Consultancy: Team Leader - Yemen (Home-based) (Open for National & International Applicants)

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YE Home-based; Sana'a (Yemen)

Application deadline 2 years ago: Monday 24 May 2021 at 20:55 UTC

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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, Hope

In the 1970s UNICEF established presence in Yemen to respond to the urgent needs of children in the poorest country in the Middle East. In 1991, Yemen ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and it was enacted immediately. Since then the country has been making steady progress for children until it plunged into a brutal conflict in 2015 but even before that, Yemen needed large amounts of humanitarian assistance.

In collaboration with local authorities, non-governmental organizations and community partners, UNICEF is working in all the governorates in Yemen to respond to the needs of children throughout the country with a continuum of services to help children survive and grow to their full potential through the following programmes: Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Basic Education, and Child protection.

For more on our work in Yemen, please visit our website: https://www.unicef.org/yemen/

How can you make a difference?

The Team Leader will oversee the work of a team that includes a technical expert, a data analyst, a data collection team manager, and a team of enumerators. In addition to providing evaluation expertise, the Team Leader/Evaluation Expert will manage the team, oversee inputs from other team members, and submit the deliverables.

To make a difference in the lives of children, you will be responsible for the following key functions:

  • Writes inception report with annexes of the evaluation matrix and data collection tools including ethical protocols for discussion at the Steering Committee
  • Answers questions from the ethical clearance process if required
  • Responds to issues raised by the Steering Committee and the ethical clearance process
  • Guides and oversees data collection from all identified respondents
  • Guides analysis of collected data

  • Prepares and presents emerging findings

  • Drafts report using data, taking into account the feedback received during the preliminary findings phase.
  • Submits draft evaluation report for comments
  • Responds to all comments received in the comments matrix
  • Revises and finalizes report based on comments in comments matrix

    For more details on the Job Profile, double-click this link: Team Leader ToR.pdf

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

  • Master’s degree in evaluation, development studies economics, social science, or relevant field.
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in leading evaluation teams in the UN system and in politically sensitive and crisis-affected environments.

  • Demonstrated leadership of 5 evaluations, with participation in at least 20 evaluations, at least some of which are related to nutrition or IYCF

  • Experience integrating gender and human rights into evaluations

  • Experience working in humanitarian contexts (preferred)
  • Good understanding of statistical analysis
  • Proven ability to produce high-quality reports for a policy audience.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work with senior officials
  • Cultural sensitivity especially as demonstrated through similar assignments in the Middle East and other regions of the Global South.
  • Fluency in English, proficiency in Arabic (preferred)

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and core competencies: Builds & Maintains Partnership; Demonstrates Self-Awareness & Ethical Awareness; Drive to Achieve Results for Impact; Innovates and Embraces Change; Manages Ambiguity and Complexity; Thinks and Acts Strategically and Works Collaboratively with Others.

View our competency framework, click 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. Female candidates are especially encouraged to apply. Please see entitlements for females by double-clicking this link: Female Entitlements Edited2.jpg

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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

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

Added 2 years ago - Updated 2 years ago - Source: unicef.org