Internal Only: Research Manager (Interagency Social Science Researcher), P-4, TA, C4D, Programme Division, Geneva

Contract

This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 168,113 USD and 216,746 USD.

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Note: As of 1 July, internal openings are once again open to all personnel with a contract with UNICEF (i.e. TA, Consultants, and UNV).

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.

You will be a member of the Global Cell of the interagency Collective Service for Community Engagement. The Social Science Research coordinator is a dedicated inter-agency function reporting to the Global Coordinator (alongside the Risk Communication and Information Management coordinators).

You will support regional coordination structures in matters of social science, which will provide dedicated technical support to priority countries. You will also contribute to inform strategic decisions across all pillars of the response and contribute to improving its quality and accountability through the effective and timely elevation of community voices and social evidence into overall response decision-making at country, regional and global levels.

You will be embedded in the Communication for Development team, outposted to UNICEF Geneva HQ office, but be dedicated to serving the interagency collective service.

It is envisioned that up to 50% of the time could be spent sitting physically with the rest of the global cell in IFRC offices in Geneva.

For every child, good health……

Under the general supervision of the Chief, C4D section, Programme Division New York and in alignment with the work of the Collective Service steered by its Global Coordinator, you will provide support to the coordination of social science efforts in emergency response and crisis situations, in full contact and consultation with regional hubs, as well as partners’ Regional and Country Offices. You will provide support to overall leadership, guidance and direction to the Collective Service for all matters related to Social Science (operational social sciences research, social listening, social and behavior change, community insights, etc.).

How can you make a difference?

Tasks will include the following:

• Liaise with other agencies focal points and social scientists, strengthen partnerships with main social science stakeholders and interact with global platforms such as GOARN-Research, SSHAP and Sonar-Global to advance and deliver on accountabilities in a coordinated fashion, leveraging external resources and expanding the partners base
• Liaise with key agencies, actors, groups and focal points who are the users of social sciences research and who can contribute to more integrated social sciences results. Specifically including Epidemiological analysis groups, groups working in bio-medical and infection prevention control as well as psychological and other research focuses.

• Help regional hubs provide countries with technical support, capacity building and timely advice for specific needs on social research, including:

• • support regional hubs in strengthening or establishing collective operational research groups and supporting related initiatives and mechanisms at country-level
  • contribute to the development of needed social science guidance and tools in support of national and local actors
  • work on Knowledge Management aspects to ensure tools, protocols, and methodological expertise are made available to the field
  • support proper analysis, framing and dissemination of operational findings
  • support on creating effective links with research and evidence beyond social sciences (epi/ bio-medical/ data science/ population)

• Contribute to advise international response partnerships and multilateral institutions:

• • organize the upstream flow of social science data, collation and analysis for the policy space to be systematically informed by behavioral, social, political, economic and epidemiological research and community feedback
  • support the full and systematic inclusion of social science contributions in humanitarian response plans
  • promote cross cutting engagement to ensure the operational focus of social sciences research
  • promote the importance of using social evidence and monitor how it informs operations and long-term programming
  • contribute to the discussion, review and prioritization of global research agendas and roadmaps based on emerging needs and field perspective; call attention of the global social sciences research community to emerging priority areas
  • Coordinate with IM coordinator on community feedback data; and synthesize/triangulate analysis to integrate key findings into response operations.
• Contribute to the Collective Service updates to its steering committee for matters of social science

To qualify as a champion for every child, the candidate must have…

• An advanced University degree in Social Sciences research or a related technical field.
• Eight years professional work experience at national and international levels in social research for development assistance and / or humanitarian response and Public Health Emergencies.
• Preferred experience in emergency preparedness and response at field level especially outbreak response.
• Fluency in English and French (written and verbal) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respective, Integrity, Trust and Accountability.

For more information on remuneration and benefits, please visit UNICEF’s Entitlements’ page*. If you would like to find estimates for entitlements, you may use the online* Salary Estimate Calculator

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

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, culture, appearance, socio-economic status, ability, age, religious, and ethnic backgrounds, 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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

“UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”