Position Status: Consultant
Position Description
LINC is seeking evaluation experts to be proposed on task orders under the USAID/Kenya and East Africa Evaluation, Assessments, and Analyses (EAA) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ).. Under this mechanism consultants are anticipated to provide technical and advisory services in: (1) planning and conducting evaluations, analyses, and assessments; (2) technical assistance in relevant subject-matter areas; (3) capacity building; and (4) data visualization, synthesis, evaluation, program and policy analysis. We are recruiting for experts with demonstrated professional experience conducting evaluations and/or analyses in East Africa, including Kenya, Somalia, Burundi, DR Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Technical experts should have demonstrated experience in youth development, specifically workforce development and skill building, youth empowerment, civic engagement and addressing youth risks. Applicants should have experience conducting discrete research, designing, monitoring and/or evaluating donor-funded development programming in this sector, and a strong background in quantitative and/or qualitative methods, research design, data quality control, analytics and reporting.
Applications will be assessed and added to LINC’s EAA roster on an ongoing basis.
Skill Areas
Successful candidates should be able demonstrate rich expertise in one or more of the following skill areas relevant to donor-funded development programming in one or more countries in East Africa:
Advanced research methods, including a range of evaluation, assessment, program design and monitoring methodologies;
Program evaluation utilizing qualitative and/or qualitative techniques, potentially including experimental, quasi-experimental, performance evaluation, whole-of-project evaluation, and Developmental Evaluation (DE);
Field data collection, including conducting of focus groups, key informant interviews, and surveys;
Data quality control, including data quality assessment and oversight;
Advanced data analytics, including descriptive statistics, systems analysis, and data visualization;
Assessment and evaluation writing and reporting, demonstrating a track record of authorship of high-quality reporting documentation;
Technical expertise in youth development, relevant to the East African context;
Understanding and expertise in development policy and programming, including key governmental, bi-lateral, and multi-lateral policy and funding priorities.
Skills and Qualifications
We anticipate that most successful candidates will have a Master’s degree, at least 5 of experience working on donor-funded programming in East Africa, and fluency in English. The ability to speak Swahili and/or other local languages is a plus.
