TECHNICAL ADVISOR, ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, WEJ
CARE USA
- Nairobi
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead quantitative modeling on project outcomes through cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis, owning the development and revision of models, assumptions, and outputs
- Conduct evidence and literature reviews, interpret findings to extract impact estimates and model inputs, and engage with colleagues and external experts to validate model design and quantitative outputs
- Collaborate with global and country finance and project colleagues to gather, structure, and analyze financial and cost data
- Build the evidence base for CARE’s work on gender-transformative economic growth programming, including correlational or causational research on economic outcomes and improvements in women’s agency, decision-making, confidence, quality of life, etc.
- Advance our work in cash benchmarking through synthesis of internal data and external evidence
- Ensure adoption of measurement standards for economic and gender metrics at regional, country, and project levels and update global guidance and standards based on feedback and learning
- Support finance and technical colleagues at country and global levels to understand and implement economic analysis and cash benchmarking in current MEL workstreams and proposal development
- Serve as a resource and coach for teams to deepen measurement approaches and expand impact in women’s economic justice programming across CARE
- Produce reports, analysis, and data visualizations to socialize and make sense of analytic outputs
- Manage research partnerships with consultants, evaluation firms, and academic institutions and ensure timely and high-quality research outputs
- Work with marketing, communications, and thought leadership colleagues to jointly develop case studies, learning briefs, and other technical documentation
- Survey external approaches to gender-transformative economic analysis and articulate sectoral gaps and opportunities
- Master’s degree in public policy, economics, international development, business administration, finance, or similar degree program or equivalent practical or professional experience
- Strong training in methods of economic analysis, especially cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis
- Thorough grounding in methods of program evaluation, including logic models and results frameworks
- Strong familiarity with theories and programming for gender equality
- 7 or more years of progressive experience in international development, social sector, or private sector, preferably in economic development, market systems, or the equivalent
- Proven experience conducting rigorous quantitative research, evaluation, and program monitoring
- Strong familiarity with cost analysis, budgetary analysis, financial modeling, or equivalent accounting analysis
- Experience successfully managing projects and solving problems remotely with distributed teams
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
- Professional fluency in English and excellent written proficiency
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