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The Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) is a world family survey programme developed and supported by UNICEF. MICS is designed to gather estimates of key indicators which might be used to evaluate the state of affairs of kids and ladies. Over the previous three a long time, MICS has advanced to reply to altering information wants, increasing from 28 indicators within the first spherical to greater than 250 indicators within the present seventh spherical, and has turn into a key supply of knowledge on child safety, early childhood schooling, and a significant supply of knowledge on child well being and diet.

Under the general supervision of the Child Rights Monitoring Specialist, the MICS Consultant will assist and supply steerage to UNICEF Serbia and the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (SORS) for the preparation, implementation and completion of the seventh spherical of the MICS survey in Serbia. The MICS Consultant will advise and assist SORS, particularly the Survey Coordinator and sampling and information processing consultants, throughout survey planning, questionnaire design, sampling, coaching, fieldwork, information processing, information evaluation, reporting, dissemination and archiving, guaranteeing that MICS protocols and suggestions are being adopted always. The MICS Consultant will talk successfully between the UNICEF CO and SORS, responding promptly to MICS-related wants and points as they come up.

The MICS Consultant will probably be accountable for coordinating and supporting the work of different useful resource individuals employed by UNICEF to supply technical help to the MICS course of. The advisor will work in shut collaboration with the survey crew, the stakeholders, and Steering and Technical Committees and can signify UNICEF in conferences and workshops in relation to the survey as wanted. He/she may also work in shut collaboration with the Regional MICS Coordinator on the UNICEF Regional Office (RO) and the MICS Team at UNICEF Headquarters (HQ), in addition to consultants and consultants assigned to assist the Serbia MICS (“The UNICEF MICS Team”).

The MICS Consultant will probably be required to spend time within the area per the survey schedule, as much as 50 journey days for the period of the task.

Duration of the task: February 2025 – May 2026

Work modality: full-time, hybrid (office-based and area work)

Scope of Work:

1. Provide technical and managerial assist to the MICS,
2. Present the MICS methodology, instruments and tips to companions/stakeholders (e.g., ministries, UN Agencies, and so forth.),
3. Finalise, in collaboration with nationwide companions and UNICEF CO, the Survey Plan and Budget, together with the timetable, and share with the Regional MICS Coordinator,
4. Ensure that the Ethical Protocol and different moral suggestions are addressed within the survey implementation and course of, and that every one MICS-related paperwork are shared with the nationwide/ worldwide Ethical Committee on time for approval,
5. Oversee every stage of the survey course of and be sure that the MICS protocols and requirements are adopted by SORS, extra particularly throughout coaching and area supervision visits,
6. Communicate recurrently with the UNICEF CO and/or the UNICEF MICS Team, responding to all MICS-related points in a well timed method,
7. Provide month-to-month updates on MICS actions to the UNICEF CO and Regional MICS Coordinator,
8. Coordinate the work of SORS specialists and the UNICEF MICS Team, and different useful resource individuals assigned by the UNICEF CO and/or the UNICEF MICS Team to assist completely different survey phases,
9. Ensure that exterior technical opinions by consultants (i.e., Sampling, Data Processing, and Household Survey consultants and consultants) are carried out at key survey phases and coordinate the suggestions and response between the CO, the UNICEF MICS Team and SORS,
10. 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 studies, professional studies, CAPI application, area check tables, output and tabulation plan tables, syntaxes, datasets, cluster geocodes, boundary shapefiles, Survey Findings Report, Statistical Snapshots, dissemination supplies, and so forth.),
11. Participate in all MICS Steering and Technical Committee conferences,
12. Participate in, and contribute to MICS Regional Workshops,
13. Organise, as required, and facilitate the nationwide Data Interpretation and Report Compilation Workshop,
14. Ensure that classes realized, issues, and good practices are documented all through the MICS course of and quickly shared with the MICS neighborhood (different MICS implementing international locations and the UNICEF MICS Team) by all means obtainable,
15. Support planning and customisation of different MICS initiatives (MICS Plus, MICS GIS, MICS Link) in collaboration with the related consultants of those initiatives from the Global MICS Team.

The MICS Consultant should respect the whole confidentiality of the MICS information, in addition to any particular MICS paperwork that will probably be produced all through the MICS course of. He/she will be able to use the paperwork and the datasets solely for the duties associated to those Terms of Reference.

For all duties, the MICS Consultant will produce a month-to-month progress report of deliverables, describing actions undertaken in the course of the month and highlighting issues met and options put in place to mitigate them.

Tasks timeline:

1. Survey planning (Feb – Aug 2025)
2. Listing and Mapping, Training and Fieldwork, and Data Processing (Feb 2025 – May 2026)
3. Data Analysis and Report Writing (Jan – May 2026)
4. Attend all MICS Regional and/or National Workshops (Feb 2025 – May 2026)

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

• Masters diploma in Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences, Epidemiology, or every other associated technical area is required.
• Minimum 5 years of expertise within the coordination and/or administration of quantitative family surveys (prior MICS or
• Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) most well-liked),
• 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 skill to organise and facilitate coaching and displays,
• Experience in information evaluation and survey report writing,
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities,
• Excellent oral and written communication in each Serbian and
• English is required,
• Familiarity and former expertise of working in Serbia and/or within the area are extremely fascinating,
• Demonstrated capacity to work in a multicultural setting and to ascertain harmonious and efficient relationships each inside and out of doors the organisation, extra particularly with National Statistical Offices,
• Demonstrated management, managerial and supervisory capacity,
• Ability and willingness to journey extensively in-country and to attend regional workshops.

How to apply:

The application should embrace a monetary proposal in RSD as a separate doc, offering the next info:

1. Daily charge (all prices included, e.g. medical insurance, pension contribution, utilization of cell phone, revenue tax),
2. Daily journey allowance for an in a single day keep in Serbia (together with lodging),
3. Transportation prices per km (for journey inside Serbia).

*The advisor is anticipated to make his/her personal journey preparations for all journey inside Serbia, as much as 50 journey days in complete.

**Consultants are accountable for figuring out and assembly their tax or responsibility liabilities in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. UNICEF doesn’t problem statements of earnings to consultants.

Important notes:

• Please don’t forget to specify your title within the monetary proposal file whereas saving (to be uploaded on-line underneath the “Financial Proposal” tab).  
• Please don’t point out financials anyplace else within the on-line application type, please mark “n/a” or “00” underneath the fee-related questions within the on-line application type.
• Incomplete functions won’t be considered.
• Only shortlisted candidates will probably be notified and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
• Consultants are accountable for figuring out and assembly their tax or responsibility liabilities in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. UNICEF doesn’t problem statements of earnings to consultants.

For each child, you need to display UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims 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 rules. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules.