Consultancy 12 months: Giga Programme Evaluation Specialist, Geneva, Switzerland

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

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

And we by no means hand over. 

For each baby…Innovate

UNICEF has a 70-year historical past of innovating for youngsters. We consider that new approaches, partnerships and applied sciences that assist realizing kids’s rights are important to bettering their lives.

The Workplace of Innovation is a inventive, interactive, and agile group in UNICEF. We sit at a novel intersection, the place a company that works on enormous international points meets the start-up pondering, the expertise, and the companions that flip this power into scalable options.

About Giga

Launched in 2019 as a joint initiative between UNICEF and ITU, Giga has set the bold purpose to attach each faculty on the planet to the web.  Half of the world’s inhabitants has no common entry to the Web. Thousands and thousands of kids depart faculty with none digital abilities, making it way more tough for them to thrive and contribute to native and international economies. This has created a digital divide between those that are linked and those that usually are not, a divide that has change into even wider throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. UNICEF and ITU have due to this fact joined forces to create Giga, an initiative to attach each faculty on the planet to the Web and deal with this new type of inequality. 

Giga focuses on connecting colleges in order that kids and younger folks have entry to data, alternative, and selection. It additionally makes use of colleges as anchor factors for his or her surrounding communities: in case you join the varsity, you may as well join native companies and companies. This creates alternatives for service suppliers to generate income from paying customers, making connectivity extra sustainable. A 2021 report by the Economist Intelligence Unit discovered {that a} 10% enhance at school connectivity can enhance efficient years of education by 0.6% and enhance GDP per capita by 1.1%. 

You possibly can learn extra about Giga’s work at https://giga.global/ and by following us on twitter @Gigaglobal

How will you make a distinction? 

Giga seeks a Programme Analysis Specialist to hitch some of the modern and impactful initiatives on the United Nations, whose goal it’s to attach each faculty on the planet to the Web and each younger individual to data, alternative and selection. The Programme Analysis Specialist is positioned throughout the Administration group of Giga, with a definite concentrate on conducting in-depth evaluations to generate information merchandise that encapsulate the progress, impression, and classes realized from Giga’s initiatives. Reporting to the Senior Advisor, Administration, this specialist is envisaged to be an skilled in program analysis with a knack for storytelling, translating knowledge and findings into compelling narratives that may be shared internally throughout groups, in addition to externally with different UN businesses and stakeholders.

Particularly you’ll:

1. Programme Analysis and Information Era:

• Design and implement complete analysis frameworks and methodologies to evaluate the effectiveness, impression, and sustainability of Giga’s initiatives.
• Conduct thorough evaluations, synthesizing knowledge and findings into information merchandise that encapsulate this system’s progress, challenges, and classes realized.

2. Narrative Improvement and Storytelling:

• Translate analysis findings into compelling narratives, showcasing the journey, impression, and worth addition of Giga’s initiatives.
• Develop quite a lot of information merchandise, akin to case research, success tales, classes realized reviews, and different evaluative paperwork that articulate Giga’s narrative.

3. Information Sharing and Dissemination:

• Foster a tradition of studying and sharing by disseminating information merchandise throughout Giga groups and with exterior stakeholders, together with different UN businesses.
• Set up knowledge-sharing classes, workshops, and boards to facilitate the change of experiences, findings, and greatest practices.

4. Coordination with Inner and Exterior Stakeholders:

• Collaborate with inner groups to make sure alignment in analysis methodologies and to assemble the required knowledge and insights for analysis.
• Have interaction with exterior stakeholders, together with different UN businesses, to share information merchandise and be taught from exterior evaluations and experiences.

5. Capability Constructing:

• Present steering and coaching to Giga group members on analysis methodologies, knowledge interpretation, and information product improvement.
• Improve the analysis capability inside Giga, making certain the group is provided with the required abilities to conduct evaluations and generate information merchandise.

6. Reporting and Documentation:

• Guarantee meticulous documentation of analysis processes, methodologies, and findings for future reference and for sharing with stakeholders.
• Put together and submit well timed analysis reviews and information merchandise, making certain they’re accessible and comprehensible to a various viewers.

Please entry the complete Time period of Reference (ToRs) and browse a extra detailed description of the project on this file as a way to put together your monetary proposal and know extra in regards to the function:  Programme Evaluation Specialist ToR.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have… 

• Grasp’s diploma in Analysis, Social Sciences, or a associated area. *A primary College Diploma in a related area mixed with 2 further years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.
• A minimal of 5 years of related work expertise in program analysis, with a demonstrated observe file of producing information merchandise.
• Expertise in organizing knowledge-sharing classes and disseminating information merchandise to a variety of audiences.
• Proficiency in analysis methodologies, knowledge evaluation, and narrative improvement.
• Distinctive storytelling and communication abilities, with the power to translate complicated knowledge into compelling narratives.
• Wonderful interpersonal abilities, with the power to work collaboratively with various groups and stakeholders.
• Robust consideration to element and a dedication to producing high-quality work.
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.
• The profitable candidate will probably be a person with a ardour for analysis and information era, able to contribute to Giga’s studying and knowledge-sharing tradition. The power to work each independently and collaboratively inside a dynamic, multidisciplinary group is essential for fulfillment on this function.

Fee particulars and additional issues:

• Fee {of professional} charges will probably be based mostly on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the correct to withhold cost in case the deliverables submitted are lower than the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the advisor.
• Advisor is chargeable for his/her personal well being and journey insurance coverage.
• Advisor is chargeable for arranging his/her personal journey, together with visa.
• This consultancy is predicated in Geneva.

apply:

• candidates are required to submit a monetary proposal with an all-inclusive price.  Please see the monetary proposal template right here:  Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
• Monetary proposal should embrace journey prices (financial system class) and day by day subsistence allowance, if journey is required as per TOR and another estimated prices: visa, journey/medical insurance
• Purposes with no monetary proposal is not going to be thought of.

For each Little one, you show… 

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 kids and our international workforce should replicate the variety of these kids. 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 likely embrace, 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 cheap lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your project. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict baby safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can due to this fact bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background test. 

Remarks:  

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

People engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought of “employees members” below the Employees Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (akin to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the Common Circumstances of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are chargeable 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. For extra data on Non-staff members IO based mostly in Geneva, you possibly can go to this link.

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 the complete 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 on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and usually are not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF at some stage in their consultancy contracts.