, and formatting.
• Work with MEL Specialists to improve on specific common challenges that the Technical Advisor sees.
• Provide editing support to other MEL Support Activity products and ensuring compliance of documents, deliverables and presentations with quality and branding standards.
• Work with consultants on aspects of content, writing, and formatting.
• Ensure that all MEL Support Activity trackers including the Indicator Performance Tracking Table are up to date.
• Backstop and reinforce the MEL specialists.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of a master’s degree in an interdisciplinary area such as applied international development, strategic planning, project design and implementation, or a related field.
• A minimum of 3 years of experience working on MEL-related work.
• Knowledge of USAID reporting language and formats.
• Exceptional English writing, presentation, and communication skills.