Analyze your CV for Local Evaluators at Asylum Access

About Asylum AccessAsylum Access is a leading refugee human rights organization headquartered in Oakland, CA with substantial operations in five countries plus partnerships in additional countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Asylum Access is the only global organization working to make human rights a reality for refugees in first countries of refuge. Our unique combination of five integrated strategies provides grassroots assistance and changes the legal landscape for refugees and their host communities. By helping refugees assert their rights, we are putting power back into their hands. Our work transforms the traditional approach of endless humanitarian handouts to a sustainable solution that gives refugees the tools to provide for themselves and make choices about their own lives. Asylum Access envisions a world where refugees are seen as people with rights, not just people with needs. Asylum Access believes that by empowering refugees to assert their human rights, we can create effective, lasting solutions for refugees around the world.Project DescriptionC is embarking on an independent evaluation of its innovative national model of refugee response, utilizing a combination of legal empowerment and policy advocacy strategies. The scope of the evaluation will be to understand our national-level impact through both legal empowerment and policy change strategies. We will use our work in Ecuador, Thailand, and Tanzania as proxies for our work elsewhere.Position DescriptionsAsylum Access seeks local evaluators for our legal empowerment and policy advocacy strategies in Quito, Ecuador; Bangkok, Thailand and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Each evaluator will:Help refine evaluation questions and tools. While key evaluation questions and tools will be defined on a global level, the local evaluators will play a key role in adapting these to fit the local context and in ensuring that they are successful.Collect data. Local evaluators will be fully responsible for in-country data collection, including any stakeholder interviews, surveys, focus groups, etc.Analyze and report on findings. Local evaluators will analyze results from their data collection and report back to the larger evaluation team. Additionally, evaluators will contribute to the process of synthesizing findings across geographical locations.Legal Empowerment Evaluator QualificationsGood rapport with the refugee community or significant experience working with vulnerable populationsSpeaks the relevant language(s) and/or substantial experience working with interpretersExperience and skill in facilitating group conversations and feedback, conducting successful interviews and leading focus groupsDemonstrated analytical skills; able to synthesize data from many different sources to draw conclusionsStrong communication skills; able to communicate evaluation purpose, process, and conclusions to a variety of audiencesComfortable working within a global evaluation teamPolicy Advocacy Evaluator QualificationsStrong understanding of the basic legal environment for refugeesSpeaks the relevant language(s)Substantial experience in advocacy spaces, including working with government stakeholders and multilateral institutionsExperience and skill in conducting successful, informative interviewsStrong communication skills; able to communicate evaluation purpose, process, and conclusions to a variety of audiencesPrevious work evaluating advocacy programming a substantial advantageComfortable working within a global evaluation teamEvaluation TeamThe independent evaluation is being conducted by Carlisle Levine and her company, BLE Solutions. Carlisle has worked with clients such as InterAction, Catholic Relief Services, USAID and The Mastercard Foundation. She has 18 years of evaluation experience with a focus on advocacy evaluation. The evaluation team will also include various members of the Asylum Access leadership team and global staff, evaluation interns, and the local evaluators.Position type: This is a contract positionContract Period: Tentatively March 19 – July 30, 2018HOW TO APPLY:Send resume and cover letter to apply@asylumaccess.org. Within the cover letter, please provide available start date and the number of hours per week and location, as well as which evaluation role (legal empowerment or policy advocacy) is of greatest interest.