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Building upon the achievements of the earlier two rounds of surveys, the KAS, in collaboration with UNICEF, plans to conduct the third spherical of MICS for Kosovo in 2025. To assist MICS implementation, UNICEF is searching for an area advisor to supply technical help to KAS with MICS planning, questionnaire design, sampling, coaching, fieldwork, information processing, information evaluation, reporting, dissemination and archiving.

How are you able to make a difference? 

• Provide technical and managerial assist to the MICS,
• Present the MICS methodology, instruments, and pointers to companions/stakeholders (e.g., ministries, UN Agencies, and so on.),
• Finalize, in collaboration with nationwide companions and UNICEF Kosovo Office, the Survey Plan and Budget, together with the timetable, and share with the Regional MICS Coordinator,
• Ensure that the Ethical Protocol and different moral suggestions are addressed within the survey implementation course of and that every one MICS-related paperwork are shared with the nationwide/worldwide Ethical Committee on time for approval,
• Oversee every stage of the survey course of and be sure that the MICS protocols and requirements are adopted by KAS, extra particularly throughout coaching and subject supervision visits,
• Communicate frequently with the UNICEF Kosovo Office and/or the UNICEF MICS Team, responding to all MICS-related points in a well timed method,
• Provide month-to-month updates on MICS actions to the UNICEF Kosovo Office and Regional MICS Coordinator,
• Coordinate the work of KAS specialists and the UNICEF MICS Team, and different useful resource individuals assigned by the UNICEF Kosovo Office and/or the UNICEF MICS Team to assist completely different survey phases,
• Ensure that exterior technical critiques by specialists (i.e., Sampling, Data Processing, and Household Survey specialists and consultants) are carried out at key survey phases and coordinate the suggestions and response between the UNICEF Kosovo Office, the UNICEF MICS Team and KAS,
• Ensure that every one survey-related paperwork and deliverables are correctly archived all through the survey course of (for instance: Memorandum of Understanding, Survey Plan and Budget, questionnaires, manuals, pattern design, coaching/pre-test experiences, knowledgeable experiences, CAPI application, subject check tables, output and tabulation plan tables, syntaxes, datasets, cluster geocodes, boundary shapefiles, Survey Findings Report, Statistical Snapshots, dissemination supplies, and so on.),
• Participate in all MICS Steering and Technical Committee conferences,
• Participate in, and contribute to MICS Regional Workshops,
• Organize, as required, and facilitate the Data Interpretation and Report Compilation Workshop in Kosovo,
• Ensure that classes realized, points, and good practices are documented all through the MICS course of and quickly shared with the MICS group via all means obtainable,

Specific actions embrace:

In session and collaboration with the UNICEF Kosovo Office and KAS, the Local MICS Consultant might be accountable for guaranteeing the next actions have been undertaken following the MICS pointers and will contribute to the coordination of those actions:

1. Survey Planning:

    • A Steering Committee is established and composed of all related stakeholders, together with National Ethical Committee,

    • A Technical Committee comprised of all related technical specialists is established,

    • The Survey Plan and Budget, together with timetable is finalised and shared with all stakeholders,

    • Survey provides are procured and distributed in time for coaching and information assortment,

    • Ensure that different MICS initiatives (MICS Plus, MICS GIS, MICS Link) are mentioned with companions and correctly addressed throughout survey starting stage,

    • Sample design:

                  o Sample design is ready by the sampling knowledgeable of KAS with the steering and evaluate of the UNICEF Sampling knowledgeable / advisor,

                  oListing and Mapping supplies and operations are reviewed by the UNICEF Sampling knowledgeable/advisor,

                  o Cluster geocodes (cluster centre factors, multi-points, or boundaries), both current or collected throughout the mapping and family itemizing operation, are assessed by the survey staff and communicated to the UNICEF MICS Team, along with the boundary shapefiles representing the sampling body, together with the boundaries of 1 stage decrease than the pattern stratification,

                  o Sample design is reviewed by the UNICEF MICS Team earlier than finalisation,

                  o The ultimate collection of households and weights is reviewed.

   • MICS questionnaires:

 

                  o Relevant UNICEF programme workers and the Technical Committee are concerned in reviewing the customizatio of related  sections of the MICS questionnaire,

                  o Selected Modules deal with Kosovo information gaps and deal with SGD information wants,

                  o Questionnaires endure translation and again translation course of as related and relying on chosen modules,

                  o Questionnaires and manuals endure an moral evaluate,

                  o Questionnaires are pre-tested, and a pre-test report is produced if related relying on chosen modules,

                  o Questionnaires are reviewed by the UNICEF MICS Team earlier than finalisation.

 

  • Manuals:

 

                  o MICS Household Listing and Mapping, Supervisor, Measurer, and Interviewer Manuals are customised for the Kosovo context and translated.

 

  • CAPI application template:

                   o CAPI application template is customised by the information processing knowledgeable of KAS with the steering of the UNICEF Data Processing knowledgeable/advisor,

                   o Customised CAPI application is reviewed by the UNICEF MICS Team earlier than finalisation,

                   o Secondary modifying pointers and Field Check Table tabulation plan and syntax are customised by the information processing knowledgeable of the KAS with the steering of the UNICEF Data Processing and Household Survey specialists / consultants.

 

2. Listing and Mapping, Training and Fieldwork, and Data Processing:

• Listing and mapping is deliberate and carried out per MICS pointers,
• Training schedules are adequately tailored to the Kosovo context whereas following MICS pointers,
• Appropriate useful resource individuals are recognized to facilitate coaching (i.e., nutritionists for anthropometry coaching, survey specialists for methodology, and so on.),
• Contribute to the pre-test, CAPI take a look at, and fieldwork coaching,
• Fieldwork and fieldwork monitoring visits are deliberate and carried out in response to MICS pointers,
• Field Check Tables are produced on a weekly foundation, instantly analysed by survey coordinator/managers, and the principle findings are reported to subject supervisors for motion. Field Check Tables are instantly shared with the Regional MICS Coordinator,
• UNICEF Kosovo Office workers is skilled and organised to help in monitoring information assortment,
• UNICEF Household Survey and Data Processing specialists/consultants are well timed supplied with the required info, and nation visits are nicely managed and coordinated,
• Hardware is made obtainable for the CAPI application (information assortment and central workplace menu parts), the software program is correctly put in and a working, information switch system and information backup system are established,
• Monitor pattern choice with KAS after the itemizing and mapping train is accomplished,
• Monitor pre-test, CAPI take a look at, and predominant information assortment,
• Monitor information processing and secondary information modifying.

3. Data Analysis and Report Writing:

• Sampling Weights are included within the datasets and reviewed by the sampling knowledgeable of the KAS with the steering and evaluate of the UNICEF Sampling knowledgeable/advisor,

• MICS tabulation plan and normal syntax are customised, reviewed by the UNICEF MICS Team, and utilized in producing SPSS datasets and tables,

• Datasets/Tables, together with the wealth index are substantively reviewed by technical specialists (e.g., sampling and family survey specialists) and subject material specialists on the KAS, in addition to by the UNICEF MICS Team earlier than the report writing commences,

• Facilitate communication on the method of anonymisation of geocodes between the UNICEF MICS Team and KAS as per the Memorandum of Understanding,

• Coordinate and contribute substantively to the elaboration of the Survey Findings Report and Statistical Snapshots, utilizing the MICS template and in response to MICS requirements to make sure a well timed launch,

• Ensure that the Survey Findings Reports and Statistical Snapshots endure the technical evaluate course of by the UNICEF MICS Team,

• Coordinate the printing and distribution of the Survey Findings Report and Statistical Snapshots, as required,

• Provide technical experience and recommendation for the broad dissemination of the Survey Findings Report, Statistical Snapshots, and predominant outcomes,

• Ensure that the MICS survey archive with all ultimate survey paperwork and supplies (Memorandum of Understanding, Survey Plan, questionnaires, manuals, pattern design, subject experiences, CAPI application, syntaxes, database, cluster geocodes, boundary shapefiles, tables, Survey Findings Report, and Statistical Snapshots, dissemination supplies, and so on.) is being produced by KAS.

 

4. Attend all MICS Regional and/or National Workshops

The Local MICS Consultant should respect the whole confidentiality of the MICS information in addition to any particular MICS paperwork that might be produced all through the MICS course of. The Local MICS Consultant can use the paperwork and the datasets solely for the duties associated to those Terms of Reference.

 

The advisor might be engaged in information assortment that can contain gathering of information for youngsters which might be performed in keeping with worldwide moral pointers and UNICEF Child Safeguarding insurance policies. UNICEF will be sure that the engagement 

 

For extra particulars see the connected TOR’s 

 2025 MICS national consultant ToR for TMS.pdf

 

Candidates are required to submit a month-to-month payment proposal.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have… 

 

       Education:

• University diploma in, Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences, Epidemiology, or another associated technical subject is required.

       Skills and Experience: 

• • Proven minimal of 5 years expertise within the coordination and/or administration of quantitative family surveys (prior MICS expertise is most popular),
  • Strong laptop abilities and robust experience in statistical analyses (familiarity with information processing and information evaluation software program, significantly SPSS),
  • Experience with CAPI information assortment,
  • Training expertise and capability to organise and facilitate coaching and displays,
  • Experience in information evaluation and survey report writing.

    Other competencies:

     
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities,
  • Excellent oral and written communication in language(s) required,
  • Familiarity and earlier expertise of working in nation and/or within the area are extremely fascinating,
  • Demonstrated capability to work in a multicultural atmosphere and to ascertain harmonious and efficient relationships each inside and exterior the organisation, extra particularly with National Statistical Offices,
  • Demonstrated management, managerial and supervisory capability,
• For each Child, you exhibit… 
• UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 
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• UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, spiritual or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to change into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF gives paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations. Click here to be taught extra about versatile work preparations, well-being, and advantages.
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• UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals underneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.
• Remarks:  
• Only shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. 
• Individuals engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought of “staff members” underneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and is not going to be entitled to advantages offered therein (akin to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service might be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 
• The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the complete interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking over the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.