Right to Play - Consultant

Consultant, Child-Focused Outcome Assessment


Right To Play

Location: Indonesia (Aceh)
Closing date: 28 Jul 2008

Job Description


I. INTRODUCTION

Right To Play is an athlete-driven, humanitarian non-governmental organization, delivering programs of structured play to children living in situations of disadvantage in 23 countries around the world. Right To Play - Indonesia is partnering with UNICEF and Dinas Sosial to implement programs that enhance healthy child development, build community capacity and raise awareness of child rights¢ issues.


II. OBJECTIVES OF THE CONSULTANCY

The Consultant is responsible for the successful implementation of a post-test assessment that will measure children¢s knowledge/attitudes on health and other child protection-related topics, as well as their behavior with respect to the ability to concentrate in school, teamwork & cooperation, fair play, etc. The survey instrument will be administered in villages in which Right To Play has worked compared to a control group of villages. It will be written by an in-field team,
but the consultant will participate fully in the pilot test and have ample opportunity to suggest revisions to the survey instrument.

Further, the consultant will have primary responsibility for training the survey enumerators, a group which will include Right To Play national staff, district-level social workers employed by Dinas Sosial, UNICEF-supported Child Center staff, and volunteer members of local Child Protection Bodies (LPA).


III. SCOPE OF WORK



There are four main project deliverables:

- Review of Survey Instrument, Pilot Test, Refinement of Survey Instrument and Final Site Selection

- Enumerators¢ Training

- In-field Supervision of Post-Test Assessment in Program Locations and Control Group

- Final Report



V. TIMING

The overall consultancy period for the baseline assessment is two months starting July 28, 2008 and ending September 22, 2008.


V. QUALIFICATIONS

- Master¢s Degree or higher in a field related to child protection (social work, public administration, community development); PhD preferred

- Minimum 2 years of experience in planning, design and implementation of surveys in developing country context

- Proven ability to use both quantitative, qualitative and participatory research methods

- Prior experience in Indonesia preferred

- Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and/or Acehnese preferred

- Experience conducting assessments of children strongly desired

- Prior work at the community level required

Vacancies Contactrtpindonesia1@gmail.com
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