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This role is being established to support an assessment and delivery of improved audience and market insights in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. Audience and Market Insight (AMI) have no current resourcing dedicated to LAC, and this limits both the understanding of LAC, but also the available capabilities to support fundraising, communications, and advocacy activities in the region. There are four main areas have been identified that require support:
– Insight planning: identifying the research needs of Communications, Advocacy and Fundraising Chiefs in LAC, and how those needs can be met by a multi-year program of insight.
– Localization of findings: supporting AMI global team to optimize and tailor local and global reporting and workshops to the needs of local markets, supporting the more effective communication and implementation of findings.
– Development of resource plan: the role will work with the Chief of AMI, in alignment with the LACRO Chiefs of PFP and Communications to determine a sustainable resourcing plan that accompanies the insight plan.
– Establishing audience fundamentals: work with countries to assess the addressable audiences for communications, advocacy, and fundraising.
– Understanding of LAC audiences: aid AMI and LACRO in being connected to and understanding the addressable needs of audiences in LAC, and how local teams are prioritizing and engaging them.

How can you make a difference?

Scope of Work:

Working under the supervision of the Chief of Audience and Market Insight, the Market Research Specialist will be responsible for:

1. Collaborating with LAC Communications, Advocacy and Fundraising Chiefs to understand both business needs and an appropriate research approach to address those needs.
2. Work with key stakeholders to enable them to understand how and when research may have the best impact and use this understanding to ensure the insight plan can match the desire for audience understanding.
3. Critically assess existing knowledge and investments in audience and market insight, where present, seeking to learn from existing good practice and liaise with Chief of AMI and Regional Chiefs to secure resource for new research during the period.
4. Collaborate with the LACRO Regional Chiefs of Fundraising, Advocacy, and Communications ) to ensure    alignment  active support for any proposed plans to improve audience or market understanding.
5. Collaborate with LACRO Regional Chiefs of Fundraising, Communications and Advocacy, PSFR CO Chiefs and their teams in the region to establish the target audiences and the overlap or not with both the addressable audiences and the actual footprint of activity.
6. Work with individual Chiefs in the region to provide consultancy on existing insight initiatives that require support, such as segmentation or trends analysis.
7. Liaise with the AMI team to ensure any recommendations, localizations, and developments are in line with the global strategy for audience understanding.

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

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Remarks: 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

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