Alicia M. Mccorkle
Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Agriculture
Fort Collins, CO · (970) 555 0143 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/aliciammccorkle
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
11 years in monitoring, evaluation and learning for international programs
INDUSTRIES
Agriculture, nutrition, market systems
SPECIALTIES
Results frameworks, indicator tracking tables, data quality assessments, baseline and endline design
SYSTEMS
DevResults, Kobo Toolbox, Power BI, Stata, SurveyCTO
CREDENTIALS
American Evaluation Association member, Project Management Professional
EDUCATION
Master of Science in applied economics, Colorado State University
Results at a Glance
46
Million dollar portfolio
3,200
Households that produced
54
Field staff
Executive Summary
Monitoring and evaluation manager with 11 years building measurement systems for agriculture and nutrition programs. Runs measurement across a 46 million dollar portfolio in five countries, owns 78 indicators, and has taken two federal awards through data quality assessments with no corrective actions.
Signature Achievements
- Owns measurement for a 46 million dollar portfolio covering 78 indicators across five country programs.
- Took two awards funded by the United States Agency for International Development through data quality assessments with no corrective actions issued.
- Designed and ran a baseline survey of 3,200 households that produced the comparison group for the midterm evaluation.
- Cut the time from field collection to reported indicator values from six weeks to nine days by moving submissions onto DevResults.
- Built the results framework and performance indicator reference sheets that were accepted without revision by the agreement officer representative.
- Trained 54 field staff and partner enumerators on data collection protocols, which lifted the completeness of submitted forms from 71 percent to 96 percent.
Professional Experience
Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
Front Range Agricultural Development, Fort Collins, CO 2020 to present
Leads a four person measurement team supporting a 46 million dollar portfolio in five countries.
- Writes monitoring, evaluation and learning plans for new awards, including results frameworks and indicator definitions.
- Maintains the indicator tracking table and reconciles reported values against source records every quarter.
- Runs data quality assessments on partner reported data and documents the verification steps.
- Commissions and manages external evaluators for midterm and final evaluations.
- Presents findings at quarterly learning reviews and works with program managers on what changes as a result.
Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor
High Plains Nutrition Coalition, Lincoln, NE 2016 to 2020
Supported measurement on three nutrition awards worth 18 million dollars.
- Designed household and facility survey instruments and trained enumerator teams before each round.
- Analyzed anthropometric and dietary diversity data and prepared results for program review.
- Built the first performance dashboard the country directors used in monthly meetings.
- Wrote the survey protocols and consent language reviewed by the institutional review board.
Program Data Analyst
Cache Valley Rural Institute, Boise, ID 2014 to 2016
Data support for a rural development organization with 12 active projects.
- Cleaned and merged program datasets and produced quarterly summary reports.
- Maintained the beneficiary database and checked it for duplicate records.
- Supported the annual reporting package with tables drawn from project records.
Licensure and Certification
Member, American Evaluation Association
Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute
Data quality assessment training, 2019
Education
Master of Science in applied economics, Colorado State University, 2014
Bachelor of Arts in international studies, University of Denver, 2011
Core Skills
Results frameworks · Indicator tracking · Data quality assessment · Survey design · Stata analysis · DevResults · Evaluation management · Enumerator training · Learning reviews · Report writing