Ready for Anything, Final Evaluation Consultant - ActionAid International - United States

Job Title: Ready for Anything, Final Evaluation Consultant

Deadline to apply: 10th February 2016

Contract Length: March – June 2016 *dates subject to change

Contract Type: Consultant, Temporary, Full-time

Salary: £14,900 * subject to change depending on agreed length of contract

Summary:
ActionAid International is looking for an evaluation consultant to lead the final evaluation of a multi-county project “Ready for Anything” (RFA).

ActionAid is a global movement of people working together to further human rights for all and defeat poverty. We work in 45 countries with over 15 million people across Asia, Africa and the Americas. A Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) underpins all of our work, in both development and humanitarian contexts.

The concept of resilience is gaining increasing importance for policy and programs in development work around the world. Communities and practitioners are facing growing challenges due to climate change, conflict and disasters. Cognizant of this, ActionAid has been working with communities and donors to enhance community resilience. RFA is one of the resilience projects being implemented by ActionAid and its partners.

RFA is a three year project (Aug, 13 to July 16) funded by DFID with a total budget of £1,361,149. The project has been implemented in four countries (Afghanistan, Malawi, Myanmar and Nepal) with elements of the project implemented by ActionAid’s International Secretariat (IS).

The lead evaluator will develop the methodology and tools for the project evaluation in all countries, in consultation with country teams. The lead evaluator will be directly involved in the management and execution of the evaluation in two project countries.

In addition, the lead evaluator will be responsible for data collection and quality from all countries, and for developing an appropriate methodology, communicating with and briefing the national consultants, consolidating all data collected, the analysis of this data, and producing a final evaluation report.

The consultant will report to ActionAid International Secretariat (AA IS) and will be supported by the international project manager from the ActionAid International Secretariat. AA IS will lead coordination of the evaluation across the four countries in conjunction with the lead evaluator, and will provide all necessary project information; introductions to relevant stakeholders at the international level; and any general logistical support and advice required.

We would ideally like the consultant to start at the beginning of March.

Please consult the Terms of Reference of the evaluation for further information, timeline and how to apply.