National Consultant – Kenya Country Strategic Plan 2025 Outcome Monitoring (Institutional Capacity Strengthening Thematic Lead), SSA9

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support the team leader in managing the baseline work. Lead OM work under institutional Capacity Strengthening thematic area. Contribute, by bringing expertise in institutional capacity strengthening in drafting and revising (as required) and finalizing the technical note that contains among others:
• Detailed OM design, sampling methodology, and sample size calculations.
• Quality Assurance Plan
• Detailed work plan, including, timeline and activities.
• Bibliography of documents/secondary data sources utilized.
• Final data collection tools
• Data analysis plan
• Contribute, by bringing expertise in institutional capacity strengthening, including the areas of social protection, school feeding, EPR, nutrition, supply chain etc and outcome 3 leadership in developing a Power-point presentation on methodology, overall survey plan, timeline and activities and support presentation of this to WFP for discussion and inputs before field work begins. Lead in  planning for OM  field work for outcome 3, ensuring data collection tools are tested and digitalized and enumerators are adequately trained.
• Conduct field work as per the OM work plan Support in ensuring adequate supervision of quantitative data collection at field level. Do and Support data cleaning and data analysis as per the data analysis plan. Contribute to the final OM  report by leading the drafting of institutional capacity strengthening thematic area of the  report, including a first draft, revise as required and a final report ensuring all required annexes to the final report are included in the report. The OM  report should be accompanied by the following.
• Summary from key informant interviews, focus group discussions, etc.
• Table of all standard and custom indicator baseline and OM values
• List of sampled sites
• Contribute to the Preparation of a Power-point presentation of main findings and conclusions for de-briefing and dissemination purposes ensuring capacity strengthening thematic area is fully included. Attend a debriefing session with stakeholders and support in presentation of the baseline findings.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

• Technical note  with a clear methodology and timelines to execute the TOR while ensuring institutional capacity strengthening thematic area is  fully covered.
• Final OM  report with  institutional capacity strengthening thematic area fully included.
• Summary of  key informant interviews, focus group discussions including quotes from KII’s and FGD’s, etc.
• Table of all standard and custom indicators with final values
• List of sampled sites
• All data including final analysis.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education:

• At least a master’s degree in Social Sciences or Education, Statistics, Measurements, Nutrition or Agriculture.

Experience:

• Senior researcher with at least 15 years’ experience in evaluations.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing multidisciplinary and mixed quantitative and qualitative method studies, complemented with good understanding humanitarian and development programming, capacity strengthening, nutrition, transition . social protection etc