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

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in 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 little one, all over the place, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means surrender. 

For each little one, solutions

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

How are you going to make a distinction? 

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

Main areas of labor and duty

1. Help to growth and facilitation of analysis co-creation conferences coordinating with colleagues from numerous UNICEF workplaces.
2. Improvement of information assortment instruments in collaboration with implementing Ministries of Schooling, UNICEF Nation Workplaces, Regional Workplaces, and companions.
3. Help the Innocenti – Schooling Supervisor and Analysis Specialist (Schooling) in provision of ongoing technical help to the implementation of analysis plans, supporting the implementing UNICEF Nation Workplaces, Ministries of Schooling, and companions.
4. Information evaluation and drafting of analysis outputs based mostly on implementation analysis constructed into digital studying and low / no tech programmes.

Supervision

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

Methodologies and Instruments

Software program for use and subscription required for knowledge evaluation: Stata 14 or increased

Circumstances of Consultancy

The marketing consultant ought to be aware the next:
1. This consultancy could require the marketing consultant to journey with a purpose to full the required deliverables successfully and effectively. Journey prices ought to NOT be included within the bid for the contract as journey prices shall 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 value with UNICEF and bill UNICEF for the journey value 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 reminiscent of {hardware}, required software program, certificates/ subscriptions and related working prices are anticipated to be factored into the proposed skilled charges.
3. UNICEF doesn’t regard People engaged beneath a consultancy contract as “employees members” beneath the Employees Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures. Consultants are subsequently not entitled to advantages reminiscent of depart, pension and medical insurance coverage protection. Their circumstances of service shall be ruled by their contract and the Common Circumstances of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants.
4. Fee {of professional} charges shall be based mostly on submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the appropriate to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required normal 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 totally 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 forestall them from being accomplished. These occasions should be reviewed on a case-by-case foundation to find out the influence on the fee 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 means of no wrongdoing of the marketing consultant.
6. Consultants are chargeable 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.

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

• A sophisticated college diploma (Grasp’s or increased) in Economics, Social Coverage, Schooling, Statistics or associated social sciences.
• 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 creating country-level expertise important.
• Expertise in managing giant rounds of information assortment and associated trainings; expertise in utilizing widespread on-line / offline knowledge assortment packages (e.g. ODK, Kobo, SurveyCTO).
• Sturdy knowledge and analytical expertise and intensive data of widespread 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 glorious consideration to element.
• Sturdy interpersonal expertise and demonstrated capability to work properly as a part of a geographically dispersed staff 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 French.
     • Expertise in training in emergencies and digital studying very fascinating.
     • Expertise working in international locations within the West and Central Africa area.
     • Means to work in a multicultural, multi-ethnic atmosphere; expertise working within the UN or different worldwide growth                  group.
     • Fluency in one other UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, Russian and Spanish).

For each Baby, 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 world workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

UNICEF presents reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may occasionally 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 cheap lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your task. 

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 little one safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can subsequently bear 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 offer further data to conduct a background verify. 

Remarks:  

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

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought of “employees members” beneath the Employees Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (reminiscent of depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service shall 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 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 health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your 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 on the task. 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 places or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF in the course of their consultancy contracts.