Senior Manager for Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning at Ipsos Synovate

Role Summary:

• The manager for external M&E work in Kenya will lead all our evaluation work run from our Kenya office, leading business development, proposal development, evaluation design, and working hands on to run evaluations.
• This role requires a self-sufficient and energetic person who is able to design and lead the execution of monitoring and evaluation programmes for external clients to a high level of quality, from development of the theory of change through to final reporting.
• Requires strong business development, including partnership development, skills.
• If you join us you can be based in Kenya and be part of a team of 49 development research and evaluation specialists.
• Our evaluation work cuts across geographies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Write proposals for evaluation and TPM work.
• Lead evaluations including liaising with stakeholders, managing projects , analysis and reporting.
• Ensure high level of customer satisfaction amongst our clients.
• Contribute to the development and upskilling of the evaluation community.
• Develop strong and sustaining client relationships.

Key Qualifications:

• Experience leading external evaluations – i.e. leading evaluations of third-party projects and programs is critical.
• Experience working for a development consulting firm.
• Expertise in a wide range of evaluation approaches and methodologies, but must include understanding of complex evaluations involving RCTs and quasi-experimental designs, and quantitative design, data analysis and process based evaluations.
• Strong technical expertise in quantitative survey design, analysis and reporting.
• Demonstrated expertise developing winning proposals evaluation work in the development sector.
• Experience working in the African region.
• Must have excellent and high quality English language to global proposal and report writing standards.
• Ideally based in Kenya and a Kenyan citizen but qualified candidates based elsewhere will also be considered.