Job Description

MONITORING, EVALUATION, RESEARCH, AND LEARNING (MERL) ADMINISTRATOR, Mechanical Engineering (MechE)- MIT ASPIRE (Achieving Sustainable Partnerships for Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship) Project, to work closely with ASPIRE MEL staff in the United States and Guatemala and other team members in the development, submission, and annual updating of the project’s monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) plan.  Will establish and maintain the project’s internal performance monitoring systems and implement a subset of the project’s MERL activities related to completion of the USAID-approved MERL plan.

A full description is available at https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/ASPIRE_MERL.pdf.

ASPIRE is developing a regionally relevant, replicable model for how Latin American universities can address local development priorities through their research, teaching, innovation, and entrepreneurial activities. This five-year, $15 million project is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and builds on existing collaboration between MIT and its Guatemalan partners, the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), and the Guatemalan Exporters Association (AGEXPORT).