International Consultant

United Nations Children's Fund

Kenya, Kenya

The purpose of the evaluation is to strengthen UNICEF’s accountability to affected populations, partners, and donors supporting humanitarian response and will support the learning towards strengthening preparedness and response capacities to build resilience for increase integration within the humanitarian- development-peace nexus.   

Responsibilities:

  • Data archive: Data gathered in the exercise is transferred to an organized archive that will permit follow-on users to replicate or extend the analysis.
  • Suitable care is taken to ensure respondents' anonymity, which is documented in the inception and final reports.
  • Monitoring work progress on deliverables that are not listed in the TOR will be periodically required.
  • The format and page limits for the final deliverables will be decided in the inception period.
  • A high value will be placed on concise products that communicate well with different audiences.
  • Thus, the final.
  • Products should be edited and produced to include infographics and print layouts in an easy-to-read format.

Education:

  • Advanced university degree in disciplines relevant to evaluation (e.g., social policy, economics, demography, anthropology, public health).
  • A minimum of ten years’ experience evaluating humanitarian action.
  • Prior experience evaluating UNICEF humanitarian response in Eastern and Southern Africa will be considered as an advantage (P5 level).

Work Experience:

  • Experience in conducting multi-disciplinary evaluations, including evaluating rapid onset emergencies for UNICEF, other UN agencies or other international partners at the global, regional or country levels.  
  • Knowledge of the latest qualitative and quantitative methods and approaches in humanitarian evaluation, especially participatory methods and accountability to affected populations. 
  • Experience in desk review-based methodologies with strong qualitative and quantitative analytical and synthesis competencies.  
  • Technical expertise relevant to UNICEF’s emergency operations, familiarity with UNICEF’s emergency response, including the Core Commitments to Children, preferred 
  • Experience and knowledge of child rights and participation, equity, disability inclusion, and gender equality in research and evaluation, particularly in humanitarian settings 
  • Excellent analytical, communication and drafting writing skills in English  

Languages:

  • Fluency in English is expected.
  • Knowledge of local languages would be considered as an advantage.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/582310