Consultant – Value of Adolescent Girl, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal, 40 days, Remote/Work from home

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a future

How can you make a difference? 

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
The Evaluation, Impact and Learning Section in collaboration with Child Protection, Gender and Social and Behavior Change Communication section is commissioning an evaluative assessment to advance organizational learning by identifying initiatives that work and have impact in enhancing the value of adolescent and marginalized girls in South Asia.
The specific objectives of the evaluative assessment are to:
  • Highlight programming models that are working to increase the value of adolescent girls in South Asia
  • Describe and assess what UNICEF is doing to enhance the value of the adolescent girl and how these efforts tie in to what partners are doing?
  • Outline the factors that influence the value of the adolescent girl in South Asia and how can they be addressed to enhance the value put on the girl child?
  • Identify and document good practices, innovations and lessons learned in implementing programmes that seek to address the challenges adolescent girls in South Asia face, including programmes conducted by UNICEF in South Asia,
  • Identify gaps and challenges in current UNICEF and other partners programming and explore opportunities to address them.
  • The exercise will be driven by key questions that identify priority areas, gaps, and areas of focus for the future direction for adolescent girl programming in the region. The assessment will seek to answer the following questions:
  • What is the worth or value ascribed to adolescent girls in the South Asia context/Countries? What are the identified social norms linked to the value of the girl in the 3 countries?
  • How is the value of the adolescent girl defined and ascertained in UNICEF and other programming contexts? What are the factors that influence this value in South Asia and how can they be addressed to enhance the value of the girl?
  • What programming models are being used by UNICEF and other players to enhance the value of the adolescent girl in the region? How are UNICEF interventions related to what other players are doing?
  • What are the key entry points and opportunities for increasing value of the girl?
  • What tools are being used by UNICEF and other organizations in the region to measure shift in perceived value of adolescent girl for parents, communities, and gatekeepers?
  • How are perceptions of adolescent girls’ value impacting child marriage?
  • What elements are essential for effective change in the value of adolescent girls? How are these being transferred?
  • How are UNICEF’s efforts seeking to enhance the value of the adolescent girl coordinated within and across thematic areas?
  • How are interventions to enhance the value of the adolescent girl coherent with national policies, global conventions and goals including the Sustainable Development Goals?
  • Who are the key players currently working to enhance the value of adolescent girls? Who else could be involved to strengthen interventions working to enhance adolescent girl value? How are these key players working together?
  • How are programmes including those conducted by UNICEF, utilizing community-based structures to enhance the value of adolescent girls?
  • What challenges are currently being faced in implementing selected adolescent girl programmes that seek to enhance the value of adolescent girls and how are these challenges being addressed to enhance scope efficiency and quality?
  • Are there any biases related to the value of the girl which transpire in the conversations with researched audiences?
  • What best practices, innovations, lessons, and opportunities can be harnessed to improve programmes to enhance the value of adolescent girls?
Scope of Work:
In light of the above, The EIL section would like to appoint a consult for this evaluative assessment. Working under the guidance of the multi country evaluation specialist, the consultant will be responsible for:
  • Working with two other consultants who are working on the exercise
  • Conducting desk review activities
  • Refining the methodology for the evaluative assessment as proposed by UNICEF
  • Conducting preliminary discussions with project teams.
  • Designing data collection tools that are in line with the proposed methodology
  • Developing an inception report that includes the methodology.
  • Preparing ethics application for the study as needed
  • Conducting stakeholder analysis
  • Developing study/data collection instruments
  • Conducting and/or support interviews/ surveys with focus groups/participants as needed
  • Conducting, briefing, and debriefing sessions with UNICEF staff and management.
  • Producing a draft final report that includes background, methodology, achievements, challenges, and recommendations.
  • Producing a publishable manuscript from the study

Key Deliverables:

  1. Compile an inception report for the study with a clear outline of the data sources, collection, and analysis procedures.
  2. Produce a draft report, of not more than 30 pages describing the methodology, key findings, conclusions, lessons learned and recommendations.
  3. Final study report that addresses comments that were provided on the draft report. Publishable manuscript.

Key Notes:

  • This is a home-based consultancy for 40 days between January to March 2025.
  • Please submit your application along with the financial proposal. Any applications without the financial proposal will not be accepted.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Educational qualification:

Master’s degree in social sciences, Public Health, Economics, Anthropology, Development Studies, or related field

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

  • At least eight years of proven experience, preferably in conducting programme reviews, documenting, and reporting on programme implementation. This include doing programmatic analysis, reviews, evaluation, lessons learnt documentation, good practices, and recommendations etc.
  • Proven knowledge of evaluation and data collection methodologies
  • Strong experience in writing reports, documentation to convey programming efforts, conducting focus group discussions, key informant interviews, facilitating workshops/discussions and documenting case studies in an international development context is required.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English required.
  • Ability to deliver high quality products on time
  • Ability to work on multiple tasks under pressure

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

 

To view our competency framework, please visit  here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic background, and persons with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. To create a more inclusive workplace, UNICEF offers paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. Click here to learn more about flexible work arrangements, well-being, and benefits.

According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has committed to increase the number of employees with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we provide reasonable accommodation for work-related support requirements of candidates and employees with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen physical and digital accessibility. If you are an applicant with a disability who needs digital accessibility support in completing the online application, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility tendersglobal.net UNICEF.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Remarks: 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements


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