Description
Company Profile: MSI is a Washington, D.C.-based international development firm providing specialized short- and long-term technical assistance. Since its 1981 founding, MSI has grown in size and technical scope, now implementing and managing more than 70 projects worldwide. More than 30 are long-term, many in conflict-prone or fragile states that include Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and South Sudan. Today, our range of technical expertise includes analytical and field projects in democracy and governance, economic growth, strategic planning, organizational capacity building, health and the justice sector. MSI focuses on helping our local partners foster progress, manage change and improve the effectiveness of development assistance. We expanded our global footprint in 2008 by becoming part of Coffey, a leading geoscience, international development and project management firm, and a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange. Alongside the international development arm of Coffey, MSI has corporate offices in 17 countries. Together, MSI and Coffey employ more than 1,400 professionals worldwide. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.
Project Summary:
MSI has been contracted by USAID to conduct impact evaluations of USAID-funded projects in Macedonia between May 2013 and September 2015. Two of the projects to be evaluated are: Civil Society Project (CSP), and Small Business Expansion Project (SBEP). The purpose of these evaluations is to provide USAID/Macedonia with a measurement of change in development outcomes attributable to the defined interventions in the projects, based on models of cause and effect that require a credible and rigorously defined counterfactual to control for factors other than the interventions that might account for the observed change.
Position Summary:
MSI is seeking candidates for a short-term consulting assignment to provide data analysis support to the CSP and SBEP impact evaluation teams under the direction of MSI's corresponding Evaluation Team Leaders.
Requirements
- Understanding of basic regression analysis techniques.
- Familiarity with more advanced techniques for causal inference, such as propensity score and other matching estimation procedures, difference-in-difference designs, and instrumental variables analysis.
- Familiarity with statistical software, specifically SPSS and STATA.
- Access to the above statistical software programs preferred.
- Ability to write up statistical analysis and results in clear, concise and error-free English.
- Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English.
- Experience having worked in Macedonia or the Balkans, preferred.
- Experience having worked with USAID or similar international donors, preferred.
- Familiarity with USAID evaluation policy preferred.
Responsibilities
Conduct statistical analyses of data collected by a Macedonian survey research firm and/or the MSI evaluation teams, as required by the CSP and SBEP evaluation team leaders, including possible reanalysis of previous surveys.
- Analyze and if necessary collect data sets, as directed by the CSP and SBEP evaluation team leaders.
- Write up results of statistical analyses in clear, concise and error-free English.
- Other data analysis tasks, as required by the CSP and SBEP evaluation teams.
Deadline 01 November 2013
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