National Consultancy, Monitoring and Assessment Consultant, 5.5 Months, Sana'a, Yemen

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For every child, Education

In the 1970s UNICEF established presence in Yemen to respond to the urgent needs of children in the poorest country in the Middle East. In 1991, Yemen ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and it was enacted immediately. Since then the country has been making steady progress for children until it plunged into a brutal conflict in 2015 but even before that, Yemen needed large amounts of humanitarian assistance.

In collaboration with local authorities, non-governmental organizations and community partners, UNICEF is working in all the governorates in Yemen to respond to the needs of children throughout the country with a continuum of services to help children survive and grow to their full potential through the following programmes: Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Basic Education, and Child protection.

How can you make a difference?

The Office is looking for a national consultant whose main job is: to provide the mid and end-line assessment and documentation of the following key programme interventions that will need to be validated and assessed as part of this consultancy.

• Conduct Needs Assessment Conduct a comprehensive Out-of-School Children Study to identify barriers to children’s access to education and the numbers, type and location of children excluded from education in Yemen Develop and distribute communications materials to schools and communities to highlight Safe School Protocols as part of the nationwide Opening of Schools (1 awareness and sensitization campaign per year, nationwide)
• Provide school bag kits to encourage children’s continued access to learning
• Train teachers on blended approaches to learning suitable to the COVID-19 situation
• Provide Hygiene Kits and WASH supplies to targeted students through a WASH in Schools programme (inclusive of information sharing)

Specifically, the consultant will be requested to fulfill the below:

• To provide full documentation, including an executive summary, of the programme monitoring and progress reports.
• To conduct end-line review/assessment for the programme and document the outcome of the programme implemented interventions, lessons learned, challenges, and recommendations for future education interventions.

Consequently, UNICEF Yemen seeks a well-qualified national expert to lead the programme review and documentation process in close coordination with UNICEF and the Ministry of Education (MoE).

For more on our work in Yemen, please visit our website: https://www.unicef.org/yemen/

To view the whole profile of this consultancy service Hold Ctrl and Press the following Link: Terms of Reference_national Individual Consultant_Yemen - Japan project SM210037.docx

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

• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience related to education programmes.
• Previous experience in programme monitoring and evaluation.
• Working experience in Humanitarian settings is an asset
• Working experience in UN agencies, NGOs or governmental entities is an asset
• Excellent writing skills
• Excellent analysis and reporting skills
• Excellent coordination skills

Language:

• Proficiency in English and Arabic is required.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

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.