Consultancy – Child participatory research – Global Office of Research and Foresight – LTA 2 years – Remote/Home based

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

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, in every single place, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each little one, solutions.

UNICEF Innocenti – International Workplace of Analysis and Foresight (GORaF) is the devoted analysis workplace of UNICEF. It undertakes and commissions analysis on rising or present problems with relevance for youngsters to tell the strategic instructions, insurance policies and packages of UNICEF and its companions. The Workplace explores rising points, identifies analysis gaps, brings collectively current researchers, and helps or undertakes analysis and knowledge assortment to handle essential questions to tell international debates.

International Workplace of Analysis and Foresight repeatedly requires specialist work from researchers who’ve experience in little one participatory analysis strategies, to design, pilot and (in some instances) undertake research utilizing these strategies.

How are you able to make a distinction? 

Function/Aims of the Lengthy-Time period Settlement (LTA)
To supply knowledgeable companies associated to design, piloting, coaching and conduct of kid participatory analysis research together with coaching and help to others.

Key Duties
Below the general steering of a analysis supervisor, the marketing consultant will carry out the next duties:
• Design little one participatory analysis research to reply specified analysis questions, both as stand-alone tasks or as parts or phases of bigger venture. This design work is prone to embrace working with youngsters.
• Pilot little one participatory analysis research and make essential changes based mostly on studying from the pilot, getting ready remaining analysis supplies together with documentation for submissions to moral assessment boards and toolkits for coaching.
• Present coaching and help to different researchers and/or UNICEF employees in conducting little one participatory analysis research. This can be completed on-line or in individual. Coaching and help could also be wanted not solely to arrange for fieldwork but additionally within the evaluation and interpretation of information and preparation of outcomes.
• Conduct little one participatory analysis research, together with area work, evaluation, and interpretation, writing of analysis outputs and dissemination of outcomes.

Key Deliverables
• Variety of days of owed analysis companies
• Analysis instruments, steering and toolkits
• Coaching and help delivered to UNICEF employees and inside/exterior researchers
• Write-ups of study and interpretation of information
• Studies and different analysis outputs
• Shows and different types of dissemination

Supervision
The marketing consultant will work underneath the direct supervision of a Analysis Supervisor.

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have:

Academic {qualifications}

Educated to at the least Grasp’s diploma stage. The Masters ought to have included a considerable part of both qualitative analysis and/or youngsters’s research.

Important expertise and abilities

• Not less than 5 years demonstrable expertise of enterprise qualitative analysis with youngsters
• Substantial demonstrable expertise of enterprise participatory work with youngsters
• Expertise of enterprise analysis area work with youngsters in a variety of contexts together with within the International South.
• Expertise of coaching and supporting analysis fieldwork employees.
• A excessive stage of understanding of qualitative analysis methodologies together with participatory strategies.
• Robust interpersonal abilities together with creating and sustaining collaborative relationships with inside and exterior companions.
• Robust organizational abilities – the power to prepare personal work with restricted supervision based on deadlines and to prepare and monitor the work of others.
• Robust written, verbal and presentation abilities in English.
• Skill to work in a multi-cultural surroundings.
• Availability and skill to do worldwide journey assignments of 1 to 2 weeks.

For each Baby, you reveal:

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

To view our competency framework, please go to  here. 

 Submitting an software: required paperwork (please additionally see attachment)

 GORaF_ToR_LTA_ChildParticipatoryResearch.pdf

Purposes to be submitted by the web portal ought to comprise 4 separate attachments – all of which needs to be uploaded on-line by the web portal:
1. A press release (most 800 phrases) explaining your {qualifications} and skillset. This could embrace the next sections:
a. How your academic background particularly meets the tutorial standards for this LTA.
b. How your work background particularly meets the primary 4 important standards. That’s:
– Expertise of qualitative analysis with youngsters (at the least 5 years)
– Substantial expertise of participatory work with youngsters
– Expertise of enterprise analysis area work in a variety of contexts
– Expertise of coaching and supporting area work
(Please see above for full wording of standards)
2. A pattern doc (analysis report or different) that you simply really feel greatest illustrates your competencies for this function.
3. Curriculum Vitae (CV)
4. A doc containing the indicated skilled price (each day fee) for this LTA.
It’s best to guarantee to call every doc clearly – e.g., Assertion, Pattern, CV, Monetary – and embrace your final identify as a part of the filename.

Essential Notice: Please don’t point out financials wherever else within the on-line software type, please mark “n/a or 00”, underneath the price associated questions within the on-line software type.

=> With out all of the above 4 paperwork your software will likely be thought-about incomplete and invalid and won’t be thought-about additional.

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, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

UNICEF gives reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may occasionally embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your software in case you want cheap 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 little one safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will likely 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 supply extra info to conduct a background verify. 

Remarks:  

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

People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “employees members” underneath the Workers Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (similar to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will likely be ruled by their contract and the Basic Situations of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee 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 the complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to 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 capabilities for UNICEF at some point of their consultancy contracts.