Remote Senior Evaluation Methodologist

Integrated Business & Technical Consultants; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Integrated Business & Technical Consultants (IBTCI) is seeking a Senior Evaluation Methodologist / Statistician to lead quantitative design, sampling, and analyses for Livelihoods projects. The role emphasizes feasible, ethical quasi-experimental approaches over rigorous RCTs, with multi-country and cross-project comparability in mind.

Remote with limited international travel, involving collaboration across time zones and with project teams in diverse settings.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of professional experience in evaluation methodology, statistics, econometrics, survey research, experimental or quasi-experimental design, or applied quantitative research.
• Demonstrated expertise in sampling, survey design, power or precision calculations, and analysis of complex survey or program data.
• Demonstrated experience with quasi-experimental methods such as difference-in-differences, interrupted time series, matching, or comparable causal-inference approaches.
• Advanced proficiency in SPSS and/or Stata, including reproducible syntax and quality review of statistical analysis.
• Experience designing multi-country or multi-site instruments and harmonized indicators for cross-project or cross-country comparison.
• Experience developing and testing instrument reliability and validity, including inter‑rater reliability.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions, assumptions, limitations, and findings to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead the quantitative methodology for standardized livelihoods framework and project evaluations, ensuring alignment of questions, indicators, designs, instruments, samples, and analyses.
• Develop project-specific tiers of rigor and recommend feasible designs based on budget, baseline availability, and operational realities.
• Design ethical comparison-group and quasi-experimental strategies for larger projects when feasible.
• Develop sampling frames, stratification, clustering, sample-size and weighting calculations, nonresponse strategies, replacement rules.
• Design and review outcome surveys, checklists, indicators, response scales, and quantitative components of scorecards.
• Oversee inter-rater reliability testing and select appropriate statistics; set benchmarks and revision rules.
• Prepare statistical analysis plans and reproducible syntax; conduct data cleaning, descriptive and inferential analyses, regression, subgroup and sensitivity analyses.
• Work with data-management staff to establish validation rules, data dictionaries, and secure transfer procedures.
• Contribute methods and findings to evaluation plans, reports, scorecards, and presentations; explain complex methods clearly.

Skills

Evaluation methodology

Statistics

Econometrics

Survey design

Quasi-experimental design

SPSS

Stata

Cross-country instruments

Data cleaning

Clear communication

Education

Advanced degree in statistics, econometrics, evaluation, economics, quantitative social science, survey methodology

Tools

SPSS

Stata

Job description

Integrated Business & Technical Consultants (IBTCI) is seeking a Senior Evaluation Methodologist / Statistician to lead quantitative design, sampling, and analyses for Livelihoods projects. The role emphasizes feasible, ethical quasi-experimental approaches over rigorous RCTs, with multi-country and cross-project comparability in mind.

Remote with limited international travel, involving collaboration across time zones and with project teams in diverse settings.