About Global Fund for ChildrenGlobal Fund for Children (GFC) partners with community-based organizations around the world to help children and youth reach their full potential and advance their rights. We provide flexible funding, capacity development, and a network of global connections to strengthen locally led, community-rooted work that creates lasting change. Our mission is to transform the lives of children and youth worldwide by partnering with grassroots organizations advancing justice, equity, and opportunity.GFC is a global organization with staff across multiple regions, working collectively to support partners in more than 34 countries around the world.Consultancy OverviewGFC is a trust-based intermediary fund supporting grassroots partners across 42 countries to build a world where children and youth can thrive. We are in an active period of organisational learning — deepening our Theory of Change, building out an outcomes management infrastructure, and asking harder questions about whose knowledge counts, what accountability really looks like across power-differentiated relationships, and how evaluation can serve movements rather than extract from them.This consultancy will be for a 6-month duration from July 2026 through December 2026, and the expected level of engagement will average 120 hours per month. We are seeking a seasoned learning and evaluation practitioner who understands that data is political, that knowledge is always situated, and that the best evaluative work deepens the agency and self-determination of partners to cover for our senior manager during an extended leave. You will hold both rigour and relationship — committed to quality, honest about uncertainty, and oriented toward the flourishing of the communities at the centre of our work.Scope of Work:General L& E support: You will contribute to GFC's external reporting and funding development — drafting or strengthening Learning and Evaluation components within proposals, collating evidence for donor and influencing reports, and helping the team articulate the value and complexity of intermediary work to a range of institutional and individual funders. Critically, you will bring an evaluative eye to this work: ensuring that what we claim reflects what we know, that uncertainty is named rather than hidden, and that the communities at the centre of the work are not reduced to data points. You understand that change is a long-term process that cannot be measured by short-term grant metrics.Outcomes Management Systems: You will contribute to the continued build-out of GFC's Salesforce-based outcomes management infrastructure — helping translate the logic of the system into accessible, usable practice for staff and partners, and maintaining the integrity of data quality over time.Learning artefacts, partner-led research, and team capability: You may be asked to contribute to the design of briefs, frameworks, toolkits, and other formats that make our evidence and analysis useful to grassroots partners, donors, and sector peers. You will support partner-led research processes already underway, and help scope and seed new inquiries that will continue beyond the cover period .You will also provide L&E training and capability support to internal teams — translating evaluative thinking into accessible practice for colleagues who are not L&E specialists themselves.Qualifications & Key CompetenciesRequiredPractice and orientation Senior-level experience in learning and evaluation within philanthropy, intermediary funding, or international social change contextsA grounded, critical practice — sceptical of extractive data practices, fluent in evaluation as a site of power, and able to navigate the politics of the work without performing themDemonstrated experience designing evaluation approaches rooted in decolonial, Indigenous, or community-led frameworksThe maturity to walk into live workstreams, pick them up, and steward them through a defined cover periodTechnical craftStrong mixed-methods capability — from survey design and statistical analysis to focus groups, narrative inquiry, and participatory sense-makingFluency with Theory of Change, logical frameworks, and outcomes mapping, with the critical awareness to know when these tools serve partners and when they constrain themAbility to pair quantitative data with narrative context to produce honest, nuanced accounts of changeExperience designing learning products — frameworks, briefs, toolkits, reports — for varied audiences including grassroots partners, young people, donors, and sector peersExperience with proposal development and grant reporting from both funder and grantee perspectivesCommunication and collaborationStrong written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate complex findings for internal teams, grantees, donors, and young peopleCulturally responsive — attentive to power and positionality in how feedback and findings are sharedAble to give honest, constructive critique while holding collegiality, and to build relationships quickly in a cover contextPreferred Experience building or contributing to outcomes management systems (Salesforce or equivalent)Prior work in intermediary or re-granting contexts, with understanding of the layered power dynamics these createExperience with participatory grantmaking models and the evaluative questions they raiseExperience in child and youth participatory evaluationSustained engagement across several countries in Asia, Africa , Europe and Central Asia, and/or Latin America.Languages:Fluency in English required. Proficiency in one or more languages of GFC's regions of work strongly preferred — French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, or SwahiliOur Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-RacismGFC is deeply committed to building an equitable, inclusive, anti-racist organization that reflects and supports the diverse communities we serve. We value lived experience, cultural humility, and a learning mindset. We actively encourage candidates from historically marginalized and underrepresented groups, and those with personal or community ties to the regions where we work, to apply.We believe that a diverse team strengthens our work, enriches our perspectives, and enhances our ability to partner authentically with grassroots organizations around the world.LocationGFC operates as a globally distributed organization, with most of the team working remotely. Candidates from any location may apply, with the understanding that they must be willing and able to provide comfortable overlap with Pacific Standard and Eastern Standard time zones and adjust their schedules accordingly.What can we offer you? Our team dreams big.We work together to build a world where all children and youth are safe, strong and valued.GFC fosters a caring work environment that promotes collaboration, respect, and professional development. We set standards of excellence and quality in our work, firmly believing that children and youth deserve the best we can offer.We believe that every person has equal rights, and we affirm the diversity that enriches our globalized world. In line with these core values, it is our policy to actively seek diverse candidates from a variety of backgrounds who are committed to Global Fund for Children’s mission.Our values shape our vision, guide our daily decision making, and signal to the world what to expect when you encounter Global Fund for Children. We hold ourselves to these values to best serve our local partners and the children and youth they support. We attract talented people from all over the world because we believe deeply in living our values.Compensation – The maximum monthly fee allocated for this consultancy is $5,000.00 (US) and will be based on the level of experience and expertise, as well as location-specific benchmarks. Payments will be processed monthly.Time Commitment - The consultant will be expected to work on average 120 hours per month during this engagement, and to utilize their own equipment.
