Senior Researcher/ Statistician for Evaluation Sought for Somalia
Description
International Business and Technical Consultants Incorporated (IBTCI) is recruiting a Senior Researcher/ Statistician for evaluations for USAID/East Africa /Somalia Office. As the holder of the Somalia Program Support Services (SPSS) contract, IBTCI will be conducting evaluations on transition initiatives and democracy and governance programs in Somalia.
This position is based in Nairobi, Kenya with frequent travel to Somalia, and is full-time, beginning in October 2015 to approximately January 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
· Demonstrated experience in planning and conducting mixed-method evaluations
· Experience in development of tools for establishment of pre and post intervention competency levels for target groups (government, private sector, CSO, community);
· 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)
· Experience with community-based programming in insecure / fragile environments.
· Excellent communication (written and verbal) in English. Somali language skills desirable
· Only finalists will be contacted.
HOW TO APPLY:
If interested, please email your updated resume, summary of qualifications tohttps://ibtci.devhire.devex.com/jobs/331907
