End-of-Project Evaluation Consultant
ChildFund Uganda
DAC
Consultant, Baseline Evaluation
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
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Location: 🇯🇴 Jordan
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About the role
- Responsible for the complete design, execution, and reporting of the Jahez baseline evaluation, ensuring methodological rigor and alignment with project objectives.
- Coordinate closely with the Jahez Project Management Team and implementing partners (including UK Met Office, RSS, and CAN Jordan) throughout all phases of the evaluation.
- Inception phase: conduct desk review of project documents and literature, develop evaluation design, sampling strategy, tools, and work plan, and submit an Inception Report for review and approval.
- Field data collection: lead household surveys, focus group discussions (FGDs), and key informant interviews (KIIs) in Irbid, Ramtha, and Al Azraq; oversee observation and documentation of environmental and institutional contexts.
- Data analysis and reporting: analyze quantitative and qualitative data, ensure triangulation of findings, prepare and submit Draft Baseline Report, present results to the Project Management Team and FCDO, integrate feedback and submit Final Baseline Report with indicator tables, findings, and recommendations, and deliver a stakeholder presentation.
- Tool development: develop and finalize survey tools aligned with FCDO Key Performance Indicator 4 and Jahez resilience indices; ensure tools and analysis integrate gender equality and social inclusion (GEDSI) dimensions.
- Ethical standards: uphold informed consent, confidentiality, cultural sensitivity, and safeguarding; ensure safe participation of women, youth, and persons with disabilities.
- Maintain professional autonomy, independence, and objectivity in conducting the evaluation and presenting findings.
- Collaborate with IWMI, RSS, and CAN Jordan for access to data, stakeholders, and communities while retaining professional autonomy.
- Timeline management: complete the baseline evaluation within one month after inception approval, adhering to specified deliverables and timeline.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL), Social Sciences, Development Studies, Climate Change Adaptation, or a related field.
- Certificate of ethics in research.
- Minimum 10 years of demonstrated experience in conducting evaluations and baselines in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), Nature-based Solutions (NbS), and resilience programming.
- Experience working in fragile, conflict-affected, or refugee-hosting contexts, preferably in Jordan or the MENA region.
- Strong understanding and application of OECD DAC evaluation criteria.
- Expertise in integrating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) into evaluation frameworks.
- Proven ability to design and implement mixed-methods evaluations, including household surveys, focus group discussions (FGDs), key informant interviews (KIIs), and participatory approaches.
- Strong analytical, writing, and presentation skills.
- Fluency in English; knowledge of Arabic is an asset.
