National Consultant: Education Research and Evaluation (office-based), Beijing, China

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, Schooling

The UNICEF Schooling Part works with the Authorities of China, native companions, and communities to offer the nation’s most deprived kids with high quality studying alternatives. We assist authorities to strengthen China’s schooling system in order that it addresses the wants of essentially the most excluded and weak kids, in addition to be sure that ladies and boys have equal entry to alternatives. We additionally promote nurturing environments to assist kids turn into well-rounded people and facilitate smoother transition from college to work. 

The Adolescents workforce within the Schooling Part works to assist the Authorities of China enhance entry to high quality schooling for six–18-year-old.  The 2021- 2025 schooling programming, aiming to facilitate the transition to a child-friendly schooling system, takes a holistic method via seven inter-related initiatives starting from little one safety in colleges, STEM schooling, life expertise, sports activities, inclusive schooling, instructor coaching to social and emotional studying (SEL).

The 2021- 2025 schooling programming additionally embraces key strategic shifts with a renewed concentrate on upstream engagement and coverage affect. It locations larger emphasis on evidence-based coverage and analysis, advocacy for youngsters’s rights and adaptation of worldwide proof to China’s context (and vice versa). There may even be a shift from child-friendly colleges to child-friendly schooling techniques and scaling-up of adolescent programmes, significantly round integrating life expertise into the technical and vocation schooling & coaching (TVET) reform course of and increasing various studying pathways for out-of-school (OOS) adolescents in China.  

How will you make a distinction? 

The adolescent Schooling workforce due to this fact seeks a marketing consultant with sturdy analysis and analysis experience to offer technical assist to deliberate schooling analysis and analysis actions.

For extra particulars, please discuss with TOR  Education R & E consultant TOR 202310.pdf

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

Consultancy Necessities:

Minimal Educational {Qualifications} required and disciplines:

• Grasp’s diploma in schooling, statistics, monitoring and analysis, human useful resource growth, worldwide growth or one other associated discipline. PhD diploma is most well-liked.

Data/Expertise/Experience/Expertise required:

• No less than 5 years of related work expertise in instructional analysis, monitoring and analysis of multi-sectoral packages, together with in schooling and/or social growth areas of labor in China;
• No less than 3 years of expertise in main design and planning monitoring and analysis framework, log frames, TOC of programmes, significantly these linked to social sectors, analysis, survey implementation, superior statistical analysis; 
• A least 3 years of sensible expertise in survey design utilizing quantitative and qualitative strategies, survey administration, evaluation and reporting could be an asset 
• Glorious inter-personal, mentoring, facilitation, and communication expertise. 
• Flexibility and expertise in working remotely; 
• Fluency in Chinese language and English (each oral and written) is required. 
• Familiarity with UN system in China or different international locations is an asset.

For each Youngster, 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 id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

UNICEF provides 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 task. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims 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 probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can due to this fact endure 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 info to conduct a background verify. 

Remarks:  

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

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “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 (resembling depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the Common Situations 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. 

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 in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should 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 straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF in the course of their consultancy contracts.