International Consultant to lead the formative assessment of UNICEF supported green skills interventions in South Asia, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal (Home-based)
Empleo nº: 575512
Tipo de trabajo: Consultant
Ubicación: Nepal
Categorías: Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
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Background and Rationale:
- Gain insight into the local dynamics and specific needs of adolescent across various South Asian countries, with a focus on distinguishing needs based on gender and other relevant characteristics.
- Identify data and evidence gaps related to green skills and recommend targeted actions to address these gaps.
- Better understanding the nature, context, design and the different target populations of UNICEF interventions in this area, including the relevance of skills in the job market.
- Assess the effectiveness of programs in equipping youth, particularly adolescent, with green skills, considering their potential impact on climate outcomes and long-term livelihoods, while also examining differences based on youth characteristics such as gender, disabilities, and other relevant factors.
- Assess the extent to which these models are scalable and sustainable and identify characteristic for those that are more likely to be scaled and sustained.
- Advancing organizational learning and inform future program design and policy recommendations to enhance the effectiveness in implementing green skills initiatives,
- Overseeing and supervising the local consultants, ensuring the quality assurance of their deliverables.
- Leading the development of the inception report, refining the evaluation questions.
- Providing advice on the overall design and implementation of the general assessment.
- Ensuring that the objectives of the overall assessment are met and that questions are answered with quality.
- Leading the development of data collection tools, including the preparation and execution of a survey for all case studies.
- Conduct remote data collection for countries not included in the in-depth case studies and at regional level, including desk reviews and individual interviews.
- Working with the local consultants to analyze/synthesize data in line with the objectives and guiding frameworks.
- Preparing the final report and ensuring that all reports meet UNICEF, UNEG, and other global standards.
- Leading the presentation of assessment results to relevant stakeholders.
- Ensuring the timely delivery of all products.
- Present the findings of this formative assessment at a regional knowledge management event in 2025.
Note: This is a home based consultancy. All applications should include financial proposal. Applications without the financial proposal will not be considered.
Educational requirements:
Master's degree in climate change, gender, development studies, business, education, or related field of Social Sciences.
- At least ten years of proven experience in evaluation and programme reviews.
- Knowledge of methods and approaches in evaluation and
- Experience in applying both quantitative and qualitative methods and ability to effectively communicate data and analysis Experience in working on green skills and climate change topics
- Strong experience in writing reports, documentation to convey programming efforts
- Experience with the ethics of evidence generation; familiarity with ethical safeguards
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English required.
Desirable:
- Experience of working in the South Asia region
- Knowledge and exposure to UNICEF programming in the areas of Climate Change, WASH, Education, Social and Behavior Change, Gender, Adolescent and Youth Development, and Health will be an advantage.
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UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
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:
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.
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