Consultancy to Undertake Analysis of UNICEF Management Responses to Humanitarian Evaluations and Reviews 2017-2023, New York Headquarters, HELS, 4 months (Remote/Work from home)

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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

UNICEF undertakes regular evaluations and reviews of its humanitarian responses; programming approaches and operations and UNICEF formally responds to each of these individually. Taking advantage of advances in Large Language Model (LLM) assisted text analysis, this consultancy seeks to take a broader perspective. In particular, identifying trends over time and if actions taken in-line with management responses are making a meaningful difference to UNICEF humanitarian responses.

It is expected that this analysis will combine traditional qualitative text analysis techniques and software (e.g. Nvivo) with the use of LLM artificial intelligence (e.g. ChatGPT-4). Fully recording and sharing the qualitative analysis methodology for UNICEF institutional learning is a secondary objective. This analysis should be conducted in-line with the UNICEF Procedure on Ethical Standards in Research, Evaluation, Data Collection and Analysis and the UNICEF Policy on Personal Data Protection.

How can you make a difference?

Work Assignments Overview Delivery deadlineIdentify and agree data set of evaluations, reviews and management responses. Develop an analytical framework to use in text analysis. This can include testing different approaches. Develop a detailed timeline including sufficient time for testing. Inception Report

- Methodological proposal

- Analytical framework

- Detailed timeline

Deliverable #1

Delivery time indication 2 weeks

(15 December 2023)

Initial analysis of trends in Recommendations and Management Response ActionsAnalysis report of #2. Up to 5 pages. Additional annexes should describe methodology and present additional detail.

Deliverable #2

Delivery time indication 1 month (19 January 2024)

Initial analysis of UNICEF progress and blockagesAnalysis report of #2. Up to 5 pages. Additional annexes should describe methodology and present additional detail.

Deliverable #3

Delivery time indication 1 month (16 February 2024)

Virtual Sense-making workshops are prepared and delivered twice to cover time zones Summary workshop feedback submitted within 5 working days of the second workshop.

Deliverable #4

Delivery time indication 1 month (15 March 2024)

Draft analytical report of analysis with interpretation informed by the sense-making workshop feedbackDraft Report- Up to 20 pages. Additional annexes should describe methodology and present additional detail.

Deliverable #5

Delivery time indication 1 month (12 April 2024)

Incorporate feedback from draft reportFinal report - Up to 20 pages. Additional annexes should describe methodology and present additional detail.

Deliverable #6

Delivery time indication 1 month (26 April 2024)

Nature of ‘Penalty Clause’ to be stipulated in Contract:

Penalties for Unsatisfactory Performance or Incomplete Assignment: Final payment of fees for this assignment will only be affected upon satisfactory completion of services to UNICEF’s satisfaction and certification to that effect by the Supervisor of this assignment.

Cost Estimations

Please include the financial proposal in USD (inclusive of all taxes).

The financial proposal shall be submitted in USD and must include the consultancy fee, the communication costs and all other individual expenses or applicable costs. The financial proposal must be broken down per deliverable.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Social Sciences or relevant field.
• A minimum of 5 years professional experience in overall applied economic, social or related research.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in international humanitarian programming.
• Experience with UNICEF or another UN agency a significant advantage.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in qualitative analysis.
• Experience using traditional qualitative analysis software (e.g. Nvivo).
• Experience in using LLMs for qualitative analysis (e.g. ChatGBT) a significant advantage.
• 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.

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.