Location: Ghana
Closing date: 6 June 2016
Contract duration: 60 days
Closing date: 6 June 2016
Contract duration: 60 days
Project background
Ghana is scheduled to hold its general elections on 7 November 2016. The 2016 elections in Ghana will be the seventh Presidential and Parliamentary elections since the restoration of multi-party democracy in 1992.
The objective of this project is to strengthen and broaden the Electoral Commission’s current voter education strategy.
More broadly, the project aims to advance the Secretariat’s approach of taking a more holistic and long-term view to election observation with a focus on the entire electoral cycle (pre-election, election-day and post-election).
The scope of the project
The consultant will provide support to the Electoral Commission in strengthening its current voter education strategy by undertaking the following tasks:
- Provide support to the Commission in reviewing its current voter education strategy, proposing possible revision.
- Conduct an assessment of the voter education needs of different segments of the voting population, particularly first time, young voters, marginalized groups and persons with disabilities [PWDs].
- Design several prototype voter education materials targeting different segments of the voting population.
- Develop strategies for effective voter education tailored to the needs of different segments of the voting population.
- Design a monitoring and evaluation tool for measuring the impact of voter education activities.
- Design a strategy for effective synergy in voter education between Commission and stakeholders, particularly civil society organizations (CSOs).
- Provide feedback to the Commission on lesson learned with a view to improving the Commission’s voter education capacity for future elections.
- Conduct an assessment on how current voter education had impacted on the Electoral process
Qualifications and experience
- Advance Degree or equivalent in Law, Communications,
- 10+ years’ experience with election commissions around the world
- Proven track record with elections or civic education in developing countries
- Familiarity with political, economic, and social issues in Ghana and/or West Africa
- Demonstrated capacity to plan, prioritize and deliver tasks on time to meet goals in a highly pressured environment and to support other colleagues in achieving similar goals.
- Strong leadership, problem solving, coordination, and consensus building skills is a must;
- Ability to establish effective working relations in a multicultural team environment.
- Familiarity with the international donor community
- Strong oral and written communication skills;
- Demonstrated ability to quickly build and consolidate relationships;
- Competency with Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Demonstrated understanding of the Commonwealth’s fundamental values and principles as outlined in the Commonwealth Charter.
- Respect for diversity and intercultural understanding.
- Highest standards of integrity, discretion and loyalty.
- Promotes enabling environment for open communication.
- Solid political acumen.
- Ability to work independently and produce high quality outputs in a timely manner, while understanding and anticipating evolving needs.
Closing date is Monday 6 June 2016 at 17:00 BST
