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Consultancy Title: Data and Monitoring Consultant for Child Protection and Development
Division/Duty Station: DAPM, Data and Analytics Secion
Duration: 20 October 2025 – 8 January 2026
Home/ Office Based: Remote
BACKGROUND
Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:
The Child Protection and Development (CPD) team within the Data and Analytics Section covers a number of topics including birth registration, child labour, child marriage, female genital mutilation, violence against children and children living outside of family care. The CPD team is also responsible for statistics and data on early childhood development (ECD). The CPD team work in the area of child protection includes: supporting the collection of nationally representative data through the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS); maintaining global databases on key indicators; methodological work to develop new data collection and monitoring tools and questionnaires in the area of child protection and ECD, including on issues measured by SDG indicators; conducting data analyses; undertaking capacity-building; and disseminating data on child protection in a variety of ways including through flagship publications, thematic data-driven publications and brochures and statistical country profiles.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide support to the CPD team with respect to some specific topics within child protection, namely violence, child marriage and children with disabilities. The consultant will be supervised by the Senior Adviser, Statistics, Child Protection and Development within the Data and Analytics Section.
Scope of Work:
The consultant will be responsible for undertaking capacity-building efforts and outreach/dissemination initiatives.
Specific Tasks:
- Undertake and facilitate capacity-building efforts, workshops and initiatives
- Support the enhancement of data portal
Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:
Work Assignment Overview/Deliverables and Outputs/Delivery deadline
1.Coordinate and support the review, enhancement and updating of the Child Marriage Data Portal and the ICVAC webpage a by reviewing content, organizing call with vendor, coordinating any enhancement required and review changes
- List of members of reference group, including profiles and rationale
- Feedback form to gather inputs from reference group
- Summary report on enhancement requirements
- List of vendors and quotes to perform enhancements
- Report summarizing changes to the implemented enhancements
29 December 2025
2.
- Support the development and implementation of two calls for proposal for data analyses and related fellowships, including orientation of 10 fellows and dissemination activities of final data analyses
- Support the secretariat in organizing and coordinating 10 Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) Meetings and any follow-up
- Two concept notes
- Summary of submissions
- Agenda for orientation sessions and facilitation of sessions
- Six webinars (arranging logistics and hosting)
- Agendas and invitations for SAG meetings, meeting notes, follow-up emails with meeting notes
30 March 2026
3.
- Review the uptake and effectiveness of the Disability, Child Marriage and ICVAC eLearning course to inform future improvements and ensure alignment with participants’ capacity-building needs
- Support the development and implementation of capacity-strengthening activities for participants of past harmful practices workshops (eLearning, online, and in-person) by designing and implementing a survey to identify areas where support is needed
- Based on the results, coordinate the development of relevant content and organize subsequent webinars/presentations (up to 6 1-hour webinars)
- Three summary reports (one per eLearning) indicating levels of uptake and engagement and profiles of students, disaggregated by completion profile
- Survey form (design and roll-out) to assess participants’ learning and feedback
- Summary of participants’ feedback and report with recommendations on enhancements and modality of future capacity-building administration.
- Listing of enhancement activities (including details on administration modalities)
- Agenda of webinars, presentations and summary recording
19 June 2026
4. Assist with planning, preparing and facilitating 8 capacity development workshops – four in-person and four online, including curated content, definition of participants’ profile, screening and enrolling of participants and facilitate/deliver workshop sessions
For each workshop:
- Meeting materials (1 agenda, 3-page admin note, participant list, 5-page background note, and up to 5 presentations in PowerPoint),
- Feedback form and summary of evaluations
- Meeting report (up to 10 written pages in Word)
8 January 2027
Qualifications
Education: University degree in Demography, public health, other social sciences field
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:
- At least 20 years of experience working in the area of data, statistics and monitoring, preferably at the international level as well as in project management, preferably around data dissemination activities and initiatives.
- Demonstrated previous experience with designing and implementing capacity building workshops (in-person and online).
- Demonstrated previous experience with supporting the preparation of content of data website and portal (in-person and online).
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills in interacting with colleagues at all levels.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong organizational, planning, and analytical skills.
- Exposure to international professional contexts and/or multicultural environments within the United Nations System.
- Ability to take ownership and initiative and can work both independently and effectively in a team environment.
- Fluency in English
Requirements:
Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and
- Upload copy of academic credentials
- Financial proposal that will include/ reflect :
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- 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.
