Ethiopia: Quantitative and Qualitative Data Collection Firm

Call for Expression of Interest:
Seeking Experienced Quantitative and Qualitative Data Collection Organization for: Large-scale survey on the Economic Costs of Child Marriage in Ethiopia
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), in partnership with the World Bank Group, is seeking Expressions of Interest from Organizations and Agencies to conduct training, data collection, and tasks related to data management and data entry for a large, rigorous quantitative and qualitative examination of the economic costs of child marriage in Ethiopia.
Period of Service:August, 2015 – January 2016
Deadline for Application:5pm EST time, June 12, 2015
ICRW and the World Bank are collaborating in a three-year project to understand the economic costs and consequences of child marriage in various settings around the world. The study involves the use of primary and secondary data to explore critical pathways through which child marriage may influence economic outcomes at the household and national levels for a select group of countries, regions and at the global level.
The Candidate will support the project in the collection and management of primary data in Ethiopia.
More specifically, the Candidate will work under the supervision of ICRW to:

1. Provide a robust quantitative assessment of the economic impacts and costs of child marriage in Ethiopia. The Candidate will assist in designing a data collection approach and will lead the administration of a nationally-representative household-based survey. The sampling frame will include approximately 2000 households, with two people in each household interviewed, for a total of approximately 4000 quantitative surveys.
2. Foster a deeper understanding of the pathways through which child marriage may influence economic outcomes at the household and national levels. To this end, the candidate will facilitate and record a number of participatory focus group discussions with women between the ages 18-35 in urban and rural areas of the country.
   We will only consider Candidates with proven expertise and qualified staff in large-scale, nationally-representative quantitative data collection and in qualitative research methods. We will consider Candidates with expertise in only either quantitative or qualitative data collection, but would prefer an organization that can effectively manage both quantitative and qualitative data collection and preparation for analysis.

Specific Skills and Experience Required:

1.Demonstrated experience with management of large research projects
2.At least 10 years experience with large-scale, nationally-representative quantitative data collection and management including: developing sampling frame; enumeration; administration of questionnaire; data entry and cleaning
3.At least 10 years experience training enumerators and supervising data collection in the field
4.Extensive experience managing qualitative data collection and preparation for analysis including: purposive sampling, skilled interviewing, facilitation of participatory focus groups, expert note-taking, high quality transcription and translation
5.Demonstrated experience with submitting research protocols for Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval
6.Access to adequate qualified personnel and equipment to conduct large scale research efforts
7.Fluency in English
8.Excellent written and oral communication skills
9.Organization/company/firm meets all mandatory local tax and regulatory obligations

Interested Candidates should submit a brief Expression of Interest to include examples of relevant experience and CVs of proposed leads for the project at http://icrw.applicantstack.com/x/detail/a25z2g16fym7.

The deadline for Expressions of Interest is June 12, but applicants are encouraged to submit by June 3, as ICRW staff are available to conduct in-person interviews in Addis Ababa on June 4 and 5