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Senior Research Consultant (Youth Voices and Leadership) Short-term Engagement – Uganda

About Evidence Frontiers

Evidence Frontiers is an African-based Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) consulting firm headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, established in 2002. We deliver expert MEL and strategy services that empower organizations to enhance their performance and drive sustainable social, economic, and environmental change. Our work is grounded in a commitment to equity, diversity, and technical excellence, ensuring that we meet the highest professional and ethical standards. We specialize in delivering high-quality evidence and insights, enabling our partners to make informed decisions based on a deep understanding of what works, how it works, and for whom.

Our experience includes carefully tailoring a wide range of analytical and quantitative tools to enable decision-makers to design better policies, rigorously test those ideas, and take informed action at scale to improve lives. Depending on the organization and programmed needs, we have helped diagnose social sector challenges, design, and test potential solutions, and operationalize those solutions found to be most impactful. Our formative and summative evaluations cover a variety of evaluation purposes and designs – from a traditional snapshot and longitudinal designs to more innovative developmental and participatory approaches. Through these, we examine the efficiency, relevance, and effectiveness of activities and processes. We assess the sustainability and institutional impacts of interventions and partnerships. We emphasize local participation, organizational skill development, and the usefulness of the evaluation to inform decision-making. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, we measure the impact of development programs to determine their true effects. We also conduct large-scale surveys to assess development indicators or to inform program and evaluation design.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

Evidence Frontiers is looking for a short-term research consultant, to support in implementing a baseline evaluation for a project focusing on youth voices and leadership in Uganda. The short-term consultant will be responsible for:

  • Developing the study protocol for the country and submitting the same for approval by the ethics committee
  • Coordinate the customization of the study tools (qualitative and quantitative) to the local context
  • Coordinate all the logistics related to the study
  • Recruitment of local research associates/enumerator
  • Training of local research associates/enumerators
  • Coordinate the piloting of the study tools
  • Revising the study tools based on the learning from the pilot
  • Coordinate the research associates/enumerators by providing data quality assurance
  • Lead in collecting qualitative data collection in the study sites
  • Support in conducting qualitative and quantitative data analysis
  • Lead in documenting the country baseline report based on the primary and secondary data

 

Requirements

  • Over 10 years either supporting youth-focused programmes or conducting research and evaluations focused on youth (voices, empowerment, leadership etc)
  • Advanced degree in a relevant humanitarian field of work related to development studies, Social Science, and human rights, project Management, Monitoring and evaluation.
  • Demonstrable expertise and knowledge of projects in the field of youth-centred development and relevant experience of working with other entities such as AU and EU, governments and development agencies in particular in relation to similar programmes is an added advantage.
  • Track record in developing and conducting various types of research and baseline studies using qualitative and quantitative approaches and (statistical) data analysis.
  • Experience in data collection and analysis using participatory methodologies.
  • Demonstrate excellent communication skills (verbal and in writing) in English and local language.
  • Experience of working with multi-cultural teams.

 

Application

Please submit a cover letter detailing your relevant experience as it pertains to this position, including your consultancy daily rates in USD. Combine the cover letter and your CV into one attachment and send your application by August 30th, 2024 to hr@evidencefrontiers.com

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