Addis Ababa
Headlight Consulting Services, LLP
Headlight Organization Overview Founded in 2018, Headlight Consulting Services, LLP delivers data-driven decision-making to its partners through robust strategy design support, in-depth monitoring, evaluation, and learning technical services, and facilitated organizational change processes. Headlight brings extensive experience in international development and expertise in qualitative methods; systems-thinking; utilization-focused Collaborating, Learning, Adapting, Monitoring, and Evaluation (CLAME); emergent methods such as developmental evaluation; evaluation policy design; organizational development; and much more. Headlight offers fit-for-purpose, agile solutions to improve the efficiency and efficacy of development programs around the globe, focusing on the structures and systems that enable sustainable solutions. Summary of Position Headlight seeks a skilled evaluator to support the design and implementation of a Developmental Evaluation (DE) of the USAID/Ethiopia Humanitarian Assistance Portfolio. The DE will facilitate active learning, iterative program design, and adaptive management of an expansive, integrated portfolio to clarify and renew USAID/Ethiopia’s approach toward the aim of sustainable collective impact for a more resilient Ethiopia. The DE will help stakeholders evaluate and learn in real time and capture that learning into use-focused, actionable deliverables and discussions about the effectiveness of their efforts and what refinements are necessary. This will guide both current and future programming priorities and contribute useful evidence to the broader USAID/Ethiopia portfolio. Through the DE, various stakeholders will also be part of a Kickoff/Acculturation Workshop and process, which would bring all the partners together to build buy-in to the DE process, a culture of learning and adaptability from the evidence collected throughout the DE, and familiarity with the Evaluators. A DE will also ensure rigorous documentation of the learnings throughout the process, enabling them to be shared, replicated, and available for in-depth review for how decisions were made and adaptations executed. This documentation facilitates informed iterations within the program, revisiting decisions to try different approaches when desired, and supports other similar initiatives in their learning and approaches to collective impact and complex partnerships. The Humanitarian Assistance Portfolio DE is active now and looking for an immediate full-time hire. The Developmental Evaluation teams are expected to sit with both the associated USAID teams and their implementing partners throughout the life of the DE, with travel as needed within Ethiopia to work with partners or other stakeholders and/or collect additional data. The Evaluator will have additional technical and strategic communications support from Headlight headquarters staff throughout the implementation of the DE. Responsibilities The Developmental Evaluator will support the design and implementation of the DE. Reporting to the DE Lead for Humanitarian Assistance, the Developmental Evaluator will be responsible to:Facilitate an Acculturation Workshop for DE stakeholders, which will help to collaboratively conceptualize and develop the DE design and approach (learning framework, methodology, work plans, reporting, etc.);Develop and maintain a living work plan for the evaluation, including an agreed set of deliverables (which may change over time, depending on the needs of the program);Identify and manage contributing or new evaluative or data collection needs and associated teams as they arise;Provide quality assurance of all deliverables, including regular intermediate report logs (that track details of DE and document all events that occur — i.e., planned, unplanned, and associated outcomes) and the annual report of the evaluation;Facilitate regular meetings with program leadership, relevant stakeholders at all levels, and monitoring and evaluation staff as needed to collect data and facilitate adaptation;Support data collection aligned with use-focused and scoped efforts with the client;Conduct coding and analysis of the data collected and present engaging, use-focused feedback regularly to program staff and key partners and facilitate uptake of recommendations and associated adaption tracking; CLAME tool development and testing; and,Track and communicate high-quality information to stakeholders to inform timely and data-driven decision-making; regularly record decision-making, program changes, and/or changes in the environment in a report log.Benefits Headlight offers full-time employees a competitive salary package, vacation, holiday, and sick leave, health insurance coverage, and much more.