Final Evaluation Consultancy – Save the Children Somalia
Job Description
Job Title: Terms of Reference for GFFO Project Final Evaluation (Consultancy)
Organization: Save the Children Somalia/land Country Office
Location: Somalia/land (field sites: Burau, Bandarbeyla, and Beledweyne)
Job Type: Consultancy (for consultancy firms)
Category/Sector: NGO / Project Evaluation
Salary: Lump-sum consultant fee (amount not specified)
Number of Vacancies: Not specified
Final Evaluation Consultancy at Save the Children Somalia/land
About the Role:
Save the Children Somalia/land Country Office wants a consultancy firm to carry out the final evaluation of the GFFO project. The work must be completed within 60 days. It includes preparing evaluation tools, meeting stakeholders, collecting and analysing data, and submitting the final evaluation report.
About the Organization:
Save the Children Somalia/land Country Office is the contracting office for this assignment.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out the final evaluation of the GFFO project.
- Prepare the evaluation tools and resources.
- Hold consultations with stakeholders.
- Collect and analyse data.
- Submit the final evaluation report on the timeline agreed with the organization.
Requirements and Qualifications
Firm Requirements (minimum):
- At least 7 years of relevant evaluation experience.
- An advanced degree in humanitarian, resilience, climate adaptation, DRR, development, or a related field.
- Proven experience with child-centered and participatory methods, including ethical work with children.
- Experience working with government institutions, local authorities, community structures, and humanitarian actors.
- Ability to do mixed-methods research and to compare quantitative (numbers) and qualitative (stories and views) evidence.
- A team leader with experience leading complex evaluations.
Team Leader and Technical Requirements:
- Experience designing and running endline/outcome evaluations using suitable non-experimental and mixed-methods designs.
- Proven experience in Anticipatory Action, Disaster Risk Reduction, climate resilience, and humanitarian programming.
- Experience doing evaluations or research in Somalia or similar fragile and humanitarian settings. This includes sensitivity to local culture, child rights, gender, inclusion, and minority groups.
- Experience doing ethical and inclusive studies with children, using child-friendly participation methods.
- Experience doing ethical and inclusive studies with marginalised, deprived, or vulnerable groups in a respectful and culturally appropriate way.
- Experience managing and coordinating government, non-government, community, and academic stakeholders.
- Strong experience doing evaluations using OECD-DAC criteria (a standard set of evaluation measures), including evaluations focused on use and learning.
- Strong understanding of theories of change, results frameworks, and contribution-focused evaluation.
- Strong writing and speaking skills to explain technical or complex findings to non-specialists, especially in reports and presentations.
Payment, Costs, and Security
- Payment: Save the Children will pay the consultant fee as a lump sum. It will not reimburse any costs during the assignment.
- Your costs: The firm covers its own logistics and costs. These include food, accommodation, local transport, and all costs of data collection and activities.
- Taxes: The firm is responsible for all taxes from the consultancy, following the local tax rules that apply at the Save the Children contracting office.
- Travel: Include all travel costs in your financial proposal, including domestic flights if needed and local transport to and from field sites. Clearly cost the expected travel between Burau, Bandarbeyla, and Beledweyne, plus local ground transport at each site. Put these in one single travel and logistics budget line.
- Security: The firm must follow Save the Children security procedures. This includes the SCI online security training (for international consultants) before travelling to Somalia.
Attachments
How to Apply
- Prepare your bid. Your application package must show that you meet the minimum requirements above.
- Write an email addressed to Somalia.Tenders@savethechildren.org.
- Use this exact email subject: TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR GFFO PROJECT FINAL EVALUATION IN SOMALIA/LAND.
- Label every attached file clearly so it is easy to see what each file is.
- Keep each email under 15 MB. If your files are large, split them into two emails.
- Do not copy any other SCI email addresses. This will invalidate your bid.
- Send your bid on or before 24 October 2026, 11:59 PM EAT.
Questions? Write to Somalia.procurement@savethechildren.org. You should get a reply within a maximum of two working days. Do not send questions to the tender email address. It is a sealed tender box that stays closed until the tender ends, so questions sent there will not be answered.
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
