STOOS Consulting is establishing a **national roster of sectoral/technical experts in South Sudan** to support upcoming **evaluations, third-party monitoring (TPM), assessments, and research studies** for UN agencies, INGOs, and donors. STOOS is an international MEAL, research, and advisory firm working in **fragile, conflict-affected and hard-to-reach contexts** and delivering **evidence-based, gender- and conflict-sensitive** analysis to improve humanitarian and resilience programming.

**Purpose of the Roster**

- Build an **on-call pool** of South Sudan–based sector experts.
- Deploy experts for **short-term assignments** (inception, tool refinement, field-level technical KIIs, analysis, reporting).
- Ensure **strong contextualization** to South Sudan’s operating environment (access constraints, local authorities, community dynamics, inter-communal tensions, floods).

**Key Duties and Tasks**

- **Inception support**
- Review ToR, project documents, cluster guidance.
- Validate scope by **state/county/payam/boma**.
- Advise on feasibility in **insecure/flooded/riverine** areas.
- **Technical inputs to tools**
- Refine questionnaires, KII/FGD guides, observation checklists for South Sudan context.
- Integrate **gender, protection, disability (including persons with disabilities), AAP, conflict sensitivity**.
- Align tools with **South Sudan cluster standards** (WASH, FSL, Nutrition, Education, Protection, CCCM, Health, Shelter/NFI).
- **High-level technical data collection**
- Conduct KIIs with: line ministries (e.g. MoH, MoE, MoWRI), state/county authorities, cluster/sector leads, UN/INGOs, church actors, women/youth groups, local CSOs, and service providers.
- Where needed, co-lead FGDs with IDPs, returnees, host communities, women/girls, cattle camp youth, PWDs.
- **Analysis and interpretation**
- Validate field data from remote or partner-assisted collection.
- Explain **programmatic implications of access, seasonality, cattle migration, conflict, and floods**.
- Highlight risks to **Do No Harm, GBV, localization, and social cohesion**.
- **Reporting and recommendations**
- Draft/review sector chapters.
- Provide **practical, context-feasible recommendations** (considering taxation, INGO presence by county, local partners’ capacity, rainy season).
- Align with donor frameworks (ECHO, USAID/BHA, BMZ/GFFO, SDC, pooled funds) and **HRP priorities**.

**Sectors / Fields of Interest (South Sudan)**
We welcome experts in the following areas (multiple selections allowed):

- **WASH (emergency & community-based):** water yards, handpumps, water trucking, solarization, sanitation in PoC/IDP sites, hygiene promotion, linkages with FSL/Nutrition.
- **Food Security & Livelihoods (FSL):** emergency food assistance, CVA, agri-livelihoods, fisheries, livestock, farmer field schools, resilience/livelihoods for flood- and conflict-affected counties.
- **Nutrition:** CMAM/OTP/TSFP, IYCF-E, IMAM, nutrition integration in health/WASH, community-based volunteers.
- **Health & MHPSS:** PHCC/PHCU support, outreach/mobile clinics, integrated health–nutrition response, SRH/GBV clinical care, referral challenges in remote counties.
- **Protection / GBV / Child Protection:** case management, safe spaces, SASA! / SAA-type approaches, PSEA, GBV risk mitigation in WASH/shelter, protection monitoring, HLP in return areas.
- **Education in Emergencies (EiE):** TLSs, ALP, school feeding linkages, teacher incentives, girls’ education, education in flood- and conflict-affected counties.
- **CCCM / IDP Site Management & Returns:** camp/site management, service mapping, community governance, accountability, durable solutions and area-based approaches.
- **Shelter / NFI:** emergency shelter, rapid response, prepositioning, shelter for flood/displacement, integration with WASH and Protection.
- **Peacebuilding / Social Cohesion / Local Governance:** community engagement, customary leadership, women/youth involvement, inter-communal violence mitigation, localization of aid.
- **Resilience, Climate & Flood Response:** seasonal movement, flood-prone counties (Jonglei, Unity, Upper Nile), market disruptions, adaptive programming.

**Requirements / Profile**

- **Education (sector-specific):**
- **WASH/Shelter/NFI:** Civil/Water/Environmental Engineering, Construction.
- **Health/Nutrition/MHPSS:** Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Nutrition.
- **Education/EiE:** Education, Pedagogy, Social Sciences.
- **Protection/GBV/CP:** Social Work, Gender Studies, Psychology, Law.
- **FSL/Livelihoods/Resilience:** Agriculture, Rural Development, Economics.
- **Experience:**
- Minimum **4–5 years of humanitarian or early recovery work in South Sudan** (preferably in multiple states/counties).
- Experience with **UN, INGO, NNGO consortia, or cluster systems**.
- Prior involvement in **assessments, MEAL, TPM, baselines/endlines** is an asset.
- **Skills:**
- Ability to work with **mixed methods** (surveys + KIIs/FGDs).
- Comfortable conducting **high-level KIIs** with authorities, UN/INGOs.
- Strong understanding of **access constraints, local conflict dynamics, and power relations**.
- **Languages:**
- **English** (reporting).
- **Juba Arabic** (highly preferred).
- Knowledge of **local languages** (Dinka, Nuer, Bari, Shilluk, Azande, etc.) is a strong asset.