Quantitative Consultant

Itad is a leading international development consultancy providing advice to governments, foundations, multilateral agencies development finance institutes, private sector and non-profits on how to maximise the impact of their investments. We have a 40 year track record of providing our clients with the information and insight they need to make development work smarter, produce better results and improve people’s lives. Our knowledge and expertise are grouped around Practice areas including; Inclusive Growth and Climate Change, Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings, Human Development and Governance and Institutional Strengthening.

Do you want to join a want to work in the sunny (some of the time) city of Brighton? A city which is a thriving centre for the arts, festivals and concerts. Plus, we are right next to the central station with London less than an hour away by train. Join our busy and dedicated Knowledge Hub team and be part of our drive and passion for a better world and be united by a core set of strengths and values. In our office we create a collaborative work environment which includes open plan informal workspaces, meeting rooms, social spaces AND we are a dog friendly office too

Are you a Quantitative Consultant who can help make sense of data and turn it into actionable insights? Do you have a passion for data analysis, problem-solving, and client service? Do you have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner? If so, you might be the perfect fit for our team

**Location**: Brighton, hybrid **(you don’t need to be in the office every day, we work on a hybrid basis where travel to the office is expected for weekly team meetings and key company events)**

**Contract**: Permanent

**Hours**: Full time 37.5 per week

**Salary**: Circa £40,000 - £45,000 pa depending on experience

**Closing date**: Sunday 3rd December

**The Team**

The Knowledge Hub leads on knowledge management, learning, communications and branding, both within Itad and externally, and plays a key role in maintaining the technical quality of our work. Our growing, multi-disciplinary team includes monitoring and evaluation consultants and learning facilitators, as well as experts on information technology, communications, branding and design. The Knowledge Hub supports staff across Itad to effectively capture and share knowledge, as well as helping staff deliver high quality work through technical support, training and quality assurance. Externally, the Knowledge Hub leads on communications and sharing high quality, innovative MEL assignments, contributing to building the field around the use of evidence in international development.

**Purpose of the role**

As a MEL provider, quantitative skills (sampling, survey design, enumeration, data quality checks, statistical analysis, etc) are a core part of our service offer. This is delivered through a combination of our partnerships with specialist external providers and internal staff.

The purpose of this role is to help institutionalise our knowledge in this area, including building internal staff capacity and networks on quantitative methods, providing specialist support to projects, and helping develop our service offer.

**Main duties, responsibilities and expected outputs**

The main duties and responsibilities of this role are threefold:
**1.Learning and continuous improvement.** Objective: To further embed learning and continuous improvement on quantitative methods by curating, producing and sharing knowledge that builds the capacity of colleagues and the quality of our delivery. For example, on impact evaluation design, sampling and survey design, data collection and analysis. This will require co-developing a realistic programme of activities that will likely include a series of internal talks, How to Notes, Learning & Development (L&D) modules, internal wikis, videos, and other guides or toolkits (i.e., all drawing on lessons from Itad assignments).

**2. Building our service offer.** Objective: To contribute to the on-going evolution of our ‘quantitative’ service offer through thought leadership, pre-positioning and bidding. This requires sharing our learning externally (e.g. blogs, conferences, knowledge products, etc), advising on quantitative designs for bids and inception periods, plus developing our capacity to deliver (such as having an internal peer-support group, network of trusted partners, etc.). We also expect there to be opportunities to innovate by working closely with our Digital-Tech initiative (machine-learning, geo-spatial impact evaluation, data visualisation, etc.).

**3. Delivering a balanced, cross-practice portfolio**. Objective: To deliver a balanced portfolio of Itad projects that maximises the learning potential for the organisation in relation to quantitative methods, while also fulfilling an individual’s professional ambitions. This requires