Senior Research Associate

Description

Employment Opportunity

JOB TITLE: Senior Research Associate

PROGRAM: Thematic Area II

REPORTING TO: Executive Director

LOCATION: Nairobi, Kenya

JOBS SUPERVISED: Program Manager/ Strategic Operations Lead; Technical Specialist lead

ASSIGNMENT LENGTH: One year renewable for up to 3 years based on performance and funding availability.

POSITION SUMMARY: The Consortium Coordinator (CC) at Population Council - Kenya (PC-Kenya) will lead a multi-partner consortium supporting Mastercard Foundation's impact strategy across 35 African countries. This role involves providing strategic leadership, technical oversight, and overall management to ensure the effective delivery of monitoring, evaluation, and program support services across the Foundation’s key platforms. The CC will manage relationships with the Foundation, partners, and oversight bodies; lead the Senior Management Team; oversee workplan development and reporting; and ensure quality, timely outputs. The role also includes supervising senior staff, managing budgets, representing PC-Kenya in external forums, and supporting organizational development and evidence-to-action efforts.

Population Council - Kenya (PC-Kenya), a non-profit organization registered in Kenya, is leading an inter-regional consortium of Function-Oriented Impact Partner Organizations (IPOs). The IPO supports Mastercard Foundation's Impact Strategy by conducting impact measurement and evaluation activities, in addition to supporting program design and learnings across the Foundation's three program platforms, namely, the Pan-Africa Program (PANA), Education and Transitions (E&T), and Special Programs (SP). The IPO specifically works across 35 countries in Africa to support the Foundation and its partners through:

1) Impact Technical Delivery, which includes robust monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) processes that entail assessing the progress of programs in advancing the Foundation’s charitable goals of financial inclusion and youth education, as well as achieving set targets across the various programmatic platforms.

2) Program Support, that entails developing strategies tailored to the unique needs of the Foundation’s partners and program participants through extensive evidence reviews, needs assessments, and participatory design methods to ensure interventions are designed to achieve impact in line with specific platform strategies and the Foundation’s charitable purpose.