Team Leader for Baseline Survey Team Sought for Somalia, Kenya

Location: Kenya

Organization: International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI)

Reference Number: None given

Job Level: Senior-level

Contact Email: Dotieno@ibtci.com

Fax: None given

Attachments: None given

Description

Team Leader for Baseline Survey Team Sought for Somalia

Description

International Business and Technical Consultants Incorporated (IBTCI) is recruiting a Team Leader 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 this phase of the program 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.

The Team Leader shall be responsible for the following activities:

• Selection of field staff
• Organization of training sessions for interviewers according to SPSS requirements
• Development of quality control procedures, data entry manuals and codebooks
• Design of protocols and supporting processes
• Development of pre-test and pilot test plans
• Development of survey related documentation
• Oversight of pilot-testing
• Provide primary control oversight of survey data collection
• Follow international standard quality control standards and quality assurance procedures adopted by international research community
• Adhere to standard USAID requirements (disaggregation by sex, region, etc.)
• Produce a final report that covers all results

The Team Leader should meet minimum qualification requirements:

• Minimum of 10 years of proven experience in leading of multinational teams assigned to evaluate USAID funded projects in fragile environments (Somalia experience is a plus);
• Experience in evaluating international education projects
• Strong skills in obtaining feedback from stakeholders, facilitation of in-brief, mid-term and out-brief meetings and presenting progress;
• Experience in synthesizing findings and writing reports;
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) in English (Somali language is a plus)
• Only finalists will be contacted.