Massachusetts Institute of Technology Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation Senior Associate Jobs in Kenya

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation Senior Associate Jobs in Kenya

Role Purpose

Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa seeks a Senior MLE Associate to support the design and implementation of measurement and monitoring strategies for our TaRL programs across countries.

The associate will work with partners and country teams to coordinate and streamline data collection; analyze data; and establish feedback, review and reporting structures. In addition to this, the associate will lead/ support nimble learning studies to unpack, adapt, and improve aspects of TaRL programming.

This role provides an excellent opportunity for individuals who are motivated to use data to improve the learning outcomes of children in Africa.

Major roles and responsibilities

Provide oversight to the country teams/ partners to develop a robust program measurement, monitoring and review strategy: An effective measurement, monitoring and review strategy is crucial for creating strong localized TaRL programs that are embedded within existing government systems. The MLE team works closely with the program and content teams to provide regular feedback to government and partners for better TaRL implementation. They also build their capacity to understand and use data for immediate course corrections.

Understand the program objectives and different stakeholder needs to support the country MLE associates and partners in designing tools / processes for data collection, quality assurance, mentoring, monitoring, and review

Support TaRL Africa country teams and partners on analyzing program data and sharing key insights with government stakeholders, partners and TaRL Africa Central team on the successes, challenges, lessons learnt, and highlighting areas that require urgent attention

Develop a strong understanding of governments’ existing measurement and monitoring systems in TaRL Africa’s directly supported countries and undertake efforts to build government’s technical capacity and embed TaRL data systems into the government systems

Regularly assess the technical capacity of country MLE associates and conduct workshops on data analysis, visualization, dissemination, and other technical aspects as necessary

Regularly synthesize knowledge and multi-year data from different contexts and present to the TaRL Africa teams

Lead scoping, designing, and testing nimble learning / deep-dive study ideas: TaRL Africa believes in adaptive learning and course-correction of programs in the pursuit of making the TaRL programs more effective and owned by governments. In addition to rigorous research and evaluations to build on the already strong evidence for TaRL, we regularly conduct nimble learning studies to better unpack program challenges and identify ways to

strengthen.

Design pilot assessment and monitoring systems

Oversee and support pilot implementation including training of stakeholders

Provide contextual knowledge, make field plans to implement learning activities on the ground

Train and supervise country teams/ enumerators on data collection

Monitor pilot process and providing periodic reports

Analyze, report, and disseminate pilot outcomes and implications / recommendations to government, partners, and internal teams

Miscellaneous:

Support rigorous research activities as needed, including literature reviews, providing contextual knowledge for questionnaire design and analysis

Creatively communicate program lessons and results with the TaRL community and more broadly (e.g., through blogs, articles, podcasts, newsletters)

Keep abreast of government policies, recent initiatives / programs in the countries directly supporting

Support other tasks as assigned by the line manager

Education and Qualifications

Minimum qualification:

A Bachelor degree and 3-4 years of work experience as an analyst or similar positions with an analytical bent. Applicants from for-profit/ consulting background looking to switch to the social sector for creating impact are also welcome to apply.

Excellent data analysis skills

Ability to think analytically and critically, keeping the big picture in mind and remaining curious

Experience working with data manipulation software, including data collection, analysis & visualization platforms (Required: Excel; Strongly preferred: Tableau/Power BI, Stata)

Excellent communication skills in English, including writing, conversing, and presenting

Self-starter with an attitude to get the job done

Strong interpersonal skills with cross-cultural teams

Passionate about improving children’s learning through excellent data use

Willingness to travel frequently and flexibly within Africa, especially in remote rural areas

Preferred

Experience working in the development and/or the education sector in Africa

Experience working with governments

Familiarity with French

Previous experience of building data systems for similar mission-driven organisations

Familiarity with econometric and program evaluation techniques

Familiarity with national and regional learning assessments

Strong preference for Kenyan Nationals

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation Senior Associate Jobs in Kenya

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