Mid-term Evaluation Consultant
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Job Description
The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Save the Children International seeks to always be a child safe organization through fulfilling its obligations to the community and through programme implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and to improve the living standards of the child.
Female applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Position: Mid-term Evaluation Consultant
Location: Sa’ada
Grade: 4 B
Contract Length: 1.5 months
This post is based on Sa’ada, so candidates from Sa’ada will take the priority and preference.
The Opportunity:
Girls and boys of school age (between 6-17) are safe and protected from violence, natural and everyday hazards and conflict in and around schools and have access to safe and inclusive learning environments.
Project Overview
The DANIDA SPA Education and Child Protection Programme in Yemen is being implemented in Sa’ada Governorate which is one of the areas most affected by the conflict. As per the latest Education Cluster data, 273.873 school-aged children (53% boys) are in need of humanitarian assistance. Humanitarian actors have a limited presence in Sa’ada due to active fighting and access challenges – frontline. This has led to very few national and international organisations working in education and Child Protection (CP) programmes despite massive needs in the governorate. Based on the Education Cluster severity analysis, all districts (except Razih) in Sa`ada are considered priority 4 with a total number of 139,519 school-aged boys and girls in acute need.
The program outcome indicators:
1. Local civil society, local authorities, community members and school personnel are engaged in processes aiming to develop, strengthen, and implement policies and systems for school safety and protection.
2. Teachers, students, parents, school administration and relevant duty bearers take responsibility for school facilities’ standards of safety, protection and management aimed at protecting children - in and around schools.
3. Teachers, children and community members have increased capacity to develop safe and protective environments and promote positive relationships in and around schools
4. Children with child protection concerns have access to multi sector services and lifesaving information through coordinated case management services and referral mechanisms
5. Girls’ and boys’ voices are considered and echoed in decision-making process by children, humanitarian actors and other stakeholders.
This Mid-term evaluation, through comparison to the baseline findings, monitoring reports and the progress achieved in terms of the IPTT, will come up with an analysis of actions’ impacts on beneficiaries and sound recommendations on how to improve Save the Children programming while maximizing benefits to the supported communities.
SCOPE OF STUDY
This study will be conducted at the third year of the project (2024), to assess the project outcomes and ensure to which extent that the project met its impact as stipulated in the logframe. It will be built upon the baseline results, and benchmark indicators assessment and/or IPTT achievements, Activity completion reports and any other relevant reports.
The objectives of this mid-term evaluation are to:
WHY:
- Assess the extent to which the project met its outcomes as stipulated in the project Logframe.
- Assess the extent of which the project accessed girls, boys, women and men equally in the project activities and services.
- Assess the extent to which project implementation progress contributes and meet the Safe School Common Approach guidelines and standards.
- Assess which approaches and activities are working well and where we should make changes.
- Assess the satisfaction of girls, boys and their caregivers from the case management intervention against the case assessment and plans and their perception of how the project contributed to their needs; and
- Highlight lessons learned (including any unintended outcomes) and recommendations to feedback into current and future SC programming.
- Assess how and why the intervention may have made a difference to the targeted women, girls, boys and men (separately).
WHAT:
- The Mid-term evaluation will consider all above objectives against program implementation in the targeted schools in Sa’ada governorate.
- The Mid-term evaluation is planned to cover the assessment of the implemented activities throughout the project pervious period (2022 and 2023).
WHO & HOW:
The primary audiences of this evaluation are the donor DANIDA, Save the Children Member Office and Country Office, Ministry of Education and other project stakeholders, who will use the assessment of program outcomes to inform their evidence-based programming and learning agendas, as well as the evaluation recommendations to inform relevant programmatic and operational processes as well as future program design.
Area of Evaluation | Overarching objectives/questions |
Implementation/ |
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Outcome |
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Impact |
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The selected consultant will be required to undertake external consultation with the HoM/CO MEAL specialist and the PDQ TAs to further refine the Study questions.
Key Study Questions:
Below questions are to facilitate and guide defining the methodology, as well as to be more focused in study findings.
Criteria |
Key Study Questions |
Process |
Outcome |
Impact |
Accountability |
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X |
X |
X |
Child participation |
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X |
X |
X |
Child rights programming |
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X |
X |
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Safe programming |
|
X |
X |
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Equity and equality |
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X |
X |
Fidelity |
|
X |
X |
X |
Impact* |
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|
|
X |
Inclusion |
|
X |
X |
X |
Process |
|
X |
X |
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Reach and uptake |
|
X |
X |
X |
Replicability and scale |
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|
X |
X |
Satisfaction and experience |
|
X |
X |
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Gender sensitivity |
|
X |
X |
X |
The evaluation will be based on the selective OECD-DAC criteria and is also expected to consider Save the Children quality benchmarks for high-impact responses and programs.
EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
The study deliverables and tentative timeline (subject to the commencement date of the study) are outlined below. Head of MEAL and MEAL specialist will agree on final milestones and deadlines at the inception phase.
Deliverables and Tentative Timeline
Deliverable / Milestones |
Timeline |
The consultant is contracted and commences work |
7.8.2024 |
The consultant will facilitate a workshop with the relevant stakeholders at the commencement of the project to develop the inception report. |
11.8.2024 |
The consultant will submit an inception report* in line with the provided template, including:
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15.8.2024 |
Ethics submission (if applicable): Should approval from a Human Research Ethics Committee be required, an ethics submission should include:
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18.8.2024 |
Final data collection tools (in the report language):
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22.8.2024 |
An [Power Point Presentation] including a summary of formative findings from the study. The focus will be on:
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25.8.2024 |
A Study Report* (Draft Version – template available if useful though external actors may want to use theirs) including the following elements:
A consolidated set of feedback from key stakeholders will be provided by Save The Children within 1 weeks of the submission of the draft report. |
30.8.2024 |
Data and analyses including all encrypted raw data, databases and analysis outputs based on gender, age and disability |
6.9.2024 |
Final Study Report* incorporating feedback from consultation on the Draft Study Report |
16.9.2024 |
Knowledge translation materials:
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31.9.2024
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The following qualifications and skills are expected of the lead consultancy:
Assigned staff must have:
- An advanced university degree in Psychology, Education and systems management or related field.
- At least 7 years’ experience in the area of Child Protection and Education.
- Technical expertise in evaluation research, preferably integrated interventions mainly Child Protection and Education.
- Technical expertise in evaluation cross-cutting areas in interventions such as gender sensitivity, social equity, disability inclusion and child participation.
- Previous experience in MEAL, including conducting Mid-term and end-of-project evaluations for large-scale projects.
- Thorough understanding of data collection methods
- Strong skills in quantitative and qualitative methods
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills;
- Fluency in English is a must, fluency in Arabic (preferred) is an added advantage;
- Experience/knowledge on gender-sensitive programming
- Understanding of child safeguarding and child participation procedures
- Experience of working in the middle east and/ or Yemen is a plus
- The consultant should get the permission from SCHAMCHA to conduct the midterm evaluation.
Expected outputs
The expected outputs of this evaluation are as follows:
a) Inception report (not exceeding 30 pages)
b) methods and tools
c) data sets
d) Final report. (with an executive summary of max 2 pages)
e) Power point presentation of the findings (not exceeding 15 slides)
f) Presentation of findings to key stakeholders
The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Application Information:
DIVERSITY BELIEF
Save the Children International is committed to create a truly inclusive, effective and representative organisational culture, encouraging equity and diversity among its employees and eliminating unlawful discrimination. We want our people to be truly representative of all sections of society. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, disabilities, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientation etc., including a range of different experiences and capabilities helps us understand, represent and serve our beneficiaries better. We are guided by our values in everything we do, and recognise that being a diverse and inclusive employer helps us fulfil our responsibility to make a difference for children around the world.
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations on this Link. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers/apply
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
“Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer. Women are strongly encouraged to apply”
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