Program Consultant at Save The Children

Purpose & Scope of the Consultancy
The purpose of engaging a program consultant is to facilitate the effective completion of all Health & Hygiene Africa program activities, and support the project close out process. Specifically the program consultant when engaged will perform among other identified activities the following:

• Ensure that every activity detailed on the project workplan is completed with activity reports
• Support the asset collection team through the process, from securing consent to the documentation of success stories
• Provide programmatic support to the MEAL consultant in conducting the endline survey
• Ensure the effective filing and preservation of all project documents
• Plan high-level stakeholders close out meeting in conjunction with Advocacy team
• Support BCC consultant in the development and pretest of IEC/Teacher resource materials
• Support project schools/SBMC to strengthen their school development plans with integrated SHN components.
• Support the SHN Advisor on other key project deliverables as needed.

Skills and Competencies required

• Master's degree is preferred in education, health science, public health or social sciences. A bachelor’s degree is acceptable.
• Relevant training or proven experience in community mobilization.
• Knowledge of group facilitation and/or training experience.
• Experience in community-based nutrition and education services.
• Demonstration of ability to work with or without supervision to ensure program success in an urban/rural setting.
• Fluency in oral and written English. Working knowledge of indigenous local language (Yoruba) is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to work as a team player.
• Strong communication skills, verbal and non-verbal
• Advanced Computer literacy - Microsoft office, telecommunications and email.

Key deliverables, Outputs and Expectation of this Consultancy
The Consultant will deliver the following outputs:

• Program activity reports
• Organized filing system for all project documents
• First draft of Final Project Narrative
• The program consultant will report directly to the SHN Advisor.

Duration of Consultancy:

• The program consultant will be engaged for 3-months. All key deliverables must be completed within this time frame.
• The consultant's performance will be appraised at the end of this 3-month period.