The GIZ Jordan Project "Improved Governance for the Support of Reform Projects in Jordan” (PARtner II)” is seeking to hire a “Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist – Focus: Grants Management” for full-time based employment.

The project “Improved Governance for the Support of Reform Projects in Jordan” (PARtner II) is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Government, in partnership with the Prime Ministry of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. From April 2026 to March 2030, PARtner II supports one of Jordan’s key national reform priorities: the modernisation of the public sector. Building on the achievements of its predecessor project, PARtner I, the project contributes to the implementation of the Public Sector Modernisation Roadmap and the Economic Modernisation Vision by strengthening institutional capacities, improving governance processes, and promoting evidence-based decision-making. Through its work with high-level government partners, PARtner II helps foster a more efficient, transparent, and citizen-oriented public administration, creating lasting impact for governance and sustainable development in Jordan.

Joining the project offers the opportunity to work at the heart of Jordan’s reform agenda, collaborate closely with senior government stakeholders and international partners, and contribute to meaningful and sustainable institutional change.

Qualifications and Specialist Knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree in social science, economics, statistics, engineering, and any other related field.
• At least 7 years of professional experience and relevant expertise in a comparable position in an international development organisation (Monitoring & Evaluation, Data Management and Analysis).
• Professional experience within the Jordanian Public Administration Reform sector is an asset.
• Methodological expertise in impact measurement of development cooperation projects.
• High flexibility in using different methods and digital tools for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of projects and for collecting data to demonstrate achieved impacts.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation for reporting, data collection, and aggregation of various data sources, with the ability to provide a comprehensive overview.
• Excellent digital competencies (MS Office: Excel, MS Teams).
• Language skills: Arabic native speaker, fluent spoken and written English skills, German language is an asset.

Main Responsibilities

• Design and implement a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system for PARtner II in line with the rules and regulations of GIZ and the project’s commissioning parties. This entails the continuous collection, preparation and analysis of (results) data, using appropriate digital tools and data collection formats in order to inform strategic orientation and operational planning, support evaluations, surveys, feedback mechanisms, and learning activities.
• Provide input for reports to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and other political partners and regularly maintain and update the project’s Capacity Works documents, especially the results framework, indicator matrix and capacity development strategy, ensuring data quality and consistent information flow across project components.
• Support the project and its counterparts in document and knowledge management, ensuring compliance with applicable records management, monitoring and evaluation requirements.
• Contribute to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) activities at cluster and portfolio level, particularly programme-level monitoring, sector data analysis and results and impact communication.
• Support project and partner organisations in GIZ compliant preparation, implementation and monitoring of grants, ensuring adherence to applicable regulations, procedures and GIZ requirements.
• Maintain an overview of contracts and assignments, especially regarding contractual commitments, deadlines, risks and outstanding actions in coordination with the responsible colleagues and partner organisations and provide regular updates to support operational planning and management decisions.
• Coordinate and manage requests from partners for experts under GIZ framework contracts, including the processing of call-offs, coordination with projects, partners and contract holders, and monitoring of ToR- compliant and timely deliverables.
• Support the Head of Project, the Senior Component Manager, and the wider technical team in the implementation of project activities and cross-cutting tasks.

The brief profile is not intended to provide a full and complete description.

Where appropriate and reasonable, the position holder is willing to perform tasks outside the scope of the job description.

Emanating from GIZ’s role in enhancing and promoting the efficiency and competency of its political partners and entities and their respective employees, and in view of GIZ’s aim at maintaining and encouraging the stability of employment at its political partners and entities, this position will not be available to any official employee currently working at any of GIZ’s political partners, governmental ministry, department or entity, including any official employees who are on unpaid leave.

GIZ is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as to race, gender or religion, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities. Remuneration will be in accordance with the candidate's qualifications, experience, as well as the scope of responsibility of the job announced and in line with local standards.

GIZ would like to increase the proportion of employees with disability. Applications from persons with disabilities are most welcome.

GIZ will send feedback only to the candidates that are shortlisted and interviewed.