Consultancy Recruitment Support to Humanitarian and Disaggregated Data Collection, Use and Reporting, 6 months, NYHQ (home based)

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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, Health

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

Humanitarian Performance Monitoring (HPM) has proved its usefulness over the last 10 years, providing relevant and timely data and influencing decision making, take corrective action and improve humanitarian responses. However, it needs to be modernized and introduced to the next generation, young UNICEF. The Humanitarian Review and the Evaluation on Linking Humanitarian to Development Programming has emphasized the need for more adaptive programming, real time data and digital data collection.

Disaggregated data is essential to the inclusive and equity-focused strategies called for under the 2030 Agenda and its transformative pledge to leave no one behind. UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2018-2021 and the recently revised Core Commitments for Children further engage the organization to track output and outcome level data with a range of disaggregations. This information is needed at all levels, global to subnational, to drive initial planning and action and inform programmatic course corrections. UNICEF is seeking to improve its collection, use and report of disaggregated data systematically across contexts and at the frequency and granularity needed to reveal disparities in deprivations and programme results. The challenges and gaps in relation to disaggregated data span both development and humanitarian and have multiple dimensions.

How can you make a difference?

Scope of Work:

Under the general supervision of the Emergency Specialist (Assessment, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation:

1. Coordinate inputs and ongoing consultations on the draft UNICEF Disaggregated Data Guidance

2. Support the development and consultation of the revised CCC indicator guidance

3. Day to day management of the HPM community including a webinar series and the yammer feed.

4. Identify gaps and out of date materials on Humanitarian PME and PPPX sites and develop drafts to address those gaps.

5. Support the development of tools and the continued rollout of the Core Commitment for Children (CCC)

Work Assignment Overview:

Tasks/Milestone:

1. Produce inception report

Deliverables/Outputs: Inception report prepared

2. Support finalized CCC indicator guidance

Deliverables/Outputs: CCC indicator guidance finalized

3. Support finalized disaggregated data guidance

Deliverables/Outputs: Disaggregated data guidance finalized

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

• Minimum Qualifications required: Master degree
• Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

• 2 or more years of progressively responsible relevant experience

• Strong quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills

• Exposure to/knowledge of UNICEF work (directly or as a partner)

• Strong communication skills, especially in writing and presentation

• Strong planning, organizing, networking and related skills, and a drive for results

• Fluency in the English language a requirement; fluency in one or more other UN official languages an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

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.