Team Member for Mid-term Evaluation of USAID-supported Scholarship Activity, Kenya Support Project, Kenya
Company Profile: MSI is a Washington, DC metro area international development firm with a 30-year history of helping to deliver development results across the developing world. In 2008, we became the America’s operation of the international development arm of Coffey International Limited. Since that time, we have greatly expanded our ability to respond seamlessly and flexibly to client needs with our sister offices in the UK and Australia. We operate in some of the most challenging and political and economic climates in the world, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Sudan and Iraq. MSI currently employs 800 development experts in the fields of public sector management, monitoring and evaluation, governance and anti-corruption. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.
Project Summary:
The Kenya Support Project’s overall objectives are geared to support and strengthen the current USAID/Kenya strategy in meeting day to day information needs in order to make informed program management decisions, as well as to provide substantive support with qualitative, quantitative, and analytical information to assist in continually assessing and evaluating the Mission’s development hypothesis.
The Kenya Support Project’s overall objectives are geared to support and strengthen the current USAID/Kenya strategy in meeting day to day information needs in order to make informed program management decisions, as well as to provide substantive support with qualitative, quantitative, and analytical information to assist in continually assessing and evaluating the Mission’s development hypothesis.
Please note: Only Kenyan citizens are eligible for this position.
Position Summary:
MSI is seeking evaluation team members to work under the leadership of the Team Leader and MSI for the upcoming Wings to Fly mid-term evaluation. The Wings to Fly activity started in November 2011 and is set to end in 2016. The purpose of the evaluation is to investigate the effectiveness of the scholarship program to inform mid-course corrections. The evaluation will also be useful to USAID and other donors in their decisions to fund or scale up the program. The evaluation is expected to begin in late August or early September. It will last about 3 months, with approximately 4-6 weeks for data collection.
MSI is seeking evaluation team members to work under the leadership of the Team Leader and MSI for the upcoming Wings to Fly mid-term evaluation. The Wings to Fly activity started in November 2011 and is set to end in 2016. The purpose of the evaluation is to investigate the effectiveness of the scholarship program to inform mid-course corrections. The evaluation will also be useful to USAID and other donors in their decisions to fund or scale up the program. The evaluation is expected to begin in late August or early September. It will last about 3 months, with approximately 4-6 weeks for data collection.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in the Team Planning Meeting in Nairobi.
- Support the data collection, which may include desk review, key informant interviews, and discussion groups or surveys. (Nairobi and Laikipia)
- Contribute to data analysis and participate in the Findings/Conclusions/Recommendations Worskhop in Nairobi.
- Contribute to the development of the evaluation deliverables, including the Methodology and Workplan, Evaluation Reports (draft and final), and Debriefing.
- Other tasks, as assigned by the Team Leader or MSI.
Qualifications:
- Prior USAID evaluation experience.
- Evaluation design experience, including the selection of appropriate data collection methods on a question specific basis and development of a detailed data analysis plan.
- Basic social science research skills and basic statistics, including strong data visualization skills consistent with USAID expectations (http://dataviz.usaidallnet.gov/visualization-types).
- Familiarity with and ability to apply a range of data collection methodologies covered by USAID TIPS (summarized with links at http://www.innonet.org/resources/node/636). Field experience that includes at least some but not necessarily all of the following:
- Survey research experience, including development of structured and semi-structured interview and/or observation instruments, by hand and using mid-size survey aids such as EPI Info from CDC; sample size determination for specific confidence levels and confidence intervals; selection and use of other survey data (and other large data set) entry and analysis software (SPSS or alternative)
- Structured or semi-structured group interviews and/or focus groups, including the creation of written instruments and transcripts for same; content analysis and other techniques for coding and transforming group/open-ended data into analyzed information; qualitative data analysis software (NVIVO or alternative) and/or case study documentation experience; transformation of qualitative data into a quantitative form that can be merged with other quantitative data in a mixed methods analysis.
- Applied experience with non-experimental theory testing techniques for examining program/project effects (baseline reconstruction, outcome mapping, outcome harvesting, general elimination method (modus operandi), contribution analysis, lagged regressions and/or others).
- Experience evaluating scholarship programs or with education/youth program evaluations.
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer.
How to apply:
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