EU Framework Contract Lot 4 – Evaluation Mission

For the Lot 4 EU Framework Contract, Cadena is immediately looking for evaluators for the following mission: “Endline Evaluation Girls’ Education South Sudan (GESS) Program“

The main objectives of this evaluation are to provide the European Union, the interested stakeholders and other audience with:

• An overall independent assessment of the performance of the GESS II to be evaluated, paying particular attention to its different levels of results measured against its expected objectives; and the reasons underpinning such results
• Key lessons learned, conclusions and related recommendations in order to inform future interventions.

Required qualifications and skills – as a team:

• At least a Master Degree Academic level in in education, social/behavioral sciences or related fields, or, in its absence, equivalent professional experience of 7 years.
• Full working knowledge of English, excellent report writing skills and solid experience in field assessment and participatory consultations.
• Knowledge of the Project Cycle Management.
• Computer literacy and proficiency in IT applications relevant to the assignment.
• At least 6 years’ experience in working with government and CSO in Education sector in developing countries.
• At least 2 experiences formulating, implementing or evaluating education programmes.
• Relevant experience in LDC country, or in East Africa, is an advantage.
• At least eight evaluations conducted of minimum 20 days each.
• At least one mission in a difficult environments and experience in working in post war/conflict reconstruction context.
• At least 3 missions (evaluation, identification, formulation, implementation) on programmes focussing on gender equality.
• Published papers on education research will be an asset.

Indicative starting date of the assignment: 14/01/2024

Indicative end date: 11/09/2024

Duration of the assignment: 241 days

Minimum number of working days: 60 for expert Cat. II; 52 for expert Cat. III

Place of posting of the specific assignment:

• Place of origine of the experts (2 weeks in inception phase, 2 weeks in Desk activities, 2 weeks for synthesis phase,)
• South Sudan (4 weeks for the Field activities in the Greater Equatoria, Upper Nile and Bahr el Ghazal Regions, and 2 days for 2 workshops workshops dissemination in Juba)

For more information about this assignment, please see the ToR: 02-TermsOfReference-SIEA-2018-20999

Interested experts are kindly requested to contact us and submit their CV at jobs@cadena-idp.com, before Monday 4th of December at midday (12:00 hours CET), preferably in EU CV format CV_Template_EN.