Evaluation Specialists

Position Title: General Call for Evaluation Consultants

Job Description

EnCompass seeks Evaluation Specialists to support anticipated evaluation/assessment assignments on water and agriculture projects. The Evaluation Specialists will be responsible for guiding the design and implementation of project evaluations. Expertise in these technical areas is preferred: agriculture, water, energy, and natural resource management. Qualified applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Consultants must have one or more of the following:

• Experience with evaluation design, methods, management, and implementation
• Experience as subject matter experts in any of these sectors/technical areas
• • Agriculture
  • Water
  • Energy
  • Natural resource management
  • Biodiversity
  • Gender equality/ women’s economic empowerment
  • Base of the Pyramid inclusion
• Experience with gender equality /women’s economic empowerment, poverty reduction, and business approaches which target the Base of the Pyramid
• Experience working in any of the following regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and North Africa, and/or South and Southeast Asia

Position Duties and Responsibilities

Consultants may do one or more of the following:

• Lead or support evaluation/assessment/study design processes, data collection tool development, data collection efforts, analysis, reporting, and learning
• Provide subject matter expertise in sectors/technical areas noted on the questionnaire (see below for instructions).
• Ensure that all deliverables are met in a timely manner
• Serving as a liaison between the donor agency and the evaluation/analytic team
• Leading briefings and presentations with the donor and other key stakeholders

Please ensure that your CV clearly highlights

• Your experience leading or supporting major evaluation activities
• Organizations for which you have evaluation activities
• Your experience in participatory approaches to evaluation
• Evaluation reports that you have authored or co-authored (with links to the reports if possible)

How to Apply

Please submit a CV to https://encompassworld.com/work-with-us and complete the application questions. A cover letter is optional if the CV includes all the needed information. If not, use the cover letter to provide additional context regarding interests, skills, and experience
EnCompass LLC is a progressive Equal Opportunity Employer. We promote, celebrate, and support a diverse and inclusive organizational culture and workforce. We are committed to providing all of our employees with an environment free from discrimination and harassment, where all are treated with dignity and respect. We do not tolerate, and explicitly prohibit, discrimination or harassment of any kind, at any time, in all aspects of employment. This includes recruitment, hiring, promotions, disciplinary measures, terminations, compensation, benefits, social and recreational programs, and training. EnCompass also does not tolerate retaliation against individuals who report discrimination or harassment. Our continuing commitment to the principle of Equal Opportunity Employment for all means all employment decisions are based only on the job requirements, the candidate’s qualifications, and the needs of EnCompass as a business—not on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, belief, sex (including pregnancy and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability status, veteran status, genetic information, HIV status, family/marital/parental status, or any other status protected by the laws and regulations in the jurisdictions where we work.

The employer will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required of personnel so classified.

The incumbent must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with a demonstrated ability to juggle and prioritize multiple, competing tasks and demands and to seek supervisory assistance as appropriate.

Job Requirements

monitoring or assessing performance, Monitoring, and evaluation, Learning, Change methodology, Developmental Evaluations, Evaluability assessments, Measuring Sustainability, Designing qualitative sampling frames, Designing qualitative data collection efforts, Conducting qualitative data collection, Conducting qualitative analysis, Probability sampling (with or without statistical matching), Designing quantitative data collection efforts, Conducting quantitative data collection, quantitative analysis, advanced statistical analysis (such as multiple regression analysis or logit/probit modeling), USAID, International Development, Agriculture, Water, Energy, Natural resource management, Biodiversity, Gender equality/ women’s economic empowerment, Base of the Pyramid inclusion

About Company

EnCompass LLC is a women-owned, small business consulting firm working in International Development, and offering innovative and customized solutions for leadership, capacity strengthening, technical assistance, and monitoring and evaluation. We have experience in more than 70 countries and a team of more than 100 staff and 1,200 experts around the globe. We partner with government and multilateral agencies, nonprofit organizations, and corporations around the world, offering thought leadership, rich diversity, and technical expertise in global health, inclusive development, education, human rights, and food security.

Founded in 1999, EnCompass began as a virtual organization supporting clients and implementing work through a network of staff and expert consultants. Today, we have more than 110 full-time staff and a Global Consulting Network, our vetted database of specialists, through which we engage, on average, 200 consultants each year. In early 2017, EnCompass opened its first international office in Addis Ababa for Transform: a Primary Health Care project. In 2019, we set up our second field office in Lima, Peru. We maintain a full-time staff presence in Benin, Ethiopia, Germany, Great Britain, Peru, and Uganda.