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If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

For every child, results

UNICEF is the lead agency in monitoring the wellbeing of children and women, with a mandate to support countries in collecting reliable data on children, as well as to track progress against internationally agreed targets including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In support of this work, the Data & Analytics Section (D&A), located within the Division of Data, Analysis Planning and Monitoring (DDAPM) at UNICEF’s New York headquarters, plays a crucial role in defining the types of data required to monitor progress on child rights from a gender perspective. This includes establishing new international standards for measurement and developing gender-sensitive indicators and associated data collection methods.

As part of this effort, D&A is undertaking work to assess the feasibility of developing standardized measures of gender norms, particularly as they relate to the gendered distribution of unpaid care and domestic work among children, in order to better understand how these norms contribute to unequal outcomes for children and women throughout the life-course. While recent efforts have been made to measure gender norms, these measures have tended to focus on norms related to harmful practices or other aspects of women’s and girls’ well-being, such as child marriage, female genital mutilation or political participation, rather than on norms influencing the assignment of unpaid work among children. Further, these measures lack the consistency and coherence afforded by having an internationally agreed conceptual framework on gender norms that can be operationalized for population-level measurement and programmatic monitoring.

How can you make a difference?

The consultant will conduct a review of the literature on social norms theory and a mapping of existing tools used to collect data on gender norms, with a focus on norms as they relate to the distribution of unpaid work and unequal outcomes for children and women throughout the life course. A key objective of these reviews will be to assess the feasibility of developing a universal measurement instrument across cultural and socio-economics contexts that captures gender norms as they relate to the distribution of unpaid care work, which can be used by all countries to collect internationally comparable, nationally representative and statistically sound data.

Duration: 2 months – Proposed start date early Nov. 2020

Payment of this consultancy will be deliverable-based. Please provide a financial proposal for the entire assignment.

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The literature review and mapping of existing data collection tools will be based in a review of the academic and grey literature on gender norms, as well as existing data collecting tools. It will also build upon previous/current work being undertaken by UNICEF (relevant documents to be provided by Data & Analytics), including, but not limited to, work on the “Monitoring and Documentation of UNICEF Gender Socialization Programmes” and the “Contribution of Social Norms Theories to Understanding the Intersections between Gender and Social Protection.”

Outline detailing the approach and methodology that will be used to conduct both the literature review and the mapping of data collection tools

November 6, 2020

Conduct a review of the literature (academic and grey) on social norms theory across relevant disciplines to answer the following questions:

How are gender norms theorized, conceptualized and defined, with a focus on norms related to the gendered distribution of unpaid care and domestic work throughout the life course (early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood)? How do these norms evolve and change over the life course? What other norms must be considered (such as norms related to girls’ education and employment) in conjunction with norms around unpaid work? How do these norms influence gender equality outcomes for adolescent girls and women, particularly in the school to work transition?

Draft report of no more than 25 pages with key findings and evidence gaps

Final report of no more than 25 pages integrating comments and feedback provided on the draft report

November 21, 2020

December 31, 2020

Conduct a mapping of existing data collection tools to answer the following questions:

How are gender norms, particularly as they relate to the gendered distribution of unpaid care and domestic work, measured at the population level in the empirical literature? Which concepts of social norms, as theorized in the literature on social norms theory, do these tools operationalize or are they proxies for social norms? In which countries have these tools been applied? What are the methodological limitations of these measures, such as those related to social desirability bias or challenges interpreting gender norms at the national level given the local specificity of gender norms? What are best practices across the different measures? What measurement gaps on gender norms can be identified from the mapping?

While the focus will be on quantitative approaches, qualitative approaches that inform the design of quantitative data collection instruments or underscore the limitations/challenges of such instruments should also be considered.

Draft mapping of existing data collection tools used to collect data on gender norms with a focus on norms influencing the distribution of unpaid care and domestic work. Output to include summary of existing tools and associated indicators, including which aspects of social norms the tools measure (e.g. descriptive norms, injunctive norms, reference groups, etc.), countries in which the tools have been applied and analysis of methodological limitations of the tools, with compilation of data presenting results at the country level to be used for illustrative purposes, as needed.

Final mapping integrating comments and feedback provided on draft mapping

December 21, 2020

December 31, 2020

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

  • An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in social sciences, public policy, international development, social research methods, gender, statistics or other related fields to the work of UNICEF. A PhD degree preferred.
  • A minimum of 5 years of proven experience conducting research, including literature reviews and evidence synthesis, on social norms, including gender norms.
  • Knowledge of and experience analyzing data from multi-national surveys essential.
  • Knowledge of time use literature an asset
  • Strong track record of peer-reviewed publications is essential
  • Knowledge of and/or experience of conducting research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries is essential
  • Experience working in the UN or other international development organizations an asset
  • 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, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The functional competencies required for this post are...

  • Analysing
  • Applying technical expertise
  • Planning and organising
  • Copying with pressure and setbacks

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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:

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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