Short Term Consultant Job at War Child Canada - Career Opportunity in Uganda
Vacancy title:Short Term Consultant
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War Child Canada
Deadline of this Job:
October 31, 2017 by 5:00pm
Duty Station:
Uganda
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INTRODUCTION:
War Child Canada is an International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO), with the vision of “a world where no child knows war". War Child Canada works with war affected communities to help children reclaim their childhood through access to education, opportunities and justice with cross cutting themes of child protection and gender. War Child Canada also takes an active role in raising public awareness around the impact of war on communities and the shared responsibility to act.
War Child Canada has been working in Uganda since 2005 and currently implements legal protection and education programs for refugees and host communities in Adjumai, Arua, Moyo and Yumbe districts in West Nile region, and is also staring new projects in Nakivaie and Lamwo refugee settlements in Isingiro districts.
The War Child Canada Legal Aid clinic is a one stop-stop shop with a broad range of legal aid services to refugees and vulnerable people within host communities, identified through a means and merits test. Some of the services offered include; legal representation, alternative dispute resolution, and legal awareness.
Background
War Child Canada is a registered Canadian charity based in Toronto.
War Child Canada works with war-affected communities to help children reclaim their childhood through access to" 5 education, opportunity and justice. War Child Canada takes an active role in raising public awareness around the impact of war on communities and the shared responsibility to act.
When war itself ends, the consequences endure. A lack of employment opportunities, the absence of effective economic or social structures, an under-educated population and a culture of impunity around rights violations combine to create conditions that make a return to conflict all too possible. But by making a long-term investment to create an environment in which childhood can thrive, the cycle 0.‘ violence can be broken.
War Child Canada currently works in Afghanistan, Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jordan, Uganda and Iraq. In Uganda, War Child Canada is operational in West Nile region, Insingiro, and Kamwange districts.
Consultancy Title: SHORT TERM CONSULTANT
Educate: Securing the Future of South Sudanese Children Through Education‘
Reports to: Associate Director, lnternational Programs
Consultancy summary
The consultant will lead a largely qualitative evaluation of the project listed below:
This two-year project continued War Child Canada’s current efforts to provide primary school level accelerated teaming, to a total of 1,500 South Sudanese refugee children aged 6 to 15 residing in Adjumani, Uganda. The specific outcomes of the project is to increase access to high quality primary education for South Sudanese refugee and host community children The age range exceeds the typical age of primary school children (6-12 years) as both displacement and minimal education access has resulted in children as old as 15 years of age without a complete primary education War Child Canada has been implementing an Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) for South Sudanese and host community children in Adjumiani since December 2014. This project has contributed to the improved wellbeing of South Sudanese refugee and host community children and their communities by focusing on three key areas: i) Identify and train teachers on the Government of Uganda's ALP curriculum and child-friendly teaching methodologies; ii) identify and secure temporary learning centers in the IDP camp; and m) Implement large-scale awareness campaigns to sensitize and involve the community on the importance of education, especially for girls.
The consultant will be required to submit a final report including the sections listed in the ‘Approach and Deliverables.
The fieldwork and report writing will be conducted in November, 2017.
Approach and Deliverables:
- The consultant will review all project documents and existing data in advance to carrying out the final evaluation.
- While War Child Canada has developed this scope of work for the evaluation team and has tailored the approach to its needs with questions that are specific to the program, the consultant will finalize the methods and tools to measure results in collaboration with M&E staff (HQ/Field]:
a. Capacity Building: How did the ALP teachers find the support from War Child Canada’? Was the process with the Ministry of Education and War Child Canada to become an ALP teacher fair and transparent’? Were the materials and support enough based on feedback from the teachers?
b. Community, parents, and student satisfaction & acceptance of the learning programs.
c. integration of the project activities into the formal school system and the Ministry of Education's approval and commitment to work with War Child Canada on the activities.
d. Developing lessons teamed and examine ways to improve the activities tor future projects, including community feedback and suggestions on sustainability and next steps for the students of the ALP. - The consultant will identify and document lessons learned on successes, innovative, approaches, challenges and learnings through a final report that includes:
- A one-to-two page executive summary
- The main accomplishments of the program
- Lessons teamed, constraints, challenges and areas that need further attention
- The capacity-building impact of the program both with
- local partners and project beneficiaries.
- Prospects for sustainability of program outcomes
- Proposed recommendations on how War Child Canada can build on successes and incorporate learnings in to future programming
Key requirements
- Proven experience performing, facilitating, and supervising qualitative data collection in complex environments
- An understanding of complex humanitarian, early recovery or development programming in conflict affected environments
- Strong writing skills and proven experience delivering high quality reports
- Technical knowledge of education programming in fragile contexts, specifically is desirable _
- Understanding of Uganda and refugee context, or previous qualitative evaluation experience inside Uganda or South Sudan, is desirable
Job application procedure
Interested applicants are invited to send an expression of interest electronically including:
- Curriculum vitae
- Accompanying cover letter outlining relevant experience and skills
- Proposed methodology and timeline
- Proposed fee to complete the required deliverables
- Confirmation of availability
Please ensure your application envelope has the subject heading of Applications sent in any other form, including fax, e-mail, etc. will not be considered.
Deadline: October 31, 2017 by 5:00pm
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