Qualitative data collectors for "Teachers for All (T4A): Improving Equity in Teacher Allocation across Zambia" Consultant, Lusaka, Zambia. 40 working days in five months period (Work from ho

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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, Quality Education

The UNICEF Programme of Cooperation with the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) is designed to address and mitigate the threat of poverty the country's children face, while responding to the needs with interventions addressing the multiple causative factors.

To find out more about UNICEF's work in Zambia, please visit https://unicef.sharepoint.com/sites/ZMB/SitePages/About-us(1).aspx

How can you make a difference?

The main purpose of the assignment is to conduct a study to explore how the allocation of teachers at primary school level may be optimized to improve equity in learning outcomes for primary school level students at national and subnational levels in Zambia.

For this task, services of two individual consultants will be contracted for a total of 40 working days (each) over a period of four months to work with UNICEF Zambia, and UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight to aid the preparation and implementation of fieldwork and the management of data.

Please see detailed TOR for more information on the purpose, objectives, tasks and deliverables, here ToRs - Qualitative data collectors for Teachers for All (T4A).pdf

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

• Advanced University degree (Master’s or higher) in Social Sciences, Education, Psychology, Public Policy, International Relations, Political Science, or other relevant disciplines with strong research focus.
• A minimum number of 5 years of work experience in qualitative research.
• Proven experience in undertaking qualitative data collection.
• Strong understanding of various data collection methodologies, such as interviews, focus groups, and open-ended surveys.
• Fluency and excellent language skills in English and Zambian local languages are mandatory.
• Knowledge of the Zambia country context (including its policy making process and bureaucracy) and major education issues will be considered an asset.
• Experience in interview transcription.
• Direct research with children/students will not occur in this study
• Must be available to work on project deliverables for the duration of this project.

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.