GHN Monitoring, Learning and Results Consultant at Girl Hub Nigeria

Duties and Responsibilities

• The Monitoring, Learning and Results Consultant will be required to provide short-term support, on a full-time basis, for a number of different monitoring and research projects currently underway and in development.
• The consultant will be expected to play a key role in guiding GHN staff and other relevant stakeholders across design, training, quality assurance and project management aspects of the work.

Key Deliverables Include:

• Act as M&E lead for the mid-year review of a programme of work being delivered with INGO partners.
• Responsibilities to include commissioning and managing fieldwork agency, overseeing effective design of sampling, qualitative methods and tools, training fieldwork agency, quality assuring fieldwork through field visits, reviewing development of analysis and reporting frameworks, and quality assuring reporting.
• Act as M&E lead on a curriculum review for a partner-led Safe Spaces programme.
• Supervise and monitor a local research agency in the delivery of training and fieldwork support/supervision for girls utilising mobile technology for a participatory peer research project.
• This will include contributing to training workshops, feeding into design of research study, conducting field visits to quality assure and ensure girl safeguarding standards are being met.
• Manage up to three individual consultants delivering research studies that will feed into Girl Hub strategy and planning between March and May 2015, ensuring that research frameworks and reporting are co-ordinated and complimentary across studies.
• The MLR consultant will facilitate quality assurance review and revision of reports to bring to completion.
• Manage monitoring and reporting for in-house training and development activities
• Support information gathering and facilitation of any required country visits from external consultants working on Girl Hub Nigeria research and evaluation activities.
• Provide technical research support to the Girl Hub Nigeria Insights team, and support the implementation of any additional monitoring, evaluation and learning processes and systems as required
• Ensure all monitoring, evaluation and research activities are conducted in line with agreed ethical principles, and consistently promote downwards accountability to beneficiaries.
• Ensure all monitoring, evaluation and research activities are conducted in line with Girl Hub’s girl safeguarding policy.
• Work with required GHN London staff on a regular basis and promote programme and organisational knowledge management and learning
• Participate and contribute in Team meetings, off-sites and the Country Strategy Planning process as required.

Reporting:

• The MLR Consultant will report directly to the GHN Country Director.
• The consultant will also take technical direction, where required, from the Girl Hub London MLR team and will join fortnightly global MLR calls to report on GHN MLR activities and progress. 
• At the end of the assignment, the Consultant will prepare a report documenting progress and achievements against the above-cited outputs/results.
• The report will also provide comprehensive handover notes for any ongoing MLR work.
• This report will be in addition to any project-related reporting required as part of completion of the deliverables outlined above.

Required Skills and Experience
The incumbent is expected to possess the following qualifications:

• Post-graduate degree in the Social Sciences, International Development or other related field.
• Seven to ten years work experience, including consulting in M&E areas directly related to GHN’s objectives.
• Experience coordinating research programmes and managing fieldwork teams;
• Experience with participatory approaches;
• Experience with qualitative research methods and data analysis;
• Ability to provide guidance to consultants in the delivery of research and field work
• Strong communication and organizational skills, and the ability to act as a ‘super translator’ working with people from different professional disciplines in the private and public sectors;
• Proficiency in English with excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Experience quality assuring research in the field and willingness to undertake field visits to locations in Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Kaduna (security conditions permitting).
• Fully proficient in the following software applications: Word, Excel, and Power point.
• Passionate commitment to realizing the potential of girls.