Monitoring & Evaluation Management for the EU-funded project "MOST IV"
Project duration: 1 October 2024 – 31 August 2027 (35 months)
Beginning of the service: 1 February 2025
Client: Goethe-Institut Lithuania
About the client
The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach. We promote knowledge of the German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation.
Description of the project
The project MOST IV supports Belarusian professionals – based in Belarus and abroad – in improving their professional competences and opportunities for the future. The core activity is a mobility scheme facilitating professional contacts between Belarusian and EU-based professionals and organizations. Interested Belarusian receive the possibility to get funding for travel and accommodation abroad and are supported in finding a first professional contact in the EU. The program works with the following priority sectors: culture, society, education, business, health & care and sustainability. In total, we expect a minimum of 670 participants in the project.
Description of services
Within the context of the MOST IV project, the service of Monitoring Management entails:
- Overseeing internal monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of all project activities incl. data collection and analysis,
- Developing survey instruments and implementing surveys
- Monitoring the implementation of the planned activities, outputs and outcomes against the indicators and target values set by the project’s logframe
- Processing collected data and making them available to the project and EU representatives; incl. compiling a monthly monitoring report
- Providing critical inputs, feedback, and M&E results for improvement of project approaches and activities
- Coordinating and contributing to project evaluations incl. regular reports and the final project report as well as presenting statistics at Steering Committee Meetings
- Reviewing narrative reports submitted by project participants
- Conducting interviews and focus groups with a sample of beneficiaries
- Developing additional M&E instruments to update on subsequent developments, achievements, sustainability of partnerships, etc.
The services must be provided on a regular basis throughout the whole project duration. The detailed timing and deadlines of individual activities (e.g. monthly monitoring report) is subject to change and will be agreed upon with the client on a rolling basis. The service provider must be reachable for short notice requests and individual arrangements during normal office hours. The estimated workload for the services is approximately 20 hours per week.
Suitability criteria
- University degree in social science or equivalent or proven equivalent competences or professional monitoring & evaluation agency/ company.
- At least three-year professional experience in the development and implementation of M&E systems and the design of project evaluations
- Very good knowledge of data collection methods, very good quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills, as well as good data visualization skills
- Excellent reliability incl. ability to respect deadlines, strong responsibility, and initiative, attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent communication skills; native Russian and Belarusian language expertise; fluent English
Award criteria
Price (30%)
Relevance of the specific work experience and references towards the project (30%)
Experience in international (specifically EU-funded) projects of staff assigned to performing the contract (20%)
Proven work experience in the context of Belarus (20%)
The deadline for this tender is
15.01.2024.
English language offers must include company profile or CV, work examples, links to professional references, financial offer. In the financial offer the price of the service must be provided in cost in Euro per hour.
Please send your offer to:
bewerbung-vilnius@goethe.de As subject of your mail please choose "Tender MOST IV Monitoring Management".
Thank you for your offer. Your personal or company data is subject to the Data Protection Act and will not be passed on to third parties under any circumstances.
