National Consultancy on Monitoring and Evaluation, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 3 months duration

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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, protection...

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.

UNICEF Mongolia is starting its new Country Programme in 2023 with the five thematic focuses:

Outcome 1: Health and Nutrition Development

Outcome 2: Education

Outcome 3: Child Protection

Outcome 4: WASH and Climate Change

Outcome 5: Social Inclusion and Evidence

These thematic areas will collaboratively work with cross-cutting areas of Adolescents Development, Early Childhood Development, Social Behaviour Change through key change strategies of advocacy and communications, community engagement, evidence generation, knowledge management, digitalization, gender, innovation, partnerships, humanitarian and development nexus, and system strengthening. In the new Country Programme, the office is shifting its approach from focusing on pre-selected provinces (3 provinces) to comprehensively invest UNICEF interventions to emphasizing the needs-based programming (soum approach) to target the needs nationwide (21 provinces).

UNICEF’s strong focus on evidence-based approach for which this Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant will play a key role to ensure office accountability and transparency to ensure leaving no one behind.

How can you make a difference?

Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Representative and close communication with the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and Community Development Specialist, the M&E Consultant will be responsible for office-wide end-year reporting and planning for new Country Programme Document along with the Annual Work Plan in the system. S/he will ensure the data accuracy and analyze the results accumulated within the current 5-year Country Programme Document (CPD) to showcase the lessons learned and good practices in the annual report.

1. Scope of Work:

• Work collaboratively with colleagues to obtain accurate data with evidence and ensure the accurate reporting against set indicators
• Analyze the lessons learned and good practices to explore for scale-up and to project UNICEF Mongolia Country Office
• Consolidate inputs and highlights of the current CPD results from programme colleagues for annual report
• Draft reports related to the end-year, end-cycle and other periodic office-wide reports
• Support the planning and conduction of the End-cycle Review meetings for further dissmination of the findings
• Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual sectoral reviews with government and other counterparts to assess programmes/projects, and to report on required action/interventions.
• Prepare regular and mandated sectoral programme reports for management, donors and partners to keep them informed of programme progress.

Contract duration: 3 months

Type of engagement: Full-time, office based

Full-time, office based: Contractors will be working 5 weekdays and following the office hours of the duty station. Contractors are eligible for 1.5days of Paid Time Off per month and paid UN official Holidays.

For detailed information please click here for Terms of Reference. Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant_ToR_Ad.pdf

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

• • University degree in social sciences, development planning, planning, evaluation, survey implementation, advanced statistical research.
  • Professional work experience in data collection and analysis, programme development and implementation, including monitoring and evaluation activities.
  • Two years of relevant professional work experience and field work experience.
  • Working experience in UN agencies and/or INGOs is an asset.
  • Fluency in written and speaking English 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.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.