National Consultant for Education in Emergencies Monitoring and Reporting

Consultant Teaching & Training Programme & Policy

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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.

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Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

The consultant will provide technical input to strengthen the Education in Emergencies Program's monitoring and reporting system. In order to achieve effective action and change in programs, it is imperative to collect, analyse, disseminate, and use good quality, disaggregated data. It is critical to collect data and other evidence in order to monitor and report on the impact and priorities of programs for children according to donor requirements.

A key responsibility of the incumbent would be to support the monitoring and reporting of EiE programs of UNICEF, including ECW and other donors, within the delegated authority granted by the Chief of Education and Education Specialist (Emergencies).

• Contribute to developing analytical reports, economic analyses, and case studies of the UNICEF Ukraine education in emergencies program.
• Support the production and related data collection, analysis, and writing of ECW and other donor results reports and monitor performance indicators.
• Assist in measuring the outcome level indicators and writing the final report for the ECHO project.
• Provide technical monitoring, measurement, evaluation and reporting support to UNICEF implementing partners and donors.
• Support and promote good practices in monitoring and evaluation and review relevant research and studies on interventions to measure UNICEF education in emergencies program in Ukraine.
• Monitor all the activities in collaboration with education authorities and implementing partners
• Establish monitoring benchmarks, performance indicators and other UNICEF / UN system indicators to assess/strengthen performance accountability, coherence and delivery of concrete and sustainable results for the assigned sector of education programmes.

Perform other related duties and assignments as and when required.

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

Minimum requirements:

Education [specify disciplines]

Bachelor's degree

University degree (Bachelor) in social science, education, economics, international or development studies, monitoring and evaluation or a related field. A Master's degree is an asset.

Professional experience [number of years, relevant to the assignment, other specifics]

• At least 2 years of working experience in Project Management, Education and/or humanitarian development in monitoring and/or evaluation.

• Work experience with data collection, processing, analysis and reporting.

• Experience in writing analytical reports and ability to respond to tight deadlines with good attention to detail.

• Strong competence with the following Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergencies is considered an asset.

Language

English

Advanced [C1]

Ukrainian

Proficient/Native [C2]

For every Child, you demonstrate:

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

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Specific Deliverables:

No

Deliverable

Due date

#Of Working Days

1.

The first report on Education Cannot Wait (ECW)

February 2023

21

2.

Progress report of the educational interventions, including the final ECHO 2023 proposal

June/July 2023

21

3.

Progress report of the education interventions, including analysis of the Q1 and 2 implementations of the incentives and terms of reference of the Annual Work Plan (AWP) and Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) indicators

June 2023

21

4.

Progress report including the report on Digital Learning centres and lessons learned from the pilot

July 2023

21

5.

Develop a report on the ECW country risk analysis (as required by the donor)

March and June 2023

21

6.

Progress report of the educational interventions, including the EMIS enhancement and implementation

August 2023

21

7.

Progress report of the educational interventions, including drafting of the final report of ECHO, ECW and other donors

September to December 2023

84

Total

231

Please provide an all-inclusive financial proposal to carry out the deliverables listed above.

i Costs indicated are estimated. Final rate shall follow the “best value for money” principle, i.e., achieving the desired outcome at the lowest possible fee. Consultants will be asked to stipulate all-inclusive fees, including lump sum travel and subsistence costs, as applicable.

Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

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.

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