Senior Project Manager for Testing and Evaluation Study, Nairobi, Kenya
Job Reference BA/SPM/8
Our client, a startup self funded organisation is revolutionizing education across Africa with a truly unique business model.
The company has launched a large-scale franchise-like network of ultra low-cost for-profit private primary schools across Africa.
Their schools profitably deliver high-quality
education for less than $4 per child per month, enabling local school managers to operate their school businesses profitably, while creating a highly successful business at the central level.Job Reference BA/SPM/8
Our client, a startup self funded organisation is revolutionizing education across Africa with a truly unique business model.
The company has launched a large-scale franchise-like network of ultra low-cost for-profit private primary schools across Africa.
Their schools profitably deliver high-quality
They have launched their first two schools in Kenya, have five more opening in January and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students.
Head Office is located on the Mombasa Road.
About this position
Our client is looking for a candidate to fill the position of senior project manager for testing and evaluation study. In order for our client to ensure the efficiency of their model they have set up a comparative testing program within the Nairobi schools.
This program utilizes publicly available internationally developed, early-grade reading and math exams. These exams are individually administered on a one-on-one oral basis using a team of trained assessors. Exams in English, Mathematics and Kiswahili are administered three times each year to all the children in the testing study.
The study includes 17 schools in the slums of Nairobi, testing approximately 2,000 children from these schools. The study attempts to follow the same children at all of these schools throughout the year in order to establish longitudinal data (assigning and matching student IDs across different test administrations).
Our client is looking to hire a contract consultant to manage this process three times each year (each administration from start to finish takes about 2 months). This person needs to be someone who is good with details, not afraid of handling large scale operations and is willing to jump in and doing the hard work when necessary.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the relationships of the schools that are participating in the program and make sure the headmasters and headmistress’ are happy with participating and are giving the company full access.
- Be able to find new schools to add to the program if it needs to be expanded or if some schools drop out.
- Hire a team of supervisors and assessors and train them according to Research Training Institute standards. Once they have competed training use quantitative measurements to ensure they are producing reliable results.
- Create a system of giving each student a unique ID number that ensures the same candidates do the exams throughout the trial. Also develop a system of random selection that can be maintained through out the project.
- Manage the transport logistics of getting the assessors and supervisors to their correct schools, over see the production of the necessary materials, supervise the administration of the exams and ensure that fidelity in administration and scoring is high.
- Hire and train a team of data entry and checkers. Oversee the identification and customization of soft wear and manage the process of entering and checking the data.
- Collate the results and produce excel files to be used by the company and deliver the reports back to the schools.
About You
- You have minimum of 5 years experience in managing evaluation studies, research or related work
- You have experience in managing large-scale studies or research that involve complex logistics, teams of evaluators in the field, data collection and processing
- Experience in education evaluation a plus, but not necessary
- You have experience with data entry, data processing and cleaning
- You are familiar and comfortable with technology tools used for survey and data work, and can make sure to oversee and manage data collection processes to minimize or eliminate data errors
- You have experience hiring and managing field survey workers, researchers, enumerators or assessors
- You have experience in training and supervising field teams
- You are extremely analytical and love data
- You are very systems-oriented, and have experience in developing systems and processes to manage a complex project
Remuneration: Dependant on skills, qualifications and experience.
To Apply:
A. Go to www.byappointmentafrica.com
B. Access the Vacancies Page.
C. Via the Contact Form at the bottom of the Vacancies page :
1) Send your C.V. in plain word format that is not tabulated, with a recent photograph of yourself embedded in the top right hand corner of the C.V. Please do not attach any scanned certificates/documents.
2) Attach an application letter on why you feel your experience, skills and qualifications would suit this position.
3) Excellent professional references are essential.
4) Ensure you quote the job reference in the subject header and your name.
5) Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
To Apply:
A. Go to www.byappointmentafrica.com
B. Access the Vacancies Page.
C. Via the Contact Form at the bottom of the Vacancies page :
1) Send your C.V. in plain word format that is not tabulated, with a recent photograph of yourself embedded in the top right hand corner of the C.V. Please do not attach any scanned certificates/documents.
2) Attach an application letter on why you feel your experience, skills and qualifications would suit this position.
3) Excellent professional references are essential.
4) Ensure you quote the job reference in the subject header and your name.
5) Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
