1 Expert (cat. 1) and 2 Experts (cat. 2)

Job Description

Mid-term evaluation of the Northern Dimension Partnership on Public Health and Social Well­being and Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture

Objectives:

Systematic and timely evaluation of its programmes and activities is an established priority of the European Commission. The focus of evaluations is on the assessment of achievements, the quality and the results of two partnerships in the context of an evolving cooperation policy with an increasing emphasis on result-oriented approaches and the contribution towards the implementation of the SDGs.

From this perspective, evaluations should look for evidence of why, whether or how these results are linked to the EU intervention and seek to identify the factors driving or hindering progress.

Evaluations should provide an understanding of the cause and effect links between: inputs and activities, and outputs, outcomes and impacts. Evaluations should serve accountability, decision making, learning and management purposes.

The main objectives of this evaluation are to provide the NDPHS and the NDPC governing bodies, relevant services of the European Union and the interested stakeholders with:

• An overall independent assessment of the past performance of the NDPHS and the NDPC, paying particular attention to its intermediate results measured against its expected objectives; and the reasons underpinning such results;
• An overall independent assessment of the NDPHS and the NDPC organisational set-up and whether it is optimal to fulfil its purpose;
• An overall independent assessment of the NDPHS and the NDPC contributions to reaching the overall Northern Dimension political framework objectives;
• Key lessons and recommendations in order to improve current and future activities within the NDPHS and NDPC.

ln particular, this evaluation will serve the purpose of understanding the performance of the NDPC and the NDPHS when implementing their respective strategies (for the NDPHS: Strategy 2020 + Action Plan) (for the NDPC: Strategy 2017-2020), the enabling factors and those hampering a proper delivery of the results, in order to apply corrective measures and inform the planning of the NDPHS strategy for the next term, apply corrective measures for future development of the NDPC and enhance the contribution of the Partnerships to the overall political ND process.

The main users of this evaluation will be the Partners of the NDPHS and the NOPC (including the European Commission and the EEAS) and Structures of the NDPHS (the Partnership Annual Conference, the Meeting of the Parties and the Committee of Senior Representatives, the Expert Groups, the national focal points and the Secretariat).

Profiles:

1 Expert (cat. 1) and 2 Experts (cat. 2)

(110 working days)

The minimum requirements of the team of key experts for this contract are as follows.

Specific professional experience (area relevant to the evaluation):

The team is required to have minimum 18 years of experience in evaluating projects / programmes in health and culture sectors including international cooperation partnerships, projects / programmes and experience with public health, health systems, health and health policy assessment, culture development policy, cultural heritage, cultural and creative industries and tourism, innovation in culture as well as knowledge of the Northern Dimension policy context.

The specific professional experience can be part of the general professional experience.

Qualification and skills:

Each team member should have:

• At least a Master’s Degree in any of the areas relevant to the evaluation. In the absence of a degree, the expert must prove at least 6 years of professional experience in areas relevant to the evaluation; these at least 6 years are counted in addition to those required under ‘General professional experience’;
• Certified knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research/consulting methodologies;
• Certified knowledge of evaluation methodologies and techniques.

General professional experience:

• For expert category 1:at least 12 years experience in the sector(s) related to the lot;
• For expert category Il: at least 6 years experience in the sector (s) related to the lot.

Language skills of the team:

• English: Every team members shall possess a level C1 expertise;
• Russian: It will be considered as an asset if at least one member of the team possess a level B2 expertise.

Indicative starting date: 05/12/2018

About the Organization

PROMAN S.A., based in Luxembourg is providing consulting services in the sectors of education, HRD, social development, institutional strengthening and capacity building and local/regional development.Primary clients are the European Commission, Bilateral Cooperation (Luxebmourg, France, Belgium), UNICEF, World Bank. Main sector of intervention is the education sector in all its aspects. PROMAN operates worldwide with a slight overweight in Africa. We employ 9 staff members at Headquarters and over a 100 (both Short Term and Long Terms) consultants per year.