International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), a U.S. based international development consulting company established in 1987, has worked in over one hundred countries and has implemented over two hundred projects. IBTCI has served governments, private sector companies and donor agencies in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) across diverse sectors including health, education, economic growth, humanitarian assistance, stabilization, and democracy & governance. We pride ourselves on the quality of our work. Respect and integrity are the basis of our core values.
IBTCI implements Somalia Program Support Services (SPSS), an Indefinite Delivery and Indefinite Quantity contract focused on providing monitoring and evaluation services to the USAID-Somalia Office.
Position Description: As part of SPSS, IBTCI seeks candidates for Team Leader of a baseline study for the Supporting Somali Governance (SSG) program. Key to the assignment is oversight of the Somali Perception Survey (SPS). This nationwide survey will collect data that can be analyzed by SPSS and will be useful to future program planning. The goal of the SPS will be to gauge opinions on governance issues at a representative level in key centers across Somalia. The survey and findings are expected to be replicable, with the ability to cost effectively run the survey in future waves/iterations.
The SPS will employ on-the-ground, face-to-face interviewing. This method allows for substantive topical exploration utilizing random household and respondent selection criteria – maximizing data quality. The SPS will be an important tool for the SPSS baseline assessment, helping to establish initial values on activity outcome measures that will be re-examined during a final performance evaluation for the Strengthening Somali Governance (SSG) activity in the future.
Assignment and Deliverables
The tool and data collection plan have already been developed and data collection will be conducted soon.
Tasks for the Team Leader will include:
- Assist outsourced data collection firm in adoption of finalized Tool;
- Review training protocol and advise for further improvement;
- Review survey related documentation (in English) and provide feedback prior to translation into Somali;
- Review quality control procedures, data cleaning rules and codebooks developed by outsourced company and share feedback with SPSS;
- Review data cleaning rules (syntaxes) and re-run analysis to ensure relevance of method applied by data collection firms;
- Follow international quality control standards and quality assurance procedures;
- Review database (first week on a daily basis) twice in a week in real-time and advise data collection firms on any corrections as appropriate;
- Analyze a sub-sample of data of the first cases conducted in the field;
- Ensure adherence to standard USAID requirements (disaggregation by sex, region, etc.);
- Review clean database and approve data for further analysis;
- Review added field staff codes, and re-calculate non-response weights;
- Develop a user’s guide for the data, including a description of all variables collected and constructed;
- Develop un-weighted as well as weighted frequency analysis of survey results (report on initial findings);
- Participate in drafting of sections and sub-sections of baseline report that covers all results and includes summary tables;
- Draft baseline report and submit to SPSS/USAID for review and feedback;
- Finalize baseline report per SPSS/USAID comments;
- Draft SPS Synthesis documents: (1) a two-page, and (2) a four-to-six page synthesis documents.
Duration of Assignment
The assignment should start on or about July 11, 2016 and continue through November 30, 2016. Up to 12 days will be based in IBTCI-SPSS office at Nairobi, with the balance of the time spent at home base.
Qualifications
The team leader should demonstrate the following expertise:
- Demonstrated, extensive experience in planning and conducting baseline assessments and mixed-method evaluations;
- Demonstrated, extensive experience in designing and conducting public perception surveys.
- Experience in fragile environments with both quantitative and qualitative data collection;
- Experience with community-based programming in insecure / fragile environments;
- Knowledge of / experience with programming focused on Countering Violent Extremism.
HOW TO APPLY:
Applications
To apply, please visit https://ibtci.devhire.devex.com/. No phone calls, please. Only final candidates will be contacted. Applications should be submitted by June 3, 2016.
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