Home-based consultancy to develop a series of indicators to monitor UNICEF’s AAP commitments (50 days)

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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, results

As UNICEF, we are strongly committed to putting affected families, children and adolescents at the center of our work, as reflected in the Core Commitments for Children, in the IASC commitments on Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP), and in the Grand Bargain and wider 2030 Agenda commitments. These are central elements for improving the quality and effectiveness of our humanitarian and development programmes and ensuring affected communities can fulfil their rights to participate and be heard.

Over the last two years, AAP has been included into relevant programme policies and procedures. Benchmarks on AAP were introduced as part of the new “Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (the CCC’s)”. However, there remains significant gaps when it comes to monitoring our AAP commitments through existing planning and monitoring processes:

  • measurable AAP indicators need to be developed to ensure our commitments can be monitored;
  • Those AAP indicators needs to be reflected consistently across the different programme policies and procedures;
  • country programmes require specific guidance in terms of how to use & monitor AAP indicators;
  • country-level indicators need to be aggregable to higher levels, in order to monitor UNICEF’s overall performance on AAP.

Building on existing good practices in country programmes and in the context of the new Strategic Plan 2022-2025, UNICEF leadership has agreed upon an ambitious process to scale-up accountability to affected populations across the entire organization, in order to put our commitments into practice in a systematic and coordinated manner.

How can you make a difference?

The purpose of the consultancy is to:

  • Develop a series of process (input) and result (output/outcome) indicators for AAP which can be used consistently across the organization and integrated into relevant monitoring processes (based on the above review)
  • Identify and review existing opportunities to ensure a coherent monitoring approach for AAP at all levels of the organization through existing programme policies and procedures.
  • Develop practical and simple guidance to accompany the above indicators and to support Country Offices in AAP monitoring

Managed by the Senior Advisor, Community Engagement and Accountability, EMOPS Geneva, and working very closely with the AAP Unit, the consultant will work on the following deliverables:

Develop a series of process and results indicators for AAP (20 days)

  • Review and improve the draft “indicators and guidance note for monitoring AAP” (which is part of the AAP toolkit, annexed to the AAP Handbook);
  • Work closely with the AAP focal points in regional offices and targeted country offices to refine and test the AAP indicators;
  • Ensure that those programme-level indicators can be aggregated and are consistent with the existing AAP benchmarks (as per the CCC’s).

Ensure AAP indicators are included in relevant UNICEF programme policies and procedures (10 days)

  • Review relevant UNICEF programme policies and procedures such as the Humanitarian Performance Monitoring (HPM), the Strategic Monitoring Questions (SMQ), the monitoring of CCC benchmarks, the harmonized approach to cash transfers (HACT) procedures to ensure that AAP indicators are consistently integrated into those processes;
  • work closely with relevant HQ teams including the Division of Analytics Monitoring and Evaluation to identify entry points for incorporating those indicators in relevant global guidance, procedures and systems, including provision of advice on RAM indicators for AAP.
  • Suggest relevant AAP indicators into relevant programme policies and procedures when there are gaps or need to harmonize existing indicators;
  • Ensure coherence with the accountability and inclusion result tracker developed by the IASC as well as Grand Bargain participation revolution commitments.

Develop practical and simple guidance on the use of AAP indicators (20 days)

  • In close cooperation with Country Offices currently supported on AAP, develop simple guidance on how to collect and analyze AAP indicators
  • Ensure coherence with the AAP Handbook
  • Ensure that such guidance is also included in existing training modules on AAP

Contractual arrangements:

  • Duration: The Consultant will be contracted for 50 days between May and September 2021.
  • Location: The Consultant will be home-based and is not expected to travel.
  • Payment: Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant

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

  • Master’s degree in relevant field, with at least 8 years of professional experience in of development and humanitarian response and/or international development.
  • Familiarity with the principles of accountability to affected populations and community engagement (feedback and complaints mechanisms, participation, information provision).
  • Thorough experience with and knowledge of principles and current approaches to monitoring and evaluation in humanitarian and development programmes, using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
  • Professional expertise in the methodology of M&E, including models, data analysis and interpretation, developing recommendations and dissemination of M&E results, operational and systems implementation.
  • Experience with managing and conducting multi-stakeholder consultations at different levels.
  • Preferably work experiences with UNICEF, ideally in a country office.
  • Excellent analytical skills with strong drive for results and capacity to work independently
  • Proficiency in written and verbal English language.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

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.

To apply:

  1. Letter of interest, including your approach to the assignment and proposed fees (daily) to undertake the above TOR. Please note that applications without a proposed fee will not be accepted.
  2. A CV and/or Personal history form (downloadable from http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/P11.doc). Alternatively, if a candidate profile in the UNICEF e-Recruitment System is available, you may download it and submit it as part of application.

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.

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