Analysis & Studying Supervisor

Overview

Background

Inventive Associates Worldwide is a dynamic, fast-growing international growth agency that makes a speciality of education, financial progress, democratic establishments, and stabilization. Based mostly in Washington, D.C., Inventive has a subject presence in additional than 25 nations with a robust consumer portfolio that features the U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement and the State Division, amongst others. Since its founding in 1977, Inventive has earned a stable popularity amongst its purchasers and is well-regarded by rivals and companions alike. 

Program Description:

The USAID-funded Ethiopia Civic Engagement Exercise is a four-year exercise with the general objective to strengthen Ethiopia’s civic material in help of extra inclusive, peaceable, and responsive governance. The venture goals to strengthen civic and community-based actors’ capability to have interaction in coverage evaluation, advocacy, dialogue, and collective motion for peaceable, democratic change; and foster multi-stakeholder civic partnerships in help of inclusive dialogue, respect for human rights, and advancing simpler, citizen-responsive, and accountable governance.   

Place Abstract:

The Analysis and Studying Supervisor will likely be chargeable for main ECE’s totally different utilized quantitative and qualitative research which purpose to generate proof for programming and measure efficiency of the intervention throughout time and place. The place will even be chargeable for managing the general progress of examine plans and timelines of citizen surveys, CSO surveys, utilized political financial system evaluation, social community evaluation and different complexity conscious evaluations like end result harvesting and most vital tales, amongst others. She/he’s additionally anticipated to instantly have interaction in conducting knowledge assortment, evaluation, put together studies and ship studying actions with top quality.

The incumbent is predicted to have a nicely demonstrated expertise and expertise in multi-method research design modalities, knowledge assortment, knowledge cleaning, evaluation, reporting, and dissemination. S/he must have intensive expertise in documenting studying and organizing and delivering studying occasions as nicely. The research and studying supervisor will even seek the advice of and help the MEL and this system technical staff in conceiving, amassing, analyzing, and using the findings of those research to enhance program high quality and studying.

Reporting: This place studies to the CLA/MEL Director.

Obligations

The Analysis and studying supervisor shall be accountable to operationalize ECE’s surveys and assessments in response to ECE’s MEL plan and established research targets. Key roles embody, however not restricted to, 

a.      Surveys, assessments, and Qualitative Research

• Lead the design and execution of surveys, assessments and different complexity conscious qualitative research like end result harvesting, most vital change tales in shut collaboration with CLA/ MEL staff, technical program staff, consultants, and regional groups.
• Carry out literature evaluations to make sure using evidence-based practices and acceptable examine methodology.
• Plans and directs the day-to-day operational actions of deliberate assessments in response to established research targets in alignment with ECE MEL plan.
• Put together research inception studies, devices and protocols and pilot them previous to subject knowledge assortment.
• Recruit and handle research assistants together with subject supervisors and enumerators, and prepare them on research strategies and instruments.
• Facilitate knowledge assortment by surveys, interviews and focus teams through phone, internet, and in-person and statistical methods.
• Oversee knowledge assortment for the deliberate assessments, together with amassing qualitative knowledge as wanted and overseeing research assistants and/or enumerators within the knowledge assortment course of.
• Plan and execute knowledge quality assurance strategies and procedures to enhance high quality of the research.
• Analyze the information collected for studies, info sheets, knowledge visualization, and many others.
• Write the studies, info sheets, and many others. linked to the surveys, assessments, and evaluations.
• Handle the event, coordination, and facilitation of coaching and workshops on research approaches and strategies for inner program workers and companions.
• Preserve research professionalism and ethics together with management and implementation of IRB processes and workouts good judgement when dealing with delicate knowledge.
• Recommendation this system staff in using findings from the assessments and help program adaptation based mostly on research suggestions.

b.      Monitoring, Analysis, and Studying   

• Lead design and implementation of actions to answer the ECE program studying agenda and guarantee all research engagements are tailor-made in direction of producing studying.
• Develop and oversee implementation of normal working procedures for studying actions.
• Assist program and MEL Group in collaboration, studying adaptation efforts together with baseline, midline and endline analysis, GESI evaluation, different motion research, and subsequent adaptation periods.
• Carefully work with the communication supervisor in producing and disseminating research briefs, infographics and different communication supplies that talk program achievements and successes.
• Signify ECE’s research and studying actions in public {and professional} circles by conferences, conferences, and displays.
• Work carefully with the M&E Director to have interaction companions, authorities officers and policymakers to develop and perform studying actions and disseminate findings.
• Carefully work with MEL workers on knowledge management together with knowledge high quality evaluation and feeding efficiency knowledge into Inventive’s MEDAL platform
• Conduct different assignments as delegated by the MEL/ CLA Director

{Qualifications}

a.       Schooling and Work Expertise

• Superior diploma in social sciences, governance, growth research, academic measurement, knowledge sciences and associated social science fields
• A minimum of 6 years {of professional} expertise with no less than 4 years demonstrated expertise in main/ facilitating quantitative and qualitative research, together with instantly analyzing the outcomes and making ready the report, ideally in civic engagement, governance, and democracy areas.
• A minimum of 3 years demonstrated expertise supervising research staff(s) and managing actions in multi-cultural areas of Ethiopia ideally in Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa and Dessie, and the encompassing areas.

• Confirmed expertise working with authorities authorities, civil society organizations, and communities in Ethiopia and/or expertise working with counterparts on the nationwide and native authorities ranges.
• Expertise conducting research/assessments for USAID-funded applications will likely be preferable.
• Confirmed expertise conducting social research, utilizing qualitative evaluation instruments and strategies, social community evaluation, open ended conversational interviews, transcription coding and evaluation.
• Expertise working with worldwide donors, senior authorities officers and policymakers.
• Expertise in publication in peer-reviewed journals most popular.
• Expertise presenting research findings at nationwide and worldwide conferences most popular.

b.       Ability and Competency

• Display expertise with social science knowledge assortment, together with through CAPI or different actual time knowledge assortment platforms/ software program.
• Nicely, demonstrated analytical and statistical skill together with SPSS, Stata, Dedoose, KUMU/ UCINET or every other equal analytical software program.
• Wonderful information of Microsoft merchandise, significantly Excel, power level; Energy Bi
• Dedication to gender, fairness, and social inclusion rules and to ECE’s methods on similar
• Confirmed experience in research and sustaining research ethics, managing IRB processes.
• Superior communication and interpersonal expertise together with the power to speak successfully and precisely, each orally and in writing
• Display attention-to-detail, time management, and organizational expertise throughout a number of, concurrent research undertakings.
• Demonstrated expertise in knowledge quality assurance, knowledge evaluation, report writing, and dissemination of findings.
• Fluency in English and Amharic together with demonstrated technical writing expertise for publication is required. Pattern publications will likely be requested if shortlisted. Proficiency in Ethiopian languages apart from Amharic, particularly in Afaan Oromo and Af Somali is a plus.
• Capacity to travel nationally as much as 25% of the time.