Apply for Multi-Country Impact Evaluation Specialist, P4 # 130602, Temporary Appointment, 364 days, Evaluation Office, Outposted in Nairobi, Kenya Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

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For each child, Evaluate

The mission of the UNICEF analysis perform is to assist drive outcomes for youngsters by fostering evidence- knowledgeable decision-making. Evaluation in UNICEF helps each studying and decision-making, which in flip assist higher outcomes for youngsters. The analysis perform conducts a various set of impartial, credible and neutral company thematic, institutional effectiveness, humanitarian, country-led, affect and joint evaluations to make sure UNICEF makes use of analysis proof to enhance outcomes for youngsters.

Evaluation at UNICEF is a largely decentralized perform with senior-level regional analysis advisers and multi-country analysis specialists based mostly in the seven UNICEF regional places of work, in addition to devoted nation analysis specialists and analysis focal factors in the UNICEF nation places of work around the globe. The UNICEF Evaluation Office serves because the steward of the UNICEF analysis perform and is situated on the New York headquarters. The director of analysis gives strategic management to the worldwide analysis perform in any respect three ranges of the group.

In 2023, the Evaluation Office launched the UNICEF Evaluation of Impact Strategy and Action Framework 2022–2025, which units the institutional priorities and imaginative and prescient for a harmonized and strategic method to the technology and use of affect proof at UNICEF. The Impact Catalyst Fund is an integral part and the principle incentive mechanism of Strategic Pillar I of the Evaluation of Impact Strategy. It goals to construct a multi- nation affect analysis portfolio masking new and precedence areas of UNICEF programming. To this finish, the Evaluation Office is searching for a multi-country affect analysis specialist to assist the workplace and the worldwide analysis perform in implementing the Evaluation of Impact Strategy, with a give attention to increasing the initiation and protection of affect evaluations in child safety, gender and social norms thematic areas. The Evaluation Office values extremely motivated candidates who attempt to excel and keep abreast of the newest evaluative data and methodological improvements.

How are you able to make a difference? 

Under the steering of the director of analysis and the supervision of the senior analysis specialist (head of affect analysis and strategies), the multi-country affect analysis specialist will determine alternatives to a) enhance protection of affect evaluations in the thematic areas of child safety, gender, and associated subjects; b) present technical management in implementing the Impact Catalyst Fund’s multi-country thematic window/home windows. Working collaboratively with the analysis staff in UNICEF Regional workplace in East and South Africa (ESAR), UNICEF nation places of work, and different UN companions based mostly in Nairobi, the incumbent will assist deliberate and ongoing affect evaluations, contribute to strengthening institutional and nationwide capacities in affect evaluations, and lead on scale-up of modern approaches in rigorous affect evaluations in fragile and humanitarian settings.

In accordance with the UNICEF mission, guiding ideas, requirements, commitments and accountability framework, and below the revised United Nations Evaluation Group norms and requirements, the multi- nation affect analysis specialist will make sure that all evaluations carried out below her/his management are of the very best potential technical high quality, relevance, timeliness, credibility and utility and that the evaluations assist the organizational studying and accountability wants of UNICEF and its stakeholders in reaching outcomes for youngsters.

The incumbent will even contribute to cross-cutting initiatives throughout the Evaluation Office and the broader analysis perform, together with studying actions, strategic communication, and advocacy efforts.

Key duties:

1. Technical management

• Identify alternatives for multi-country affect evaluations via speedy assessment of literature, synthesis and consultations with key UNICEF stakeholders, donors, and companions.
• Support the Evaluation Office and, in flip, the worldwide analysis perform to design, handle and implement multi-country portfolios of affect evaluations in the programme areas of strategic significance.
• Serve as principal investigator and co-principal Investigator on chosen affect evaluations. This contains the design and technical specs of all affect evaluations, tasks’ timelines, human useful resource and partnership necessities, the evaluation of knowledge collected (qualitative and quantitative) and the preparation of analysis stories and different supplies.
• Manage workers and/or consultants and collaborate carefully with regional and nation workplace analysis specialists and programme practitioners.
• Leverage the capability and experience of nationwide companions working in the thematic space and guarantee visibility of UNICEF and donor efforts.
• Provide technical help to UNICEF regional (together with however not restricted to ESAR) and nation places of work in creating phrases of reference and donor proposals for mixed-methods affect evaluations.

2. Standardization

• Lead the event of standardized methodological approaches, instruments, analytical packages and processes in the thematic space of child safety, gender and social norms.
• Ensure cost-effectiveness, replication and harmonization of final result and affect measurements in a reputable method.

3. Methodological innovation

• Contribute to and promote the diversification of strategies and information to measure outcome- and impact-level change in areas with a very sparse affect proof base akin to fragile and humanitarian settings.
• Collaborate with world and regional analysis groups to provoke, check and scale up modern affect analysis approaches in areas with acknowledged challenges to assemble a counterfactual or attain weak populations.
• Lead the event of technical steering papers and methodological packages.

4. Learning and capability growth

• Support the event and roll-out of studying and capacity-building actions that elevate consciousness and promote the initiation, implementation, and higher use of affect evaluations by UNICEF and its nationwide companions, together with tutorial and analysis establishments of the Global South.

6. Partnerships

• Initiate and develop inner and exterior partnerships, together with with different UNICEF proof divisions, multilateral and bilateral organizations, different United Nations businesses and tutorial establishments to extend the protection of affect evaluations at UNICEF.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…

Minimum necessities:

Education: 

• An superior college diploma (grasp or PhD) in social sciences (e.g., economics, public coverage or a associated discipline).

Work Experience:

• A minimal of eight years of technical management expertise in mixed-methods affect analysis (e.g., randomized managed trials) inside a global group, a growth company, academia, authorities or the personal or non-profit sector.
• Demonstrated thematic experience in areas of child safety, gender, and social norms.
• Solid monitor file of main and managing mixed-methods affect evaluations that depend on each qualitative and quantitative approaches and quite a lot of information assortment modalities (cell surveys, interviews, focus teams, direct and oblique observations, desk critiques).
• Demonstrated expertise in the execution of complicated multi-regional, multi-country initiatives.
• Interest/means to maintain updated with the newest abilities and organizational steering in the sphere of analysis and to discover modern and inventive methods to apply a mixture of novel information and methodological approaches.
• Proven means to work with inner and exterior stakeholders at a number of ranges, together with offering technical assist and capability constructing and establishing/managing exterior partnerships.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English; data of one other United Nations language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

For each Child, you reveal…

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The UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness

(3) Drive to attain outcomes for affect

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

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