Apply for Consultant – Team Lead for evaluation of UNICEF early childhood development programme in Thailand (2020-2024), UNICEF Thailand Country Office, Bangkok, Job No #577645 Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

oversight and administration of the evaluation course of and funds. The EMT will lead on assuring the standard and independence of the evaluation all through the method, its alignment with UNEG Norms and Standards and Ethical Guidelines, and that the evaluation findings and conclusions are related and proposals are implementable, and contribute to dissemination of findings and follow-up on the administration response to suggestions.

An evaluation Reference Group (ERG) shall be established composed of representatives from the UNICEF Thailand ECD staff, EAPRO Regional ECD Adviser, EAPRO Regional Evaluation Adviser, representatives of key ministries, civil society organizations, UN companion companies, and any technical consultants as required. The ERG shall be convened by the EMT throughout key evaluate milestones to supply feedback and substantive suggestions to make sure the technical high quality of merchandise, together with methodology and design, evaluation devices, the inception, draft and remaining reviews. The ERG can even help in figuring out inner and exterior stakeholders to be consulted throughout the evaluation course of, present documentation to the evaluator as wanted, take part in evaluate conferences organized by the EMT as required, play a key position in studying and information sharing from evaluation outcomes, contribute to disseminating the findings of the evaluation and follow-up on the implementation of the administration response.

Quality assurance performs an important position in the evaluation and entails a variety of individuals. The evaluator is the primary degree high quality assurance for the evaluation merchandise, and clear high quality assurance issues and system have to be introduced in the proposal and ensured all through the evaluation. The EMT and the ERG are the second and third degree high quality assurance mechanisms respectively. Each deliverable will bear an intensive course of of high quality assurance. Quality assurance will give attention to the technical soundness of the deliverables, in addition to on guaranteeing the deliverables meet the reporting requirements set out by GEROS and different UNICEF and UNEG pointers as talked about above. The EMT will make such pointers out there, in addition to examples of extremely passable evaluation reviews to information the evaluator.

Quality assurance turnaround instances: The inception report and remaining report will undergo varied rounds of high quality assurance, beginning with a primary evaluate by the EMT (1 week). After this evaluate the evaluator may have one week turnaround time after which the report have to be returned along with the feedback matrix. This will then be shared with the ERG, who’ve two weeks to evaluate the report and revert with feedback. Other deliverables would require shorter evaluate and revision instances.

 

Assignment 1:  Inception

Expected deliverable 1:

• Final Inception Report (In accordance with UNEG Inception Report pointers)
• Comments matrix addressing all feedback on inception report
• Ethical approval for the evaluation from an accredited ethics evaluate board, as mandatory

Delivery Schedule: February 2025

 

Assignment 2:  Data assortment

Expected deliverable 2:  Approved information assortment abstract

Delivery Schedule: April 2025

 

Assignment 3:  Data evaluation, validation and reporting

Expected deliverable 3:

• Zero draft evaluation report
• First draft report
• Revised draft report
• Penultimate draft report
• Final evaluation report (In accordance with UNICEF Evaluation Report guideline and GEROS high quality evaluation requirements)
• Comments matrix addressing all feedback (A template for the feedback matrix shall be supplied by the EMT)
• Powerpoint of remaining report

Delivery Schedule: July 2025

 

Duration of Contract:    January – July 2025

• The project is anticipated to be accomplished inside 7 months after the signing of the contract, tentatively from January 2025 to July 2025, together with time for evaluate of deliverables by the evaluation administration staff and the ERG. Approximately 45 days shall be required from the staff lead on the project.
• An in depth workplan and work allocation shall be agreed between UNICEF and the awarded contractor.

 

Duty Travel:  

• The project shall be accomplished on the contractor’s premises. The contractor shall be accountable for buying assets and services required for its completion, together with any journey preparations.
• Regular digital or in-person conferences are anticipated.
• Travel is anticipated for this project. The bidder is required to incorporate the estimate value of journey in the monetary proposal noting that i) journey value shall be calculated primarily based on essentially the most direct route and financial system class journey, regardless of the size of journey and

ii) prices for lodging, meal and incidentals shall not exceed relevant day by day subsistence allowance (DSA) charges, relying on the situation, as promulgated by the International Civil Service Commission (https://icsc.un.org/).

 

Payment Schedule:

No.	Payment	Tentative schedule	Upon passable completion of …
1	30% of the full contract worth	February 2025	Deliverable 1
2	20% of the full contract worth	April 2025	Deliverable 2
3	50% of the full contract worth	July 2025	Deliverable 3

 

• The cost schedule have to be primarily based on accomplished deliverables.
• If the bidder needs to suggest an alternate cost schedule, it have to be included in the monetary proposal. The remaining cost schedule is to be reviewed and agreed with UNICEF.
• Payment phrases 30 days internet upon receipt of accepted bill.

 

Criteria for evaluation of proposal:

• Bidders are requested to supply an in depth technical proposal in Annex A  Annex A – Technical Proposal – TCO ECD Prog Eval.docx – Technical response type. The technical proposal should embody all info wanted to totally consider the proposal.
• Bidders should guarantee to not embody any monetary info in the technical proposal.
• Bidders are requested to submit a separate monetary proposal with their application. The monetary proposal needs to be a lump sum quantity for all of the deliverables and will present a break down for the next:
  • Monthly / Daily charges– primarily based on the deliverables in the Terms of Reference above
  • Travel, dwelling allowance, and terminal prices, the place journey is required
  • Miscellaneous – if relevant
• The estimate value of journey in the monetary proposal i) shall be calculated primarily based on essentially the most direct route and financial system class journey, regardless of the size of journey and ii) prices for lodging, meal and incidentals shall not exceed relevant day by day subsistence allowance (DSA) charges, relying on the situation, as promulgated by the International Civil Service Commission (https://icsc.un.org/).
• If the bidder needs to incorporate extra or non-obligatory components exterior the outlined deliverables as per this TOR, these needs to be clearly marked and separated as such in each, the technical and monetary proposal.
• The evaluation staff lead is anticipated to interact and work with a neighborhood and certified evaluation staff member in Thailand. The staff member place is presently beneath recruitment.

 

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

• A minimal of 10 years of evaluation expertise with glorious understanding of evaluation ideas and methodologies, proof of analysis or implementation experience in early childhood development programmes, an consciousness of human rights (incl. child rights), gender equality and fairness in evaluation and UNEG norms and requirements.
• At least grasp’s diploma in worldwide development, training, development programme evaluation, or any ECD associated social science self-discipline
• Specific evaluation expertise in the ECD or training space is strongly fascinating.
• Experience in main and managing evaluations of UNICEF or different UN organizations or worldwide NGOs.
• Substantial expertise in implementing a spread of qualitative and quantitative information assortment methods and strategies in programme evaluations, together with survey implementation and discipline research.
• Diplomacy and tact in finishing up and presenting findings of evaluations in delicate contexts.
• Experience in Thailand could be strongly most popular, along with understanding of the native context and cultural dynamics.
• Adaptability and adaptability, consumer orientation, confirmed moral observe, initiative, concern for accuracy and high quality.
• Excellent analytical, facilitation, and communication expertise.
• Excellent and confirmed English communication and report writing expertise.

 

Interested candidates are requested to submit CV, full contact info of minimal 3 references, availability, technical proposal, and monetary proposal by 31 December 2024.

 

For each Child, you exhibit…

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

 

To view our competency framework, please go to here.

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UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should replicate the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

UNICEF gives reasonable accommodation for consultants with disabilities. This could embody, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your application in case you want cheap lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your project. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict child safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply extra info to conduct a background check. 

Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

Individuals engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “staff members” beneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (akin to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service shall be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants. Consultants are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost 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 your complete interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking over the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.