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JOB DESCRIPTION : 

The survey analyst will conduct online interviews with school directors from different regions of Armenia, under the supervision of the project manager.

RESPONSIBILITIES : 

The tasks of the survey analyst include, in particular:
- Participating in a training program and engaging with the team to fully understand the methodology, which consists of assessing practices against a grid and assigning a score to each response;
- Checking in with the supervisor and team daily and participating in weekly calibration team exercise;
- Conducting interviews according to pre-arranged schedule, under the supervision of the team supervisor;
- Listening in to other team members’ interviews to ensure consistency of scoring within teams;
- Filling-in interview and reporting forms.

The main products to be delivered by the Survey Analyst will be:
1. Interview logs.
2. Filled-in forms for survey and reporting.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS : 

- Undergraduate degree in related areas such as social sciences or education. Previous experience conducting surveys (in any format) is preferred;
- Fluency in Armenian and English;
- Availability to work 6-8 hours daily during the period from September 15 to November 30;
- The ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing;
- The ability to work as part of a team;
- Demonstrated ability to listen and respectfully solicit multiple points of view;
- Persistence and resilience to reach the job goals.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES : 

All interested candidates are welcome to send their CVs and a cover letter in English to: *********@*********.***

Please clearly mention in your application letter that you learned of this job opportunity through Career Center and mention the URL of its website - www.careercenter.am. Thanks.

ABOUT : 

Despite global calls for improvements in education, progress towards learning for all is slow. This deficit is particularly pronounced for disadvantaged children. But why do some students learn more in some schools than others? While there are many contributing factors at system, school, and household-level, one consideration receiving growing attention is school management - the processes and practices used by principals day-to-day as they run their schools (World Development Report 2018). Armenia faces a key challenge in accounting for the role of management practices in the performance of their education system and ensuring that school principals are accountable for the quality of the management practices they implement: it is difficult to measure school management accurately and cost-effectively at scale. While the quality of management practices has been shown to be an important determinant of school performance in many countries, there has not yet been a consensus on which instrument can best captures the quality of management practices in schools in a way that is both accurate and scalable.
This ASA would support Armenia in developing a set of instruments measuring management concepts in different ways, to be tested through a survey experiment.
The Armenian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports (MoESCS) is currently undertaking a revision of the career framework for school principals and is interested in learning more about potential ways to measure the quality of management practices in Armenia and to evaluate the work of school principals. The MoESCS will gain from the World Bank's support in this area, within the broader framework of the ongoing general education reforms in Armenia.