Terms of Reference: Consultant (6-month contract) – Nigeria

The Freedom Fund (www.freedomfund.org) is a leader in the global movement to end modern slavery. The Freedom Fund works to combat many different forms of extreme exploitation, including forced labour, sex trafficking, forced marriage, and the worst forms of child labour. It:

• invests in those countries and sectors with the greatest incidence of modern slavery.
• analyses which interventions work best and shares that knowledge.
• brings together a community of activists committed to ending extreme exploitation and empowered by the knowledge of how best to do so.
• generates funding by demonstrating how effective interventions can protect those at risk of being exploited and free those in situations of exploitation.

The Freedom Fund, supported by the US Department of State, is currently funding a research study to gain a deeper understanding of the factors and systems that facilitate exploitative child domestic work in Liberia and Nigeria. Based on the findings of this research, the Freedom Fund will co-develop, with local community representatives and civil society organisations, well-targeted interventions to reduce the prevalence of exploitative child domestic work in specific geographic areas in each country. The Freedom Fund will provide grant funds to civil society organisations to pilot these interventions and closely monitor their effectiveness in order to inform a longer-term strategy to address this issue.

This position a full-time consultancy assignment for six months with possibility to extend at the end of this period.

The consultant will lead the following activities on behalf of the Freedom Fund in Nigeria during the initial inception phase. The consultant will work with a Freedom Fund team based out of London, UK as well as another consultant based out of Liberia.

Responsiblities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Advise the Freedom Fund’s pilot phase strategy document.
• Guided by the formative research findings, identify potential NGOs, and provide essential preparatory support to invite them for the formal co-creation phase, including dissemination of application materials, review of initial applications, short-listing of partners, office, and community visits.
• Lead the co-creation process as partners develop their full project proposals. This will include the organisation of convenings of organisations, facilitation during proposal development workshops and providing feedback to and mentoring each applicant, amongst other activities.
• As necessary, represent the Freedom Fund in official meetings with government, Nigerian and international organisations, and networks.
• As necessary, coordinate logistics and facilitate necessary visits with Freedom Fund representatives.
• Any other tasks, as assigned.

For further information, please find the TOR on our website.