Evaluation Associate

at Educate!
Location Kampala, Uganda
Date Posted June 5, 2020
Category Administration
Management
NGO
Job Type Full-time
Currency UGX

Description

Description

Evaluation Associate
at Educate!
Global - East Africa Based
Position Overview
Educate! is seeking a driven, organized, and collaborative Evaluation Associate to design and manage research and evaluation projects, build research partnerships, and analyze and disseminate the results of our research. In ten years of operating in East Africa, one of Educate!’s differentiating factors has been our commitment to impact evaluation and learning, and we believe that continuing to invest in research & development is a key component of continued growth and innovation. As Evaluation Associate, you’ll work closely with our Director of Monitoring and Evaluation and country M&E teams, as well as with our programs, design, and innovation teams, to implement our ambitious evaluation and learning strategy across three countries.

The right person for this role will have at least 2 years of work experience, have taken courses in statistics or econometrics, and have either a master’s degree or equivalent work experience in a field like M&E, research methods, or public policy. You’ll be an ultra-organized and self-motivated planner and project manager, capable of keeping multiple balls in the air with limited supervision, and a collaborative team player who can build relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders and engage team members over whom you won’t have direct authority. You’ll also be fluent in Microsoft excel and STATA (or other data analysis software) and bring strong skills in research and evaluation design, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and writing.

About Educate!
Educate! prepares youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy.

We tackle youth unemployment by partnering with schools and governments to reform what schools teach and how they teach it, so that students in Africa have the skills to attain further education, overcome gender inequities, start businesses, get jobs and drive development in their communities. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. Educate!’s goal is to make this practical, skills-based model part of national education systems.

In 2019, we’re partnering with the government to pilot in 60+ schools in Kenya, working in 275+ secondary schools in Rwanda, and 800+ schools in Uganda (25% of the country) reaching over 46,000 students intensively and 470,000 more broadly. Two rigorous external evaluations, including a randomized controlled trial, found that towards the end of secondary school, participants of our program earn nearly DOUBLE the income of their peers. A follow-up RCT found that four years later, our graduates demonstrate large and durable shifts in skills, coupled with significant improvements in education and gender equity-related outcomes. Girls achieve even greater results. Our graduates change their lives and their communities, such as Daniel who leveraged both his medical education and the transferable and business skills gained through Educate! to open a rural health clinic in his community employing two people and conducting about 350 checkups per month.

Educate! supports governments with integrating skills-based curriculum nationally. This includes partnering with Uganda’s government to integrate curriculum and a student business club structure into Uganda's entrepreneurship course nationally and serving as a technical advisor to both Rwanda and Kenya on national education reforms.

Educate! is a non-profit social enterprise with 200 staff and 300 volunteer youth mentors. We have been backed by top foundations such as MasterCard, Big Bang Philanthropy, Mulago, Echoing Green, Ashoka and Global Innovation Fund. Educate! won a 2018 Klaus J. Jacobs Prize (and was featured in a video), a 2015 WISE Award, and was highlighted by Bill Gates, in the World Bank’s S4YE's Impact Portfolio, an Al Jazeera documentary, Forbes 30 under 30, and The Brookings Institution as one of 14 case studies in their global scaling education learning initiative. Educate! was also selected by the UN’s Generation Unlimited as 1 of 20 innovative youth solutions.

Educate!'s long-term vision is to design solutions that measurably impact millions of youth across Africa each year.

Performance Objectives
Research & Evaluation Design

Support design of qualitative and quantitative evaluation and research projects to answer pressing program and policy questions, working closely with our design, innovation, and national programs teams to ensure that evaluation and research projects meet the needs of the intended user
Coordinate measurement and tool design to ensure evaluation and research precisely measures target outcomes including teacher pedagogy adoption and quality, student-level soft and hard skills, and economic and life outcomes.
Collaborate with country Monitoring and Evaluation teams programs to integrate monitoring data into evaluations
Research & Evaluation Management

Plan and project-manage research and evaluation projects, including evaluations run internally and with external consultants.
Ensure that research and evaluation projects are well-planned and coordinated with other team priorities, and that projects proceed on time with course corrections as needed
Ensure all research and evaluation projects adhere to best practices for delivering high quality, fit-for-purpose research
Research Partnerships

Oversee research-focused interactions with government partners and ensure that the priorities of our government partners are considered in each step of research process
Work on cross-functional teams that strategically plan and execute research to further Educate!'s advocacy and learning agendas government partnership and advocacy
Research Analysis and Dissemination

Analyze and package the results of research and evaluation to facilitate action by internal and external stakeholders, including Educate!'s Design and Program Implementation teams as well as government partners and funders, and provide useful information for government partners and funders
Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of data from internally-conducted evaluations, under the direction of the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation
Interpret and summarize, under the direction of the Evaluation Director, complex research and evaluations for program, government, and funder audiences
Produce policy briefs and user-friendly presentations for program and policy audiences
Support and lead learning processes to ensure that results and findings from internally and externally conducted evaluations are fed back into program design

Skills

Fluency with excel as well as STATA or other quantitative data analysis software
Strong written and oral communication skills
Collaborative team player, able to work with and engage a diverse range of external and internal partners spread across multiple countries
Organized, detail-oriented self-starter

Experience Requirements

Minimum of 2 - 5 years work experience including internships and fellowships (international education experience/ knowledge is a plus!)

Education Requirements

Masters degree or equivalent work experience in related field such as M&E, research methods, public policy, or education
Coursework in econometrics or statistics

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