Impact evaluation and project coordination analyst consultant, UNICEF Evaluation Office - Development Effectiveness and Impact Evaluation, Rome, Italy, remote with no travel, 13 months,

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How can you make a difference?

The mission of the UNICEF evaluation function is to help drive results for children by fostering evidence- informed decision-making. Evaluation in UNICEF supports both learning and decision-making, which in turn support better results for children. The evaluation function conducts a diverse set of independent, credible and impartial corporate thematic, institutional effectiveness, humanitarian, country-led, impact and joint evaluations to ensure UNICEF uses evaluation evidence to improve outcomes for children.

​Evaluation at UNICEF is a largely decentralized function with senior-level regional evaluation advisers and multi-country evaluation specialists, as well as dedicated country evaluation specialists and evaluation focal points in the UNICEF country offices around the world. The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) serves as the steward of the UNICEF evaluation function. The director of evaluation provides strategic leadership to the global evaluation function at all three levels of the organization.

The purpose of this consultancy is to provide temporary, deliverable-based analytical support for the quantitative component of a mixed-methods process and impact evaluation of cash programming in Yemen, including limited support for qualitative-tool review, triangulation, and integration of quantitative and qualitative findings, as well as project coordination support to the Principal Investigators for evaluations under ASPECT. The evaluation is being implemented under the Adaptive Social Protection – Evidence for Child Outcomes (ASPECT) project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). ASPECT aims to generate evidence on what works—and how—to make social protection systems more adaptive to shocks, including climate- and conflict-related shocks, particularly in fragile contexts. The impact evaluation will cover two programmes: the Cash for Nutrition and Livelihoods Project (C4NL), funded by the World Bank, and the Nutrition-Sensitive Cash Plus (NSCash+) programme, funded by KfW.

The evaluation will establish benchmarks, examine programme implementation and effects, and assess equity, disability inclusion, child outcomes, and household resilience in a fragile setting.

This is a supporting role and does not designate the consultant as a Principal Investigator, technical lead, or independent evaluation manager.

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: ToRTMC0007180.pdf

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Minimum requirements:

• Education: Bachelors - A first university degree in economics, statistics, public policy, evaluation, public health, development studies, demography, sociology or a related field with substantial quantitative training is required.
• Desirable qualifications: A relevant master’s degree is desirable. Education points will distinguish among candidates meeting the minimum bachelor’s requirement and those holding relevant advanced degrees
• Work Experience: At least five years of experience supporting rigorous impact evaluations or applied research, including the design and implementation of studies involving primary data collection.

• Experience analyzing and handling large survey datasets, with recent social protection or cash-transfer dataset experience treated as a scored asset.
• Strong quantitative and econometric skills, including the ability to execute assigned econometric analyses autonomously within agreed protocols, document decisions, and incorporate feedback under the oversight of the Principal Investigators and senior evaluation team.
• Familiarity with or experience in mixed-methods research.
• Project coordination experience demonstrated supporting complex evaluation or research projects through work planning, deliverable tracking, risk and dependency management, stakeholder coordination, meeting support, project documentation and review management.

• Skills: Strong self-organization skills and able to meet deadlines with limited supervision
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is an eligibility requirement and is not scored.

• Fluency in Arabic is strongly preferred; higher consideration will be given to demonstrated ability to review Arabic survey instruments, qualitative tools, transcripts or analytical products.

• Desirables: Experience in fragile or humanitarian contexts; Yemen or MENA experience is strongly desirable.

• Strong experience in social protection, cash transfers, food security, nutrition or resilience is desirable.
• Familiarity with machine-learning methods relevant to impact evaluation is desirable.
• Data innovation, machine learning and AI-enabled analytical workflow skills are a strong asset, including reproducibility, automation, coding efficiency and responsible use with human oversight.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

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.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate financial proposal (only acceptable in the format of the linked template) Financial proposal TMC0007180.docx
• Technical Proposal: Longlisted candidates will be invited to submit (1) one relevant work sample, such as an analytical report section, methodological note, reproducible analysis excerpt or data-quality product. The sample should be principally authored by the candidate and must have confidential or identifying information removed or redacted. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to complete a standardized written assessment and an interview.