Senior Consultancy

Summary

Join Oxfam, a global organization dedicated to fighting inequality and ending poverty, as an Evaluation Lead for a sustainability evaluation of past Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) interventions in the Pacific Islands and Asia. This evaluation will assess the long-term impacts of DRR projects in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and the Philippines, focusing on the sustainability of community preparedness and response capacities. The evaluation will involve reviewing past project documentation, conducting on-site data collection using culturally appropriate methods, analyzing findings, and producing comprehensive reports. The evaluation team will work closely with Oxfam, local partners, and communities to ensure the process is inclusive and reflects the needs and experiences of those involved. The evaluation will inform Oxfam's future DRR interventions and provide valuable insights for the philanthropic donor.

Requirements

• Have a minimum of 7 years of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) experience managing multi-country evaluation projects in Disaster Risk Reduction, Humanitarian, Disaster Preparedness and Response, Resilience, Food Security, other relevant areas
• Have experience conducting studies, evaluations or surveys to better understand, learn about and measure sustainability
• Is able to lead and support the whole evaluation team
• Have experience in building a team of local evaluators/consultants in the region to collaborate on a multi-country programme evaluation, and remotely working with them and advising them in the most effective manner
• Have a good understanding and demonstrating application of gender sensitive, safeguarding and feminist standards and principles in evaluation to integrate into data collection and analysis as well as into evaluation recommendations
• Good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills to accurately and concisely convey informative and formative answers to evaluation questions in a report and PPT presentations and other dissemination products, as well as liaising with a diverse team in country
• Ability to hire and train (with support from Oxfam team locally) local evaluators/data collectors
• A brief 2 to 3-page expression of interest with a description of the proposed methodological approach, deliverables, budget for this evaluation, including how you plan to work across the target countries (hybrid, remotely and in the field), and the possible dissemination strategies
• CVs detailing relevant skills and experience of no more than 2 pages per resume of each person part of the consulting team, including contactable referees for the Evaluation Team Leader
• Sample of previous work evaluating sustainability (one piece) to assess the following skills: writing, presenting data visually, considering gender and inclusion, or feminist principles, and other media used to present findings

Responsibilities

• Review available documentation on past projects and evaluations
• Consult communities, local NGOs and local authorities and define sustainability and localization in those specific contexts to design the evaluation’s methodology to evaluate the sustainability of Oxfam’s DRR interventions, and validate the sustainability domains proposed in this ToR
• Implement the culturally appropriate data collection methods in the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu communities and local actors, respectful of respondent’s time, rights, language, and of any cultural norms when interacting with them
• Review and sense-making of evaluation findings with the right stakeholders to obtain rich insights and analytical points that are context-specific
• Write one evaluation report answering the key evaluation questions and provide credible findings and evidence
• The main evaluation report should provide a list of annexes from which short country-specific evaluation reports, visual case studies, and other relevant documentation should be annexed
• Share learnings with various audiences (i.e., Oxfam, partners, government agencies, and community DRR groups), and develop a dissemination strategy that will inform Oxfam and partners on what actions to take and plan to share key findings with a variety of audiences