Apply for Consultant – Insights Strategy Consultant, (6 months, home-based, remotely) Audience and Market Insights, PFP, Geneva Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 international locations and territories, we work for each child, in every single place, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means surrender. 

For each child, peace 

How are you able to make a difference? 

Purpose of Assignment:

This function is being established to extend the capability of the Audience and Market Insights (AMI) unit, particularly to reinforce the actionability of analysis and insights.  The focus can be on supporting analysis associated to high-value and hard-to-reach audiences. Four key areas have been recognized:

1. Onboarding: Review 5-10 strategy-related historic materials. Conduct 12 to 17 one-hour onboarding conferences with core stakeholders, together with the AMI crew, High-Value Audience (HVA) revenue channels, and precedence market groups.
2. High Value Audience Brand Tracker: Contribute to analysis planning (market choice, questionnaire amendments, vendor liaison), insights identification (lead evaluation of varied markets or sub-audience teams), and facilitating insights-to- motion periods. This can be executed underneath supervision and in partnership with the High Value Insights Manager.
3. Research to Show:  Contribute to analysis planning (together with market choice, questionnaire modification, and liaising with the seller), insights identification (main evaluation of varied markets or sub-audience teams), and asset improvement (supervision of creation of public dealing with belongings by design specialists or choose distributors). This can be executed underneath the supervision of, in partnership with, and assist from the High-Value Insights.

Scope of Work:

Under the supervision of the High-Value Insights Manager, the Market Research Consultant can be accountable for:

1. Working with the distributors recognized for the analysis tasks described above to make sure analysis is executed to the suitable commonplace and high quality.
2. Supporting the High-Value Insights Manager in working periods with revenue channel groups or markets, each globally and regionally.
3. Supporting the High-Value Insights Manager in evaluation and presentation creation associated to the areas described above. High-quality evaluation and an enticing insights narrative are anticipated to resonate with a various group of stakeholders who will not be aware of this kind of data.
4. Apply a deep and refined understanding of find out how to assist the application of insights in a multifaceted, world group to generate significant motion.
5. Supporting AMI in leveraging the knowledge gathered from the areas described above.

WORK ASSIGNMENTS OVERVIEW:

• Onboarding
• High Value Audience Brand Tracker
• Research to Show

DELIVERABLES/OUTPUTS

Deliverable 1 by: 15 June 2025

• Review historic supplies (5-10 strategy-related paperwork); take part in 12 to 17 one-hour onboarding conferences with core stakeholders (AMI crew; HVA revenue channels; and precedence market groups).

KPIs:

1. Develop a eager understanding of core High-Value Audience insights customers and their wants.
2. Identify areas for further studying or the place further data is required for completeness.
3. Identify groups or enterprise issues that may profit from particular motion and implications workshops.

Deliverable 2 by: 31 October 2025

• Contribute to analysis planning (together with market choice, questionnaire amendments, and vendor liaison), insights identification (lead evaluation of varied markets or sub-audience teams), and insights-to-action facilitation (group, preparation, and facilitation of working session with finish customers of the analysis). This can be executed underneath the supervision of, in partnership with, and with assist from the High-Value Insights Manager.

KPIs:

1. Produce materials for and conduct 3-5 working periods with collaborating markets.
2. Deliver 3-5 implications grids with clear actions for every crew.
3. Validate and customise analysis findings within the High-Value Audience Brand Tracker for EAP regional and native market wants.

Deliverable 3 by: 31 October 2025

• Contribute to the analysis planning (together with market choice, questionnaire modification, liaising with vendor), insights identification (main evaluation of varied markets or sub-audience teams), and asset improvement (supervision of creation of public dealing with belongings by design specialists or choose distributors). This can be executed underneath the supervision of, in partnership with, and with assist from the High-Value Insights Manager.

KPIs:

1. Develop narrative-driven paperwork that have interaction non-data-literate audiences to assist the creation of 3-5 belongings.
2. Arrange conferences with key stakeholders (TBD) for enter at key milestones.

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

Education:

• A primary stage college diploma (Bachelor’s diploma or greater), in cultural research, communications, psychology, advertising and marketing, political research, improvement research, or associated.

Experience:

• Minimum of seven years of related skilled work expertise market analysis, insights, and technique.
• Strong expertise in knowledge evaluation and turning knowledge into insights is required.
• A deep and refined understanding of find out how to assist the application of insights in a multifaceted, world group to generate significant motion is required.
• Strong command of quantitative, qualitative, and secondary analysis methodologies is required.
• Research methodology neutrality is required.
• Experience in navigating multi-stakeholder environments and reaching alignment and consensus is required.
• Experience working in a world setting is fascinating.

Language:

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish) is an asset.

Remarks:  

Please point out your all-inclusive (lump sum) charges in opposition to the deliverables listed above, together with all related administrative and journey prices (if relevant), within the cowl letter. The workplace selects the person primarily based on finest worth for cash.

Payment {of professional} charges can be primarily based on submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the advisor.

Only shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following 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 supplied therein (reminiscent of depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service can 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 your 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 project. 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 straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the period of their consultancy contracts.

For each Child, you display… 

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

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