Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, January 08, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Study Support Specialists

Company profile:
SoCha (a portmanteau of Social and Change) is an independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) firm that provides bespoke solutions to social challenges. We are a US-registered, veteran-owned small business and staff support offices in Nairobi, Bangkok and Mauritius. SoCha currently supports multiple foreign assistance interventions across Asia and Africa.

Background:
SoCha provides bespoke solutions to evaluative and analytical requests for the Uganda Learning Activity, a USAID/Uganda monitoring, evaluation, and learning mechanism. SoCha has been requested to examine studies of USAID/Uganda’s interventions that have been commissioned and executed under the current USAID/Uganda Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS).
Between 2016 and 2021, close to 150 studies of USAID’s interventions in Uganda were commissioned and executed. These studies include impact and performance evaluations, baseline assessments, studies of implementation approaches, and multi-country comparative assessments, covering all USAID/Uganda technical offices. Together, these studies form a comprehensive research program into the implementation of the current USAID/Uganda CDCS.
The findings from these studies will enable USAID/Uganda to identify recurring issues across studies, offices, and activities, as well as strengths and weaknesses in its capacity to learn and pivot. SoCha will be providing the Mission with recommendations that strengthen Mission-wide collaboration, learning, and adaptation (CLA) and support the successful implementation of the new CDCS.

Scope of the activity:
The SoCha team is expected to perform the following tasks throughout this activity:
• Assess the quality of evaluations/studies and identify conditions for evaluation/study use.
• Identify recurring issues in the design, implementation, and management of activities across studies, offices, and interventions.
• Identify strengths and weaknesses in the Mission’s capacity to implement a successful development strategy and to learn and adapt, and;
• Provide recommendations on how to strengthen Mission-wide adaptive management.

Scope of work:
The Study Support Specialists will support the Qualitative Data Analyst (Team Lead) to:
• Develop a study assessment tool and review 25 – 50% of studies;
• Collect information on study use;
• Analyze study themes and user responses;
• Reflect on findings;
• Present findings to multiple target audiences in the Mission;
• Assess client knowledge and skill gaps and develop and execute a training on utilization-focused evaluation, and;
• Share asynchronous resources for extended learning across the Mission.

Minimum qualifications and experience:
• Experience reviewing or assessing third-party evaluations, assessments, and analyses preferred.
• Experience conducting or participating in evaluations and assessments.
• Experience in one or more relevant technical sectors: economic growth; health; nutrition; water, sanitation and hygiene; democracy, governance, and human rights; conflict; environment; climate change; education and youth; humanitarian assistance / food security.
• Experience supporting or conducting qualitative analyses preferred.
• 5 years of experience in development programming preferred.
• Experience working with USAID preferred.
• Experience working in Uganda preferred.
• Strong English writing skills.
• Minimum of a master’s degree qualification, preferably in the social sciences field.

Period of performance:
January 2022 – June 2022.
Location:
Remote and/or in Kampala, Uganda, if required

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure
Please apply via the link below:
https://jobs.socha.net/study-support-specialist-remote-work-uganda-05-01-2022/ 
Applications close on 14 January 2022; application review will be on a rolling basis

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