About Asylum Access

Asylum Access is a leading refugee human rights organization headquartered in Oakland, CA with substantial operations in five countries plus partnerships in additional countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Asylum Access is the only global organization working to make human rights a reality for refugees in first countries of refuge. Our unique combination of five integrated strategies provides grassroots assistance and changes the legal landscape for refugees and their host communities. By helping refugees assert their rights, we are putting power back into their hands. Our work transforms the traditional approach of endless humanitarian handouts to a sustainable solution that gives refugees the tools to provide for themselves and make choices about their own lives. Asylum Access envisions a world where refugees are seen as people with rights, not just people with needs. Asylum Access believes that by empowering refugees to assert their human rights, we can create effective, lasting solutions for refugees around the world.

Project Description

C is embarking on an independent evaluation of its innovative national model of refugee response, utilizing a combination of legal empowerment and policy advocacy strategies. The scope of the evaluation will be to understand our national-level impact through both legal empowerment and policy change strategies. We will use our work in Ecuador, Thailand, and Tanzania as proxies for our work elsewhere.

Position Descriptions

Asylum Access seeks local evaluators for our legal empowerment and policy advocacy strategies in Quito, Ecuador; Bangkok, Thailand and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Each evaluator will:

• Help refine evaluation questions and tools. While key evaluation questions and tools will be defined on a global level, the local evaluators will play a key role in adapting these to fit the local context and in ensuring that they are successful.
• Collect data. Local evaluators will be fully responsible for in-country data collection, including any stakeholder interviews, surveys, focus groups, etc.
• Analyze and report on findings. Local evaluators will analyze results from their data collection and report back to the larger evaluation team. Additionally, evaluators will contribute to the process of synthesizing findings across geographical locations.

Legal Empowerment Evaluator Qualifications

• Good rapport with the refugee community or significant experience working with vulnerable populations
• Speaks the relevant language(s) and/or substantial experience working with interpreters
• Experience and skill in facilitating group conversations and feedback, conducting successful interviews and leading focus groups
• Demonstrated analytical skills; able to synthesize data from many different sources to draw conclusions
• Strong communication skills; able to communicate evaluation purpose, process, and conclusions to a variety of audiences
• Comfortable working within a global evaluation team

Policy Advocacy Evaluator Qualifications

• Strong understanding of the basic legal environment for refugees
• Speaks the relevant language(s)
• Substantial experience in advocacy spaces, including working with government stakeholders and multilateral institutions
• Experience and skill in conducting successful, informative interviews
• Strong communication skills; able to communicate evaluation purpose, process, and conclusions to a variety of audiences
• Previous work evaluating advocacy programming a substantial advantage
• Comfortable working within a global evaluation team

Evaluation Team

The independent evaluation is being conducted by Carlisle Levine and her company, BLE Solutions. Carlisle has worked with clients such as InterAction, Catholic Relief Services, USAID and The Mastercard Foundation. She has 18 years of evaluation experience with a focus on advocacy evaluation. The evaluation team will also include various members of the Asylum Access leadership team and global staff, evaluation interns, and the local evaluators.

Position type: This is a contract position

Contract Period: Tentatively March 19 – July 30, 2018

HOW TO APPLY:
Send resume and cover letter to apply@asylumaccess.org. Within the cover letter, please provide available start date and the number of hours per week and location, as well as which evaluation role (legal empowerment or policy advocacy) is of greatest interest.