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Consultancy: Humanitarian Evaluation Consultant (Senior Level Technical Advisor)

Duty Station: Evaluation Office/Humanitarian Evaluation Effectiveness Portfolio

Duration: 1 Nov 2025 – 30 Oct 2026

Home/ Office Based: Remote  

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

The Humanitarian Evaluation Effectiveness Portfolio (HEEP) within the Evaluation Office will be managing several L3 evaluations during the second half of 2025 and 2026. These include evaluations of UNICEF’s L3 (Level 3) responses in the State of Palestine (SoP) and Lebanon. Aligned with EO’s vision to deliver more cost-efficient evaluations and ensure rapid turn-around of evaluation deliverables and in light of the limited capacity within HEEP to complete all the activities included in its work plan, EO is currently seeking a Humanitarian Evaluation Consultant (Senior Level) serving as Technical Adviser to the evaluating team working on the two upcoming L3 evaluations. Under the supervision of the EO’s Senior Evaluation Specialist (Humanitarian), the consultant will help strengthen the overall quality of the two concerned evaluation processes and accrue the utility of the related humanitarian evaluations deliverables

Scope of Work:

The consultant is expected to support the L3 SoP and Lebanon evaluation teams by undertaking the following tasks:

• Support with the scoping of both L3 SoP and Lebanon evaluations: help identify areas of inquiry and focus which, in turn, will determine the division of labor across the team;
• Participate in key select high-level interviews/consultations with senior management (UNICEF and UN at large) throughout the evaluation cycle, as relevant;
• Chair periodic meetings with the evaluation team to stress-test and craft emerging findings – specifically through debriefing sessions post-data collection and brainstorming sessions pre-drafting of reports ;
• Draft context sections of the 2 L3 SoP and Lebanon evaluation reports;
• Co-lead on drafting conclusions and recommendations sections of the 2 evaluations;
• Quality-Assure draft evaluation report and final evaluation report;
• Attend final presentations with clients

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

Work Assignment Overview/Deliverables and Outputs/Delivery deadline

 1.  Inception of L3 SoP and L3 Lebanon evaluations

L3 SoP  and L3 Lebanon Evaluation Data Collection (second phase)

• Scoping of both L3 SoP and Lebanon evaluations: identify areas of inquiry  and focus which, in turn, will determine the division of labor across the team (max 5-page summary + annexes)
• Participate in key select high-level interviews and strategic exchanges with senior management (UNICEF and UN at large) as relevant (max 15-page summary + annexes)
• Chair periodic meetings with the evaluation team to stress-test and craft emerging findings of Phase 1 for both L3 SoP and Lebanon – specifically through debriefing sessions post-data collection and brainstorming sessions pre-drafting of reports (max 5-page summary + annexes)

Dec 1, 2025

March 31, 2026

May 31, 2026

2. L3 SoP and L3 Lebanon Evaluation reports drafting

• Draft context sections of the 2 L3 SoP and Lebanon evaluation reports (context sections max 5 pages)
• Co-lead on drafting conclusions and recommendations sections of the 2 evaluations (max 2 page conclusions + Recommendations table)

31 May 2026

3. L3 SoP and L3 Lebanon Evaluation reports drafting

• Quality-Assure draft evaluation report and final evaluation report (max 10 pager presenting comments on the draft and final evaluation report of both L3 Lebanon and L3 SoP evaluations)
• Attend final presentations with clients (PPT slides)

30 Sept 2026

Qualifications

Education: 

Advanced University Degree (Masters) in Social sciences/Human Rights or related field

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:

1. At least 20 years of relevant professional work experience evaluations and across humanitarian, development and human rights programming and policy making
2. Excellent oral and written communication skills in English (writing and presentation/dissemination), with proven experience in writing clear, neutral technical and evaluation report covering complex and sensitive issues
3. Demonstrated experience in working with both quantitative and qualitative research approaches, coordinating and consolidating inputs from team members/consultants
4. Prior experience leading and/or co-leading large humanitarian evaluations syntheses for UNICEF
5. Demonstrated experience in writing evaluation reports in accordance with GEROS quality standards would be an asset
6. Strong familiarity with UNICEF programming and operations across humanitarian action and development programming and contexts

Requirements:

Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and

- Upload copy of academic credentials

- Financial proposal that will include/ reflect :

• • the costs per each deliverable and the total lump-sum for the whole assignment (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference.
  • travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR.
  • Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable.
  • Indicate your availability

- Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.

- At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.

- Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

U.S. Visa information:

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4.  

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

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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. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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. 

Remarks:  

Individuals engaged under a consultancy 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. Consultants 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.