Senior Researcher/ Statistician for Baseline Survey Team Sought for Somalia
Description
International Business and Technical Consultants Incorporated (IBTCI) is recruiting a Senior Researcher/ Statistician for a baseline survey team to help execute a Task Order issued by the USAID/East Africa /Somalia Office. As the holder of the Somalia Program Support Services (SPSS) contract, IBTCI will be conducting a baseline survey to support a program engaged in formal and informal education activities in Somalia. The purpose of the baseline study is to establish pre-intervention (baseline) measurements that can be tracked during the upcoming phase of the project activity, and used to compare end-line measurements via a performance evaluation.
This position is based in Nairobi, Kenya with frequent travel to Somalia, and is full-time, beginning in April 2015 to approximately July 31, 2015. Some of the work may be conducted remotely.
The assignment includes the following tasks:
- Develop quality control procedures, data entry manuals and codebooks
- Conduct and document pre-tests
- Calculate sampling weights and provide clear definition and documentation on follow-up, field procedures, analysis and estimation plans
- Provide oversight of survey data collection
- Follow international standard quality control standards and quality assurance procedures
- Adhere to standard USAID requirements (disaggregation by sex, region, etc.)
- Provide logical control and codification of survey questionnaire
- Prepare data cleaning rules used for cleaning the raw data
- Provide database cleaning and prepare data for further analyses
- Add field staff codes, and calculate non-response weights
- Develop code book used for codifying of open-ended questions in the questionnaire
- Develop a computerized metadata system
- Report on response rates calculation and follow-up efforts
- Prepare summary of the data entry and data documentation procedures and formats
- Help provide a User’s Guide for the data, including a description of all variables collected and constructed
- Provide un-weighted as well as weighted frequency analysis of survey results
- Ensure adherence to rules for data cleaning, handling of missing data, imputation techniques, weight calculation, and point and variance estimation techniques
The Senior Researcher/ Statistician should meet minimum qualification requirements:
- Strong quantitative research and analytical skills
- Experience in development of new tools or adaptation of existing tools for establishment of pre and post intervention competency levels for students and tutors of non-formal education institutions/centers;
- Experience in pre-test, pilot test of tools, development of instructions, training manual for training of field staff in data collection, data processing, data analysis and reporting;
- Strong experience in testing development hypotheses (theory of change), and in the triangulation of qualitative and quantitative findings;
- In-depth experience in data collection methods and means to mitigate data collection challenges in multilingual and multicultural environments;
- In-depth experience of mechanisms applicable to unstable and insecure environments to mitigate risks and ensure collection of necessary data;
- Professional in statistical software (SAS/STATA & SPSS)
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) in English. Somali language skills desirable
- Only finalists will be contacted.
HOW TO APPLY:
To Apply please submit CV, Cover Letter, and 2-3 References to:
Diana Otieno, Dotieno@ibtci.com, Project Assistant
USAID Somalia Program Support Services (SPSS)
28 School Lane - Whitefields Place Suite A1, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya
Please submit your application by March 7, 2015
