Senior Investigator/Organizational Development Specialist, Performance Evaluation of the Common Market for East and Southern at Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

Project Summary: 
MSI will evaluate the effectiveness and sustainability of USAID/Kenya and East Africa-funded Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) activities under the Integrated Partnership Assistance Agreement (IPAA) between USAID and COMESA. As the IPAA is expected to end on September 30, 2018, this evaluation will be used to determine lessons learned and guide potential future activities with COMESA.

USAID-funded COMESA activities focus on advancing regional policy agendas specific to agriculture and trade. This includes regional seed trade, the harmonization of regional policies, Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) issues, African Growth Opportunity Act activities, border post dispute resolution initiatives, and additional agricultural inputs policy reforms. Other program activities include programs and policies to increase access to markets and facilitate regional and international trade, increased private sector investment, gender, biotechnology, clean energy, statistics and activity monitoring. The primary objective of the IPAA with COMESA is increased regional economic growth, integration, and stability in the COMESA region.

Position Summary:
The Senior Investigator will work alongside the research team and Team Leader to design and conduct the evaluation.

Responsibilities:

• Together with the Team Leader, finalize the evaluation methodology and develop the data collection strategy, instruments and protocols
• Assist with direct data collection and compilation
• Conduct high-quality data analysis

Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in any relevant field of study
• Minimum of six years of experience in collectively
  • Regional integration
  • Policy Development
  • Regional development related work