Sam Mather Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Facilitate project design sessions with headquarters and in-country program staff to develop problem statements, logic models, theories of change, indicators, and critical assumptions for proposals using logical framework approachDesign and ensure implementation of donor-specific institute standards, templates and processes for project design and M&E; review all relevant proposals for quality and complianceBuild program and M&E staff capacity through new resources and documentation; conduct workshops as possibleCoordinated external consultants and partner institutes remotely for a baseline in Sudan and midterm in Guatemala; led remote baseline for Nigeria

New York

Facilitated workshops with American and African nonprofits on strengthening M&E systems; conducted in-country visits with staff to document and improve M&E processesSupported long-term evidence-building evaluations in East African refugee camps by facilitating funders’ and implementers’ development of a rigorous theory of change and coordinating among M&E teams

• Contributed to evaluation design, data analysis, and recommendations for an education NGO in Uganda• Led data collection in rural Uganda, managing a small field team• Developed internal guidance for evaluations of program implementation quality and qualitative methods• Designed evaluations for education interventions in India and led data collection and analysis

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Team• Worked with partner institutes to roll out a shared database• Developed data visualization tools, templates and guides for field teams; led workshops on data visualization• Supported M&E sections of regional teams' project proposals

Accra, Ghana

• Researched position papers on constitutional and development issues in response to election controversies and disputes over government authority • Conducted literature reviews on development programs the government or CDD might implement• Cleaned, analyzed and summarized election monitoring data for press release

New York, New York

• Reviewed UNFPA implementing partners' project plans, budgets and indicators for compliance with UNFPA standards• Made aggregators and dashboards to analyze data from reviews and allow comparisons between countries and regions• Presented results and take-aways to decision-makers in UNFPA and outside auditors

East Lansing, Mi

• Taught essay writing, editing and revising skills to James Madison College students in one-on-one sessions

Research and respond to constituent inquiriesAttend legislative sessions and political meetings to record relevant notes

Worked on the social media outreach and wrote and edited a User Guide for PMA Technologies' software.

B.A., History And Public Affairs

Alumni Distinguished Scholar - four year full cost merit scholarship B.A., Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy B.A., History.

Education record

Achievement Award in Writing from the National Council of Teachers of English, 2011 National Merit Finalist, 2012