End-Year Reporting Consultant, Prishtina, Kosovo/M&E, 3 months (16 days of involvement)

Consultant Programme & Policy Monitoring & Evaluation

Overview

Assist with end-year reporting and consolidation for UNICEF Kosovo Office

You have:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in social, development studies, or other relevant fields.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in Result Based Management reporting, including monitoring, research, or evaluation.
• Required previous experience with UN system operation preferably in Europe and the Western Balkan region.
• Proven experience in drafting analytical reports, ability to summarize and synthesize data, evidence, and arguments.
• Excellent communication and writing skills in the English language.
• Excellent computer skills.

Contract

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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, knowledge

In line with the overall goal to contribute to Kosovo’s development efforts, to enable all children, adolescents, and young people, especially the most marginalized, to have their rights progressively fulfilled and to develop to their full potential in a protective and inclusive society, UNICEF focuses on rigorous and systematic progress monitoring and reporting on the results. To this end, UNICEF Kosovo Office is seeking for an international consultant to support with the compilation and editing of the 2024 end-year related reporting in line with the Result Based Management principles.

How can you make a difference?

Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Head of Office, the international consultant will assist the UNICEF Kosovo Office with the compilation of end-year reports, adhering to Result-Based Management (RBM) principles and UNICEF's global guidelines for end-year reporting.

The primary responsibilities within this scope of work include:

• Consolidating, reviewing, and editing the Result Assessment Management (RAM) narrative, ensuring alignment with UNICEF guidelines and RBM principles.
• Consolidating, reviewing, and editing the End-Year Annual narrative report, maintaining compliance with UNICEF guidelines and RBM principles.
• Addressing comments and making revisions to the RAM and End-Year Annual narrative reports based on feedback from quality assurance reviews.
• Develop a summarized (short) version of the 2024 Annual report for public sharing.

Ethical considerations:

For any form of data collection and/or engaging children in consultation processes, the international and regional ethical guidelines need to be strictly followed and the necessary standards and mitigation measures need to be put in place to ensure no harm principle is ensured.

The key ethical guidelines that need to be followed include UNICEF Procedures for Ethical Standards in Research, Evaluation, Data Collection and Analysis; UNICEF Strategic Guidance Note on Institutionalizing Ethical Practice for UNICEF Research; General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a regional law of the European Union (EU).

Work Assignments Overview: Review UNICEF guidelines for end-year reporting Deliverables/Outputs: Review UNICEF guidelines for end-year reporting Delivery deadline: 30 Nov 2024

Work Assignments Overview: Consolidate, review, and editing of Result Assessment Management (RAM) narrative in line with the UNICEF guidelines and RBM principles. Deliverables/Outputs: The RAM report is consolidated, reviewed and edited. Delivery deadline: 3 Jan 2025 (tbc upon finalization of the contract)

Work Assignments Overview: Consolidate, review and editing of End-Year Annual narrative report in line with the UNICEF guidelines and RBM principles. Deliverables/Outputs: The End-Year Annual narrative report is consolidated, reviewed and edited. Delivery deadline: 6 Feb 2025 (tbc upon finalization of the contract)

Work Assignments Overview: Address comments and revisions to RAM and End-Year Annual narrative report based on the quality assurance review comments. Deliverables/Outputs: RAM and End-Year Annual narrative reports are consolidated and address all comments. Delivery deadline: 6 Feb 2025 (tbc upon finalization of the contract)

Work Assignments Overview: Develop a summarized (short) version of the 2024 Annual report for public sharing. Deliverables/Outputs: A short version of the annual report is developed. Delivery deadline: 10 March 2025

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

• Master’s degree or equivalent in social, development studies, or other relevant fields.
• At least 5 years of experience of professional experience in Result Based Management reporting, including in monitoring, research, or evaluation.
• Required previous experience with UN system operation preferably in Europe and the Western Balkan region.
• Proven experience in drafting of analytical reports, ability to summarize and synthesize data, evidence, and arguments.
• Excellent communication and writing skills in the English language.
• Excellent computer skills.;

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.

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