Job Vacancy @ The Kaizen Company: Partnerships Incubator – Sierra Leone Market Research Consultant (Local)
Position: Sierra Leone Market Research Consultant(s)
Anticipated Start Date: August 10, 2022
Location: Sierra Leone
Project: New Partnerships Initiative Incubator (Partnerships Incubator)
Contract Duration: August 10, 2022 - January 30, 2023
Project Director: Donna Vincent Roa, Ph.D., ABC, CDPMⓇ
About Kaizen
The Kaizen Company is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven, organizational, and institutional performance improvements, and shift the development model into one that is bottom-up and ongoing. We leverage existing knowledge along with new technologies and innovative business models to support local reform that is sustained through market forces.
The Kaizen Company is seeking applications for the position of Market Research Consultant(s) for the four-year, USAID-funded New Partnerships Initiative Incubator (Partnerships Incubator).
About the Partnerships Incubator
The Partnerships Incubator delivers technical assistance and capacity building support to potential and current USAID partners such that they are better capable of managing USAID awards while successfully delivering stronger development outcomes.
Position Summary
The Consultant(s) will work closely with the Partnerships Incubator and remote and local consultant(s) to deliver a partner landscape assessment (market research). The Consultant(s) will be responsible for performing interviews with a range of local organizations in Sierra Leone, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and private sector companies. The Consultant(s) will ensure that final work products are error-free, consistent, and accurate.
Main roles and responsibilities include:
- Work with the remote and local consultant(s) to conduct a public outreach campaign and identify organizations to include in the landscape assessment.
- Under the guidance of the lead consultant and on an agreed upon timeline, perform interviews with local organizations based on the protocol approved by the client.
- Sectors will include democracy, human rights, and governance; peace-building; and health and social services.
- Organizations will include non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, and private sector companies.
- Send raw interview data and relevant notes to the team lead and other consultant team members on a daily basis, ensuring the accuracy of the content and verifying the accuracy of all referenced information.
- Assist with the final written analysis, ensuring the accuracy of the content and verification of all referenced information.
- Meet a tight deadline based on client needs.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in social sciences, statistics, international development, journalism, communications, humanities, or a related field.
- Minimum two years of experience consulting within the international development sector.
- Based in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
- Experience in evaluation and assessment design methodologies and qualitative data analysis.
- Experience implementing and conducting USAID assessments and evaluations is preferred.
- Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
- Fluency in written and spoken Krio is preferred.
- The ideal candidate will have served clients or completed projects in Sierra Leone and worked with Sierra Leone civil society.
- Detail-oriented, analytically-minded, and multi-tasker.
- USAID experience is a bonus, but not required.
Application Details
Start Date: As early as August 10, 2022 or sooner
Level of Effort: 300 hours
Initial Term: 6 months
To Apply
If you are interested in this position and have most or all of the desired qualifications, please submit a resume, a cover letter explaining key qualifications and availability, a desired hourly rate in USD and the names and contact information for three references (professional and/or academic) by July 27, 2022. The Kaizen Company may hire up to four consultants for this opening. Reviews may begin prior to the application deadline.
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