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Job Description
Navanti supports a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Support Activity program that assists USAID/Nigeria in advancing its broader organizational learning and development efforts.
Responsibilities
- The evaluation/data specialist must demonstrate experience in organizational capacity building/assessment required.
- S/he must demonstrate strong experience with data collection procedures, surveys, interview guides, and analysis of data.
The evaluation/data specialist is expected to:
- Design the data collection instruments and ensure it addresses all evaluation objectives.
- Collect, analyze, and interpret data using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
- Analyze data sets using statistical methods and relational databases.
- Support in preparing reports of research findings.
- Work with the team leader in planning, developing, coordinating, and administering research tools.
- Perform quality assurance reviews of both quantitative and qualitative data.
- Support the team leader in writing or editing technical reports and summaries of findings.
- Work with the team leader to perform desk review and identify additional information required for analysis.
- Work with the Team Leader in the preparation and presentation of the In-brief and Out-brief to USAID/Nigeria and other stakeholders as requested.
- Support the team leader to develop the draft Evaluation report with support from the team members, taking into consideration feedback from the Out-brief presentation.
- Work with the team leader to respond to USAID comments on the draft report, incorporate USAID/Nigeria staff comments into the final version of the report, and finalize the report.
- Work collaboratively with team members throughout design, implementation, analysis, and report writing to complement each other’s areas of expertise.
Qualification
The candidate is expected to have the following qualifications:
- Advanced Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Data Science or related field.
- A minimum of eight years of experience in program evaluation design, data management and analysis, computer science, or a similar role.
- Strong experience in designing qualitative and quantitative data collection tools
- Experience with qualitative and quantitative research methods.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Knowledge of statistical software programs, such as SPSS or STATA.
- Previous experience as an evaluation specialist on governance/democracy sector evaluations, assessments, and research studies. USAID evaluation experience is strongly preferred.
Location: Nigeria
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