Evaluation Specialists, USAID Decentralized Energy Portfolio Review

Evaluation Specialists, USAID Decentralized Energy Portfolio Review, India

Company Profile:

MSI is an international development firm in the Washington, D.C., metro area with a 30-year history of helping to deliver results across the developing world. In 2008, we became part of Coffey International Limited. Since that time, we have greatly expanded our ability to respond seamlessly and flexibly to client needs with Coffey’s international development offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. We operate in some of the most challenging political and economic climates in the world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and South Sudan. MSI currently employs 800 development experts in the fields of public sector management, monitoring and evaluation, governance, and anticorruption. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.

Project Summary:

USAID’s Office of Energy and Infrastructure (USAID/E3/E&I) has requested MSI to conduct a portfolio review of recent decentralized energy (DE) activities undertaken by the Agency in order to better understand what design, implementation and contextual factors influence sustainable outcomes for this type of programming. Case studies in India are planned for mid-August. Work experience in the following states of India is a plus: Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana and UP. Field work will begin on or about August 9, 2015 for three weeks with the possibility of follow up visits.

Position Summary:

• MSI seeks qualified local evaluation specialists (LES) in India to work as part of the Portfolio Review team during pre-field work desk research and team planning; perform data collection during fieldwork; and supporting post-field work tasks such as data entry, analysis and drafting inputs for case study reports.


• Responsibilities:


• Provide recommendations for potential expert interviews from government, donor and regulatory organizations located in India to inform the case-study.


• With agreement from the Team Leader, the LES will coordinate with appropriate parties to arrange interview appointments.


• Draft a pre-visit summary of selected sites organized by project.


• Responsible for organizing the relevant information for his/her assigned sites; it is expected that this information can be collected via phone and/or internet research.


• Modify existing instruments as necessary, in consultation with the team leader, in order to operationalize the Review’s design for research in India.


• Apply good practice in conducting ethical research, including ensuring that respondents are aware of the purpose of the data collection exercise, have the opportunity to refuse to undertake the interview and understand the extent to which their feedback will remain anonymous.


• Identify themes from the data that address the research questions.


• Discuss regularly with the evaluation team the data that has been collected to identify and formulate findings, conclusions and recommendations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and seven (7) years of experience in program monitoring and evaluation including data collection, entry, analysis and reporting or Master’s degree in related fields (international development, statistics, or social research methods) and five (5) years of experience in program-based M&E including: data collection and analysis methods: developing theories of change and M&E plans; designing and implementing evaluation methodologies and project assessments such as population based surveys; informed consent protocols, and data quality verification techniques for development projects.


• Familiarity with the energy sector and/or climate change adaption, resilience, livelihoods and economic development.


• Experience in M&E of donor-funded international development programs.


• Knowledge of data quality standards.


• Fluency in English required. Fluency in in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali or another official language is preferred.

Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer.