Tata Institute of Social Sciences Invites Application for Evaluators Recruitment 2021

Vacancy Circular No:

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) invites applications for recruitment of Evaluators

Evaluators

Number of Vacancy: 1 Posts

Educational Qualification: MSW, MPH

1. Name of the Post: Evaluators

2. Objectives of the evaluation:

a. To assess the performance of TIs in terms of gaps between planned targets and actual achievements.

b. To assess component-specific quality of TI.

c. To assess knowledge level, condom use, health seeking behaviours.

d. To assess the component wise expenditure of and look for variance.

e. To assess the quality and performance of project staff and peer educators during the review period.

f. To assess various systems (accounts/ finance/ human resource/program management) in place at TI NGO/CBO and their effectiveness in the implementation of TIs.

g. To assess the organization capacity.

h. To assess community engagements.

i. To assess the innovations if any.

3. Desired qualification and experience of the evaluators:

a. Minimum 5 years experience in developmental sector and preferably at least 1 year in HIV/AIDS prevention programme.

b. Post graduate in any Social Work, Public Health, and other allied Social Sciences.

c. Community members with minimum qualification of graduation in Social Sciences and at least 2 years of experience in HIV/AIDS prevention programme are also eligible to apply.

d. For Finance evaluators the minimum qualification is a post graduate degree in Commerce or an experience in auditing with a CA firm. SACS internal auditors should not be engaged in TI evaluation due to possible conflict of interest.

e. Preference shall be given to candidates, who have prior experience evaluating development programmes.

f. Sensitive towards issues relating to HRG communities and PLHIVs.

g. Willing to undertake extensive field visits to intervention sites.

h. Well versed in reporting and documentation.

i. Conversant in local language in addition to English.

j. She/he shall have experience in conducting FGDs/IDIs with HRGs and Bridge population.

k. Evaluators should not be currently associated with any TI projects/development partners who are supporting NACP both at National and State level.

4. Evaluators required to:

a. Evaluators should spend three full days in each TIs/LWS.

b. It is recommended that the evaluators should visit the community at appropriate hours for informal interaction as per the convenience of the community.

c. At least 10% of the HRG randomly selected and are to be contacted by the evaluation team through one to one contact or small group discussions in 10% of the hotspots randomly selected by the evaluator.

d. The evaluation report including soft copy of the evaluation tool, and detailed report shall be submitted on the 3rd day of completion of the evaluation at any TI to SACS.

e. The overall report should be shared within 7 days after completing the evaluation of any TI to SSR/TISS.

f. The final signed evaluation report should be submitted by emails to SACS.

5. Team for Evaluation: The 3-member evaluator’s team consists of: 2 External evaluators, one of them would be the lead evaluators and another one would be the co-evaluator. 1 Accounts/ finance person. One evaluator/team of evaluators can conduct maximum 5 TI evaluations in one state.

6. Honorarium and Reimbursement to Evaluators:

a) Honorarium will be paid to evaluators directly by SACS.

b) SACS will reimburse the travel and stay for the period of evaluation as per the NACO norms.