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About the World Bank Group

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org.

The Development Economics (DEC) Vice Presidency

DEC is the primary hub of the World Bank's knowledge system. Through its various functions – research, global analysis, and development data – it serves member countries and the Bank in generating knowledge and absorbing, disseminating, and utilizing it for economic development and poverty reduction around the world. DEC seeks to increase understanding of development policies and programs by providing intellectual leadership and analytical services to the Bank and the development community. DEC's structure reflects these objectives, comprising the Development Research Group (DECRG), Development Data Group, Global Indicators Group, Development Impact Evaluation Group, and a Development Policy unit.

Development Economics Planet (DECPT)

The Development Economics Planet (DECPT) unit complements other units within DECRG to provide intellectual leadership, technical assistance, and substantive advice to counterparts inside and outside the World Bank on all aspects of agriculture, environmental management, climate, infrastructure, and urbanization. The Planet Research Program is developing new policy insights on issues related to the environment, land, agriculture, water, climate change, and biodiversity. Using rigorous empirical methods, the program addresses questions on the burden of climate change and air pollution, effective approaches to building resilience, and policies that protect ecosystems while supporting livelihoods. It also studies how land and property institutions such as land titling and registry reform shape investment, productivity, and equitable development.

Key questions addressed by this research program include:

• What is the burden of climate change and air pollution in developing countries?
• What are the best ways to build resilience?
• How can we best value, protect, and benefit from natural resource wealth?

DECPT, together with the planet team at the Development Impact (DECDI), supports the World Bank Group's AgriConnect initiative – a flagship effort to improve the lives of 300 million farmers by linking policy reforms, public and private financing, and investments in physical and digital infrastructure. For more information, please visit the AgriConnect website.

Job Role: Impact Evaluation Analyst

DECPT is seeking to hire an Impact Evaluation Analyst to support an ongoing portfolio of impact evaluations under its AgriConnect engagement in Kenya. The Analyst will work closely with DEC Economists, Research Officers, Analysts, Impact Evaluation Field Coordinators, and Research Assistants on the team to produce high-quality data and analysis.

What We Are Looking For

We seek candidates with substantial experience related to impact evaluation data and coordination. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate solid experience in survey collection preparation and supervision, preferably in a developing country context; strong technical skills in design and analysis of prospective impact evaluations; and the interest and ability to communicate technical methodologies in an organized and systematic manner to clients. Advanced knowledge of Stata (or R) and SurveyCTO programming languages is a requirement for this role.

Key Responsibilities

The ETC Analyst will play a central role in executing and coordinating DECPT's ongoing data collection and analysis in Kenya. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Contribute to programmatic engagements and research agenda building at the pillar and country program level.
• Ensure good communication and coordination among members of the Impact Evaluation, Government, and Bank project teams – making the link between the research team and the field.
• Develop relationships with relevant partners and understand their operational questions and capacity needs to implement the impact evaluations.
• Monitor program implementation to ensure the impact evaluation design is not compromised through close follow-up with field teams. Support development of experimental research designs, and supervision and coordination of field projects.
• Assist in mentoring Short-Term Consultants (STCs) supporting the portfolio, working closely with them on interaction with government, data collection, monitoring of implementation, and preparation of detailed work plans. Ensure research assistants and field coordinators adhere to all quality standards developed by the DECPT Analytics team.
• Manage impact evaluation data collection activities at all stages (procurement, survey design and programming, sampling, enumerator training, field work supervision, and quality assurance).
• Draft and provide inputs to dissemination products for various internal (Task Team Leaders, Country Management Unit) and external (government, donors, etc.) audiences including briefs, blogs, presentations, policy reports, and press releases.
• Work with Research Assistants to consolidate all raw primary and secondary datasets into final datasets for analysis in a consistent and replicable manner.
• Deliver capacity building and training activities for government and academic institutions.

Specific Program Support

The ETC Analyst will primarily support work under the Kenya Rural Development portfolio, which includes partnerships with the Government of Kenya, World Bank operations, FAO, and the EU Delegation. Under the program, the Analyst will support the implementation of a series of impact evaluations that seek to promote evidence-based policy making in Kenya’s agriculture and related sectors by building a comprehensive knowledge agenda on what works across a wide variety of development interventions. The Analyst will be responsible for coordinating the field implementation of the program alongside the Kenya Country Coordinators and supporting management of workflows within the research team.

In addition, the selected candidate will assist in various tasks under DECPT’s “Economic Growth and Structural Transformation” program as necessary.

Selection Criteria

Do you meet the following criteria? If so, we encourage you to apply:

• A Master’s degree in economics, public policy, statistics or a related field and at least 2 years of relevant experience in quantitative research and analytical work.
• Technical expertise in impact evaluation (design and implementation).
• Advanced proficiency with Stata and/or R is required. Proficiency with Python and geospatial tools is an advantage.
• Experience with software for electronic data collection (ODK/SurveyCTO) is required.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, or teaching others on data- or survey-related tasks.
• Experience in household survey design and implementation in developing countries.
• Experience analyzing complex surveys in developing countries.
• Experience coding in a team environment is highly desirable.

Core Competencies

• Analytical thinking and problem-solving, with a track record of delivering high-quality research outputs.
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English; ability to present complex information clearly to diverse audiences.
• Collaborative team player with the ability to work across units and with external partners.
• Client orientation and ability to work under tight deadlines.