BACKGROUND 
The International Youth Foundation (IYF) invests in the extraordinary potential of young people.  Founded in 1990, IYF builds and maintains a worldwide community of businesses, governments, and civil society organizations committed to empowering youth to be healthy, productive, and engaged citizens.  IYF programs are catalysts of change that help young people obtain a quality education, gain employability skills, make healthy choices, and improve their communities.  To learn more please visit www.iyfnet.org. 

IYF is seeking consultants and technical specialists to support a multi-sector youth assessment in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).  The assessment will be designed to provide holistic information on the conditions of young people and the status of youth-serving infrastructure in DRC. 

Consultants and technical specialists will participate on an assessment team with local researchers in the DRC.  Cross-sector field research, using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, will include areas such as education, livelihoods, economic growth, agriculture, health, democracy and governance, technology, and local institutional capacity.  Consultants and technical specialists will support the design and adaptation of assessment instruments appropriate to the DRC context, development of analytic approaches, and data collection and analysis.  Working with assessment team members, consultants and technical specialists will assist in the preparation of the cross-sectoral youth assessment country report.  The report will provide concise summations of current literature on youth development in the DRC and findings from assessment research in the field.    

DELIVERABLES:

• Support design and adaptation of youth assessment instruments and development of analytic approaches, including a Research Plan, for the youth assessment in the DRC. 
• Through field research, collect primary data on youth development using qualitative and quantitative instruments administered to youth, youth-service providers, private sector, public sector, and local communities.  Conduct rapid surveys to collect demographic and substantive information that can be generalized across the DRC.  Conduct interviews, focus groups, and other exercises to capture youth and stakeholder perspectives and local knowledge of assets and needs.
• Compile and analyze secondary data on a core set of youth indicators (e.g., education, economic growth, democracy/governance, agriculture, health), disaggregated by geography, gender, ethnicity, race, and other variables.  Compile and analyze information and evaluations on current and past USAID-funded youth development programs as well as other donor-funded and public sector youth development programs.  
• Working with the program team, analyze quantitative and qualitative data collected and contribute to drafts and produce final versions of youth assessment report.
• Train local enumerators / field data collection teams (including youth) on the accurate use of data collection instruments, and oversee the accurate documentation of expanded notes from interviews and focus groups.
• Support the program team in analyzing and documenting good practices, lessons learned, trends, and cross-cutting policy and implementation issues. 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s Degree in Economics, Statistics, Public Policy, Education, Conflict, International Development, Social Sciences or a related field.
• Experience in conflict environments and fragile or transitional countries.
• Prior knowledge and/or experience working in the DRC.
• Proven experience in survey design and field research, qualitative research methodologies, statistics, data analysis.  
• Oral and written fluency in English and French is required. Excellent writing skills required.   
• Ability to travel internationally for up to 6 weeks at a time.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 8 years experience working in the field of international development, preferably youth development, or related fields.
• Experience working with USAID-funded programs.
• Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa.  
• Knowledge of / experience with programs that support youth employment and/or social services (e.g. education, health).
• Knowledge of SPSS and other data analysis software, such as Atlas.ti/NVivo, strongly preferred.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Please send the following documents to jobs@iyfnet.org with “DRC CONSULTANTS” in the subject box:

1. Completed bio data form. Click here to download this form.
2. Cover Letter
3. Resume