Research and Evaluation Consultant – Endline Evaluation (Remote)

Position: Research and Evaluation Consultant
Location: Remote – based in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, or European Union
Duration: August 2025 – November 2025 (30 working days)
Deliverables: Evaluation Report, Policy Brief, and Presentation Deck
Application Deadline: Not specified

About World Bicycle Relief

World Bicycle Relief (WBR) is a mission-driven global non-profit social enterprise that empowers people in marginalized communities with life-changing bicycles. Since inception, WBR has distributed over 900,000 purpose-designed Buffalo Bicycles and trained more than 3,250 community-based mechanics, enabling access to education, health services, and economic opportunities.

Through the Mobilized Communities (MC) Program, WBR provides bicycles to schoolchildren, health workers, and entrepreneurs in low-income regions to improve mobility, education, and livelihoods.

Project Background

Between 2020 and 2025, WBR implemented the MC Program in Hwange, Zimbabwe, distributing over 6,000 bicycles. As the program concludes, WBR seeks to conduct an endline evaluation to:

• Assess patterns of bicycle usage among recipients.

• Evaluate the impact of bicycle ownership on education, health, mobility, and livelihoods.

• Determine changes in socio-economic conditions of program beneficiaries.

• Examine sustainability of the local bicycle ecosystem (repairs, spare parts, mechanics).

• Identify successes, challenges, and lessons learned during program implementation.

The evaluation will compare endline data with baseline surveys and use both quantitative (household surveys) and qualitative (FGDs, key informant interviews) methods.

Scope of Work

The Consultant will:

• Review internal and external literature on bicycle mobility and related interventions.

• Analyse household survey data (panel and cross-sectional), and relevant administrative datasets.

• Provide technical support to Country M&E Managers during data collection, including training enumerators remotely and ensuring data quality.

• Lead quantitative data cleaning, preparation, and analysis.

• Support or lead qualitative data analysis.

• Draft detailed evaluation reports, research briefs, and presentations.

• Collaborate with WBR’s evaluation team for dissemination of results.

Timeline and Deliverables

• Duration: Up to 30 working days (August–November 2025).

• Outputs:

  • Comprehensive Evaluation Report.

  • Research/Policy Brief.

  • Presentation Deck highlighting key findings and implications.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Development Studies, Social Sciences, or related field.

• Minimum 3 years of experience in quantitative research and advanced data analysis (household surveys).

• Proficiency in Stata for statistical analysis.

• Strong track record in drafting research reports.

• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite.

• Prior work in NGOs, academic institutions, or think tanks.

• Experience with mobility, education, rural livelihoods, or health-related research is an advantage.

• Experience using survey platforms such as KoboToolbox is preferred.