Individual Consultant: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Job Description

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL SELECTION)

Republic of Somaliland

• Somaliland Empowering Women through Education and Skills (Raja Kaaba) & Somaliland Education for Human Capital Development (SEHCD)

Project Grant No.: TF0B8677, TF0B8653

Assignment Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Reference No. SO-MOES-484958-CS-INDV

Place of Assignment: Hargeisa, Somaliland

Submission Deadline: 3-May-2025

The Government of Somaliland through the Ministry of Education & Science has received financing from the World Bank towards the cost of Somaliland Empowering Women through Education and Skills (Raja Kaaba) Project and Somaliland Education for Human Capital Development (SEHCD) Project. the RAJA KABA project aims to empower girls and women (age 15-35 years) through enhanced literacy and numeracy skills, skills for income generation, and skills for leadership. The project is supporting expanded provision of second chance education and skills training in priority sectors and increased uptake and completion of higher education degrees in targeted vocations. The project spans interventions across the non-formal education, vocational education of the MoES, and in collaboration with the Commission of higher education in Somaliland.

The Project consists of the following three key components: (1) Skills for Life and Labor Market (2) Higher Skills Development for Women’s Leadership – (3) Project Management.

While Somaliland Education for Human Capital Development (SEHCD) Project in Somaliland, aims to increase access to primary education in underserved areas, with a focus on girls, and to improve quality of instruction. The Project will consist of the expansion of access to quality schooling for the disadvantaged (Component 2) and project management (Component 4).

Responsibilities:

The main aim of the assignment is for the M&E Specialist to serve as the principal staff responsible for establishing a monitoring and evaluation system and monitor and analyses the project results in line with the project development objectives of Raja Kaaba and SEHCD.

The M&E Specialist will participate in developing and implementing the Project’s M&E framework in coordination with the MoES implementation partners. He/she will advise the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) on good monitoring practices, and on designing and maintaining the Project monitoring systems. He/she will also ensure timely submission of progress reports from MoES, and component implementing partners, and will consolidate, analyse and provide quality assurance of the reports and data. He/she will undertake all the other specific tasks detailed in the Terms of Reference (TOR) that can be found at the following https://moe.govsomaliland.org/ or can be provided upon submission of application (in person or by E-mail) provided below.

Skills and qualifications

Selection will be based on the qualification and experience of the candidate and followed by an interview. At a minimum, the candidate is expected to have the following level of qualification and experience:

• • Bachelor’s degree in evaluation, economics, statistics, project management, political science, sociology, or another quantitative social science discipline. Having a master’s degree is an added advantage.
  • Minimum seven (8) years of experience in development programmes that entailed responsibility for the development and implementation of M&E Systems with proven results; and at least two years of experience that relates to this role.
  • Experience in M&E of national or international projects, sound knowledge of statistical indicators, data analysis, data processing and data reporting.
  • Experience in the management of quantitative and qualitative evaluations, familiarity with evaluation designs, use of reliable and valid instruments, and methods for data collection, analysis and reports.
  • Experience in coordinating evaluation activities in the field on at least one large project.
  • Experience in managing and training junior evaluation staff.
  • Previous experience in education projects would be a plus.
  • Experience in at least one statistical data analysis software such as Stata, SPSS, R, or other, and in CAPI programming is a plus.
  • Proficiency in MS Office packages, including Excel.
  • Excellent proven report writing skills in English and Somali.
  • Excellent communication in English as well as in Somali language.
  • Ability to work under tight deadlines.
  • Ability to travel to the field.

REPORTING

The M&E Specialist will report directly to the Somaliland PIU Project Coordinator and closely work with PIU staff. She/he will work under the overall guidance of the Director General, Somaliland Republic MoES, Somaliland Republic to smoothly run project operations.

The Ministry of Education and Science now invites eligible Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in providing these services. Interested Individual Consultants must submit the following: (i) Curriculum Vitae (CV) with 3 reference persons; (ii) copies of certificates of academic qualifications; and (iii) cover letter indicating that they are qualified to perform the services.

Duration of Assignment

Contract is for One year (1) year with possibility for extension based on requirement. The duty station is MoES, Hargeisa. Travel to the Project districts required.

How to apply

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to section III, para 3.14,3.16 & 3.17 of the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers: Procurement in Investment Projects Financing Goods, Works, Non -Consulting and Consulting Services, July 2016, revised November 2017, August 2018 and November 2020 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest.

A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Individual Consultant method set out in the World Bank Procurement Regulations.

Interested applicants may obtain further information including a detailed Terms of Reference from the Ministry in person or by e-mail to the address given below during office hours from 8:30 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. Saturday to Thursday.

Deadline: Expressions of interest and CV must be delivered to the address below by hand, mail, courier or email on or before May 03, 2025, at 17:00 hours.

Attention; PIU Coordinator

Ministry of Education & Science

Wadada Madaxtooyada Road1 Next to the Ministry of Finance

Hargeisa-Somaliland

E-mail: PIU-procurementHCDRKprojects@outlook.com & cc PIU-coordinatorHCDRKprojects@outlook.com

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