AHP Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant

AHP Vanuatu, through Save the Children, are seeking a highly qualified Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to work with the Coordination Unit to finalise a number of deliverables over the remainder of 2023. This will be a short term consultancy of up to 4 months, supporting the current MEL Specialist position and focused on developing key joint MEAL activities for the Partnership. If this sounds like you, review the Terms of Reference below and apply with your Expression of Interest and required supporting documents by Monday 11th September.

Terms of Reference - Australian Humanitarian Partnership Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant

Position Information

Position Title

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) consultant

Country Office

Save the Children Vanuatu

Location

Port Vila, Vanuatu

Consultancy period

September 2023 – December 2023

Reporting to

Katie Nicholls (AHP MEL Specialist)

Background

The Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP)

The Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP) consortium in Vanuatu, is a ten-year (2017-2027) partnership between Australian Government and Australian NGOs, who implement disaster response and disaster preparedness programs through local counterparts. The AHP Consortium in Vanuatu consists of Action Aid (implementing partner for Plan International), CAN DO (the implementing partner for Caritas Australia), CARE, Oxfam, Save the Children and World Vision. Save the Children is the Vanuatu country coordinator for the AHP Consortium and provides partnership coordination, MEAL, and communications support to all partners.

AHP in Vanuatu currently have five programs ongoing. Disaster READY (DR) is the flagship program that runs across five countries in the pacific, which focuses on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in communities, CSOs and government. Vanuatu also has a response program to COVID-19 (2022 – 2024), a program for TC Harold Recovery (2021 – 2024), a response program to TC Judy & Kevin (2023-2024) and are in final proposal stages for an Anticipatory Action Trial program (2023 – 2027).

For more information about AHP, its scope and programs, prospective candidates can refer to the AHP website.

Purpose & Objectives of Consultancy

The consultancy has two major objectives:

The current Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Specialist for the coordination team in Vanuatu is taking a part-time secondment from September – December 2023. This means 50% of their time will be covering AHP work, and 50% of their time will be dedicated to the secondment. The purpose of this consultancy is to provide backstopping support to the MEL Specialist to implement their workplan, and the coordination team as a whole during this period.

There are several larger pieces of MEL-related work linked to the various AHP programs, and to the partnership in general, which the consultant will engage in and deliver directly. Additionally, the consultant will provide ad-hoc support to ongoing coordination activities as needed, including report writing, proposal development (if relevant), and support in logistics for partner meetings and events.

Scope of the Consultancy

The scope of the consultancy will be split between the two major objectives.

In addition to the broader activities under Objective 2 below, the consultant will be responsible for driving forward five key activities during the consultancy period. The majority of these activities are centered around the partnerships’ flagship program, Disaster READY, and the associated Learning Agenda developed by partners. The Learning Agenda is part of the five-year strategy for DR’s second phase of programming.

The consultant will not be expected to make this a communications piece. However, the consultant will be tasked with reviewing baseline reports from partners, analyzing the findings through comparing and contrasting partners’ reports. A first draft / concept note for the communications piece highlighting key findings, data and evidence will be expected. The consultant will then work with the Communications Specialist to finalise the communications piece.

Finalising an additional annex for the TC Judy & Kevin program with definitions and guidance that partners can use to support their measurement of indicators for the program. The template and indicators have already been created.

The coordination team is working on building an operational capacity template for the partnership, including key information about each partner organization. As part of this, the partnership would like an accompanying visual map of partner offices and implementation areas. The map would be interactive, easily updated, easily accessible and be able to show which AHP programs and activities are operational in which areas.

The package has been started; however, the coordination team would like to see progressed, the development of a full presentation, with key documents linked, org diagrams, and overview of AHP programs.

These inputs may include:

Roles and Responsibilities

Save the Children will be responsible for the following:

The consultant will be responsible for:

Deliverables and Approximate Days

Budget/Resources

Provide an indicative budget or daily breakdown of activities for the life of the consultancy. This helps to ensure only suitable candidates apply. Provide any relevant information on human resources and logistics.

Confidentiality and Copyright

Any data collected or materials produced during this consultancy will become the property of Save the Children and will not be shared with third parties or used by the consultant without the express permission of Save the Children.

Other

Save the Children is committed to ensuring a safe environment and culture for all children with whom we come in contact during the course of our work. All external consultants involved in this evaluation exercise will be required to comply with Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding Policy and sign the Code of Conduct. Strict confidentiality and anonymity of data should be ensured throughout the process of this evaluation. Statistical data cannot be used in any way that could be construed as harmful to any individual respondent.

Consultant Requirements

Mention what you require from a successful consultant, such as:

Desirable

Expressions of Interest

Expressions of interest are requested from suitably qualified candidates and addressing the following:

Expressions of interest that do not cover these requirements will not be considered.

Deadline for submission of expressions of interest is 11th September 2023.

Submissions should be addressed to Jennifer Kausei, AHP National Coordinator, and submitted using the APPLY button below.

For more information on the position, email Katie.Nicholls@savethechildren.org.au