National Consultant - Social Protection Monitoring and Data Consultant, Kenya Country Office, Nairobi, 60 days (over a period of 11 months)

Contract

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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.

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For every child, hope

Despite the Government of Kenya’s commitment to social protection, child poverty remains high in Kenya, with an estimated 11.1 million children (53% of all children) being multi-dimensionally poor which means that they are deprived of fulfilment of 3 or more (out of 6) basic needs, services and rights (Comprehensive poverty analysis, UNICEF 2020). The Social Policy Section at UNICEF therefore endeavors to provide support to the GoK to further expand public investment in effective social protection to the benefit of children and their caregivers. To this end, the Social Policy Section has initiated and implemented numerous programmes that have significantly changed the lives of children and the families with which they live in particular with regards to those denied of basic needs. Below are two flagship programmes that the Section is currently implementing among others. It is primarily these programmes for which consultancy services are sought.

How can you make a difference?

The Social Policy Section endeavors to support delivery of social protection programmes that are efficient and effective in terms of programme delivery as well as building knowledge products that can be used as advocacy for programme scaling and expansion by government. As such, there is a great deal of data analysis that supports the implementation in a bid to achieve results. For this service, the section primarily looks for a candidate whose incumbency is meant to support the above two mentioned programmes as well as data related support on similar project

The consultant will be expected to perform the following main roles related to the ongoing programmes:

1. Support field data collection and management activities for the OOSC and UCB programmes primarily in activities that lead to knowledge products such as reports, briefs, analytical pieces and infographics.
2. Automated generation, case management, and updating of payrolls for the OSSC and UCB programmes, preferably using protocols in available applications to UNICEF such as Excel, R or Stata thus ensuring reproducibility.
3. Create automated tools to perform updates to the OSSC and UCB master lists after each payment cycle thus accommodating any case management activities related to beneficiary data and their details.
4. Participate in monitoring activities for OSSC and UCB programmes (and other cash programmes as required) to improve the quality of data collected for improved delivery, lesson learning and accountability
5. Review and provide well-documented and maintainable input in the development of data collection tools, monitoring tools, operation manuals, and performance monitoring plans for OSSC and UCB programs as required
6. Any other related roles assigned by the Social Protection Specialist

Deliverable

Tasks

Days

Timelines

% Budget

Consolidated payrolls for OOSC and programme monitoring report for term starting February and April 2023.

Support in coordinating data collection preparedness for the UCB Process Evaluation

Prepare payment payrolls for OOSC and submit programme monitoring report term starting February and April 2023.

Coordination of data collection in 3 counties for the UCB process evaluation.

20

February - March 30th 2023

33%

Consolidated payrolls for OOSC and programme monitoring report for term starting May – August 2023.

UCB process evaluation data collection finalization report.

Prepare payment payrolls for OOSC and submit programme monitoring report for the term starting May – August 2023.

Support final data collection reporting for the UCB Process Evaluation and coordinate final deliverables from the data collection teams.

20

April - July 30th 2023

33%

Consolidated payrolls for OOSC and programme monitoring report for term starting August – November 2023.

Prepare payment payrolls for OOSC and submit programme monitoring report for the term starting August – November 2023.

20

July - November 30th 2023

33%

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

• An advanced university degree (Master) in one of the following fields is required: Economics, Econometrics, Statistics, Information Technology, Public Finance, or related technical field
• At least five (5) years of progressive work and experience in the areas of social protection or social policy with a focus on vulnerable groups and related policy areas, including in-depth understanding of the social protection terrain in Kenya.
• Excellent analytical and writing skills demonstrated by proven record of analytical publications/ reports relating to analysis of large data sets using statistical applications such as Stata, R, Microsoft Excel, Power BI and other related statistical software
• Excellent communication and advocacy skills to engage in effective data communication and proper inference of data summaries to inform policy briefs, programme level data and other research-based data analysis.
• Experience in working with data related to targeting of cash transfer beneficiaries at different levels

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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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.

Please submit a technical and financial offer to apply.