National Consultant - Kenya Country Strategic Plan 2025 Outcome Monitoring (Gender, Cross Cutting and Supply Chain Thematic Area Lead), When Actually Employed (WAE), SSA9 at World Food Programme (WFP)

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead OM  work ensuring gender , crosscutting and Supply chain  themes are covered. Contribute, by bringing expertise in gender, accountability and other cross cutting themes, 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 gender and leadership in crosscutting and supply chain themes 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 gender, crosscutting and supply chain themes, ensuring data collection tools are tested and digitalized and enumerators are adequately trained. Conduct qualitative data collection covering gender, supply chain and other crosscutting themes.
• 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  supply chain and gender and crosscutting chapters, 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 of  key informant interviews, focus group discussions, etc.
• Table of all standard and custom indicator Final 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 gender and crosscutting and supply chain  themes are fully included. Attend a debriefing session with stakeholders and support in presentation of the Outcome monitoring  findings.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

• Technical note  with a clear methodology and timelines to execute OM while ensuring gender , crosscutting and supply chain  themes are fully included.
• Final OM report with gender & crosscutting and supply chain chapters   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, Agriculture or Gender.

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 etc

Knowledge & Skills:

• Expertise in designing research and monitoring methodologies  and data collection tools and demonstrated experience in similar work. 
• Leadership and communication skills, including a track record of excellent writing and presentation skills.