Country: Lebanon
Closing date: 18 Jan 2016
SPSS Trainer, Quality Instruction Towards Access and Basic
Education Improvement (QITABI) Project, Lebanon
Company Profile:
MSI is an international development firm in the Washington, D.C. metro area with a 30-year history of helping to deliver results across the developing world. In 2008, we became part of Coffey International Limited. Since that time, we have greatly expanded our ability to respond seamlessly and flexibly to client needs with Coffey's international development offices in the United Kingdom and Australia. We operate in some of the most challenging political and economic climates in the world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and South Sudan. MSI currently employs 800 development experts in the fields of public sector management, monitoring and evaluation, governance, and anticorruption. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.
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Project Summary: **
MSI is a key partner in the Quality Instruction Towards Access and Basic education Improvement (QITABI) Project, led by World Learning. QITABI will run from September 2014 through September 2018 and combines a crisis response and development approach to expand equitable access to education and improve learning outcomes for children. MSI's role is in four areas: 1) collecting and analyzing data on children's reading levels by implementing early grade reading assessments; 2) conducting surveys on teacher's knowledge of reading instruction; 3) support the design and implementation of an early warning system for children at risk of developing difficulties in reading; and 4) holding policy workshops based on the findings of the reading assessments and the reading instruction surveys.
\ Only Lebanese citizens are eligible to apply **
Position Summary:
MSI will contract an SPSS trainer to prepare and conduct a 3-day training on the use of the SPSS software package to conduct quantitative analyses applied to the field of education. Prior to the training, the contractor will work with the MSI team to finalize the training content. The training will include hands-on applications running descriptive and inferential statistical tests using SPSS software package. The training will take place in Beirut on 14, 15, 16 January 2016. The SPSS trainer will be contracted for approximately 6 days, including 3 days for preparation and wrap-up and 3 days for the training.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare training content and materials in consultation with the MSI project's team.
- Conduct a 3-day hands-on training on running descriptive and inferential statistical tests using
- SPSS software package.
Qualifications:
- Master's or PhD degree in statistics or relevant discipline required.
- Advanced knowledge of the SPSS software package required.
- Advanced knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistics as applied to the fields of education and the social sciences required.
- Extensive experience providing training on quantitative analysis using SPSS required.
- Reading and speaking fluency in Arabic and in English required; knowledge of French preferred.
- Experience working with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education.
Please apply by December 23th 2015
Only candidates who have been selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.
MSI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer.
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