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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant 

Consultancy Title: Consultant to support CNF communications efforts

Section/Division/Duty Station: Nutrition Programme Division, NYHQ

Duration:  1 November 2024 to 1 October  2025

Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote

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If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

The consultancy aims to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts of the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF), a UNICEF-led initiative designed to mobilize financing and resources to combat malnutrition. The consultant will play a critical role in enhancing data transparency, quality, and storytelling, thereby supporting the CNF’s mission to sustainably scale up interventions addressing wasting, stunting, and anemia in children and women.

The Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) is a UNICEF-led financing mechanism designed to transform the way we address malnutrition. The CNF mobilizes financing to enable the sustainable scale-up of policies, programmes, practices and supplies to address malnutrition. To do so, the CNF provides new opportunities to financially support essential actions to prevent, detect and treat wasting, stunting and/or anaemia in children and women.

The primary objective of this consultancy is to bolster the CNF’s monitoring and evaluation framework, contributing to improved data transparency and quality. The consultant will collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, including UNICEF country and regional offices, data teams, and donors, to ensure the alignment of M&E activities with CNF’s strategic objectives.

 Scope of Work:

The consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:

a. Dashboard and Data Visualization

• Improve, update, and maintain the CNF dashboard in PowerBI, ensuring it accurately reflects targets, costs, and financial flows.
• Develop new data visualizations for presentations, reports, and the CNF website using PowerBI or Infogram as needed.
• Support the visualization of financial data to enhance clarity and comprehension for stakeholders.

b. CNF Strategic Results Framework (SRF)

• Maintain a comprehensive database for monitoring all indicators related to the CNF SRF.
• Ensure high data quality standards and consistency across all indicators within the SRF.
• Assist in reviewing and updating the SRF, including maintaining indicator guidance notes and refining the theory of change as necessary.
• Prepare Data Annexes for inclusion in the CNF Annual Report.

Data Management

• Support the management of various databases, including those related to supplies, match windows, and nutrition supplies forecasting exercises.
• Ensure the quality and consistency of data received from UNICEF country offices.
• Coordinate and work closely with UNICEF Supply Division, to obtain and/or align data on supplies.

d. Evaluation

• Assist in the planning and execution of CNF assessments and evaluations, adhering to UNICEF’s established evaluation criteria and procedures.

e. Donor Reports

• Contribute to prepare donor reports, as requires, highlighting the impact and outcomes of CNF-supported initiatives.

Reporting

The Programme Specialist, Financing for Child Nutrition & Development will be the contract supervisor. Regular updates and collaboration with a diverse group of stakeholders will be essential to ensure that all M&E activities are aligned with the CNF’s mission and strategic goals.

Deliverables

The consultant is expected to deliver high-quality outputs, including but not limited to:

• An enhanced and well-maintained CNF dashboard.
• Consistent and accurate data visualizations for various stakeholders.
• Updated SRF with comprehensive indicator tracking and data quality assurance.
• Well-managed databases ensuring data accuracy and consistency.
• Contributed reports and evaluations that align with CNF’s objectives.

Conclusion

This consultancy is pivotal in advancing the CNF’s global objectives by enhancing its monitoring and evaluation efforts. The consultant’s work will directly contribute to the CNF’s ability to achieve its mission of addressing malnutrition on a global scale.

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

Work Assignment Overview Deliverables/ Outputs Delivery deadline

 Strategic Results Framework

• Updated SRF with comprehensive indicator tracking and data quality assurance. – By 1 December 2024

Dashboard Update

• CNF dashboard 2.0 is created, with organized data files and sources – By 1 April 2025

Data visualizations

• Data visualizations for at least 10 powerpoint presentation, CNF website and 5 communication materials developed – By 1 June 2025

Reports and M&E support

• Data related to the CNF Annual Report and at least five donor reports finalized – By 1 August 2025

Databases maintenance

• At least 5 data sets are updated, cleaned, ensuring data accuracy and consistency (15 updates). – By 1 October 2025

Evaluation

• Support to 1-2 evaluations in countries – By 1 October 2025

 Qualifications

Education: Masters

International Development, Economics, Social Sciences, Public Health, Nutrition, Epidemiology or other related subject areas

 Work experience:

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:

• Minimum eight years of relevant work experience at national and international levels monitoring, evaluation, data management.
• Previous experience with UNICEF and/or other UN agencies.

• Knowledge and experience in nutrition is considered an asse

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 offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment. 

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.