Education/EMIS Expert – Remote Consultancy
Job Description
About Us International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), a U.S.-based international development consulting company established in 1987, has worked in over one hundred countries and implemented over three hundred projects. IBTCI serves government agencies, private sector companies, and several donor agencies. IBTCI specializes in Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) across many sectors including, but not limited to, conflict and crisis, democracy and governance, economic growth, education, environment, and global health.
Overview:
IBTCI is seeking experienced and motivated evaluators to participate in a mid-term evaluation of the six-year System Strengthening Partnership (SSP) Program with the Jordan’s Ministry of Education (MOE), funded by UNESCO. This is a multi-donor partnership formed primarily to provide technical assistance to the MOE’s EMIS. The implementer of the TA and the EMIS is the Community Systems Foundation, using its OpenEMIS framework.
(Team members are expected to be familiar with the uses of EMIS, but not with the mechanics of setting up and maintaining an EMIS.)
The purpose of the mid-term evaluation is to inform the update the program’s workplan for the extension period by taking stock and assessing the achievements, implementation strategies, challenges and opportunities encountered so far.
The Education/EMIS Expert will support the Team Lead in the design and implementation of the mid-term evaluation, providing technical and context feedback for the methodology selected, support desk review and secondary data collection, conduct qualitative and quantitative data collection, support data analysis and interpretation, among other tasks.
The evaluation has a period of performance between July 3 and November 3, 2023 and is estimated to call for about 40 person-days of work for each team member. This position will be remote with a two to three weeks trip to Jordan, probably to take place in early August.
This position is contingent upon award and funding.
Responsibilities
Essential Duties/Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Conduct desk review, secondary data review and contribute to inception report and other reports.
- Provide technical, cultural, and contextual feedback on the evaluation methodology designed by the Team lead.
- Review, pilot, and finalize data collection tools.
- Conduct in-depth interviews, key-informant interviews, focus group discussions, and/or any other data collection method required.
- Support data analysis, evaluation report write-up, interpretation and analysis for all the deliverables of this evaluation.
Qualifications
