E T Consultant

The E T Consultant will support an ongoing portfolio of impact evaluations under the Agri Connect engagement in Kenya, working closely with economists, research officers, and field coordinators to produce high quality data and analysis. The role involves survey collection preparation, supervision, and technical analysis using Stata or R and SurveyCTO programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to programmatic engagements and research agenda building at the pillar and country program level.
• Ensure good communication and coordination among members of the Impact Evaluation, Government, and Bank project teams.
• Develop relationships with relevant partners and understand their operational questions and capacity needs to implement the impact evaluations.
• Monitor program implementation to ensure the impact evaluation design is not compromised through close follow-up with field teams.
• Support development of experimental research designs, and supervision and coordination of field projects.
• Assist in mentoring Short-Term Consultants supporting the portfolio and ensure adherence to quality standards.
• Manage impact evaluation data collection activities at all stages including procurement, survey design and programming, sampling, enumerator training, field work supervision, and quality assurance.
• Draft and provide inputs to dissemination products for internal and external audiences including briefs, blogs, presentations, policy reports, and press releases.
• Work with Research Assistants to consolidate raw primary and secondary datasets into final datasets for analysis.
• Deliver capacity building and training activities for government and academic institutions.

Requirements

• A Master’s degree in economics, public policy, statistics or related field.
• At least 2 years of relevant experience in quantitative research and analytical work.
• Technical expertise in impact evaluation (design and implementation).
• Advanced proficiency with Stata and/or R is required.
• Proficiency with Python and geospatial tools is an advantage.
• Experience with software for electronic data collection (ODK/SurveyCTO) is required.
• Experience supervising, mentoring or teaching others on data- or survey-related tasks.
• Experience in household survey design and implementation in developing countries.
• Experience analyzing complex surveys in developing countries.
• Experience coding in a team environment is highly desirable.

Skills

• Impact Evaluation
• Impact Evaluation Implementation
• Quantitative Research
• Data Analysis
• STATA
• Python
• Geospatial tools development
• Electronic Data Collection
• ODK
• SurveyCTO
• Household Survey Design
• Survey Implementation
• Survey Data Analysis
• Team Coding
• Supervision and Mentoring

Languages

English, Swahili