Consultancy Jobs – Review National Youth Working Group – Restless Development
Job Title: Consultancy – Review National Youth Working Group
Organisation: Restless Development
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Restless Development knows that young people have the power to solve the challenges we face in our world, but they are being ignored and overlooked. We are the agency that works with young people so they can lead in solving those challenges. Whether that means supporting communities to end child marriage or prevent HIV, we work with young people to change their lives and the lives of people in their communities.
Background
The National Youth Working Group (NYWG)was established in 2011 by Restless Development and other partners, including the Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development, National Youth Council and development partners with a goal to ensure that young people are engaged as valued partners in development processes and that young people’s needs and interests are addressed in development policy, plans and resource allocations at national and local levels.
The objectives of the Youth Working Group are to;
- Promote shared learning on youth development.
- Provide expertise to government, development partners and others on youth development, including facilitating the inclusion of young peoples’ voices in these discussions;
- Advocate for development policy that addresses young people’s concerns.
Structure: Restless Development currently chairs the NYWG with the main activity being a Sharing and Learning session every 2 months on a particular issue related to Young people in Uganda
Membership: Over the past years the membership of the NYWG has grown from five to over 500 individual members representing approximately 200 different organisations. The membership is diverse, including local and national NGOs and networks; UN agencies; research institutes; government structures; and donor agencies. However, there is minimal engagement from key actors with roughly 20-30 people regularly attending the Sharing and learning sessions.
Job Summary: Restless Development is seeking to hire a consultant to lead the process of reviewing the operations of the National Youth Working Group. The Youth working Group was formed in the spirit of flexibility and continuous improvement to ensure it is responsive to member interests and external trends relevant to the youth sector. For this reason, we are seeking a consultant to lead the process of reviewing the operations of the group with the aim of generating learning to inform the review and rejuvenation of the working group.
Specifically, this review will:
- Evaluate the extent to which the working group has delivered on its objectives.
- Generate learnings and insights to rejuvenate the working group.
- Develop a new direction and structure for the working group.
Scope and Methodology
Scope; The assessment will seek to understand the contribution of the working group to the youth sector in Uganda, learnings and set workable solutions for repositioning the operations of the working group. The consultant will perform the following tasks:
- Meet with Restless Development leadership to clarify on the ToR and inception framework;
- Undertake desk review of relevant literature, materials and resources;
- Develop inception reports and tools for data collection.
- Carry out data collection (this will be through online data collection, and meetings with selected development actors, Government and Youth leaders).
- Write draft and final report including learnings and concrete workable solutions to reposition the working group to deliver its objectives, including an updated ToR and Ways of working guide.
- Validate the report with staff and selected development partners.
- Final report.
Approach and Methodology;
- On signing the contract, the consultant will have an inception meeting with Restless Development to discuss how to proceed with the work. This meeting will lead to the development of the work schedule to guide the entire process.
- The consultant will be availed with soft copies of the related documents for them to review and generate an inception report.
- The consultant will lead consultations through surveys, FGD’s and key informant interviews.
- The consultant will use the findings from the consultations to produce a learning report, and workable solutions to improve the operations of the working group.
- The consultant will present the learning report to Restless Development and partners for validation.
- The consultant will use the findings from the validation meeting to finalize the revised operation framework for the working group.
Key Deliverables: The consultant is responsible for delivering on the following tasks and outputs in the agreed timeframe.
- Inception report to include among others, plans, detailed methodology, detailed road map, timelines and data collection tools.
- Presentation of learning paper and proposed workable recommendations for validation
- Revised operation framework for the working group.
Governance and Accountability:
The consultancy will be directly managed by the Head of Programmes at Restless Development Uganda. The consultant will, however, relate strongly with Hub Director and Communication Assistant Coordinator on content clarity during the work.
The consultant is also expected to appoint the focal person for the assignment. The appointed person will be the team lead for the consultancy and all coordination and communication during the execution of the work will pass through him/her.
Profile of the consultant:
The Consultant should be:
- A practising professional in the Youth Development Sector.
- Passion for young people and youth work in Uganda
- Skills and proven background in evaluations of coordination platforms;
- Data analysis, reporting and presentation skills.
- Ability to adhere to the deadline is strongly desired.
Time allocated for the assignment: The assignment is envisaged to take 10 days spread across the month of March and April, with a final report Mid April
Payments
We have an available budget for 1,000 USD for the full project. The consultant will be paid for the work in two instalments as explained below:
- 40% on signing the engagement contract
- 60 % after completing the work.
- 6% of withholding tax is applicable for this assignment
Submission of Expressions of Interest
Consultants meeting the above criteria are invited to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI), stating knowledge and experience related to the consultancy by email to Restless Development via the email: ugandajobs@restlessdevelopment.org
Deadline: 9th March 2019