GBV Consultant- Capacity Building-Endline Survey

The consultant will design and conduct an endline evaluation survey to assess the effectiveness, outcomes, and impact of UNFPA-supported GBV capacity strengthening initiatives under humanitarian response programmes in Sudan. The role involves data collection, analysis, reporting, and validation to inform programme improvement and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Review all relevant programme documents including capacity-building strategy, training packages, pre/post-test results, monitoring reports, attendance records, previous assessments, indicator tracking tables, and results framework.
• Hold inception meetings with UNFPA and IMC technical teams and develop an inception report outlining methodology, sampling approach, survey framework, data collection plan, and workplan.
• Develop data collection tools including structured quantitative questionnaire, qualitative interview guides, focus group discussion guides, key informant interview guides, and observation checklist.
• Develop a statistically appropriate sampling methodology covering target groups such as Women-Led Organizations, GBV case workers, psychosocial support providers, health providers, protection staff, humanitarian workers, and government counterparts ensuring representation by state, organization, gender, disability inclusion, and years of experience.
• Conduct field and/or remote data collection using mixed methods including online surveys, face-to-face interviews, key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and desk research while applying highest ethics in research and data protection.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using appropriate statistical software focusing on capacity improvements, knowledge, skills, attitudes, confidence, institutional change, service quality improvements, and capacity gaps.
• Prepare the Project Impact Report including executive summary, methodology, limitations, findings, comparative analysis, conclusions, lessons learned, good practices, and recommendations.
• Present the draft report to UNFPA and stakeholders and facilitate collection of feedback for the final report.
• Deliver final project impact report, executive summary, PowerPoint presentation, clean dataset, data collection tools, codebook, statistical outputs, and final database.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree preferred) in gender studies, development studies, sociology, psychology, humanitarian studies, international development or another relevant discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in monitoring and evaluation, programme evaluation, or research.
• Demonstrated experience conducting large-scale surveys, evaluations, and assessments.
• Proven experience in humanitarian programming, preferably in Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and protection.
• Experience working with UN agencies, INGOs, national NGOs, and Women-Led Organizations is highly desirable.
• Fluent in English and Arabic.
• Strong analytical and research skills.
• Demonstrated experience in quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
• Excellent report-writing and presentation skills.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
• Knowledge of Results-Based Management (RBM) and humanitarian monitoring frameworks.

Skills

• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Programme Evaluation
• Research
• Large-scale Surveys
• Humanitarian Programming
• Gender-Based Violence Programming
• Quantitative Methods
• Qualitative Methods
• Report Writing
• Presentation Skills
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Facilitation Skills
• Result-Based Management
• Humanitarian Monitoring Frameworks
• Data Collection
• Data Analysis

Languages

English, Arabic