Експерт з моніторингу та оцінки проєкту

Background

Learning Together is a four-year collaborative project between Ukraine and Finland. The project is funded by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the European Commission. The Finnish consortium in charge of the project implementation is led by FCG International Ltd. The project started in August 2018 and will continue till July 2022.

The project focuses on supporting the New Ukrainian School (NUS) reform, especially in the primary education, and is designed around three main clusters and cross-cutting elements. These clusters are (1) teacher preparation, (2) education promotion, and (3) education environment.

Learning together is now seeking to contract a qualified and experienced Research, Evaluation and Monitoring Expert to undertake work associated with the implementation activities related with the projects evaluation plan. The purpose of this Terms of Reference (TOR) is to call for competitive proposals for this task. This assignment focuses on monitoring and evaluation of project activities.

 Objective

The objective of the Research, Evaluation and Monitoring Expert is to provide qualified expert evaluation and monitoring assistance to the international technical assistance project “Finland’s support to the Ukrainian school reform”. The Research, Evaluation and Monitoring Expert would be in charge to operationalize, implement, analyze and report evaluation activities described in the project’s evaluation plan. Evaluation plan will be revised annually by the Contractor and the Research, Evaluation and Monitoring Expert.

Scope of Work

The service provision lasts from October/November 2019 until the end of the Project. The Research, Evaluation and Monitoring Expert will be contracted to operationalize the evaluation plan, including the following tasks:

Project’s own training activities

• To plan, develop, implement, analyze and report on the feedback from the participants of training events organized by the Contractor.
• To organize impact evaluations of the project’s training activities.

Tacher Certification

• To support organizations that are responsible for teacher certification by providing external evaluation and monitoring of their tools and practices (document analysis, collection of best international practices, observations, statistical analysis).
• To provide recommendations for further enhancement of the teacher certification related procedures.

Professional standards of school principals and teachers

• To support organizations that are responsible for the development of the professional standards for principals and teachers by providing external evaluation and monitoring of their tools and practices (document analysis, collection of best international practices, observations, statistical analysis).
• To provide recommendations for further enhancement of the professional standards for principals and teachers related procedures.

• Revise the evaluation plan annually with Contractor and collaborative organizations (MoES, NUS) and when needed
• Participate in other monitoring and evaluation related activities pointed out by the Contractor.
• To collect the baseline data from existing documents and reports.
• To organize Training Needs Assessments if needed.

The supervision of the monitoring and evaluation activities will be carried out by the Project Learning Together and the staff of MOES.

The targeted groups: The work should be targeted to teachers, school principals, education administration, and education experts nationwide.

The Research, Evaluation and Monitoring Expert should have the following qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in monitoring and evaluation, research and analysis in education or in another related field
• A master’s degree in the field of statistics, education, social sciences or another relevant field
• Experience of working with organizations under the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science as well as NGOs
• Capability and proven experience in implementing monitoring and evaluation. 
• Ability and proven experience in taking initiative and working effectively under pressure
• Excellent written, oral and interpersonal skills; excellent communication skills in English and Ukrainian

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, or any other basis. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

Deadline for Proposals

All applicants are requested to indicate their interest to submit their CV, Motivation letter and References to the previous work on evaluation and monitoring activities by 25 of October 2019 via email ([email protected]).

2. In case the applicant wants to have further clarification on the competition, written questions must be sent via email ([email protected]) by 18 of October  2019.

3. All applicants will be provided with answers to all clarification requests by 23 of October 2019.

The final application must be submitted by the 25 of October 2019 via email ([email protected]).

Please note that all written communication must be in English. Further instructions for the application are given only from the email mentioned above. Any further information or advice obtained from other sources may be disregarded in the tender evaluation.