Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist - Social and Behaviour Change (P-4), FT, PGLT - SBC, NYHQ

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 171,387 USD and 220,969 USD.

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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.

UNICEF Program Group is currently undergoing organizational changes; therefore, the exact location of the post has yet to be determined. Selected candidates may be required to commence duties remotely until the location is confirmed. If reassigned or relocated to New York, candidates may be expected to relocate to a new location again during the initial contract or assignment period. When working remotely, candidate will be expecting to fulfill their functions during NYHQ core working hours (10AM-4PM) unless agreed otherwise by Hiring Office.

Social and Behavior Change (SBC) is at the core of UNICEF’s mandate. Most of what UNICEF does comes down to supporting, promoting and improving healthy and protective behaviors for children, with corporate results across sectors revolving around practices such as immunization, breastfeeding, hygiene and positive discipline. Children’s wellbeing depends on the uptake of these practices which is driven by the choices made by their parents, guardians, peers, communities, influencers, service providers and authorities. This calls for UNICEF to design effective change programmes approaching all these decisions as the complex result of the influence of multiple determinants, cognitive, social, cultural, economic and structural.

To fulfil the rights of all children, UNICEF also needs to support positive social transformation and deliberately address major challenges which cut across and go beyond sectoral areas of programming, reduce access to basic services and resources, maintain inter-generational poverty and fuel tension lines affecting resilience and social cohesion. These include declining levels of trust in public institutions and growing disconnect between the state, civil society and communities; a shrinking civic space with limited access to decision-making and influence; weak and unaccountable governance systems; growing mis/disinformation, hate speech and intolerance; entrenched gender inequalities; discriminatory power relationships, stigma and lack of inclusion of vulnerable groups.

For every child, a hope….

You will be collaborating closely with other staff in the SBC Global Technical Team and will also have a secondary technical reporting line to a Senior Advisor Statistics and Monitoring in the Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM). You will work in close coordination with RM&E and Data specialists across the Programme Group, teams within the Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM), UNICEF's Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS), Office of Evaluation (OoE) and SBC and M&E Regional Advisors to ensure alignment and coordination on the SBC M&E and data functions.

In addition you will be responsible for the overall steer, quality assurance and technical support related to the SBC data and M&E functions across the organization. This includes data and evidence generation, analysis and use for programming, as well as monitoring components of the Social and Behaviour Change aspects of UNICEF’s development and humanitarian work. The incumbent will have both a global ‘’normative’’ role (e.g., definition of results frameworks and indicator metrics, guidelines for the data collection and use) and an important function supporting regional and inter-agency collaborations to generate and use Social and Behavioral data for decision making.

How can you make a difference?

Social and Behavioral insights for policy and programs decisions:

• Support global and regional / multi-country initiatives to capture community-sourced social data in a time-series manner: community feedback mechanisms, social listening, community rapid assessments, behavioral tracking mechanisms
• Provide technical expertise for the development of the related survey tools, statistical sampling, choice of platforms and deployment, data processing, reporting, analysis, and use
• Help conceptualize analytic products; develops frameworks to test research questions and process data; conducts mixed methods analyses using multiple data sources, including secondary analysis
• Support the aggregation and interpretation of data findings, communication of results and recommendations; develops concise reports and presentations in lay terms to inform managers and decision makers, creates dashboards and interactive visualizations for wider dissemination of findings
• Support the development of publications in academic and scientific journals
• Support the use of social and behavioral data in interagency coordination mechanisms, global development and humanitarian forums, international events
• Support the work towards integration of additional social and behavioral metrics in Population-Based Surveys such as MICS and DHS
• Support the activities and projects of the Behavioral Insights Laboratory
• Support the learning, sharing of best practices and organization of global and regional capacity building initiatives on social evidence and behavioral measurement, data analysis, reporting and use

Corporate SBC Monitoring, Reporting, Evaluation and Data Management

• Oversee the development, updating and dissemination of global guidance, SOPs, tools, resources, and best practices on SBC M&E, in both development and humanitarian programming
• Further develops and maintains a global repository of SBC results in and across sectors, incorporating data on SBC performance of UNICEF teams and offices
• Support UNICEF teams and offices across levels and sectors in establishing and maintaining quality systems for SBC monitoring, reporting and evaluation; supports aggregation of SBC data through internal mechanisms
• Provide technical support for the development of national systems for SBC data generation and analysis, establishment, and maintenance of routine mechanisms for SBC performance monitoring.
• Synthesize and analyzes progress and challenges in SBC programming for relevant UN and UNICEF policy and strategy documents, annual and mid-term reviews, donor reports and inter-agency feedback
• Collaborate with DAPM and Office of Evaluation to ensure alignment of SBC M&E initiatives, frameworks and tools and embedding of indicators and M&E considerations within wider research, monitoring and evaluation agendas and activities
• Participate in HQs-managed or coordinated processes, including but not limited to field monitoring groups, research groups, SBC Global Technical Team, etc.
• Support the development of global networks and partnerships with key organizations, including other UN and aid organizations, academia, research foundations and NGOs for increased investments in quality systems for SBC evidence generation and use

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Social Sciences, Demography, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, or related technical field, with significant measurement and analysis component or other relevant disciplines is required.
• A minimum of eight (8) years of relevant progressive professional experience at the national and international levels in on monitoring and evaluation, data collection and analysis are required.
• Demonstrated experience in designing tools and strategies for performing data extraction, cleaning, analysis and presentation for medium to large datasets
• Experience in development and/or humanitarian programming
• Demonstrated experiences in monitoring, data collection and use for social and behavioral programmes is an asset.
• Demonstrated skills in effectively packaging and communicating data and results for senior management, donors, and implementing staff and partners.
• Experience writing peer reviewed journal articles is an asset.
• Experience with statistics methods such as forecasting, time series, hypothesis testing, classification, clustering or regression analysis.
• Strong computer skills on Excel, data bases (e.g., Access, DevInfo), statistical analysis software (e.g., SPSS, Stata). Experience using statistical computer languages to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets (Java/R/Python) and experience with data visualization libraries such as Matplotlib, Pyplot, ggplot2 is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) 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.

To view our competency framework, please visit here and 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.

“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/”

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.
• Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.