Vacancy title:
Zonal Developmental Evaluators

Jobs at:
USAID CIRCLE Project

Deadline of this Job:
13th December 2018

Duty Station:
Tanzania

Summary
Date Posted: 5th December 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

JOB DETAILS:
The CIRCLE Project seeks three experienced Zonal Developmental Evaluators for coordinating and implementing the DE activities in the respective Boresha Afya project zones. The primary responsibilities include implementing data collection and analysis activities per the DE design, providing continuous feedback to intended evaluation users to support timely decision making, and tracking learning and adaptation milestones in the project.

Zonal Developmental Evaluator will be embedded with Boresha Afya partners in Lake/Western Zone (Mara). The specific location within Zone may change based on emerging evaluation priorities. Candidates’ flexibility regarding site for embedding is highly desired. Zonal Developmental Evaluators can expect up to 30-50% time for domestic travel, primarily within the respective zone, but also to include Dar es Salaam and other locations.

Responsibilities

• Under guidance of the Principal Investigator (PI), manage the implementation of the DE activities in the assigned zone and provide regular reporting to the PI.
  
• Participate in the development, review, and refining of the Developmental

Evaluation plan and theories of change.

• Work closely with respective Boresha Afya zonal teams over the course of the DE to prioritize focus areas, formulate evaluation questions, and update evaluation plans.
  
• Collaborate within the DE team to design data collection instruments, and data management systems and processes that are both zone-specific and cross-cutting with other zones.
  
•  Lead the implementation of zone-specific data collection, analysis, and reporting activities.
  
• Participate in recruitment and oversight of additional data collection and analysis support staff, as needed.
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Anthropology, or related Social Science discipline.
  
•  Master’s degree or higher in a Social Sciences discipline or in Public health is highly desirable.
  
•  Five to seven years’ experience in implementation research and/or monitoring & evaluation in the global health and development contexts.
  
• 3-4 years of experience with participatory research and/or evaluation methods, including process evaluation and action planning.
  
• 3-5 years of experience working with diverse health or development stakeholders, spanning research and evaluation, donors, program implementers, and government.
  
• Excellent knowledge and technical skills in qualitative and mixed methods for data collection and analysis, including the ability to adapt different kinds of methods to local context.