Job description
Kantar Public in Africa is seeking an experienced and entrepreneurial professional to serve as Director of Evaluation. This is a new position created to support the organization’s new strategic plan and to drive our evaluative business stream. In collaboration with Kantar Public country teams and the international development practice leads, the candidate will build and grow our evaluation practice, incorporating our current evaluation work.
CAPABILITIES
A mature person with around 15 years of evaluation experience overall and 5 years leading process and other forms of evaluations in Africa, including experience in developing and consulting on evaluation frameworks.
The person will have won and led independent evaluations
Very strong proposal writing capabilities
Excellent client communication and consulting skills
Demonstrated understanding of technical aspects of and current trends in evaluation
Proven experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams, working in collaboration with international and national consultants
Self-motivated with a strong ability to work independently – this person will work in a cross-cutting role and will be expected to write proposals and lead evaluations themselves in the first instance.
Specialist in the design of evaluation systems, and embedding evaluation in the decision-making processes
Proven ability to make evaluation results impactful using digital and other methods of reporting
Strong familiarity with primary research methods in evaluation.
Familiarity with OECD and DFID Quality Proforma and other quality initiatives within the development sector, and an ability to integrate these across the studies as appropriate
Ideally African national
JOB DETAILS
Reporting to CEO Kantar Public Africa and Middle East and based in Nairobi, Kenya, with a dotted line into the Director of our global Development Practice, based in Washington DC., USA.
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