Terms of Reference: Senior Manager, Impact (Individual Consultant) at Girl Effect

Context of the Role

We’re looking for an experienced consultant to join our Impact team to support the delivery of the large-scale social behaviour change programs that focus on improving the lives of adolescent girls and young women, leading the testing, monitoring and evaluation of innovative products and solutions and products.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the development and implementation of our evidence strategy across multiple programs, including one in Kenya and one in South Africa.
• Ensure that project deliverables are carried out on time and to a high standard.
• Lead, with the support of the Global Head of Impact, the methodological design of research, monitoring and evaluation frameworks and studies/evaluations, using qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Liaise with different teams and product leads to ensure that measurement is fit-for-purpose, girl-centred and appropriate for different cultural and social contexts.
• Liaise with other colleagues to ensure that the approach at each stage fits within a structured approach to measurement, aligning with design sprints, M&E implementation, and overall evaluation.
• Quality assure data management, analysis and reporting to ensure that measurement meets the highest quality, data protection and ethical standards and is effectively generating both insights for end-users across the organisation, and results for accountability and learning.
• Provide technical expertise, particularly on quantitative outputs, liaising with team members as required. Where necessary, you will support colleagues in the global evidence team to quality assure evidence projects.
• Manage evidence colleagues in country on project work, building their capacity and skills as needed.

Who You Are

• Demonstrable technical skills in design, fieldwork, data analysis and reporting for large-scale and panel surveys, including outcome evaluations, within one or more of the media, communications, international development or social change sectors.
• Direct experience in evaluating digital user-facing interventions, including contributions to the design process with respect to back-end measurement needs and the pathway to achieving necessary project outputs through digital data capture.
• Hands-on experience in applied research in emerging markets or developing contexts using a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
• Experience in Human Centred Design, UX Design, or other Design Sprint processes.
• Demonstrated skills in producing high-quality, innovative and engaging research reports, presentations and briefings for diverse audiences.
• Strong project management skills, including developing clear internal communications systems and work plans, terms of reference, and reporting.
• Strong cultural awareness and sensitivity about the cultures within which Girl Effect operates.
• Experience coordinating work-streams across multiple geographies and ability to work effectively in multicultural teams with varying expertise, skills and backgrounds.
• Excellent written and spoken English and Swahili, with an ability to cut through complexity and communicate effectively to multi-disciplinary audiences.
• Creative and inquisitive mindset with strong communication and organisational skills.
• Commitment to realising girls' potential and to the Girl Effect's vision and values.
• Background in evaluating programmes related to women and girls is also highly desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• 6+ years of experience.

Tentative Timelines:

• Terms of reference published: 27th January 2023
• Deadline for responses: 6th February 2023
• Project commencement: February 2023

Expected Commitment

• The assignment will take approximately 6 months to complete.
• The consultant will be expected to spend 5 days a week or up to 40 hours each week on this assignment, depending on the programme's needs. This will be a full time consultancy for at least 6 Months.
• The consultant's assignment period is from February 2023 to June 2023