NGO JOBS

Organization: Sight Savers International
Country: Bangladesh
Closing date: 10 Feb 2014

Sightsavers is looking for external evaluators to conduct End of Project Evaluation of a project entitled “Vision Bangladesh” implemented with joint support from Sightsavers, BRAC and National Eye Care. The project has partnership with four hospital partners (Voluntary Association for Rural Development (VARD), Bangladesh National Society for the Blind (BNSB) Moulvibazar, NAYAN and JASPUS) and government district upazila hospitals under Sylhet division over the period of January 2011 to December 2013. Expression of Interest to undertake the evaluation is requested.

The specific purpose of this project is “Elimination of the backlog of cataract blindness from Sylhet Division by the year 2013” and the specific objectives are:

1.To increase demand for eye care services particularly for cataract in the community.
2.To increase accessibility to quality eye care services, especially cataract, particularly for the poor.
3.To deploy/employ appropriate and competent HR in all eye care facilities in district and upazila level.
4.To manage programme efficiently and effectively.

We are now looking for external evaluators to conduct a strategic evaluation of this project. The evaluator/evaluation team should include personnel with a professional background and extensive knowledge of public health policy (preferably eye health at national and global levels), health systems strengthening particularly human resources development, primary health care reforms and strategy analysis. S/he should have demonstrable skills in analysing capacity needs and gaps of different cadres’ eye health. The team should also have skills and knowledge in project/programme analysis, be able to undertake and draw links between health interventions and the wider development discourse as well as have experience in conducting large scale evaluations, preferably in the South Asian context. It is also expected that the whole team will have familiarity with development assistance evaluation.

Purpose of the Evaluation
The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the projects’ achievements, challenges, capture the lessons learned and way forward for Sightsavers and partners in context of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability, scalability/replication, and coherenece/coordination.

Thus, the evaluation will review the achievement of the project against objectives and outputs as detailed out in the project document, as well as assess the long-term effects made by the project on eye health. The key issues to be addressed are service delivery, institutional and overall programmatic development at the partners’ level, contribution to health system strengthening and contribution made at the beneficiary level as well as financial management of the project.

This will ultimately provide an analysis on how scalable and replicable it is in national context.

Please see the terms of reference for the full details of this assignment. Expressions of interest will be reviewed according to the assessment criteria

Closing date: 10 February 2014

The successful applicant will be contacted by 28 February 2014 and should be ready to start work on the evaluation by March 2014.

How to apply:

For full terms of reference and to express interest in this assignment please visit http://www.sightsavers.org/about_us/vacancies/20873.html