Evaluation Consultant: New Ukrainian School project

About the project

The New Ukrainian School (NUS) project supports education reforms of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in the area of English language teaching and learning. Its overall objective is to bring positive impact on teaching of English by providing professional development opportunities to teachers and teacher educators aiming at improving their students’ learning outcomes. 

The project started in 2017 by building a local cohort of teacher trainers. Since 2018 they have delivered a teacher development training course for primary school English teacher to more than 17,000 English teachers across the country. 

Due to Covid-19, a professional development model for the basic (secondary) school English teachers was revised and moved to online delivery in September 2020.  

A training programme for English teachers of the high school is expected to be based on the concept of the NUS reform with a focus on school leavers’ skills for employability and best practices identified through evaluation of primary and basic school models. 

About the role

The aim of this evaluation is to provide independent assessment of the New Ukrainian School project, namely its implementation and achievements to date, as well as to provide recommendations for further implementation. Within this purpose, evaluation should assess how effective was the teachers’ professional development model introduced and implemented throughout the project; identify factors that supported or hindered its success; explore project results and their impact on teaching English in primary schools (grade 1-4) in Ukraine; explore how sustainable projects results are; as well as define key learnings and provide recommendations on any improvement for further implementation.

Both data collection and analysis should be designed to provide evidence-based answers to key evaluation questions.

The consultant’s assignment will include (but not limited to):

1. writing an Inception Report including detailed evaluation plan 
2. designing evaluation data collection tools/instruments and guidance
3. delivering an online workshop for local researchers
4. updating project Theory of Change and Results Framework 
5. producing Evaluation Report  
6. presenting online the evaluation findings and Theory of Change updates. 

Evaluation will cover all 25 regions in Ukraine. The data collection will be done by local researchers. The consultant is expected to develop methodology and data collection tools and instruments as well as to train local researchers to conduct the field work.

Due to the Covid19 and possible travel restrictions it is expected that the whole consultancy will be delivered online. In country logistics will be provided by the British Council team and local researchers.

The Charges for the whole package of services include consultancy fees only and should not exceed GBP 20,000 in total. 

Qualifications and experience required

• A UK* institution/ individual with proven track record and expertise in carrying out evaluation preferably in school education projects both face-to-face and online.
• Understanding of the local education context and/or previous experience of working in post-soviet countries is desirable. 
• Ability to work as part of a remote team is essential. 

*An institution/individual consultant registered in the UK

If you are interested, please download and read the RFP and supplementary documents below.

To apply, please complete and send all documents required as part of your tender response (Submission Checklist of Annex [2] Supplier Response), to Zhanna Sevastianova, Head of English at zhanna.sevastianova@britishcouncil.org.ua with the subject: NUS evaluation

For clarification requests please also refer to the contact person specified above.

Please note that we will respond to successful applicants within five days of the application submission.