Organization Name: CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Overseas Development)

Job Title: Final External Evaluation Consultant (Supporting the Social and Economic Resilience of Women, Girls, Youths, Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) and School-Going Children (SERARP))

Role Purpose:

The overall purpose of the final evaluation is to provide an independent assessment of the extent to which SERARP achieved its intended objectives and outcomes, to ensure accountability to the Oak Foundation, CAFOD, implementing partners and project participants, and to generate learning to strengthen future programming on gender, disability inclusion and resilience in Zimbabwe.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Assess progress towards the project's stated objectives and outcomes against the baselines and milestones set out in the SERARP MEAL Framework and Logframe.
Assess the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability (OECD-DAC evaluation criteria) of the project across the five implementing districts.
Critically analyse how effectively gender-transformative and disability-inclusive approaches including CAFOD's SADI framework were integrated across project design, targeting and implementation.
Assess the relevance, timeliness and effectiveness of the humanitarian crisis-modifier response (supplementary school feeding) against Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) commitments and Sphere minimum standards.
Assess value for money and the efficiency of resource use across the multi-partner delivery model.
Assess the extent to which the project's feedback and complaints handling mechanisms, and safeguarding measures, functioned effectively.
Identify unintended (positive and negative) effects of the project.
Identify factors that enable or constrain the sustainability of project gains beyond the life of the grant.
Document key lessons learned, promising practices and actionable recommendations.
Conduct data collection via desk reviews, Key Informant Interviews (KIIs), Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), household/participant surveys, and case studies.
Deliver key products: Inception report, draft evaluation report, validation meeting, and a final evaluation report (including executive summary and dissemination brief) along with cleaned datasets.

Qualifications and Requirements:

A postgraduate (Master's or higher) degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Gender Studies, Monitoring and Evaluation, or a related field.
At least 5 years' demonstrable experience designing and leading evaluations of development and/or humanitarian programmes (ideally including resilience, livelihoods, and gender or disability-focused interventions).
Strong knowledge and experience applying the OECD-DAC evaluation criteria and, ideally, Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) and/or Sphere standards.
Demonstrated experience and sensitivity working on gender equality, gender-transformative programming and disability inclusion.
Familiarity with the Zimbabwean context, including experience working with faith-based organisations, Caritas/church structures, and rural communities in Manicaland, Masvingo and Mashonaland Central provinces.
Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills, including experience with KOBO or similar digital data collection platforms.
Excellent English report-writing and presentation skills; working knowledge of Shona is an advantage.
A track record of delivering high-quality, timely evaluation reports within tight budgets.
Willingness and ability to comply with CAFOD's Safeguarding and Child Protection policies.

Application Details:

Application Components:
- A technical proposal (including evaluation approach, methodology, sampling strategy, and workplan — max 10 pages).
- A financial proposal/itemised budget (not exceeding USD 13,000).
- Detailed curriculum vitae (CV).
- At least two (2) professional references.
- A sample of similar evaluation work completed within the past three years.
Submission Email: general@cafod.org.uk
Deadline for Proposals: 24 August 2026, 1630hrs Harare time.