Several Study Support Specialist Job Opportunities – SoCha

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Job Title:   Study Support Specialist (Several Job Placements)   

Organisation: SoCha

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

 

About US:

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.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

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.




Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

  • The ideal candidate should hold a Master’s degree qualification, preferably in the social sciences field.
  • Five years of experience in development programming preferred.
  • 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.
  • Experience working with USAID preferred.
  • Experience working in Uganda preferred.
  • Strong English writing skills.

 

How to Apply:

All candidates should apply online at the link below.

 

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Deadline: 14th January 2022; application review will be on a rolling basis.

 

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