Senior Evaluation Specialist

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Evaluation Specialist: Guinea
Department/Location: Global Health
Reports To: Director, Global Health Practice
Type: Consultancy

Ebola Pillar II MEL Activity Description: USAID’s Ebola Pillar II efforts - mitigating second-order impacts including blunting the economic, social and political consequences in the region – has four sub-components: 1) food security; 2) recovery of health systems and non-Ebola emergency health services, 3) governance and economic crisis mitigation (GECM), and 4) innovation, technology and partnership. These four components, listed in the USAID Africa Bureau’s M&E Framework for Pillar II, include mutually supportive interventions in six sectors or thematic areas: agriculture and food security; health services and systems; education; governance; economic crisis mitigation; and information, communication and technology.

The IBTCI consortium working on Ebola Pillar II MEL will achieve the following:

1. ensure that the activities associated with Pillar II are well documented, monitored and evaluated;
2. Ebola Pillar II efforts evolution, progress and results are properly accounted for, understood, and;
3. Any lessons learned will inform future USG programming and implementation of Ebola work and potentially other infectious diseases.

Essential Duties/Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Evaluation Team (ET) at IBTCI home office (HO) and with the country team to lead the Ebola Pillar II Performance Evaluation 2 (PE2) in Guinea.
• Update the desk review of Guinea-relevant documents.
• Lead the PE2 evaluation activities in Guinea, including providing feedback on the qualitative data collection tools, data management and quality assurance and other related tasks.
• Conduct a limited number of in-country key informant interviews (KIIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs).
• Draft country-relevant sections of the PE2 final evaluation report.

The period of performance is roughly 40 working days over the course of August 27, 2018 – April 30, 2019.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• A master’s or higher degree in public health, social sciences, demography, evaluation, economics, public policy, or a relevant field.
• At least ten (10) years of experience in designing and conducting evaluations of interventions in developing countries. Experience in Guinea is desirable.
• Prior USAID experience and knowledge of USAID MEL policies, experience working with local government officials and other stakeholders, capacity building and training experience.
• Analytical skills and knowledge of statistical and/or qualitative software packages such as STATA or SPSS, Atlas.ti or NVivo.
• Excellent organization and project management skills.
• Strong written communication skills.
• Energetic, innovative, problem solver, and results oriented.
• Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Written and oral proficiency in English and French.

Supervisory Responsibility: N/A

Travel: Limited travel to Guinea (less than one month)

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About the Organization

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 implemented over two hundred projects. IBTCI serves government agencies, private sector companies and several donor agencies. IBTCI specializes in Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) across many sectors including, but not limited to, conflict and crisis, democracy and governance, economic growth, education, environment, and global health.