International Consultant - Senior Socio-Economic Expert, 11 months UNICEF Nepal Country Office

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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, future

As Nepal rolls its COVID vaccination and finalizes its recovery plan, UNICEF aims that this recovery plays attention to the needs of children. This is to ensure the recovery is effective, efficient and equitable as children specific/ sensitive investments typically have been found to be so. UNICEF's Social policy, Evidence and Evaluation section is looking for an expert to assist its data analysis and advocacy for enhancing investments in children, in the context of the new COVID related challenges while supporting its ongoing commitment to social protection, supporting the office with the evidence and the data analysis is both enhanced and adjusted, with higher and additional skills to incorporate a strengthened capacity to both assess as well as respond to the COVID crisis along with maintaining attention to the chronic deprivations and challenges impeding outcomes for children.

The need for maintaining the investments in children is all the higher as the losses during the children needs to sharper and robust than ever before.

Specific Tasks:

Within on an overall objective of strengthening data analysis and evidence generation in the i face of the new COVID-19 challenges, the specific tasks of the assignment are:

1. Support COVID data analysis and advocacy as captured by the Child and family tracker survey

2. Support Public Finance for children-strengthening evidence-based advocacy to address chronic and emerging deprivations through an analysis of the efficacy and the effectiveness of the national, provincial and local budgets

3. Support Fiscal space analysis and estimation of the crowding out of the investments in COVID vaccination to strengthen advocacy for maintaining investments in children relevant sectors.

Duration of the contract

The total duration of the consultancy is for 11 months tentatively effective from 01 May 2021.

Deliverables for this assignment:

Assignment Period****Description of Deliverables****Number of Days****Target Delivery DateMay 2021Developing a Child Friendly planning and budget analysis framework for 3 tiers of the GoN / In partnership with NNRFC, MOFA and PLGSP

25 days15 June 2021June 2021Phase 2: CFT Round 1:

1. Data analysis

2. Presentation

14 days30 June 2021July 2021Submission of Nepal National Budget analysis-rapid budget analysis/After the publication of the national budget/ with 2 pages each on education, health, nutrition and social protection

20 days31 July 2021August 2021Submission of fiscal space analysis and crowding out due to COVAX

30 days30 August 2021September 2021Phase 2: CFT Round 2:

1. Data analysis

2. Presentation

14 days30 September 2021Oct - November 2021 Submission of ECD cost benefit analysis35 days30 November 2021December 2021Phase 2: CFT Round 3:

1. Data analysis

2. Presentation

14 days1-31 December 2021January 2022Submission of COVAX and utilization/execution report from the ground

30 days28 February 2022Feb - Mar 2022Phase 2: CFT Round 4:

1. Data Analysis

2. Presentation

14 days30 March 2022To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education: Master's degree in economic, statistics, development economics

Work Experience:At least 5 years of professional experience in econometric modelling;

Experience of working in Nepal highly desirable

Special skills: knowledge of national budgeting and planning processes, including fiscal space

analysis

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

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.

“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. We welcome applications from females and under-represented groups”.

Remarks:

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.

Please submit your financial quotation based on the deliverables for this assignment.