International MICS Consultant, Juba, South Sudan (For Non-South Sudanese)

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Goal of Exercise/Project:

This particular person consultancy will assist and supply steerage to UNICEF South Sudan and the NBS for the preparation, implementation and completion of the MICS survey within the South Sudan. The MC will advise and assist the NBS, particularly the Survey Coordinator and sampling and knowledge processing specialists, throughout survey planning, questionnaire design, sampling, coaching, fieldwork, knowledge processing, knowledge evaluation, reporting, dissemination and archiving, making certain that MICS protocols and proposals are being adopted always.

Background & Rationale:

UNICEF South Sudan (SSCO) is implementing a three-year nation programme. The 2023-2025 UNICEF South Sudan (SSCO) programme helps the rights of kids and girls (significantly essentially the most susceptible), and additional strengthens techniques and promotes entry to top quality and resilient companies. The humanitarian part of the programme seeks to make sure help and growth cooperation tackle the structural causes of fragility and vulnerability. South Sudan’s 2023/2025 Nation Programme is thus an adaptation of the UNICEF World Programme Construction; beside the Social Safety and Public Finance for Kids outputs, the present SSCO Social Coverage Programme Element additionally covers Baby Poverty.

Baby Poverty is an output within the Social Coverage Part. The SSCO youngster poverty portfolio goals to boost the capability of Authorities throughout all ranges to measure and monitor youngster vulnerability and use the proof to design acceptable insurance policies, plans and budgets. The portfolio contributes to the general results of the Part which seeks to make sure extra kids and households profit from higher Authorities companies that scale back financial and multi-dimensional poverty thereby strengthen resilience. In 2023, the SSCO Baby Poverty portfolio covers youngster poverty & common vulnerability, with give attention to: 1) manufacturing of experiences and high-level publications on youngster poverty and vulnerabilities; 2) proof technology, together with implementation of A number of Indicator Cluster Survey, spherical seven (MICS7), and three) evaluation and advocacy work to tell youngster poverty and vulnerability.

South Sudan has largely carried out MICS surveys. It participated within the in 2006 and 2010 rounds of the A number of Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) and generated knowledge on key indicators on the well-being of kids and girls that knowledgeable insurance policies and programmes in any respect ranges of Authorities. The surveys have been carried out in partnership and collaboration with Authorities and key stakeholders together with UN Businesses. Thereafter six rounds of MICS have been carried out globally in 118 nations. Seventeen nations within the Jap and Southern Africa Area (ESAR) have participated in no less than one spherical of MICS, and 12 nations within the area have participated in a number of rounds of the survey, offering insights on tendencies for a lot of of these indicators. The survey has repeatedly developed to answer altering knowledge wants, increasing from 28 indicators within the first spherical to 177 indicators within the sixth spherical (MICS6), thereby turned acritical supply of high-quality knowledge on the well-being of kids and girls; MICS6 is now adopted by MICS7 and was in March 2023.

MICS7 presents a singular alternative to generate extra related statistics on youngster rights and wellbeing throughout varied domains together with home violence towards ladies, anthropometry for youngsters aged 5-9 years, kids’s time use, adolescent psychological well being, and meals insecurity. MICS7 surveys will generate knowledge on 40 SDG indicators half of all SDG indicators that may be sourced from family surveys. MICS7 options new subjects and initiatives together with longitudinal cellphone surveys (MICS Plus), geocoding, integration with administrative knowledge sources, amongst others. The questionnaire structure of MICS7 is shorter and covers households, ladies, males, under-5s and kids aged 5-17. MICS7 dataset covers maternal and new child well being, schooling, water and sanitation, power use and social transfers. MICS7 will tackle the present knowledge wants of throughout all ranges of Governments, strengthen the nationwide statistical capability and replace the scenario of kids and girls.  After lengthy absence from the programme, South Sudan is collaborating in MICS7. The Nationwide Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with related companions will implement MICS7 in South Sudan.

Scope of Work

Beneath the general supervision of the Chief of Social Coverage, the MICS Guide (MC) will assist and supply steerage to UNICEF South Sudan and the NBS for the preparation, implementation and completion of the MICS survey within the South Sudan. The MC will advise and assist the NBS, particularly the Survey Coordinator and sampling and knowledge processing specialists, throughout survey planning, questionnaire design, sampling, coaching, fieldwork, knowledge processing, knowledge evaluation, reporting, dissemination and archiving, making certain that MICS protocols and proposals are being adopted always. The MC will talk successfully between the UNICEF SS CO and NBS, responding promptly to MICS-related wants and points as they come up.

The MC will probably be liable for coordinating and supporting the work of different useful resource individuals employed by UNICEF to offer technical help to the MICS course of. The guide will work in shut collaboration with the survey group, the stakeholders, and Steering and Technical Committees and can symbolize UNICEF in conferences and workshops in relation to the survey as wanted. The MC may also work in shut collaboration with the Regional MICS Coordinator on the UNICEF Regional Workplace (RO) and the MICS Crew at UNICEF Headquarters (HQ), in addition to specialists and consultants assigned to assist the South Sudan MICS (collectively labeled “The UNICEF MICS Crew”).

 

Important Duties and Tasks:

Beneath the general steerage of the Social Coverage Specialist, and in session and collaboration  with the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics, the guide will ship the next:

1.Survey Planning:

A Steering Committee is established and composed of all related nationwide and worldwide stakeholders, together with Nationwide Moral Committee,

A Technical Committee comprised of all related technical specialists is established,

The Survey Plan and Price range, together with timetable is finalised and shared with all stakeholders,

Survey provides are procured and distributed in time for coaching and knowledge assortment,

Be sure that different MICS initiatives (MICS Plus, MICS GIS, MICS Hyperlink) are mentioned with nationwide companions and correctly addressed throughout survey starting stage,

Pattern design:

• The UNICEF Sampling professional/guide is supplied with the mandatory data, and visits are effectively managed and coordinated inside survey plans,
• Pattern design is ready by the sampling professional of NBS with the steerage and overview of the UNICEF Sampling professional / guide,
• Itemizing and Mapping supplies and operations are reviewed by the UNICEF Sampling professional/guide,
• Cluster geocodes (cluster centre factors, multi-points, or boundaries), both current or collected throughout the mapping and family itemizing operation, are assessed by the survey group and communicated to the UNICEF MICS Crew, along with the boundary shapefiles representing the sampling body, together with the boundaries of 1 degree decrease than the pattern stratification,
• Pattern design is reviewed by the UNICEF MICS Crew earlier than finalisation,
• The ultimate collection of households is reviewed
• The weights are reviewed.

  MICS questionnaires:

• Acceptable UNICEF programme employees and the Technical Committee are concerned in reviewing the customisation of related sections of the MICS questionnaire,
• Chosen Modules tackle nation knowledge gaps and tackle SGD knowledge wants,         
• Questionnaires and manuals bear an moral overview,
• Questionnaires are pre-tested, and a pre-test report is produced,
• Questionnaires are reviewed by the UNICEF MICS Crew earlier than finalisation.

  Manuals:

MICS Family Itemizing and Mapping (GPS Information Assortment, if relevant), Supervisor, Measurer, and Interviewer Manuals are customised for the country-specific context.

 CAPI software template:

• CAPI software template is customised by the information processing professional of the NBS with the steerage of the UNICEF Information Processing professional/guide,
• Customised CAPI software is reviewed by the UNICEF MICS Crew earlier than finalisation,
• Secondary modifying pointers and Area Examine Desk tabulation plan and syntax are customised by the information processing professional of the NBS with the steerage of the UNICEF Information Processing and Family Survey specialists / consultants.

2. Itemizing and Mapping, Coaching and Fieldwork, and Information Processing:

Itemizing and mapping is deliberate and carried out per MICS pointers,

Coaching schedules are adequately tailored to the county context whereas following MICS pointers,

Acceptable useful resource individuals are recognized to facilitate coaching (i.e., nutritionists for anthropometry coaching, survey specialists for methodology, and so forth.),

Contribute to the pre-test, CAPI check, and fieldwork coaching,

Fieldwork and fieldwork monitoring visits are deliberate and carried out in response to MICS pointers,

Area Examine Tables are produced on a weekly foundation, instantly analysed by survey coordinator/managers, and the principle findings are reported to subject supervisors for motion. Area Examine Tables are instantly shared with the Regional MICS Coordinator,

UNICEF CO employees is skilled and organised to help in monitoring knowledge assortment,

UNICEF Family Survey and Information Processing specialists/consultants are well timed supplied with the mandatory data, and nation visits are effectively managed and coordinated,

{Hardware} is made out there for the CAPI software (knowledge assortment and central workplace menu elements), the software program is correctly put in and a working, knowledge switch system and knowledge backup system are established,           

Monitor pattern choice with the NBS after the itemizing and mapping train is accomplished,           

Monitor pre-test, CAPI check, and major knowledge assortment              

Monitor knowledge processing and secondary knowledge modifying

3. Information Evaluation and Report Writing:

•  Sampling Weights are included within the datasets and reviewed by the sampling professional of the NBS with the steerage and overview of the UNICEF Sampling professional/guide,

•  MICS tabulation plan and customary syntax are customised, reviewed by the UNICEF MICS Crew, and utilized in producing SPSS datasets and tables,

•  Datasets/Tables, together with the wealth index are substantively reviewed by technical specialists (e.g., sampling and family survey specialists) and material specialists on the NBS, in addition to by the UNICEF MICS Crew earlier than the report writing commences,

•  Facilitate communication on the method of anonymisation of geocodes between the UNICEF MICS Crew and the NBS as per the Memorandum of Understanding,

• Coordinate and contribute substantively to the elaboration of the Survey Findings Report and Statistical Snapshots, utilizing the MICS template and in response to MICS requirements to make sure a well timed launch,

• Be sure that the Survey Findings Stories and Statistical Snapshots bear the technical overview course of by the UNICEF MICS Crew,

• Coordinate the printing and distribution of the Survey Findings Report and Statistical Snapshots,

• Organise and facilitate the presentation of the Survey Findings Report and Statistical Snapshots by means of a nationwide seminar,

• Present technical experience and recommendation for the extensive dissemination of the Survey Findings Report, Statistical Snapshots, and major outcomes,

• Be sure that the MICS survey archive with all last survey paperwork and supplies (Memorandum of Understanding, Nation Survey Plan, questionnaires, manuals, pattern design, subject experiences, CAPI software, syntaxes, database, cluster geocodes, boundary shapefiles, tables, Survey Findings Report, and Statistical Snapshots, dissemination supplies, and so forth.) is being produced by the NBS.

4. Attend all MICS Regional and/or Nationwide Workshops

 

Deliverables

1. Survey Plan finalized

2. Listing of households in all chosen clusters/ Coaching supply and report

3. Finalized dataset and tables for knowledge evaluation

4. Coordination of survey subject actions (report)

5.  Information cleansing/evaluation

6.  Survey Findings Report (SFR) and statistical snapshots

7.  Presentation and dissemination of MICS7 report

Minimal {Qualifications} required:

 Schooling:

Superior Grasp’s diploma in Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences, Epidemiology, or every other associated technical subject is required. A PHD within the above talked about disciplines is an asset.

Abilities and Expertise:

Confirmed minimal of 5 yr expertise within the coordination and/or administration of quantitative family surveys (prior MICS or Demographic and Well being Survey (DHS)) most popular,

Robust pc abilities and powerful experience in statistical analyses (familiarity with knowledge processing and knowledge evaluation software program, significantly SPSS),

Expertise with CAPI knowledge assortment,

Coaching expertise and talent to organise and facilitate coaching and shows,

Expertise in knowledge evaluation and survey report writing.

 

Different competencies:

Wonderful communication and interpersonal abilities,

Wonderful oral and written communication in English native languages are a bonus.

Familiarity and former expertise of working in South Sudan and different emergency contexts are extremely fascinating,

Demonstrated capacity to work in a multicultural atmosphere and to determine harmonious and efficient relationships each inside and outdoors the organisation, extra particularly with Nationwide Statistical Places of work,

Demonstrated management, managerial and supervisory capacity,

Potential and willingness to journey extensively in-country and to attend regional workshops

 

Detailed technical and monetary proposals should accompany all functions.

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Remarks:  

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