MSI Team Member Job Opening for Mid-Term Evaluation of USAID-Supported Scholarship Activity in Kenya July 2014
Company Profile: MSI is a Washington, DC metro area international development firm with a 30-year history of helping to deliver development results across the developing world.
Project Summary: The Kenya Support Project’s overall objectives are geared to support and strengthen the current USAID/Kenya strategy in meeting day to day information needs in order to make informed program management decisions, as well as to provide substantive support with qualitative, quantitative, and analytical information to assist in continually assessing and evaluating the Mission’s development hypothesis.
Position Summary: USAID has commissioned a mid-term evaluation of the Wings to Fly activity, which started in November 2011 and is set to end in 2016.
The Evaluation Team Member overall responsibilities include:
- Serve as a full member of the evaluation team, under the leadership of the Team Leader and Management Systems International;
- Participate in the Team Planning Meeting (TPM) in Nairobi;
- Support the data collection, which may include desk review, key informant interviews, and discussion groups or surveys. in Nairobi and Laikipia
- Contribute to data analysis and participate in the Findings/Conclusions/Recommendations Worskhop in Nairobi
- Contribute to the development of the evaluation deliverables, including the Methodology and Workplan, Evaluation Reports (draft and final), and Debriefing.
- Other tasks, as assigned by the Team Leader or MSI.
Prior USAID evaluation experience.
- Survey research experience, including development of structured and semi-structured interview and/or observation instruments, by hand and using mid-size survey aids such as EPI Info from CDC; sample size determination for specific confidence levels and confidence intervals; selection and use of other survey data (and other large data set) entry and analysis software (SPSS or alternative)
- Structured or semi-structured group interviews and/or focus groups, including the creation of written instruments and transcripts for same; content analysis and other techniques for coding and transforming group/open-ended data into analyzed information; qualitative data analysis software (NVIVO or alternative) and/or case study documentation experience; transformation of qualitative data into a quantitative form that can be merged with other quantitative data in a mixed methods analysis.
- Applied experience with non-experimental theory testing techniques for examining program/project effects (baseline reconstruction, outcome mapping, outcome harvesting, general elimination method (modus operandi), contribution analysis, lagged regressions and/or others).
- Experience evaluating scholarship programs or with education/youth program evaluations.
MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer.
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