Consultancy – Implementation Research Consultant (Innovations in Education), Middle East and North Africa – Global Office of Research and Foresight – 12 months – Remote/Work from Home

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, in every single place, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each youngster, solutions

The Training part of UNICEF Innocenti – World Workplace of Analysis and Foresight is in search of a remote-based marketing consultant for an estimated 216 working days to help constructing implementation analysis into revolutionary schooling tasks. The improvements in schooling analysis portfolio embeds implementation analysis into large-scale and cross-country revolutionary partnerships and programmes, these improvements embody digital studying, low tech, and no tech options. The general intention of the analysis portfolio is to tell enhancements in improvements in schooling supply to enhance youngsters’s studying, and to synthesize classes throughout international locations to construct international public items.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

The implementation analysis marketing consultant will help the implementation of schooling analysis on revolutionary tasks by:
1. Growing of fit-for-purpose analysis plans for revolutionary schooling tasks in international locations in MENA. At present analysis is ongoing in a number of international locations together with, Sudan and Lebanon.
2. Adapting, contextualizing, and creating (when wanted) information assortment instruments and protocols primarily based on the analysis plans.
3. Supporting the implementation of the analysis technique, associated information assortment and suggestions loops, offering capability constructing and trainings to companions on information assortment and evaluation.
4. Evaluation of information, and analysis output writing to tell implementation and scale of improvements in schooling.
5. The marketing consultant would work in direction of analysis throughout at the very least two analysis tasks, one associated to digital studying and one other primarily based on low / no tech schooling improvements.

Main areas of labor and accountability

1. Assist to improvement and facilitation of analysis co-creation conferences coordinating with colleagues from numerous UNICEF workplaces.
2. Growth of information assortment instruments in collaboration with implementing Ministries of Training, UNICEF Nation Places of work, Regional Places of work, and companions.
3. Assist the Innocenti – Training Supervisor and Training Specialist in provision of ongoing technical help to the implementation of analysis plans, supporting the implementing UNICEF Nation Places of work, Ministries of Training, and companions.
4. Knowledge evaluation and drafting of analysis outputs primarily based on implementation analysis constructed into digital studying and low / no-tech programmes.

Supervision

The marketing consultant will work beneath the direct supervision of the Training Supervisor

Methodologies and Instruments

Software program for use and subscription required for information evaluation: Stata 14 or greater

Situations of Consultancy

The marketing consultant ought to observe the next:
1. This consultancy could require the marketing consultant to journey to be able to full the required deliverables successfully and effectively. Journey prices ought to NOT be included within the bid for the contract as journey prices will likely be offered at time of journey and permitted by marketing consultant’s direct supervisor. UNICEF Innocenti doesn’t make journey preparations for consultants. The marketing consultant will prepare their very own journey, clear the anticipated price with UNICEF and bill UNICEF for the journey price as quickly because the journey has been accomplished. UNICEF Innocenti will help consultants with preparations for visas, work permits, vaccinations, and so on.
2. All different prices associated to finishing the deliverables akin to {hardware}, required software program, certificates/ subscriptions and related operating prices are anticipated to be factored into the proposed skilled charges.
3. UNICEF doesn’t regard People engaged beneath a consultancy contract as “workers members” beneath the Workers Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures. Consultants are subsequently not entitled to advantages akin to depart, pension and medical insurance coverage protection. Their situations of service will likely be ruled by their contract and the Common Situations of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants.
4. Fee {of professional} charges will likely be primarily based on submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the precise to withhold cost in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the marketing consultant. Potential consultants are inspired to make sure that they absolutely perceive (a) the necessities of every deliverable and (b) the workload related to reaching a deliverable.
5. UNICEF Innocenti recognises that, because of the places of a few of its analysis, occasions could happen that both delay deliverables or stop them from being accomplished. These occasions must be reviewed on a case-by-case foundation to find out the influence on the cost schedule of the contract. It’s UNICEF Innocenti’s goal to be truthful to consultants in conditions the place deliverables are delayed or not attainable by no wrongdoing of the marketing consultant.
6. Consultants are answerable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have:

A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or greater) in Economics, Social Coverage, Training, Statistics or associated social sciences.

Important expertise:
• A minimal of 5 years of progressively accountable skilled work expertise at nationwide or worldwide ranges within the design and implementation of rigorous analysis, with growing country-level expertise important
• Expertise in managing giant rounds of information assortment and associated trainings; expertise in utilizing frequent on-line / offline information assortment packages (e.g. ODK, Kobo, SurveyCTO).
• Robust information and analytical expertise and in depth information of frequent statistical software program packages (e.g. STATA, R, SPSS)
• Demonstrated expertise in each qualitative and quantitative analysis designs and strategies, together with experimental and quasi-experimental strategies.
• Glorious written and oral communication expertise in English and wonderful consideration to element.
• Robust interpersonal expertise and demonstrated capacity to work nicely as a part of a geographically dispersed group and to forge and handle partnerships.
• Dedication to UNICEF’s core values of care, respect, integrity, transparency, and accountability.

Fascinating {qualifications}:
• Written and oral communication expertise in Arabic.
• Expertise in schooling in emergencies and digital studying very fascinating.
• Expertise working in international locations within the Center East and North Africa area.
• Capacity to work in a multicultural, multi-ethnic surroundings; expertise working within the UN or different worldwide improvement group.
• Fluency in one other official UN language (Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset. 

For each Baby, you display:

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

To view our competency framework, please go to  here. 

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute.

UNICEF gives reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This will embody, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your utility in case you want affordable lodging through the choice course of and afterwards in your task. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict youngster safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can subsequently endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background examine. 

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “workers members” beneath the Workers Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (akin to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will likely be ruled by their contract and the Common Situations of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are answerable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for all the interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking over the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF in the course of their consultancy contracts.