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Company background:

SoCha (a portmanteau of Social and Change) is an independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (ME&L) firm that provides bespoke solutions to social challenges. Since our inception in 2010, we have grown into a fully-fledged ME&L services firm that specializes in advancing innovative methodologies and changing the way donors find solutions to social problems.

Activity background:

USAID/Zambia has a diverse portfolio with programs in the following areas: Health (HIV/AIDS, Maternal and Child Health, Family Planning and Reproductive Health, Water Supply and Sanitation, Nutrition, Malaria, Tuberculosis); Education (basic education and early child development); Economic Development and Environment (Agriculture policy support, private sector, economic opportunity, energy, environment, global climate change, wildlife conservation, energy); and Democracy and Governance (rule of law and human rights, good governance, political environment and consensus building, civil society).

The Zambia Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Platform (Z-MELP) mechanisms is an implementing mechanism which gives the mission access to technical and advisory services to design and carry out specialized multiple, third-party, MEL tasks including practices, processes, and requirements that support Program Cycle implementation.

Survey Manager

Position background:

The Survey Manager is a new Z-MELP position that has been created to support the Baseline and Performance Evaluation for USAID’s Zambia Enterprise Development and Growth Enhanced (EDGE) Activity. For this multi-year support, Z-MELP will implement multiple large-scale survey waves to establish baselines on a rolling basis as new SME are engage as well as midline and end lines. The Survey Manager will oversee all aspects of the planning and implementation of the survey (waves). S/he will report directly to the Z-MELP Deputy Chief of Party and supervise enumerators engaged for data collection. Meanwhile, the Survey Manager will serve as core capacity for quantitative surveys within Z-MELP.

Responsibilities:

•  Led the development of survey tools and sampling frameworks.
• Develop and establish technical and logistical processes for overall survey implementation and reporting;
• Serve as supervisor in the filed during survey implementation facilitating daily debriefs and strong data quality assurance and control from data collection and reporting.
•  The Survey Manager will lead on technical aspects for the recruitment and hiring of the enumerators
• Working with Operations Department to ensure that all logistics for all teams are in place
• Engage with clients and partners
•  Develop and deliver enumerator training to ensure enumerators fully understand their responsibilities and survey concepts.
• Distribution of all survey documents and materials to enumerators
•  Lead the preparation of survey reports and dashboards

The list of duties is indicative, but not exhaustive. The Survey Manager may be expected to fulfil other duties, as advised by its supervisor or the COP.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences related field; Master’s degree in education or statistics is preferred;
• Minimum of ten years of experience in implementing large-scale quantitative surveys in market research and/or international development; preferably on a USAID funded project;
• Strong experience in quantitative research methods, incl. applying random sampling techniques;
• Experience in qualitative research is an asset, but not required.
• Experience in Economic Development in rural Zambia a strong asset;
• Strong verbal and written English communication and reporting skills