Burkina Faso: Evaluation Team Leader

Evaluation Team Leader

End-line Study for the USAID/West Africa PACTE-VIH Mid-term Evaluation 2015

IBTCI COMPANY PROFILE

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 has implemented over two hundred projects. IBTCI has served governments, private sector companies and several donor agencies in the practice area of Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) across many sectors including health, education, environment & economic development and crisis, conflict & governance.

PROJECT SUMMARY

IBTCI is currently seeking a Team Leader (TL) for a USAID/West Africa PACTE-VIH midterm evaluation. The purpose of the mid-term evaluation is to examine the implementation of the model service package, determine what is working well and what isn’t working, and to gain an understanding of how the model can be replicated in other countries in West Africa. This is an immediate start consultancy with an estimated timeline of May – June 2015. The study mainly involves key informant interviews (KIIs), document reviews, in-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs), as well as collection of secondary quantitative data to assess trends in project performance. The TL will be responsible for, and not limited to, overall management of the evaluation team, coordination of evaluation activities, conducting debriefings with USAID, IBTCI and implementing partners, development and submission of the draft evaluation report, finalization and submission of the final evaluation report, and the dissemination of findings.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

The expatriate Evaluation TL will be responsible for:

• Overall management of the evaluation team;
• Desk review of documents and development of Inception Report, consisting of draft methodology, detailed work plan and data collection instruments;
• Coordination of evaluation activities including training of data collectors, data collection, implementation, data management and quality assurance and other related tasks;
• Conduct debriefing with USAID and IBTCI on the methodology;
• Conduct debriefing with implementers on evaluation findings;
• Conduct field visit to the pilot project site and interviews with stakeholders (Key Informants, Key populations etc).
• Development and submission of the mid-term evaluation draft report;
• Finalization and submission of the final evaluation report to IBTCI after incorporating suggestions received on the draft report;
• Throughout the evaluation period, be able to exercise strong communication, organizational, team leadership and interpersonal skills; periodically coordinate/update IBTCI’s Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor and as requested.
• Disseminate the evaluation findings through written reports and/or presentations.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• An advanced degree (Master’s or above) in public health, social science or a related field ( preferred);
• Extensive (a minimum of 10 years) experience in conducting HIV/AIDS program evaluations with both quantitative and qualitative methods for data collection and analysis; (highly desired)
• Previous experience leading evaluation teams is required;
• Prior evaluation experience in Sub-Saharan Africa is required;
• Excellent oral and written skills in French and English are required;
• Previous experience preparing high-quality evaluation reports;
• Previous experience with USAID-funded projects and knowledge of USAID’s ADS2013 policy, standards, guidance and protocols (highly desired);

Please go to https://ibtci.devhire.devex.com/. Along with application, please submit your CV including three references that we can contact, cover letter, and the USAID Contractor Employee Biographical Data Sheet (AID 1420-17) found here: http://www.usaid.gov/forms.

No phone calls please. Only finalists will be contacted. IBTCI is an equal opportunity employer.