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Girl
Hub is a strategic collaboration between the Department for
International Development (DFID) and the NIKE Foundation,
designed to bring together the expertise of both organisation to
transform the lives of adolescent girls. Our aim is to shift the
social norms that hold girls back, and drive better investment
that directly benefit girls.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: GHN Monitoring, Learning and Results
Consultant
Location: Abuja
Reporting line: Girl Hub Nigeria Senior Insight and Strategy
Manager
Duration: 5 Months
Duties and Responsibilities
- The Monitoring, Learning and Results Consultant will be
required to provide short-term support, on a full-time basis,
for a number of different monitoring and research projects
currently underway and in development.
- The consultant will be expected to play a key role in
guiding GHN staff and other relevant stakeholders across
design, training, quality assurance and project management
aspects of the work.
Key Deliverables Include:
- Act as M&E lead for the mid-year review of a programme
of work being delivered with INGO partners.
- Responsibilities to include commissioning and managing
fieldwork agency, overseeing effective design of sampling,
qualitative methods and tools, training fieldwork agency,
quality assuring fieldwork through field visits, reviewing
development of analysis and reporting frameworks, and quality
assuring reporting.
- Act as M&E lead on a curriculum review for a
partner-led Safe Spaces programme.
- Supervise and monitor a local research agency in the
delivery of training and fieldwork support/supervision for
girls utilising mobile technology for a participatory peer
research project.
- Provide technical research support to the Girl Hub Nigeria
Insights team, and support the implementation of any additional
monitoring, evaluation and learning processes and systems as
required
- Ensure all monitoring, evaluation and research activities
are conducted in line with agreed ethical principles, and
consistently promote downwards accountability to beneficiaries.
- Ensure all monitoring, evaluation and research activities
are conducted in line with Girl Hub’s girl safeguarding policy.
- Work with required GHN London staff on a regular basis and
promote programme and organisational knowledge management and
learning
- Participate and contribute in Team meetings, off-sites and
the Country Strategy Planning process as required.
- This will include contributing to training workshops,
feeding into design of research study, conducting field visits
to quality assure and ensure girl safeguarding standards are
being met.
- Manage up to three individual consultants delivering
research studies that will feed into Girl Hub strategy and
planning between March and May 2015, ensuring that research
frameworks and reporting are co-ordinated and complimentary
across studies.
- The MLR consultant will facilitate quality assurance review
and revision of reports to bring to completion.
- Manage monitoring and reporting for in-house training and
development activities
- Support information gathering and facilitation of any
required country visits from external consultants working on
Girl Hub Nigeria research and evaluation activities.
Reporting:
- The MLR Consultant will report directly to the GHN Country
Director.
- At the end of the assignment, the Consultant will prepare a
report documenting progress and achievements against the
above-cited outputs/results.
- The report will also provide comprehensive handover notes
for any ongoing MLR work.
- This report will be in addition to any project-related
reporting required as part of completion of the deliverables
outlined above.
- The consultant will also take technical direction, where
required, from the Girl Hub London MLR team and will join
fortnightly global MLR calls to report on GHN MLR activities
and progress.
Required Skills and Experience
The incumbent is expected to possess the following
qualifications:
- Post-graduate degree in the Social Sciences, International
Development or other related field.
- Seven to ten years work experience, including consulting in
M&E areas directly related to GHN’s objectives.
- Proficiency in English with excellent oral and written
communications skills.
- Experience quality assuring research in the field and
willingness to undertake field visits to locations in Lagos,
Abuja, Kano and Kaduna (security conditions permitting).
- Fully proficient in the following software applications:
Word, Excel, and Power point.
- Passionate commitment to realizing the potential of girls.
- Experience coordinating research programmes and managing
fieldwork teams;
- Experience with participatory approaches;
- Experience with qualitative research methods and data
analysis;
- Ability to provide guidance to consultants in the delivery
of research and field work
- Strong communication and organizational skills, and the
ability to act as a ‘super translator’ working with people from
different professional disciplines in the private and public
sectors;
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Application Deadline 9th March
2015