Child Protection Data Consultant Tender, Switzerland - 25595574

Procurement Summary

Country : Switzerland

Summary : Child Protection Data Consultant

Deadline : 17 Aug 2018

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 25595574

Document Ref. No. :

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND
5 - 7 avenue de la Paix 1202 Geneva Tel: +41-909.5111 Fax: 909 59 00 / 909 59 01
Switzerland
Email :genevaliaisonoffice@unicef.org / genevaask@unicef.org
URL :http://www.unicef.org/

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Consultancy - Child Protection Data Consultant (11 months), Geneva.

UNICEF works in some of the world-s toughest places, to reach the world-s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, Protection

Background

UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Defending children's rights throughout their lives requires a global presence, aiming to produce results and understand their effects. UNICEF believes all children have a right to survive, thrive and fulfil their potential - to the benefit of a better world.

In Europe and Central Asia, significant improvements in the area of child protection have been made over the past years, including the decrease in the number of children deprived of a caring family environment in large scale public institutions and the number of children placed in detention. Yet, too many children are still deprived of their basic rights to protection. The absence of legal frameworks, the lack of capacity and coordination, and the unavailability of disaggregated data remain major bottlenecks to providing effective protection for all children.

To address this situation across the region, The Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) supports Country Offices and governments to strengthen integrated child protection systems. UNICEF is particularly committed to invest in evidence and disaggregated data generation to both build the capacity of national data systems (surveys and administrative data/registers) around child protection issues and to strengthen programmes, policies and advocacy based on accurate and timely evidence.

How can you make a difference?

Purpose

Under the supervision of the Regional Advisor Monitoring and Evaluation and in close collaboration with the Child Protection team, the consultant will be responsible for working with Country Offices to improve evidence and data generation on key child protection issues, including but not limited to relevant SDG and UNICEF Strategic Plan indicators related to access to justice for children, children in alternative care, data on violence against children, including gender-based violence, and child marriage.

The consultant is expected to support the development and use of tools to analyse data, measure equity and assess the results for child resulting from UNICEF supported protection interventions alongside investment cases for scaling up of documented good practices. The consultant will also be involved in the capacity development of colleagues and partners for child protection sector data analysis and in the provision of guidance for cost-effective and equitable child protection programmes and policies in the region.

Key Deliverables

Evidence generation and data analysis:

§ Review and provide feedback to CO on research and studies planned in the area of child protection.

§ Support UNICEF multi-country research and studies towards filling important evidence gaps.

§ Consolidate and share (teamsite/website) other than UNICEF research in the area of CP.

§ Support secondary analysis of MICS data, looking at for example the household and child characteristics of children exposed to violence and child marriage, correlations between different child protection related outcomes, etc.

§ Collaborate with other RO sections to analyse linkages between CP outcomes and other child rights related indicators (e.g. data on violence in schools, data on health outcomes linked to child marriage and early pregnancy, feed data and analysis into the regional advocacy agenda, work with ME on documenting promising practices, and with Planning on mainstreaming C4R and regional priority indicators into UNICEF country programmes and reporting systems, etc.)

Use and dissemination of generated evidence:

§ Review UNICEF MTRs and draft CPDs towards ensuring that they are evidence-based.

§ Maintain a statistical overview of key regional priority indicators and trends and prepare periodic analytical reports on progress being made.

§ Provide relevant data and evidence to inform decision-making, programmes and policy advocacy related to child protection in the region.

§ Prepare data visualization of key monitoring indicators, developing dashboards of monitoring indicators as a knowledge management tool.

§ Develop evidence-based investment cases for scale up of promising practices in the region.

§ Contribute to the dissemination of UNICEF-s evidence products through workshops, forums, roundtables, websites, regional and global CP network meetings.

§ Promote publication and wide dissemination of high quality UNICEF data analysis and research in the area of CP.

§ Contribute to annual results reporting by the RO.

Evidence and data generation capacity-building:

§ Support Country Offices to strengthen national child protection evidence and data generation systems, in particular the development, improvement, and modernization of CP related administrative data systems.

§ Enhance data literacy amongst CP specialists in the region.

§ Contribute to statistical capacity building events and the roll-out of new tools and methods for collecting data on child protection related indicators.

Duration: 11 months between 15 September 2018 to 14 August 2019

Duty Station and Travel

This consultancy will be based in the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (Geneva, Switzerland). Should any travel be required, an estimated lump sum has been provided and can be adjusted as necessary.

§ All UNICEF rules and regulations related to travel of Individual Contractors apply.

§ All travels shall be undertaken only upon the prior written approval by UNICEF.

§ An amount for travel will be specified in the contract (travel lump sum).

§ The consultant is responsible for travel arrangements. The most economic and direct route is authorised.

§ Travel costs will be reimbursed after the completion of travel. UNICEF will pay applicable DSA and other travel related expenses upon submission of the invoice together with the supporting documentation.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

§ Master-s Degree in social sciences, statistics or a related field, with a background in child protection.

§ Five years of relevant professional work experience.

§ Experience with different data visualization tools is an asset.

§ Experience working with UNICEF or another UN agency is an asset.

§ Experience working in the Europe and Central Asia region is an asset.

§ Demonstrated data collection and analysis, communication and interpersonal skills.

§ Proficiency in English is required. Language skills in Russian are an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF-s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. Please include as part of your application a cover letter, Curriculum Vitae and please indicate your monthly rate in US$ to undertake this assignment. Applications submitted without a monthly rate will not be considered.

Advertised: 03 Aug 2018 W. Europe Daylight Time
Applications close: 17 Aug 2018 11:55 PM W. Europe Daylight Time

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