Position Summary:
As the Foundation expands its work across Africa, there is an exciting, growing opportunity to employ the latest research and evaluation tools to design programs, measure impact and guide future strategies. Working alongside the Foundation’s Chief Research and Evaluation Officer (CREO), the Associate RE will play a critical role in building and operating an efficient, rigorous, and impactful RE department that will influence the selection and design of development programs in multiple countries.
Functional Relationships:
Directors
Country Programme Managers
Research and Evaluation Staff
Duties and Responsibilities:
Research and Evaluation
Responsible for designing and estimating the potential impact of Foundation’s new programs; primarily in education, water, health and agriculture. This includes active involvement in the program design process and implementation of creative evaluation tools.
Identifying the best econometric approaches to measuring impact, considering local constraints.
Managing day-to-day research and evaluation activities. These include:
Regularly assessing progress in the field;
Supervising and training field staff;
Ensuring that basic quality standards are met;
Cleaning and analysing data;
Contributing to the production of research reports.
Regular travel to project locations in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Somaliland, as needed.
Institutional / Administrative
Helping the CREO build an integrated Research and Evaluation (RE) department within the Foundation, involving field staff in multiple locations. This will involve:
Creating/updating the institutional documents laying out the Foundation’s research and evaluation approaches and strategy;
Writing guidelines for the Foundation’s evaluation proposals, field data collection activities, cleaning and documentation standards, pre-analysis plans, and end-products.
Establishing a library of STATA and/or R codes for use across the organisation.
Assisting the Chief Research and Evaluation Officer (CREO) in other critical RE tasks and projects, including developing and engaging with a network of international development researchers and practitioners across the continent.
Technical Competencies:
Creative and entrepreneurial self-starter, with a focus on execution and results.
Superior attention to detail.
Ability to articulate complex ideas, summarize problems, and identify key lessons, clearly and effectively.
Highly proficient in STATA and R, with experience writing statistical code for data management, cleaning, and analysis.
Basic understanding of economics, econometrics, and statistics.
Highly proficient with survey platforms, like KoboCollect or SurveyCTO.
Excellent writing and presentation (e.g., PowerPoint) skills.
Ability to manage field surveys, focus groups, and randomized evaluations.
Ability to multitask and balance multiple work assignments.
Most importantly, excellent interpersonal skills. In this position, you will be required to work efficiently with teams in a variety of different countries and contexts.
Required Qualifications and Experiences:
Bachelor or Master’s degree in Economics, International Development, Political Science, Statistics, Public Policy or a related field.
Minimum of three (3) years of fieldwork management experience, and preferably experience running a research project at an academically-oriented, development economics research organisation.
Strong track record of success in academic studies, as well as the professional workplace.
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