The NOB Social Policy Officer (PF4C) Officer will report to the Chief Child Protection and Social Policy and work closely with technical leads working on Social Protection, Child Protection, Health and Nutrition, Education, and Climate. The Officer provides strong management and leadership to the work on PFM to deliver timely and quality results against the annual workplan and in line with the Country Programme Document (CPD). S/he will also be responsible for effective budget management, as well as ensuring compliance with donor conditionalities and effective coordination with development partners in the areas of responsibility.
The Guidance Note of the UN Secretary General (S-G) on Child Rights Mainstreaming (CRM) 2023 aims to integrate child rights across all United Nations (UN) activities. The evaluability assessment is being planned to understand UNICEF and the UN system’s capacities and readiness to implement the Guidance Note. This evaluability assessment will provide credible evidence in relation to existing mechanisms, actions, capacities, barriers and enablers for the mainstreaming of children’s rights across the UN system with the aim of providing actionable insights to strengthen implementation.
The evaluation will be managed by the UNICEF Evaluation Office using a blended management approach with a team comprising two internal staff members and two external consultants. The two external consultants will bring complementary expertise, with one serving as the Evaluation Team Leader/ and the other as the Child Rights Consultant. Close collaboration with the UNICEF Human Rights Team in the Programme Group, the Office of the Executive Director, and other stakeholders is expected.
This ToR relates specifically to the Evaluation Team Leader role. The consultant will provide strategic and methodological support for the evaluation, ensuring high-quality, timely, and credible deliverables through effective coordination, stakeholder engagement, and rigorous design, data collection, analysis and reporting.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to enable UNICEF immunization team to lead in organizing Hub calls and convening meetings, such as the Demand Hub Steering Committee (DHSC), monthly meetings and face to face meetings of the Expanded Partners; produce documentation of actions agreed upon; organize agreed number of technical sessions to build capacity on the new emerging areas in demand and supporting the Demand Hub leadership team to convene and discuss strategic discussion to guide the Demand Hub.
The consultant will:
1. Institutionalize creative, and where appropriate innovative, approaches (e.g., in impact evaluation methods, processes, or overall evaluation data approaches) for all programme evaluations -and other portfolios as possible- to maximize the timeliness, efficiency, rigor cost‐efficiency and/or rigour and credibility of the evaluation
2. Use data science to generating new meaningful and timely evidence for evaluations with secondary data sources. Develop code for evaluations that allows customization for rapid analysis of secondary and non-traditional sources (e.g. big data such as mobile phone data, satellite imagery, tapping on internal textual monitoring and reporting data) of data using machine learning and artificial intelligence can strengthen the evidence derived from traditional evaluation methods. .
3. Improve efficiencies in evaluations by developing data processing solutions that can be replicated across evaluations thematic and data types. The resources and time spent in conducting data processing and analytics tasks can be reduced significantly by automating tasks that are often repeated across evaluations. For example, facilitating the identification and analysis of relevant evaluation reports during the planning and scoping phases; reviewing programme documents, monitoring, reporting and expenditure data.
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a global network of operational agencies, academic institutions, policymakers, donors and practitioners that facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection in all humanitarian contexts. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) co-leads the Alliance with rotating NGO, currently the International Rescue Committee and Hurras Network. The Alliance sets standards and produces technical guidance for use by the various stakeholders, particularly field practitioners. Its mission is to support humanitarian actors to achieve high-quality and effective child protection interventions in humanitarian contexts, in both refugee and non-refugee settings.
UNICEF also co-leads the Learning and Development Working Group (L&D WG) and provides a dedicated human resource to lead L&D activities within the Alliance. The purpose of the assignment is to support implementing activities of the L&D WG guided by the Alliance Strategic Brief: Sustaining Child Protection in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape as well as the Alliance CPHA L&D Roadmap, while also taking into account the development of a new strategy to be formulated over the course of 2026 to guide the subsequent strategic period commencing mid-2026
The NOB Social Policy Officer (PF4C) Officer will report to the Chief Child Protection and Social Policy and work closely with technical leads working on Social Protection, Child Protection, Health and Nutrition, Education, and Climate. The Officer provides strong management and leadership to the work on PFM to deliver timely and quality results against the annual workplan and in line with the Country Programme Document (CPD). S/he will also be responsible for effective budget management, as well as ensuring compliance with donor conditionalities and effective coordination with development partners in the areas of responsibility.
The Guidance Note of the UN Secretary General (S-G) on Child Rights Mainstreaming (CRM) 2023 aims to integrate child rights across all United Nations (UN) activities. The evaluability assessment is being planned to understand UNICEF and the UN system’s capacities and readiness to implement the Guidance Note. This evaluability assessment will provide credible evidence in relation to existing mechanisms, actions, capacities, barriers and enablers for the mainstreaming of children’s rights across the UN system with the aim of providing actionable insights to strengthen implementation.
The evaluation will be managed by the UNICEF Evaluation Office using a blended management approach with a team comprising two internal staff members and two external consultants. The two external consultants will bring complementary expertise, with one serving as the Evaluation Team Leader/ and the other as the Child Rights Consultant. Close collaboration with the UNICEF Human Rights Team in the Programme Group, the Office of the Executive Director, and other stakeholders is expected.
This ToR relates specifically to the Evaluation Team Leader role. The consultant will provide strategic and methodological support for the evaluation, ensuring high-quality, timely, and credible deliverables through effective coordination, stakeholder engagement, and rigorous design, data collection, analysis and reporting.
The primary purpose of this consultancy is to enable UNICEF immunization team to lead in organizing Hub calls and convening meetings, such as the Demand Hub Steering Committee (DHSC), monthly meetings and face to face meetings of the Expanded Partners; produce documentation of actions agreed upon; organize agreed number of technical sessions to build capacity on the new emerging areas in demand and supporting the Demand Hub leadership team to convene and discuss strategic discussion to guide the Demand Hub.
The consultant will:
1. Institutionalize creative, and where appropriate innovative, approaches (e.g., in impact evaluation methods, processes, or overall evaluation data approaches) for all programme evaluations -and other portfolios as possible- to maximize the timeliness, efficiency, rigor cost‐efficiency and/or rigour and credibility of the evaluation
2. Use data science to generating new meaningful and timely evidence for evaluations with secondary data sources. Develop code for evaluations that allows customization for rapid analysis of secondary and non-traditional sources (e.g. big data such as mobile phone data, satellite imagery, tapping on internal textual monitoring and reporting data) of data using machine learning and artificial intelligence can strengthen the evidence derived from traditional evaluation methods. .
3. Improve efficiencies in evaluations by developing data processing solutions that can be replicated across evaluations thematic and data types. The resources and time spent in conducting data processing and analytics tasks can be reduced significantly by automating tasks that are often repeated across evaluations. For example, facilitating the identification and analysis of relevant evaluation reports during the planning and scoping phases; reviewing programme documents, monitoring, reporting and expenditure data.
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a global network of operational agencies, academic institutions, policymakers, donors and practitioners that facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection in all humanitarian contexts. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) co-leads the Alliance with rotating NGO, currently the International Rescue Committee and Hurras Network. The Alliance sets standards and produces technical guidance for use by the various stakeholders, particularly field practitioners. Its mission is to support humanitarian actors to achieve high-quality and effective child protection interventions in humanitarian contexts, in both refugee and non-refugee settings.
UNICEF also co-leads the Learning and Development Working Group (L&D WG) and provides a dedicated human resource to lead L&D activities within the Alliance. The purpose of the assignment is to support implementing activities of the L&D WG guided by the Alliance Strategic Brief: Sustaining Child Protection in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape as well as the Alliance CPHA L&D Roadmap, while also taking into account the development of a new strategy to be formulated over the course of 2026 to guide the subsequent strategic period commencing mid-2026
