Associate, Research and Evaluation (“RE at The Pharo Foundation

Duties and Responsibilities:

Research and Evaluation

• Responsible for designing and estimating the potential impact of Foundation’s new programs; primarily in education, water, health and agriculture. This includes active involvement in the program design process and implementation of creative evaluation tools.
• Identifying the best econometric approaches to measuring impact, considering local constraints.
• Managing day-to-day research and evaluation activities. These include:
• Regularly assessing progress in the field;
• Supervising and training field staff;
• Ensuring that basic quality standards are met;
• Cleaning and analysing data;
• Contributing to the production of research reports.
• Regular travel to project locations in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Somaliland, as needed.

Institutional / Administrative

• Helping the CREO build an integrated Research and Evaluation (RE) department within the Foundation, involving field staff in multiple locations. This will involve:
• Creating/updating the institutional documents laying out the Foundation’s research and evaluation approaches and strategy;
• Writing guidelines for the Foundation’s evaluation proposals, field data collection activities, cleaning and documentation standards, pre-analysis plans, and end-products.
• Establishing a library of STATA and/or R codes for use across the organisation.
• Assisting the Chief Research and Evaluation Officer (CREO) in other critical RE tasks and projects, including developing and engaging with a network of international development researchers and practitioners across the continent.

Technical Competencies:

• Creative and entrepreneurial self-starter, with a focus on execution and results.
• Superior attention to detail.
• Ability to articulate complex ideas, summarize problems, and identify key lessons, clearly and effectively.
• Highly proficient in STATA and R, with experience writing statistical code for data management, cleaning, and analysis.
• Basic understanding of economics, econometrics, and statistics.
• Highly proficient with survey platforms, like KoboCollect or SurveyCTO.
• Excellent writing and presentation (e.g., PowerPoint) skills.
• Ability to manage field surveys, focus groups, and randomized evaluations.
• Ability to multitask and balance multiple work assignments.
• Most importantly, excellent interpersonal skills. In this position, you will be required to work efficiently with teams in a variety of different countries and contexts.

Required Qualifications and Experiences:

• Bachelor or Master's degree in Economics, International Development, Political Science, Statistics, Public Policy or a related field.
• Minimum of three (3) years of fieldwork management experience, and preferably experience running a research project at an academically-oriented, development economics research organisation.
• Strong track record of success in academic studies, as well as the professional workplace.