Consultancy: Terms of reference to conduct focus group discussion Zambia country programme staff.

Mission & Vision

Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children. Our Vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.  Zambia Country Strategy 2019 to 2021 is based on our Child Rights Situation Analysis (CRSA) findings and our organizational strengths.  Save the Children will focus our efforts on three groups of the most deprived children: 1) children in rural areas, 2) refugee and migrant children and 3) the girl child from conception until adolescence. We invest in the technical expertise we need at the country level to design and deliver high-quality programming in these areas. We focus on four areas of programming where we will build thematic leadership: 1) Inclusive Early Childhood Care Development and Education (ECCDE), 2) Protecting the most vulnerable groups of boys and girls against violence, including refugees, migrants and Children Without Appropriate Care (CWAC); 3) Child Sensitive Social Protection (CSSP); 4) Meaningful child participation, safeguarding, and effective child rights advocacy. Save the Children wishes to invite qualified individuals to apply for the following position:

Introduction/Background/Context

Save the Children Zambia Country Programme has a total workforce of sixty-five (65) employees. It comprises of the main office located in Lusaka and two (2) Field Offices located in Kalulushi Copperbelt and Mongu Western Province. The Zambia Country Programme has in the recent past conducted two Surveys, Share Your View Survey in 2018 and Pulse Survey in 2019 respectively.

Objective of the Consultancy/Team Building

The purpose of this ToR is to engage a suitable Consultant who will lead the focus group/one to one discussions for all Save the Children employees in order to address the key low lights arising from the recently conducted Pulse Survey and highlight what measures may be implemented to improve the results of the survey.

Specific Objectives of the FGDs

• To identify the key issues surrounding staff
• To address the key challenges affected staff
• To encourage transparency and openness
• To increase staff morale and wellbeing

Deliverables

The Consultant will conduct interactive sessions with individual employees and groups using a standard set questionnaire to highlighting some key focus areas required for attention.

• Develop a standard set questionnaire
• Conduct FGDs or one to ne interviews remotely
• Monitor progress based on agreed timeline
• Produce short report after the FGDs
• Compile recommendations based on FGD
• Contribute to action plan preparation process
• Key Finding Presentation to Senior Management Teams

Time-frame of the consultancy

The expected duration for this assignment is 10 days.

Required profile of the Consultant:

We are looking to engage an experienced Consultant who is flexible to engage the staff, realign activities reflecting the mood of participants to ensure that ultimately, we achieve the objectives outlined in here.  The consultant/team must demonstrate the following qualifications in order to be eligible for this assignment:

• The Team Lead must hold a degree in a relevant field: Public Administration, Human Resources, Communication and Development Studies. Other team members should also hold relevant qualifications in any of these areas.
• A minimum of 3 years of proven experience in conducting FGDs/one to one, investigative and case study writing
• Clear articulation of capacity and skills, and innovative approaches to carry out the assignment; as well as ·a clear work plan and articulation of expected methodologies and outputs within a tight timeframe.
• Ability to start immediately and work under strict time limits.

Schedule of payment

The following payments will be made to the selected consultant using an agreed mode of payment:

How to apply:

Interested applicants are invited to submit EOI, the proposed cost of the assignment should work plan, detailed Curriculum Vitea including references of previous work done to this email address: zambia.procurement@savethechildren.org

Applications should be submitted not later than Monday 4th May 2020.