Amanda Stek Email & Phone Number

Grand Rapids, MI, US

Support USAID MEL contracts (in Peru, Ukraine, Lebanon, Senegal, and El Salvador) and support the strategic direction and management of the Technical Assistance and Evaluation (TA/Eval) practice area.

• As a Senior Advisor for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL), I led strategic MEL projects around the world, guiding evaluation and research design and implementation, USG client engagement, and multi-cultural.
• Provided technical and managerial leadership and oversight for country-based USAID monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) activities.
• Designed and guided a multi-year grounded theory evaluation with Department of State’s Department of Labor and Human Rights.
• Collaborated with technical and operational EnCompass colleagues to build and/or adapt systems and processes to meet client needs.
• Contributed strategic inputs on MEL proposals including on budgets, management plans, and technical strategy.
• Supervised senior-level staff in home office and in country offices (including Chiefs of Party), using an appreciative approach to mentoring, accountability, and feedback.

• Managed and directed utilization-focused evaluations and assessments in Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Liberia, Philippines, Laos, and Myanmar including contractual, financial, personnel and client management; drafted.
• Supported evaluation, monitoring, and learning teams as a technical specialist, conducting outcome harvesting, contribution analysis, content analysis, comparative analysis and gender analysis and providing support and.
• Co-designed SI's Evaluation Quality, Use, and Impact (EQUI) management system for SI services; delivered EQUI training for SI staff at HQ and in field office locations.
• Served on SI's Institutional Review Board as a Board Member (Sept 2018- May 2020).
• Served as an Analyst/Evaluation Specialist on a MCC Land Use Planning Project evaluation in Indonesia (2019 - 2021).
• Managed, mentored, and supported 5 Head Quarters-based SI staff.

Jakarta, Indonesia

• Managed utilization-focused evaluations and assessments in Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, India and Timor-Leste including contractual, financial, personnel and client management; drafted and provided quality assurance.
• Managed Timor-Leste field office implementing an M&E Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) contract, including supervision of two field staff and data collection; communication with the client in-country; and.
• Served as an Evaluation Specialist on a Land Use Planning project evaluation in Indonesia (August 2016 – March 2017), resulting in presentation of evaluation findings to diverse group of stakeholders (including.
• Contributed to internal company initiatives, including operationalization of key evaluation management practices to ensure use by end users.
• Served as Short-term Specialist for Program Representasi, a USAID/Indonesia governance activity; reviewed and identified monitoring system gaps; managed closeout of the Performance Management Plan and the monitoring.

Jakarta, Indonesia

• Managed USAID/Indonesia’s Kinerja program M&E support activity in Indonesia and an embedded team under subcontract to the implementing partner.
• Developed and oversaw of a rigorous monitoring system, including qualitative and quantitative data collected from project implementers and partner puskesmas and schools organized into two databases and a web-based.
• Facilitated regular strategic learning debriefs with implementer (focusing on program progress in light of Theory of Change)
• Coordinated data collection for two impact evaluations and two assessments (pre and post) covering sectors of health, education, and business; managed three sub-contractors and a team of consultants to collect, clean.
• Co-authored impact evaluation report (http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00KRBN.pdf) and two assessment reports; contributed to presentation of impact evaluation findings and co-presented findings to client and Government.
• Managed four full time and two short term staff, including organizing delegation of tasks and work, mentoring staff, and providing training and professional development opportunities to enhance staff skills and capacity.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Coordinated the Edward. E. Masters Fellowship for Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs diplomats; recruited, interviewed, and supported diplomats with applications to top US graduate schools

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Designed qualitative research project for PTFI Social Outreach and Local Development & Community Relations department to explore land rights and dispute resolution mechanisms in selected areas of Papua Province, Indonesia; research design included participatory focus group discussions, key stakeholder interviews, and village case studies

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Launched 3-year non-experimental evaluation of Cambodian government’s anti-human trafficking efforts since 2003; conducted process documentation of IJM Cambodia Field Office anti-human trafficking operations from 2003 to 2012; wrote and refined 2 interview guides and conducted semi-structured interviews with government and expert stakeholders to assess.

Jakarta, Indonesia

Researched gender-based violence, female representation, and women’s health for Gender Assessment 2010 Committee; worked in partnership with 3 international development agencies to write three policy briefs for the Government of Indonesia

Lippo Karawaci, Indonesia

Created data management system in Microsoft Access that documented 800+ students’ biographical data, marks, and test results; coordinated university accreditation process between UPH Teacher’s College and Corban University’s Teachers College (USA); successfully negotiated university partnership that led to 500 under-privileged Indonesian students receiving.

Jakarta, Indonesia

Launched the Child Health Now Campaign, a $2.54 million campaign for health projects in Indonesia; designed a database for project monitoring in Microsoft Access; conducted secondary research on health indicators

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Managed projects for public and private sector clients; recruited, hired, trained, and supervised eight research assistants (RA); conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis using SPSS, Stata, and NVivo; designed custom relational-database applications in Intuit’s QuickBase and Microsoft Access; designed surveys in Microsoft Word and Inquisite and.

Kolkata, India

Wrote UNIFEM grant progress report for 2007; coordinated Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) workshops for victims of trafficking in Kolkata

Ma, International Relations

Activities and Societies: USINDO Southeast Asia Studies Fellow, Research Assistant (Dr. Martinez-Bravo, International Economics.

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Dance Guild Business Manager and Choreographer, Chimes Newspaper copy editor and writer, Tutor and Academic Coach