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Consultant – Baseline Assessment is needed at Save the Children Nigeria
JOB TITLE: Consultant – Baseline Assessment – Education For Crisis – Affected Girls (ECG) in Borno and Yobe States Consultancy
Ref No: 200002SM
LOCATION: Maiduguri, Borno
Employee Status: Fixed Term
Child Safeguarding
- Level 3: The post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
Qualifications of Consultant(s)
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in coordinating and administering baseline/endline studies, including gender-sensitive data collection and entry, data management and storage, preferably for international non-profit organizations or multilateral agencies with preference for studies in education;
- Demonstrated experience in training, facilitation and supervising survey enumerators and data entry team to collect and enter data as per high quality standards;
- Demonstrated experience in establishing cloud-based systems and working with smart phones or tablets;
- Demonstrated experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis, particularly as it relates to social norms i.e. power dynamics between male and female members, decision making, access to and control of resources, and others;
- Knowledge and experience with adolescent programming, specifically primary education, social norm change, policies and services systems;
- Knowledge of and experience with gender equality and measuring gender sensitive/transformative programming;
- Ability to produce high-quality work under tight timeframes;
- Ability to work jointly with the Save the Children Nigeria office and integrate feedback as required;
- Prior experience working on evaluations for Canadian Government (GAC/CIDA/DFATD) considered an advantage.
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Application Package and Procedures
- Applications for the consultancy must include following components, for a total of no more than 15 pages (not including appendices, CVs, etc.):
Detailed technical proposal clearly demonstrating a thorough understanding of this ToR and including the following:
- Demonstrate previous experience in coordinating and administering studies of a similar nature, including experience with the implementation of data collection activities that are gender-responsive, adolescent-friendly and respect child safeguarding principles;
- Propose a plan for surveying the projected sample population, with adequate consideration for timing of household surveys, travel cost per team of enumerators, supervision of enumeration teams, and quality control;
- Propose steps to be taken for enumerator training, piloting/translation of tools, data collection, spot checking, data entry and management;
- A proposed timeframe detailing activities and a schedule/work plan (including a Gantt chart) with the proposed number of enumerators, size of enumerator teams and total number of days in the field bearing in mid the tight deliverable timeframe; and
- Team composition (including sex-disaggregation) and level of effort of each proposed team member, if applicable.
A financial proposal with a detailed breakdown of costs for the study:
- Consultancy fees/costs for all team members
- Enumerator training and data collection expenses
- Administrative expenses
- Curriculum Vitae(s) of all proposed staff outlining relevant experience.
- Names and contact information of two references who can be contacted regarding relevant experience.
- A copy of a previous report of a similar nature undertaken on: a) baseline study; OR b) endline study.
- A Consulting Firm profile (if applicable).
The proposal will be scored on both technical (methodology) and financial (budget) aspects weighted at 70% and 30% respectively. Complete applications should be attached to your application.
Note
- Due to the volume of applications received, Save the Children may not provide feedback to all applicants.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
- Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed as received. Save the Children reserves the right to change the closing date, if considered necessary.
Job Features
Job Category | Consulting / Business Strategy/ Planning |
Deadline | 11th July, 2020. |