**Job Information**:
Project/Activity
- MELSA
Industry
- USAID
City
- Bogota
State/Province
- Bogota, D.C.
Country
- Colombia
Zip/Postal Code
- 110111
HIghest Level of Education
- Bacehlor's degree
Work Experience
- 5-7 years
Panagora Group is a U.S. small business that provides technical and advisory services related to the monitoring, evaluation, and learning of USAID/Colombia's strategy and activities. The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Short-Term Activity (MELSA) provides monitoring support services: designing and implementing performance and impact evaluations, as well as other studies and assessments, supporting their use and dissemination, and developing collaboration, learning, and adapting initiatives.
USAID/Colombia requested MELSA to measure and generate an assessment of the long-term impact of the massive land formalization pilot development in Ovejas Sucre as part of the Land and Rural Development Program (LRDP) activity. Measurement will be carried out in two municipalities, Ovejas and Los Palmitos (Sucre), and requires using quantitative and qualitative methodologies to collect and analyze the information.
MELSA requires hiring a Qualitative Specialist to support the assessment design, data collection of qualitative information, and construction of indicators based on evaluation questions, as well as lead the qualitative data collection fieldwork.
**Responsibilities**:
- Support the Team Leader with the evaluation design, including the construction of indicators based on the evaluation questions, data collection methods for qualitative information, list of possible key informants.
- Lead and design the qualitative instruments for the data collection.
- Design a codebook for the codification process.
- Lead the qualitative data collection fieldwork.
- Ensure the quality of qualitative data collection.
- Support the coding process, from the training of the coding team to the elaboration of the analysis plan for the generation of inputs (reports and qualitative visualizations) to analyze the information.
- Review and provide corresponding feedback to the coding team's products to ensure their quality and conduct the qualitative analysis for the reports and presentations mentioned in the deliverables with the corresponding qualitative evidence annexes. This covers the data triangulation process and its corresponding qualitative analysis to answer each of the evaluation questions as requested by the team leader.
- Perform the qualitative visualizations using Nvivo, as requested by the team leader, and those for the presentation, report, and construction of findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
- Support the Team Leader in preparing reports and presentations for USAID and the Implementing Partner. This includes any required participation in the final presentation and report regarding the qualitative analysis.
Panagora Group is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
- Note: Panagora does not offer visa sponsorship at this time.
**Español**
Panagora Group es una pequeña empresa estadounidense que proporciona servicios técnicos y de asesoramiento relacionados con el monitoreo, la evaluación y el aprendizaje de la estrategia y actividades de USAID/Colombia. La Actividad a Corto Plazo de Monitoreo, Evaluación y Aprendizaje (MELSA, por sus siglas en inglés) brinda servicios de apoyo al monitoreo: diseño e implementación de evaluaciones de desempeño e impacto, así como otros estudios y evaluaciones, respaldando su uso y difusión, y desarrollando iniciativas de colaboración, aprendizaje y adaptación.
USAID/Colombia solicitó a la actividad MELSA medir el impacto a largo plazo del piloto de formalización masiva de tierras en Ovejas, Sucre, como parte de la actividad del Programa de Desarrollo de Tierras y Zonas Rurales (LRDP). La medición se llevará a cabo en dos municipios, Ovejas y Los Palmitos (Sucre), y requiere el uso de metodologías cuantitativas y cualitativas para recopilar y analizar la información.
Basado en lo anterior, MELSA requiere contratar a un Especialista Cualitativo para apoyar el diseño de la evaluación, la recolección de información cualitativa, la construcción de indicadores basados en las preguntas de evaluación, así como liderar la recolección de información en terreno.
**Responsabilidades**:
- Apoyar al líder del equipo en el diseño de la evaluación, incluyendo la construcción de indicadores basados en las preguntas de evaluación, métodos de recolección de datos para información cualitativa y una lista de posibles informantes clave.
- Liderar y diseñar los instrumentos cualitativos para la recolección de datos.
- Diseñar un lib