Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst Living Goods - Kenya

Position Overview
Big data is making headlines, but demonstrating its efficacy in boosting profits and improving impact has been elusive. Living Goods is entering a period of rapid growth and we are looking for someone to analyze our vital financial and social impact data to drive superior strategy and results. At LG we drive management decisions with quality field data. We collect extensive data on product sales, mobile marketing, and household health. The ideal candidate will bring a blended background of strong private and social sector experience that aligns with our mission. We are particularly looking for candidates with experience in monitoring and evaluation in the social sector, strong rock solid data / financial analysis skills, and relational database know how.

Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Economist, and The Huffington Post. Check out these articles and more on our press page.

Responsibilities

• Data Systems Management: Oversee design and development of Living Good’s data warehouse incorporating sales, health and mobile marketing data.
• Reporting and Analysis: Generate key management reports to drive strategy, decision-making and improvements to Living Goods’ impact and profitability.
• Strategy: Drive LG’s overall impact strategy through analysis of secondary and field research
• Research / M&E: Advise and support LG’s overall impact, monitoring and evaluation strategy. Design, implement, and coordinate high quality research to support strategy, market research, operations research, and impact evaluation. This will include designing surveys, supervising data collection, managing external research firms, and conducting data analysis that yields actionable recommendations and robust results.
• Data Collection: Ensure consistent accurate  and high quality collection of data from diverse sources

Desired Skills & Experience

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in MIS/IT, business, math, social sciences, or statistics preferred.
• Must be MS Excel expert user.
• Significant experience with data software:  e.g., Relational databases, MS Access, STATA, SQL, SPSS. Well versed in data analysis methods and statistics including regression analysis, pivot tables, and cluster analysis, etc.
• Experience designing research studies including customers surveys, randomized trials, etc.

Company Description

About Living Goods

We believe that the poor are not helpless victims; they are resilient entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers.  We empower the poor through our networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, fortified foods, water filters, clean cookstoves, and solar lights. Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in the developing world, through networks of franchised micro-entrepreneurs who leverage Living Goods’ brand, buying power and mobile marketing tools to deliver vital products at accessible prices to the people who need them most. By combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health, wealth, and productivity of the world’s poor.

Read more about our innovative organization as featured in The New York Times, The Economist, Fast Company, and NPR. www.livinggoods.org/news-media/news/

Life at Living Goods

Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of high-impact product distribution in the developing world. We think big but we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods you will have the chance to work with an extraordinary team of changemakers to conceive and test innovative ideas every day. If you work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, and if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you will fit right in at Living Goods. See www.livinggoods.org/principles.

Compensation

A highly competitive salary benchmarked to successful multinational companies operating in Kenya, plus benefits package including health insurance, vacation and bonus opportunity.  The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for others.

How to Apply

Please submit a single file with resume/CV and cover letter to jobs@livinggoods.org. Kindly include:

• How you heard about this position
• Current and desired salary
• Optional - Samples of any work of which you are proud
• Please include “Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst – [insert last name]” in the subject line.