Quantitative Analyst, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)/Mali Alatona Irrigation Project (AIP), Mali
Social Impact (SI) is a Washington, DC-area international development management consulting firm. SI’s mission is to improve the effectiveness of international development programs in improving people’s lives. We provide a full range of management consulting, technical assistance, and training services to strengthen international development programs, organizations, and policies. We provide services globally in the areas of monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, project and program design, organizational capacity building, and gender and social analysis. SI services cross-cut all development sectors including democracy and governance, health and education, the environment, and economic growth. SI’s clients include US government agencies such as USAID, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the US Department of State, bilateral donors, multilateral development banks, foundations, and non-profits.
Proposal Objective:
SI is planning to bid on an impact evaluation of the five-year $253 million MCC/Mali AIP of the Mali Compact. The project ended in 2012, and the goal was to increase production and productivity, increasing farmer incomes, improving land tenure security, modernizing irrigated production systems and mitigated the uncertainty from subsistence rain-fed agriculture by introducing innovative agriculture, land tenure, and water management practices.
**Please note: Candidates who have Malian citizenship are encouraged to apply.
Position Description:
SI is seeking a Quantitative Analyst consultant to be a member of the evaluation team. The Analyst will contribute to the evaluation design, lead quantitative data analysis and involvement in report writing, oversight of data collection and design of evaluation tools. The Quantitative Analyst will report to the Team Leader.
Responsibilities:
· Contribute to and review the interim and final evaluation designs.
· Lead quantitative data analysis and survey design/sample sets.
· Contribute to report writing.
· Oversee data collection activities.
· Design evaluation tools.
Qualifications:
· Master’s or higher in economics, business, policy, or a related field.
· Minimum of five years of experience in research and evaluation.
· Demonstrated experience conducting quantitative data analysis, providing oversight of data collection activities, and designing evaluation tools.
· Knowledge and experience of quantitative data analysis techniques to process and organize large amounts of data.
· Technical expertise in agriculture, land tenure or irrigation sectors is preferred.
· Experience evaluating USAID or MCC projects.
· Fluency in spoken and written French and English.
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