Associate, Research and Evaluation (“RE”) at Pharo Ventures Kenya Limited

Primary Responsibilities:

• Research and Evaluation
• Responsible for designing and implementing creative evaluations of the
• Foundation’s current and future education, agriculture, water, and health projects.
• Identifying the best econometric approaches tmeasuring 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 tthe production of research reports.
• Regular travel tproject locations in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Somaliland, as needed.

Institutional / Administrative

• Helping the CREbuild 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.

Other

• 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.

Required Skills and Attributes:

• Creative and entrepreneurial self-starter, with a focus on execution and results.
• Superior attention tdetail.
• Ability tarticulate 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.3
• Highly proficient with survey platforms, like KoboCollect or SurveyCTO.
• Excellent writing and presentation (e.g., PowerPoint) skills.
• Ability tmanage field surveys, focus groups, and randomized evaluations.
• Ability tmultitask and balance multiple work assignments.
• Most importantly, excellent interpersonal skills. In this position, you will be required twork efficiently with teams in a variety of different countries and contexts.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Economics, Statistics, or a related field.
• Strong track record of outstanding academic performance.
• Minimum 3 years of fieldwork management experience, and preferably experience running a research project at an academically-oriented, development economics research organisation.

Application Procedure
Due to the expected high volume of applications, we regret that we will only be able to contact short-listed candidates. Review of applications will begin as soon as they are received,
and only complete applications will be reviewed. In the event that an outstanding applicant is identified early-on in the search process, we reserve the right to appoint before the
deadline.

For this reason, we encourage interested and suitably qualified candidates to apply at the earliest possible opportunity. If you do not hear from us during this period, please
consider your application unsuccessful.
Please send the information listed below, as a single PDF file to the following email address: recruiting.ke@pharofoundation.org and add the job title “Associate, Research and Evaluation” to the email subject line.

CV
Cover Letter. State in your cover letter where you heard about this position e.g.through the website, jobs board, referral etc.
A list of three recent references, with contact details (e.g., phone number and email address).