Consultancy - GIGA Programme Monitoring Specialist, Home-based, Office of Innovation, 11.5 months (full-time)

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, innovate

About Giga

Over a third of the world’s population has no regular access to the Internet. Millions of children leave school without any digital skills, making it much more difficult for them to thrive. This has created a digital divide between those who are connected and those who are not, a divide that has become even wider during the Covid-19 pandemic. UNICEF and ITU have therefore joined forces to create Giga, an initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet and address this new form of inequality.

Working with 19 countries (and growing), Giga maps school connectivity in real-time, advises on appropriate technical solutions, creates models for innovative financing, and supports governments contracting for school connectivity. To date, Giga has mapped over 1 million schools, connected over 5,500 schools, and mobilized over $200 million for connectivity.

You can read more about Giga’s work at https://giga.global and by following us on twitter @Gigaglobal

How can you make a difference?

We seek a strong self-motivated professional who wants to work with a diverse interdisciplinary team to support Giga’s efforts to connect every school in the world and bring information, opportunity and choice to every young person in the world. In particular your will be responsible for:

• Maintaining a clear and results oriented database of all programme information and results for any kind of reporting and evaluations accessible to internal or external stakeholders.

  Main responsibilities will be:

The candidate must have strong organisational, management and M&E skills and must have experience in working in multi-stakeholder initiatives. Tasks include:

• Conceptualize and implement long-term data compilation to articulate and monitor the programs’ goals and objectives, capitalizing on data storytelling to amplify Giga’s impact to various stakeholders and partners.
• Support each team to define goals and track impact metrics and progress over time
• Develop and implement procedures for effective management of Giga’s impact metrics across its work streams
• Lead on data-driven assessments and evaluations, and support strategic planning of research initiatives that fill knowledge gaps
• Produce ad-hoc reporting and analysis, as needed for various work streams including communications, management, and partnerships, that identify ways to engage different stakeholders.
• Develop relevant content in the realm of impact/change monitoring
• Keeping informed on various pertinent trends in data gathering, analysis and use

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Economics, Business Administration, Social Sciences or other relevant field *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in project management, operations support, planning and monitoring
• Extensive experience in monitoring performance and results at a project and programme level is essential
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of M&E/ results-based management tools and applications
• Advanced experience with assessing project performance and identifying best practices and challenges
• Advanced analytical, communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work with a diverse team in a rapidly-changing work environment and adapt to unforeseen changes
• An understanding of the role technology plays in the development and humanitarian sectors, as well as the UN system
• Experience with working with various stakeholders including governments, private sector and UN agencies would be an added advantage
• An understanding of UN operations and planning systems a plus
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Payment details and further considerations

• Monthly payment, based on monthly tasks and progress reports, approved upon monthly review with supervisor.
• Consultant is responsible for his/her own health and travel insurance
• Consultant is eligible for standard DSA for all work-related travel

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.