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Consultancy: Team Leader for the Study of Influential Evaluations 2024, 6-months (87 days), Evaluation Office, NYHQ

UNICEF Global

https://www.unicef.org

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

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

And we by no means quit. 

For each little one, consider 

UNICEF’s Analysis Coverage states that, “Analysis at UNICEF unequivocally serves the group’s mission and helps UNICEF in fulfilling its mandate1.” The Analysis Coverage additional states that, “to be helpful, evaluations should contribute to organizational studying, accountability and to decision-making.” In keeping with these coverage statements, analysis in UNICEF is to be thought of a automobile in direction of contributing to tangible change for youngsters. Evaluations in UNICEF are thus anticipated to be influential.
 
UNICEF evaluations play an important position in informing decision-making processes for each inside and exterior stakeholders. The group’s evaluations present evidence-based data and evaluation of UNICEF applications, insurance policies, and interventions. Additionally they assess their relevance, effectiveness, effectivity, and sustainability, amongst different components. Subsequently, it’s important for evaluations to be influential in decision-making for a number of causes:
  1. Enhancing program and coverage effectiveness: UNICEF evaluations present worthwhile insights into the impression of its applications and insurance policies. Choice-makers may also use analysis findings to determine finest practices, assess program effectiveness, and make knowledgeable selections about the best way to allocate assets (each scaling up and cutting down). As well as, UNICEF collaborates with governments to generate proof to enhance coverage design and effectiveness via analysis.
  2. Enhancing accountability and transparency: UNICEF evaluations present a mechanism for accountability and transparency. By sharing analysis outcomes with stakeholders, UNICEF demonstrates its dedication to transparency and openness.
  3. Selling studying and information sharing: UNICEF evaluations present a spot for studying and information sharing. By speaking analysis findings, UNICEF promotes studying and information sharing amongst stakeholders, together with UNICEF workers, donors and companions.
  4. Strengthening partnerships and collaboration: UNICEF evaluations present a chance to strengthen partnerships and collaboration. By involving stakeholders in analysis processes, UNICEF can construct belief and strengthen relationships with companions.
UNICEF Analysis for Choice-Making
 
The aim of analysis is to make sure that UNICEF has well timed, strategically centered, and goal data on the efficiency of its insurance policies, applications, and initiatives to supply higher outcomes for youngsters and their caretakers. It’s to strengthen evidence-based decision-making and advocacy, transparency, coherence, and effectiveness. Moreover, the aim and use of analysis at UNICEF is to find out the relevance, impression, effectiveness, effectivity and sustainability of the interventions and contributions of the organizations of the United Nations system.
 
UNICEF conducts evaluations at 5 institutional ranges reflecting the organizational accountability framework: (i)native or venture, (ii) nation program of cooperation, (iii) regional, (iv) international strategic and (v) institutional efficiency2. These embody the next 3 typologies of evaluations:
  1. Thematic Evaluations: These evaluations are developed in session with the International Analysis Committee, in addition to divisions and places of work on the international, regional, and nation ranges. Impartial Company Evaluations collect and synthesize analysis proof on precedence matters associated to selling and defending youngsters’s rights, with a particular give attention to the 5 Purpose Areas outlined within the UNICEF Strategic Plan.
  2. Impression Evaluations: Impression analysis (IE) goals to empirically set up attribution by quantifying causal hyperlinks between the intervention (tasks, applications, insurance policies, networks or capability improvement) and outcomes of curiosity, usually on the focused beneficiary stage. It does so by establishing a counterfactual state of affairs.
  3. Humanitarian Evaluations: UNICEF’s humanitarian evaluations are systematic assessments performed in emergency and disaster settings to know the effectiveness, effectivity, and relevance of UNICEF’s humanitarian response efforts. These evaluations give attention to evaluating the impression and outcomes of UNICEF’s interventions in assembly the pressing wants of youngsters and their households throughout instances of disaster, akin to pure disasters, conflicts, epidemics, or displacement.
  4. Nation-led Evaluations: A UNICEF country-led analysis is an analysis performed on the nation stage, the place the nationwide authorities leads the evaluation with assist and steerage from UNICEF. This kind of analysis focuses on applications, insurance policies, or interventions associated to youngsters’s welfare and rights, which UNICEF helps or is concerned in. The important thing options of a country-led analysis embody robust nationwide possession, alignment with nationwide priorities and methods, and capacity-building for native analysis professionals.

UNICEF evaluations stay essential in informing decision-making processes, bettering program, institutional and coverage effectiveness, enhancing accountability and transparency, selling studying and information sharing, and strengthening partnerships and collaboration. Thus, it stays vital for UNICEF evaluations to be influential in decision-making, notably in serving to to enhance the situations and conditions of essentially the most weak youngsters and, extra broadly, to make sure that UNICEF applications and insurance policies are evidence-based, efficient, environment friendly, and sustainable. To what extent are UNICEF evaluations catalyzing the adjustments anticipated from them? This query stays to be extra comprehensively answered. Though there have been a number of assessments aimed, amongst different issues, at figuring out the extent to which evaluations have been getting used, these have been primarily centered on the diploma of implementation of analysis suggestions.

To make additional progress in direction of answering the extent to which UNICEF evaluations are being influential, the Analysis Workplace undertook 2 separate research, in 2018 and 2020 to look at the extent to which a pattern of UNICEF evaluations had been influential.
 
The research concluded that, mostly, the affect was instrumental, resulting in the improved design and implementation of insurance policies and applications. In different instances, the evaluations prompted the re-conceptualization of long-standing applications, resulting in the great reform of insurance policies. What distinguished the influential evaluations was the size and scope of change achieved. Among the many most salient outcomes was the rise in authorities funding and possession, displaying that evaluations can contribute to sustainability – an space that has been flagged for enchancment in UNICEF.
 
The examine reaffirmed the necessity for extra proof to find out the affect of evaluations and to make sure that evaluations are purposefully deliberate and designed to have an effect on resolution making.
 
Sorts and Standards for Affect
 
The related literature has highlighted a number of components that ought to be thought of to find out whether or not an UNICEF analysis has been influential in decision-making. One key sort of affect is strategic affect, the place evaluations form the general route of a program or coverage by offering evidence-based insights and suggestions. This typically includes assessing the relevance and sustainability of initiatives. One other vital sort is operational affect, the place evaluations result in enhancements within the day-to-day administration and implementation of applications. This will likely contain figuring out finest practices or areas for enchancment. A 3rd sort is studying affect, geared toward enhancing information and understanding amongst stakeholders, which might result in higher decision-making and coverage formulation. These evaluations have to be credible, unbiased, and clear to successfully inform coverage and program selections, making certain that interventions are aligned with the wants and priorities of the focused populations. Desk 1 beneath describe these influential features in additional element:
 
Desk 1: Determinants of Affect3
We additionally embody an tailored model of assessing affect by making use of the OECD analysis standards. These standards guarantee an intensive and balanced evaluation, capturing each the quick outcomes and the longer-term results of an analysis, making them an vital for understanding and enhancing an analysis’s affect. 
 
1 UNICEF (2023). Revised Analysis Coverage for UNICEF. 4 Aug 2023. Second common session 2023. N2322917.pdf (un.org)
2 At UNICEF, institutional efficiency or effectiveness evaluations main assess the general efficiency and effectivity of the group. These evaluations give attention to measure the extent to which an UNICEF’s objectives and targets are being achieved, its potential to make the most of assets successfully, and its capability to adapt to altering circumstances. The evaluations might embody features akin to governance, management, strategic planning, monetary administration, and administrative methods. The objective is to reinforce UNICEF’s perform and optimize its operations.
3 Utilized from UNICEF 2020 Research of Influential Evaluations: McPherson and Kumar.
 
How will you make a distinction? 
 
The aim of this examine is to find out essentially the most influential evaluations that have been performed by UNICEF between the interval of 2020-2022; and to research what are the enabling or constraining components resulting in affect. Affect might be analyzed by way of evaluations’ contributions to the coverage setting, coverage change (public insurance policies in addition to organizational insurance policies), strategic shifts, improved programming and efficiency, organizational studying, joint work, amongst others. Findings, conclusions, and suggestions might be used to enhance the standard and intent of evaluations in UNICEF; and to develop pointers to assist obtain higher ranges of affect by evaluations. The ultimate anticipated consequence of this examine might be to offer worthwhile insights into the components that contribute to the affect of evaluations. Furthermore, it is going to assist UNICEF to enhance its analysis observe and to supply evaluations which might be extra more likely to be influential.
 
The anticipated outcomes of the examine intend to:
  1. Establish constructive (enablers) and unfavourable (bottlenecks and boundaries) which might be deemed related to affect an intervention.
  2. Establish finest practices and classes discovered for an analysis to be thought of “influential”.
  3. Internally confirm how program design and implementation improved via proof era and use.
  4. Establish which main enablers have been a very powerful areas of affect akin to useful resource mobilization, partnerships, advocacy, coalition constructing, evaluative tradition, strengthening talents for analysis, management, administration, governance, information administration, and so on.

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

  • Superior college diploma, a minimum of Grasp’s Diploma, in analysis, public coverage, worldwide improvement, social sciences or associated discipline;
  • A minimal of 10 years of related skilled expertise in main evaluations or evaluative enquiries.
  • Confirmed expertise as a crew chief in analysis.
  • Confirmed expertise in qualitative information assortment, processing and evaluation.
  • Expertise in utilizing Pure Language Processing for textual content mining is extremely fascinating.
  • Information of the UN System is extremely fascinating.
  • Robust analytical and writing expertise / Means to carry out inside / exterior consultations with stakeholders together with UN companies, NGOs, and authorities places of work.
  • Wonderful communication and facilitation expertise.
  • Creating nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset. 
  • Fluency in English is required. Working information of Spanish and French is fascinating. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, or Russian) or a neighborhood language is an asset. 

Tips on how to apply:

candidates should submit the next paperwork:
  • CV and canopy letter.
  • The day by day price and availability inside length of this project.
  • A take a look at could also be administered to shortlisted candidates.
  • The shortlisted candidates could also be requested to submit brief examples (of accomplished analyses or printed papers, according to the required {qualifications} described above.
Solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.

For each Baby, you exhibit… 

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 variety of these youngsters. 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 every other private attribute.

UNICEF presents reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This will likely embody, 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 in the course of 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 little one safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates might 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 extra data to conduct a background examine. 

People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought of “workers members” underneath 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 might be ruled by their contract and the Common Circumstances of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are liable 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. 

Remarks

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 whole 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 have to be met previous to taking over the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should 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 during their consultancy contracts. 

Marketed: 06 Mar 2024 Japanese Normal Time
Deadline: 20 Mar 2024 Japanese Daylight Time

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