Nairobi

Vacancy Alert: Qualitative Evaluation Consultant

We are seeking a consultant to conduct interviews, analyses, and to write a report on the Taking the Stage Project. 

April 16, 2025
We are hiring

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Points of Contact: Columbia Global Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director and Columbia Global Center | Nairobi Director

Opportunity Details and Background:

Established in July 2022, Columbia Global (CG) brings together major initiatives from across Columbia University to advance knowledge and foster global engagement to address complex global challenges. Through interdisciplinary research, education, collaboration, and directed action, Columbia Global fosters groundbreaking scholarship, facilitates leadership development, advances cutting-edge thinking, and implements projects designed for social impact.

Columbia Global, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has partnered with WomenLift Health and artists/educators who lead the Taking the Stage series of workshops, to conduct an intervention that aims to expand the leadership skills of women graduates from the WomenLift Health (WLH) leadership program. WLH has a theory of change concept that explains the pathway to expanding women’s leadership skills for their program. The Taking the Stage intervention aims to contribute to the expansion of core competencies focused on leadership presence, including effective communication and storytelling, among women leaders in public health who graduated from the WLH program.

A second outcome of the intervention aims to establish local capacity to sustain theater-based leadership development programming by training artists. This intervention will train a total of eight artists in person to provide opportunities for hands-on learning and virtually through online workshops.  Four artists will begin their training in March 2025 and continue for eight months until October 2025.  Four additional artists will be selected in summer/fall 2025. The workshops will take place between March 2025 and October 2026.

The consultant is expected to work for 46-49 days, inclusive of interviews, transcriptions, data analysis, and report writing after every workshop. The consultant’s fee will be commensurate with experience. This consultant contract will be funded through November 30, 2026.

Key Deliverables:

Columbia Global is seeking to contract with an experienced and seasoned consultant to conduct interviews with a randomized sample of 40 workshop participants, and 8 artists/educators, code, analyze, and write a comprehensive report that will complement the survey and monitoring data part of the project’s monitoring and evaluation plan.

  1. The interviews will be conducted after each workshop:
    • March 2025 - 10 interviews- the consultant will code and analyze data. The interviews will be conducted by the CG MEL Director.
    • October 2025 -10 workshop participant interviews and 4 artist/educators.
    • March 2026 - 10 workshop participant interviews.
    • October 2026 - 10 workshop participant interviews and 4 artist/educators.
  2. The consultant must familiarize themselves with the instrument created by the Columbia Global MEL team and provide feedback on the questionnaires.
  3. Transcribe and analyze the interviews.
  4. Write a comprehensive report based on the expected competencies that will be identified by the project team and the MEL team.
  5. Create presentations of findings for various stakeholders.
  6. Communicate key findings for reports with CG staff and partners, including program staff and the communications team.

Minimum Consultant Qualifications:

The consultant should possess, at a minimum:

  • Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Statistics, Social Sciences, or a related field.
  • 3-5 years of experience conducting and analyzing research interviews.
  • Have experience in data visualization.

What to Submit to Apply:

  • A CV/Résumé
  • A written proposal/letter expressing an interest in and motivation for engaging in this project that includes how they meet the required deliverables (maximum 2 pages) .
  • A writing sample - a sole-authored published or unpublished paper, writing sample, or senior thesis.

Proposal submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible for consideration.

Please send to the following email address: [email protected] and put “Qualitative Evaluation Consultant (Nairobi) –Taking the Stage position” in the subject line and address the email to Columbia Global Center | Nairobi.