Team Leader for Evaluation Team Sought for Somalia

Description

International Business and Technical Consultants Incorporated (IBTCI) is recruiting an Evaluation Team Leader 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 an evaluation of an economic growth program in Somalia.

This position is based in Nairobi, Kenya with travel to Somalia, and is full-time, tentatively beginning in June 2015.

The Team Leader shall be responsible for the following activities:

· 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 economic growth projects, especially in the field of agricultural value chains.

· 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)