Project Concern International (PCI),Final Evaluation Consultant Jobs in Tanzania

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• Improve
  the quality of literacy instruction through providing school supplies,
  establishing libraries, distributing and producing reading materials, and
  training teachers and school administrators;
• Improve
  attentiveness and reduce short-term hunger through providing school meals,
  developing partnerships with farmer groups to supply food to schools, and
  establishing school gardens;
• Improve
  student attendance through better health and nutrition practices and
  increasing community understanding of the benefits of education;
• Improve
  knowledge of health and hygiene practices through health screening and
  school health education;
• Increase
  knowledge of safe food preparation and storage practices through training;
• Increase
  access to clean water and sanitation services through the construction of
  latrines and water systems;
• Increase
  access to food preparation and storage tools and equipment through the
  construction of energy-saving stoves

• Assess
  whether the project has achieved the expected results as outlined in the
  results framework;
• Assess
  the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of
  project interventions and strategies;
• Measure
  project outcomes and assess attribution (to the extent possible based on
  counterfactual data);
• Assess
  the implementation of the midterm evaluation recommendations;
• Identify
  lessons learned through the maturation of the project with an emphasis on
  identifying key strategies, methodologies and factors that contributed to
  and/or inhibited success, focusing on areas that could be applied to
  similar programming;
• Provide
  concrete recommendations for future strategies (i.e. FFE III);
• Assess
  effectiveness of using Volunteer Student Aides (VSAs) in changing
  knowledge and attitudes of students and parents/communities on the
  importance of education, use of library, health and nutrition issues, etc.

• Design
  the Evaluation Methodology (framework, analysis plan, report outline,
  etc.)
• Update
  or create data collection tools, as appropriate/needed
• Quality
  Assurance Plan
• Draft
  Comprehensive Evaluation Report
• Interim
  Draft Report
• Final
  Comprehensive Evaluation Report
• Presentation
  of key findings to PCI management and other key stakeholders, including
  FFE II participants and beneficiaries
• A
  Final Presentation of the Evaluation, in addition to the earlier
  presentation of initial key findings.
• Highlights
  Paper
• Complete,
  cleaned evaluation data sets with corresponding documentation/data library

• Academic
  background in social / health sciences or related field; minimum of
  Masters Degree
• Extensive
  experience in leading project evaluations using a range of quantitative
  and qualitative data collection and analysis methods
• Experience
  with administering the EGRA tool and analyzing the results
• Experience
  in leading evaluations in the areas of international development/public
  health; experience in evaluating school feeding programs strongly
  preferred
• Experience
  in the evaluation of projects funded by U.S. government/USDA strongly
  preferred
• Knowledge
  of Tanzania national legislation relating to health and education
• Demonstrable
  capacity to deliver high quality outputs within the proposed timeframe
• Verbal
  and written fluency in English; verbal and written fluency in Kiswahili
  and the ability to lead primary data collection in Kiswahili strongly
  preferred
• Professional
  experience leading evaluations in Africa; experience in Tanzania strongly
  preferred
• Ability
  to travel to the Mara region of Tanzania during the proposed evaluation
  timeline

• Interested
  candidates should submit the following by June 15, 2016:
• Letter
  of Interest describing qualifications
• Curriculum
  Vitae of key members of the evaluation team and organizational description
  for companies
• A
  list of previously-conducted evaluations
• Qualified
  applicants should e-mail a cover letter and the above required application
  documents to PCI Tanzania MLE Manager, ckapela@pcitanzania.org , and PCI
  Tanzania at info@pcitanzania.org . Include the phrase ‘FFE II Final
  Evaluation’ in the subject heading.
• Qualified
  applicants will be sent the full Terms of Reference for the Request for
  Proposals to develop and submit a proposal for this consultancy (with a
  deadline of June 30, 2016 for receiving the full proposal).
• For
  any questions regarding this Request for Letters of Interest and
  Proposals, contact: jsimpson@pciglobal.org , and ckapela@pcitanzania.org .