Junior M&E Specialist: Global Development & Security

Dexis; Washington (Washington County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare insurance

Staff welfare benefits and perks

Job summary

Dexis seeks a Junior Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Specialist to support a U.S. Department of State counterterrorism evaluation program. The role will design, implement, analyze, and report independent evaluations of foreign assistance programs worldwide.

This position is contingent upon contract award and requires collaboration with the evaluation team, technical experts, and client stakeholders, including international travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in international affairs, international development, public policy or a related field.
• Minimum 3–5 years of professional experience supporting monitoring, evaluation, learning, assessment, research, or analytical activities.
• Experience with large-scale monitoring and evaluation activities, including data collection, analysis, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience with evaluations involving law enforcement, counterterrorism, security assistance, stabilization or governance.
• Experience with international programs in foreign assistance or security-related sectors.
• Awareness of DoS M&E policies, practices, and reporting requirements.
• Strong qualitative and quantitative research skills; travel internationally; active SECRET clearance.

Responsibilities

• Support the planning and implementation of monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities.
• Contribute to evaluation design, research methodologies, data collection instruments, and analysis plans.
• Conduct desk reviews, document analysis, stakeholder mapping, and background research.
• Support data collection efforts (interviews, focus groups, surveys, fieldwork).
• Analyze data and contribute to findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Draft sections of evaluation reports, presentations, and briefing materials.
• Assist with data management, quality assurance, and data visualization.

Skills

Qualitative research

Quantitative analysis

Interviews & surveys

Data visualization

Stakeholder engagement

Travel readiness

Strong writing & presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in international affairs

Tools

NVivo

Tableau

Power BI

SPSS

Stata

R

Job description

Dexis seeks a Junior Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Specialist to support a U.S. Department of State counterterrorism evaluation program. The role will design, implement, analyze, and report independent evaluations of foreign assistance programs worldwide.

This position is contingent upon contract award and requires collaboration with the evaluation team, technical experts, and client stakeholders, including international travel.