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Job Overview/Summary:

The Measurement Advisor is the key focal point for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) technical assistance for economic wellbeing programs globally. This includes providing direct support to country office counterparts, and project partners, to design and manage M&E systems and plans, and to select technically sound approaches to measure economic wellbeing outcomes and outputs (including food security, basic needs, livelihoods, agriculture, financial inclusion, and market-systems strengthening). The Measurement Advisor plays a critical role in facilitating capacity sharing and cross-learning between ERD programs to ensure all country teams collect, analyze, and report high quality and consistent information in a timely manner to best facilitate program quality oversight, decision-making and communication between IRC staff and key external collaborators (including clients, implementing partners, peer agencies, and donors). The Measurement Advisor also collaborates closely with the IRC’s Measurement Unit to support, and provide sectoral subject matter expertise, on pivotal initiatives to strengthen measurement practices at an organizational level and add to global data collection efforts.

Major Responsibilities:

Technical Assistance and Capacity Sharing

• Collaborate with country counterparts, and project partners, to ensure high-quality M&E practices are applied in the design and implementation of economic wellbeing programs. This includes participatory M&E methods and client feedback.
• Provide technical contributions to proposals and during program design (both country-led and TU-led)
• Develop and deliver capacity sharing initiatives to support colleagues implementing and/or supporting economic wellbeing programs
• Provide guidance, and build capacity, to use and interpret economic wellbeing data by country teams
• In collaboration with regional measurement counterparts, support the selection, design, and implementation of ICT for M&E systems (with a particular focus on mobile data collection, remote monitoring, and data visualization)
• Manage the pipeline of country support requests and provide clear direction to the ERD Measurement Officer on priorities

TU Measurement Strategy

• Working closely with the Deputy Director, Strategy, Measurement and Operations, advance the definition and delivery of strategic priorities for the TU’s measurement technical assistance
• Ensure IRC’s standard indicators for economic wellbeing (including livelihoods, food security and basic needs) are clearly defined and evidence-based
• Stay abreast of M&E and data management practices, and donor standards and requirements
• Develop technical resources, such as assessments, data collection tools, and guidance notes
• Propose, and implement learning opportunities, particularly comparative analysis of monitoring data across countries and projects/programs and opportunities/approaches for evaluation of common economic wellbeing interventions/program models

Org-Wide Measurement Initiatives

• In close collaboration with the IRC’s Measurement Unit, develop, roll-out, and maintain standardized digital data collection tools and systems for M&E of common economic wellbeing interventions (“data tool kits”)
• Add to efforts aimed at advancing IRC’s measurement ambition in the organizational strategy (“Strategy 100”)
• Lead the annual collection, analysis, and interpretation of global economic wellbeing data (“Annual Statistics”)

Job Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, economics, international development / public policy, or other relevant field
• Advanced training in quantitative data analysis and/or evaluation methodologies highly desired

Experience:

• Minimum seven (7) years’ experience designing, implementing, and supporting M&E frameworks. Experience leading or supporting M&E at the country-level, in a humanitarian or development context, is an advantage
• Experience or exposure to one or more of the sectors the ERD TU covers is preferred: livelihoods, agriculture, food security, basic needs, financial inclusion, market systems development, and/or cash and voucher assistance
• Experience designing digital/mobile data collection and information management systems. Previous experience using CommCare (or another ODK-based application) and/or PowerBI is an advantage
• Experience providing technical assistance, capacity building, training and/or mentoring. Experience doing so in diverse or cross-cultural settings and/or at a distance preferred
• The ideal candidate will also have experience leading or supporting the design and delivery of learning and evaluation activities

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

Technical

• Advanced understanding of M&E best practices
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills
• Familiarity with donor policies, procedures, and reporting priorities (incl. USAID, FCDO, ECHO)
• Advanced proficiency in the MS Office suite of applications (in particular, exceptional Excel skills), relevant analysis software such as Stata, SPSS, and digital data collection tools/applications
• A passion and aptitude for using data to draw insights to inform continuous improvement and learning

General

• Dedication to an anti-racist and Do No Harm approach, gender equality and inclusion
• Excellent interpersonal skills involving listening to, interacting with, and communicating clearly with people from diverse nationalities and backgrounds with a high degree of professionalism and pro-activity
• Highly organized, responsive, and able to prioritize optimally among competing priorities
• Capacity to work flexible hours, as appropriate to accommodate for different time zones
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 30% of the time
• Proficiency in working productively in remote team and management structures
• Working proficiency in English required. Proficiency in and at least one other IRC working languages preferred (Arabic, French, or Spanish)

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Job Overview/Summary

The Research Manager will play a key role in supporting the success of ERD’s organizational research priorities. The Research Manager will (i) coordinate research activities with colleagues globally across the IRC and with external partners (ii) support with managing research projects and brainstorming research ideas for business development, and (iii) contribute to the dissemination of research progress and findings both internally and externally. This role requires strong project management and communication skills and a strong background in quantitative and qualitative data analysis and methodologies. There may be flexibility on office location.

Major Responsibilities

• Along with the Senior Research Coordinator, support the implementation of the ERD organizational research priorities
• Participate in research-related business development activities including brainstorming research designs, engaging with country programs, and developing proposals
• Assist in developing research instruments, conducting data collection training, monitoring progress of research activities, and analyzing research data under guidance of the Senior Research Coordinator
• Provide management support to research activities related to the ERD organizational research priorities
• Collaborate with internal and external research partners to ensure successful implementation of research projects
• Support the research team in securing ethics approval for ERD research studies and ensure that all projects adhere to ethical requirements and IRC quality research standards
• Support the Senior Research Coordinator in research synthesis and preparation and coordination of dissemination activities including internal and external presentations, briefs, peer-review journal articles, community-based dissemination events, and blog posts

Key Working Relationships

• Position Reports to: Senior Research Coordinator
• Indirect Reporting: N/A
• Position directly supervises: N/A
• Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Job Qualifications

Education / Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Research Methodology, Economics, Social Sciences, or related field
• Minimum of 2-3 years' experience supporting research projects, preferably in humanitarian or development settings and in a project management role

Demonstrated Skills And Competencies

• Fluent written and spoken communication in English. French, Spanish, or Arabic proficiency or another IRC working language is strongly preferred.
• Solid understanding of quantitative and qualitative research designs and methodologies. Knowledge of R or Stata is required. Experience or familiarity with participatory research methods is an advantage!
• Experience organizing and implementing quantitative and/or qualitative data collections. Ability to identify and troubleshoot data quality and research implementation issues.
• Knowledge of research ethics such as informed consent and data protection. Experience securing ethics approval and research permits strongly preferred
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills involving listening to, interacting with, and communicating clearly with people from diverse nationalities and backgrounds with a high degree of professionalism and pro-activity
• Ability to work efficiently under remote team and management structures and coordinate with internal and external partners