• Short term consultancy assignment
• Commencing April 2025, concluding July 2025
• Nuku'alofa - Tonga

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About the project:

The Future Ready Children project was implemented between August 2022 and July 2025, with support from the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP).

The project is implemented in Nuku'alofa Tongatapu, targeting approximately 600 children and adults in FY 24/25. The project's overall objective is to support the Government of Tonga to strengthen capacities and systems in place to protect children from violence, with a focus on the education sector, through mechanisms that are robust, inclusive, and equitable.

As this project is in its final year of implementation, a final evaluation is planned to determine whether Future Ready Children achieved its intended outcomes, what factors promoted or hindered the achievement of expected results and how/ why this happened.

A place to make a difference:

Save the Children is seeking a proficient consultant team with experience working in the Pacific region.

In this consulting assignment you will perform the below tasks:

• 1 This study is expected to include a desk review / secondary data analysis of project documentation and monitoring data, alongside undertaking qualitative data collection
• 2 Undertake qualitative data collection in Tongatapu with children, teachers, and implementing partners.
• 3 Propose a purposive sampling strategy for qualitative data collection from the up to 10 schools which are expected to have completed all project interventions at the point of this evaluation being undertaken
• 4 Develop all qualitative data collection tools as part of the inception report, which will be reviewed by Save the Children.

For detailed information, the full Terms of Reference are available here.

This consultancy requires:

• 1 Designing and conducting evaluations with a substantive qualitative data collection component being used to complement existing quantitative data.
• 2 Conducting studies in the field of child protection, ideally in education settings.
• 3 Conducting studies in the Pacific and having existing networks of enumerators (desirable). Submissions by local consultants or in partnership with local consultants will be highly regarded.
• 4 Conducting ethical and inclusive studies involving children and child participatory techniques, as well as involving other marginalised, deprived and/or vulnerable groups in culturally appropriate and sensitive ways.
• 5 Sound and proven experience in conducting evaluations based on OECD-DAC evaluation criteria, particularly utilisation and learning focused evaluations.

Does this sound like the place for you?

We'd love to hear from you. To apply please send an application that includes:

• A letter expressing interest, outlining the experience and expertise of the individual consultant or consulting agency relevant for the work
• A copy of CV(s) or details of expertise in your research institution, or consultancy firm/agency, if applicable
• Sample of previous research work/s, relevant to this consultancy
• Contact details of at least two references
• An operational plan detailing how the work will be done and how the objectives above will be met (maximum 2 pages)
• A financial proposal or costing for items/activities required for the fulfilment of the expected deliverables of the consultancy work

Applications must be received no later than the advertised closing date and must be sent to Georgina O'Hare - Pacific Regional MEAL Advisor - [email protected], using the subject line: Final Evaluation of Future Ready Children Consultant - Tonga enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All consultants are required to undergo an International / National Police Check, a Working with Children Check where necessary, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.