Girl Hub Job in Abuja for a GHN Monitoring, Learning and Results Consultant
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:
Click here to apply online
Application Deadline 9th March 2015