Headlight Organization Overview
Founded in 2018, Headlight Consulting Services, LLC delivers data-driven decision-making to its partners through robust strategy design support, in-depth monitoring, evaluation, and learning technical services, and facilitated organizational change processes. Headlight brings expertise in qualitative methods, systems-thinking, utilization-focused MEL, emergent methods such as developmental evaluation, evaluation policy design, organizational development, and much more. Headlight offers fit-for-purpose, agile solutions to improve the efficiency and efficacy of development programs around the globe, focusing on the structures and systems that enable sustainable solutions.
Summary of Position
Headlight seeks skilled local Developmental Evaluation (DE) Leads to design and implement evaluative efforts as part of a Developmental Evaluation (DE) of the USAID/Ethiopia's Conflict, Economic Growth, Peacebuilding, and Education/Youth work. We are looking to hire one DE Lead for each of these subject areas. The DE, expected to start in fall 2022, will providing evaluative thinking and facilitating evidence to action with that team at the Mission and their implementing partners. The DE Lead will help facilitate active learning, iterative program design, and adaptive management of an expansive, integrated portfolio to clarify and refine USAID/Ethiopia’s approaches towards the aim of sustainable, locally-owned responses across Ethiopia. The DE will help stakeholders evaluate and learn in real-time and capture that learning into use-focused, actionable deliverables and discussions about the effectiveness of their efforts and what refinements are necessary. This will guide both current and future programming priorities, and contribute useful evidence to the broader USAID/Ethiopia portfolio.
Through the DE, various stakeholders will take part in a Kickoff/Acculturation Workshop and process, which will bring all the partners together to build buy-in to the DE process, a culture of learning and adaptability from the evidence collected throughout the DE, and familiarity with the DE Team. A DE helps to ensure rigorous documentation of the learnings throughout the process, enabling them to be shared, replicated, and available for in-depth review for how decisions were made and adaptations executed. This documentation facilitates informed iterations within the program, revisiting decisions to try different approaches when desired, and supports other similar initiatives in their learning and approaches to collective impact and complex partnerships.
The DE is scheduled to begin in fall 2022 and is slated to last through fall 2027. The DE Lead will engage remotely and in person with their associated team (either Conflict, Economic Growth, Peacebuilding, or Education/Youth) at the USAID/Ethiopia Mission in Addis Ababa, as well as remotely with the DE Admin team in the U.S., throughout the life of the DE. Travel within Ethiopia to work with partners or other stakeholders and/or collect additional data may be required, but all pertinent safety considerations will be taken into account before any travel is approved. The DE Lead will have additional technical and strategic communications support from Headlight headquarters staff throughout the implementation of the DE.
The DE Lead will report directly to the COP for the Activity in Addis Ababa, with a focal support DE Admin (from the U.S.) on the portfolio as well.
This is a proposal opportunity that will be awarded in fall 2022, which means the position will only be officially available upon contract award. But Headlight intends to identify staff ahead of time to demonstrate to the Country Program the local talent that would lead the implementation.
Responsibilities
The DE Lead will have responsibility for the design and implementation of the DE, especially regarding their technical subject area’s (either Conflict, Economic Growth, Peacebuilding, or Education/Youth) efforts, and for ensuring its quality. The DE Lead will be responsible for the following:
Benefits
Headlight offers full-time employees a competitive salary package, vacation, holiday, and sick leave, health and life insurance coverage, and much more.
Required Qualifications: