Organisation Overview

Pharo Foundation (“the Foundation”) is a mission-driven, non-profit organization that designs, funds, and operates economic development programmes to achieve its vision of a vibrant, productive, and self-reliant Africa. Over the next decade, our goal is to create maximum impact towards three critical missions:

1. Empowering the next generation: Our education mission is to ensure that all students have an opportunity to access a high-quality, affordable education, and become productive citizens of a rapidly-changing world.
2. Eliminating barriers to employment and productivity: Our productivity mission is to identify and eliminate health, financial, and structural barriers to employment and productivity for working people.
3. Solving water scarcity: Our water mission is to ensure that people and communities across Africa have access to a safe and affordable source of water.

We are a diverse, multicultural, and passionate organization, with over 450 employees in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Somaliland. Our headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya, and we have a liaison office in London, UK, which is home to our parent organization, Pharo Management

Position Summary

Job Title:                                      Research and Evaluation Coordinator

Reporting to:                               Research and Evaluation Manager

Functional Relationships:          RED teams (Regional and country offices)

Location:                                      Hargeisa, Somaliland

Contract Type:                             Fixed Term - One year

Duties and Responsibilities

Monitoring, Evaluation & Research:

• Coordinate the design and implementation of robust RE systems for Foundation's existing and future programs in Somaliland, with a focus on education, water, productivity, and employment.
• Coordinate daily research and evaluation operations across all program sites, including urban and rural areas.
• Coordinate the implementation of innovative and rigorous studies for specific projects and execute the monitoring system to track progress across all projects and address requests related to various initiatives.
• Provide technical advice on evaluation framework and contribute to the development of survey instruments with appropriate key performance indicators.
• Assessing program implementation progress in the field on a regular basis against each program's own monitoring framework.
• Translate and digitize survey tools, questionnaires, and procedures for program evaluations and assessments.
• Recruit, train, and orient enumerators in alignment with Pharo's missions, programs, and RED survey protocols. Conduct comprehensive training sessions covering survey instruments, procedures, and other relevant considerations.
• Initiate, lead and coordinate baseline studies, assessments, midterm surveys and final evaluations.
• Ensure appropriate internal communication and feedback systems are in place and functioning to allow M&E findings inform programme planning and implementation.
• Collect data on a regular basis to measure achievement against the performance indicators.
• Assisting and testing survey tools.
• Supervising and training field workers.
• Coordinate field personnel in gathering social and economic data.
• Ensure that data collection is carried out to the best possible standard in accordance with the RED standards, procedures, and protocols.
• Cleaning, maintaining, and uploading data are all examples of data analysis support.
• Regular visits to project locations in Burao, Sheikh, Berbera, and Gabiley districts.

2) Institutional / Administrative

• Facilitating the smooth communication between the RED field team and program teams.
• Making sure that the local programme teams are on board with the RE protocols.
• Keeping the RE Manager and other RE team members informed about the progress on local projects.
• Organizing and facilitating field research trips for team members to all program sites.
• Coordinate the Research and Evaluation field assistants and the enumerators in Somaliland.

Required Skills and Attributes:

• Strong technical skills in monitoring and evaluation framework design and implementation.
• Superior attention to detail.
• Solution-focused and eager to take initiative.
• Ability to articulate complex ideas, summarize problems, and identify key lessons, clearly and effectively.
• Proficient with survey platforms, like Kobo Collect or Survey CTO.
• Proficient with statistical tools, like Stata, and R.
• Ability to coordinate field surveys, focus groups, and randomized evaluations.
• Ability to multitask and balance multiple work assignments.
• Most importantly, excellent interpersonal skills. In this position, you will be required to work efficiently with teams in a variety of different locations and contexts.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in social science, Economics, Statistics, or a related field.
• Strong track record of outstanding academic performance.
• Minimum of 3 years of fieldwork management experience.

Behavioural Competencies

• Commitment to a high standard of professional performance, integrity, and maturity to remain accountable for results.
• Communicates information effectively.
• Strong ethics and reliability.
• A creative and curious mindset with an active interest in continuous learning, personal and professional growth.
• Build  collaborative relationships.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with individuals from all kinds of backgrounds.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate in writing and verbally with people.

This position is open to both female and male applicants.  Females strongly encouraged to apply.

    The application deadline is February 27th, 2024.

Review of applications will begin as soon as they are received, and only complete applications will be considered. In the event that an outstanding applicant is identified early in the search process, we reserve the right to appoint before the deadline. For this reason, we encourage interested candidates to apply at the earliest possible time.

Due to the high volume of applications, we regret that we will only be able to contact shortlisted candidates.

   Application Requirements:

• A detailed CV.
• Cover letter - In your cover letter, please indicate your motivation for the role and state where you heard about this position or saw it advertised e.g. through our website, jobs board, etc.
• An updated list of at least five (5) referees with their names, titles, current professional email addresses, and phone numbers.
• Essay of not more than 1,000 words outlining the experiences you have gained that makes you the most qualified candidate for the role.