The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, emergency food security, and water, sanitation and hygiene sectors.
The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters, NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours’ notice when a crisis occurs.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Consultant – Evaluation of NRC Nigeria Livelihood & Food Security in North East, Nigeria
Ref. nr.: 3861408042
Location: North East, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time
Duration of the Consultancy: From July to October, 2018.
Background
- NRC initiated country operations in Nigeria in June 2015, in order to respond to the critical and increasing needs in the country. NRC currently has a full team based in Maiduguri and a coordination office in Abuja
- Through coordination with relevant livelihoods and food sector partners through the Food Sector Working Group (FS WG), as well as the Livelihoods and Early Recovery Sector (L&ERS), NRC activities strive to consolidate the progress made since 2015 to expand to accessible and new and under-served areas
- Livelihoods and food security interventions are now expanding into areas within the three agricultural zones of Borno state: Southern Borno, Central Borno, and Northern Borno.
- NRC is currently providing services across various sectors namely; Shelter and Non-Food Items (NFI); Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion (WASH); Food Security; and Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA) in order to address identified humanitarian needs.
- The LFS response strategy of NRC aims to address both acute and chronic food and nutrition challenges faced by IDPs, returnees, and host community households. Livelihoods and Food Security (LFS) response seeks to meet the immediate food and nutrition needs of displaced people whilst supporting capacity building for improved access to livelihoods to address the chronic food insecurity, stemming from low purchasing and production capacity
Purpose of Evaluation
- The results of the evaluation will help to ascertain whether we are doing the right things to achieve maximum results; improve the results of our programmes and generate substantial learning; determine to what extent we are contributing to change in our beneficiaries and to use evaluation findings to immediately bring about changes and improvements in practice
- The evaluation will identify key challenges, successes, best practice and lessons learnt, to inform future LFS interventions.
Skills/Qualifications
- Advanced University Degree or equivalent in Humanitarian/Development Studies, Social Sciences, Statistics or other fields related to the provision of humanitarian assistance in Food security and livelihood;
- Knowledge of the current literature/practice on displacement-related protection and livelihoods programming. Familiarity with Nigeria/West Africa emergency response preferred;
- Ability to work independently and achieve quality results with limited supervision;
- Strong analytical, synthesis, and writing skills;
- Excellent command in written and spoken English;
- Experience of designing qualitative data collection methods and of managing participatory and learning focused evaluations;
- At least 7-10 years of relevant experience and proven expertise in the humanitarian sector with at least five years in evaluation;
- Significant experience in assessment, data analysis, research and/or evaluation – including prior experience in project and programme reviews and evaluations;
- Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills;
- Excellent team working and communication skills, flexibility and good organization skills.
Deadline: 13th July, 2018.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their Applications (Bids) including the following below documents to: sher.nawaz@nrc.no The subject line of your mail must read “Application for conducting LFS program evaluation for NRC in Nigeria”.
Documents Include:
- Proposal including, outline of evaluation framework and methods, including comments on the TOR, proposed time frame and work plan (bids over 6 pages will be automatically excluded).
- Cover letter clearly summarizing experience as it pertains to this assignment and three professional references (max 1 page);
- Proposed evaluation budget clearly showing costs categories, units and explanations;
- CV’s and evidence of past evaluations for each team member;
- At least one example of a similar evaluation where the consultant has had the leading role.
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