About the Position

The Project Director serves as the senior management and technical lead for the East Asian and Pacific (EAP) Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Services (MELS) contract. The Project Director bears primary responsibility for contract performance and serves as the principal point of contact for the Government on all technical, operational, staffing, quality assurance, financial, and administrative matters. 

The Project Director provides overall leadership, direction, and oversight to ensure timely, high-quality execution of all taskings under the contract. This includes managing concurrent assignments, directing multidisciplinary technical teams, overseeing quality control processes, ensuring contract compliance, and maintaining effective coordination with Department of State stakeholders, implementing partners, and overseas posts. This position is anticipated to be filled on a part-time basis initially, with level of effort scalable to full-time as the volume of taskings, personnel oversight requirements, and overall scope of work under the contract expands. 

This position is contingent upon award. 

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact between the Contractor and the Government. 
• Provide overall management, technical oversight, and direction for all activities conducted under the contract. 
• Respond to tasking and deliverable requests and oversee execution from initiation through acceptance. 
• Lead work planning, staffing, prioritization, and resource allocation across multiple simultaneous assignments. 
• Select, mobilize, supervise, and provide technical and administrative direction to all long-term and short-term personnel supporting contract activities. 
• Ensure all deliverables meet established quality standards and are submitted on schedule. 
• Establish and implement quality assurance and quality control procedures across all task areas. 
• Oversee contract performance, financial management, risk management, and compliance with contractual requirements. 
• Coordinate with Department of State stakeholders, overseas posts, implementing partners, and other relevant entities to ensure effective task execution. 
• Monitor personnel performance, identify resource needs, and manage surge requirements. 
• Ensure appropriate integration of monitoring, evaluation, learning, research, data analytics, and knowledge management activities across the contract portfolio. 
• Provide executive-level reporting and briefings to Government leadership as required. 

Qualifications 

• Master's degree in international development, public policy, public administration, economics, political science, social sciences, program evaluation, monitoring and evaluation, or a related field. 
• Minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible experience managing complex international development, monitoring and evaluation, performance management, research, learning, or foreign assistance programs. 
• Minimum of 7 years of experience serving in senior management roles directing large, multi-country, multi-stakeholder programs or institutional support contracts. 
• Demonstrated experience managing complex U.S. Government contracts, preferably for the Department of State, USAID, or other Federal agencies. 
• Demonstrated experience overseeing multidisciplinary teams conducting monitoring, evaluation, learning, assessments, research, technical assistance, and capacity-building activities. 
• Demonstrated experience managing concurrent workstreams, short-notice taskings, and multiple stakeholders in geographically dispersed environments. 
• Experience establishing and implementing quality management and quality assurance systems for technical deliverables. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level reports, presentations, and briefings. 
• Active Secret clearance. 
• Experience managing institutional support, bureau-level MEL platforms, or enterprise performance management systems. 
• Experience supervising embedded advisors and surge technical assistance personnel.