About Womankind Worldwide
Womankind Worldwide is an international women’s rights organisation and funder working with women’s rights groups and feminist movements around the world to end gender inequality. We take collective action alongside women’s rights organisations, feminist movements and activists in Eastern and Southern Africa and South Asia. We support them to challenge inequality at home, in communities and at the workplace. We fund and strengthen these movements and advocate for change alongside them.
About Her Voice Fund
The Her Voice Fund is an innovative funding programme designed to provide advocacy-support to women’s-rights, feminist organisations, informal groups and activists working in Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Nepal.
Feminist participatory action is central to the HVF fund design. With a strong commitment to women and girl-led organisations, in the majority world, driving grassroots feminist advocacy.
Purpose and scope of work
Womankind Worldwide is seeking a Research Consultant – specialising in monitoring, evaluation and learning to support the Policy and Advocacy team with a year-long evaluation of the Her Voice Fund.
Through this opportunity, the consultant will directly embed feminist participatory action into the research project.
Tasks/deliverables
1. Deliver an inception meeting
2. Develop a workplan a jointly agreed workplan and map out timelines for key tasks and activities.
3. Produce a final evaluation by May 2025 (to be confirmed with consultant)
4. Produce a 4-page briefing paper by November 2024
5. Conduct virtual key information interviews and focus group discussions with key Her Voice Fund grantees and Womankind Worldwide Staff.
6. Deliver virtual or in-person dissemination meeting
7. Submit final two products to Womankind focal point
There will be a significant travel commitment connected to this opportunity. The consultant will work closely with the Policy and Advocacy team at Womankind Worldwide.
Competencies
- A strong understanding of feminist-funding principles as well as feminist advocacy
- Able to travel with ease to Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Nepal when required.
- A highly proactive MEL professional with a minimum of 5 years of previous professional experience in leading MEL for complex projects, preferably involving evaluating advocacy
- Fluency in English
- Strong qualitative and quantitative skills, including understanding the value of anecdotal data and stories of change
- Experience navigating the demands and challenges of conducting MEL for advocacy
- Experience of building capacity of non-experts to implement effective M&E and Learning
- Experience of working collaboratively and productively with diverse stakeholders
- Excellent writing, interpersonal, communication skills
- Effective time and project management ability
Timeline
- Deadline for applications: Monday 8 July 2024 at 18:00pm (BST)/19:00PM CAT/20:00pm EAT.