Job Description

LINC LLC

Recruitment Notice

Position: Education Specialists

Organization: LINC

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Position Status: Consultant

Background: LINC is a small business headquartered in Washington, DC dedicated to strengthening local actors and systems.

At LINC, we believe that a practical approach to engaging committed, capable local actors increases international development effectiveness and sustainability.

Awarded USAID’s “2017 Small Business of the Year” distinction, we are a team of reflective practitioners, passionate and energetic in our work, and committed to locally led development.

We partner with major universities, foundations, local NGOs, consulting firms, USAID, and DFID, among others.

Our country experience spans Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Europe.

For more information on LINC, please visit www.linclocal.org.

Position Description

LINC is seeking evaluation experts to be proposed on task orders under the USAID/Kenya and East Africa Evaluation, Assessments, and Analyses (EAA) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ).

Under this mechanism consultants are anticipated to provide technical and advisory services in:

(1) planning and conducting evaluations, analyses, and assessments;

(2) technical assistance in relevant subject-matter areas;

(3) capacity building; and

(4) data visualization, synthesis, evaluation, program and policy analysis.

We are recruiting for experts with demonstrated professional experience conducting evaluations and/or analyses in East Africa, including Kenya, Somalia, Burundi, DR Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Technical experts should have demonstrated experience in the education sector, specifically basic education and higher education.

Applicants should have experience conducting discrete research, designing, monitoring and/or evaluating donor-funded development programming in this sector, and a strong background in quantitative and/or qualitative methods, research design, data quality control, analytics and reporting.

Applications will be assessed and added to LINC’s EAA roster on an ongoing basis.

Skill Areas

Successful candidates should be able demonstrate rich expertise in one or more of the following skill areas relevant to donor-funded development programming in one or more countries in East Africa:

• Advanced research methods, including a range of evaluation, assessment, program design and monitoring methodologies;


• Program evaluation utilizing qualitative and/or qualitative techniques, potentially including experimental, quasi-experimental, performance evaluation, whole-of-project evaluation, and Developmental Evaluation (DE);


• Field data collection, including conducting of focus groups, key informant interviews, and surveys;


• Data quality control, including data quality assessment and oversight;


• Advanced data analytics, including descriptive statistics, systems analysis, and data visualization;


• Assessment and evaluation writing and reporting, demonstrating a track record of authorship of high-quality reporting documentation;


• Technical expertise in the education sector, relevant to the East African context;


• Understanding and expertise in development policy and programming, including key governmental, bi-lateral, and multi-lateral policy and funding priorities.

Skills and Qualifications

• We anticipate that most successful candidates will have a Master’s degree, at least 5 of experience working on donor-funded programming in East Africa, and fluency in English.


• The ability to speak Swahili and/or other local languages is a plus.

Application Instructions

Send resume/CV to jobs@linclocal.org with the position title included in the subject line.

No phone calls please.

Applications will be acknowledged, but only final candidates for will be contacted.

LINC LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

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