Job Opportunity At Search For Common Ground (SFCG)

Search for Common Ground (SFCG) wishes to secure the services of a consultant/consulting firm to undertake a mid-term review of the EU-funded project “Tomorrow is a New Day Project” (TND II).

Assignment and Timeframe

The objective of the mid-term evaluation is to (i) evaluate the project's effectiveness, (ii) to measure the project's indicators and (iii) to assess the quality of the partnership among the various implementation partners, mid-way through the project. Outcome of this analysis would be used to fine-tune the remaining project and decision making as to how activities are to be conducted, changed or strengthened.

The consultant would work for a minimum of twenty (20) days and a maximum of thirty (30) days comprising of desk review, design of data collection tools and evaluation matrix (as part of the inception report), training for data collectors/survey process, data collection, report writing and validation of reports with relevant stakeholders. Proposed time frame is from 3rd of August 2015.

Qualification/Skills

• The Consultant must have a good track record in conducting evaluations of development or peacebuilding projects with at least 7 to 9 years of evaluation experience.
• The Consultant should possess at least a Masters degree in Peace and Conflict studies, Sociology/Anthropology, Demography/Statistics, Political Science/International relations, Gender/Development studies or related disciplines.
• Proven experience of facilitating focus group discussions as well as integrate/proffer cogent recommendations
• Experience conducting large-scale surveys of mixed methodology
• Experience conducting evaluations in Nigeria. Experience conducting evaluations in the Niger delta would be an asset
• Excellent command of English and knowledge of the Niger Delta Pidgin English would be an asset
• Excellent report writing skills in English 
• Previous experience of evaluating EU-funded project would be an asset
• Working Knowledge of common statistical software packages (e.g. Excel, SPSS, SAS, STATA, EPI Info, ATLASti) would be an asset