Transparency and Anti-corruption Policy Expert

**Job Information**:
Project/Activity
- MELSAIndustry
- USAIDCity
- BogotaState/Province
- Bogota, D.C.Country
- ColombiaZip/Postal Code
- 110111HIghest Level of Education
- Master'sWork 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: (1) Monitoring; (2) Performance and Impact Assessments; (3) Research, Assessments, and Data Analysis; (4) Geographic Information Services (GIS) and (5) Collaboration, Learning, and Adaptation tasks (CLA).- MELSA is conducting the performance evaluation of the Partners for Transparency (PfT) Activity. This mid-term performance evaluation aims to collect evidence regarding results and process-level lessons of key components, interventions, deliverables, and outcomes of the Partners for Transparency (PfT) Activity. The evaluation will also provide 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:
1. Advance national-level government transparency and accountability initiatives.- 2. Promote local-level civic participation.- 3. Strengthen oversight and control institutions' efforts to fight corruption.

As part of the evaluation team, MELSA seeks a Transparency and Anti-corruption Policy Expert. The following are key responsibilities and requirements for the position.

**Responsibilities**:

- Support the Team Leader with the evaluation design, including the development of indicators, data collection methods for qualitative information, and an analysis plan.
- Review primary and secondary information sources related to national-level government transparency and accountability initiatives, oversight and control institutions' efforts to fight corruption, local capacity strengthening, institutionality around transparency, accountability, and other related issues.
- Oversee the quality of quantitative and qualitative data collection related to thematic points.
- Lead thematic topics with regard to the design of quantitative and qualitative data collection instruments related to national-level government transparency and accountability initiatives, oversight and control institutions' efforts to fight corruption, institutionality around transparency, accountability, and other related issues.
- Participate in the coding process for qualitative instruments and contribute to a thematic revision of the process in creating the codebook.
- Support 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.

**Español**

Panagora Group proporciona servicios de monitoreo y evaluación en la industria del desarrollo internacional y actualmente implementa la actividad de Monitoreo, Evaluación y Aprendizaje de Corto Plazo (MELSA) de USAID / Colombia. MELSA brinda servicios técnicos y de asesoría a USAID en los siguientes componentes: (1) Monitoreo; (2) Evaluaciones de desempeño e impacto; (3) Investigación, evaluaciones y análisis de datos; (4) Servicios de Información Geográfica (GIS) y (5) Tareas de Colaboración, Aprendizaje y Adaptación (CLA).- MELSA está llevando a cabo la evaluación del desempeño de la Actividad de Juntos por la Transparencia (JxT). Esta evaluación de medio término tiene como objetivo recopilar evidencia sobre los resultados y las lecciones a nível de proceso de los componentes clave, intervenciones, entregables y resultados de la Actividad de Juntos por la Transparencia (JxT). La evaluación también proporcionará un análisis del contexto para apoyar a USAID/Colombia en la toma de decisiones basadas en evidencia sobre el diseño y la gestión para la programación futura en temas de transparencia. El propósito de JxT es apoyar soluciones impulsadas desde el nível local para aumentar la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas y reducir efectivamente la corrupción en Colombia. Esta Actividad ayuda a fortalecer la gobernabilidad ciudadana y a aumentar la confianza de los ciudadanos. La A