Kenya: Qualitative Researcher for Evaluation Sought for Somalia

Qualitative Researcher for Evaluation Sought for Somalia

Description

International Business and Technical Consultants Incorporated (IBTCI) is recruiting a Senior Researcher/ Statistician for evaluations for USAID/East Africa /Somalia Office. As the holder of the Somalia Program Support Services (SPSS) contract, IBTCI will be conducting evaluations on transition initiatives and democracy and governance programs in Somalia.

This position is based in Nairobi, Kenya with frequent travel to Somalia, and is full-time, beginning in October 2015 to approximately January 31, 2015. Some of the work may be conducted remotely.

The assignment includes the following tasks:

· Help organize focus groups and key informant interviews; including organization of training sessions for interviewers according to SPSS requirements

· Help develop quality control procedures, manuals and codebooks

· Assure that protocols and supporting processes include informed consent, a voluntary participation statement, assure respondent confidentiality, and include secure data exchange/storage procedures

· Help conduct and document pre-tests

· Develop survey related documentation, including training materials in English and Somali

· Provide qualitative data resulting from pre-pilot and pilot-testing with corresponding metadata documentation

· Provide oversight of qualitative data collection, including review by regional supervisors

· Follow international quality control standards and quality assurance procedures

· Adhere to standard USAID requirements for qualitative data

The Qualitative Researcher should meet minimum qualification requirements:

· Experience in designing guides to collect qualitative data (attitudes/behaviors/perceptions) among high senior government officials, line ministry and parliament representatives, CSOs;

· Experience in evaluating international education projects

· Experience in facilitation/moderation of focus group discussions and conducting face-to-face interviews with key informants, processing and analyzing of qualitative data;

· Professional knowledge of qualitative data processing software (Atlas or Nvivo) and MS Office applications;

· Excellent communication (written and verbal) in Somali and English.

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