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Mixed-methods Impact Evaluation Consultant – Adolescent girls & violence against children

Evaluation Office, New York, United States

Remote, with travel to project locations

12 months

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

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For every child, the right to safety

How can you make a difference?

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programs, in advocacy and in operations. The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO), as one of the core evidence functions, aims to help UNICEF to improve its performance and results, by supporting organizational learning and accountability. Working through the network of regional evaluation teams, the UNICEF EO supports the organization’s 135+ country offices in finding evidence-based solutions for the world’s most vulnerable children.

The EO conducts strategic global, institutional effectiveness, humanitarian, and impact evaluations. It assures the quality and use of UNICEF evaluations by establishing norms, standards, guidelines as well as knowledge sharing and networking. The UNICEF Evaluation of Impact Strategy and Action Framework 2022–2025 sets the institutional priorities and vision for a harmonized and strategic approach to the generation and use of rigorous impact evaluations to inform UNICEF programs. This vision is reinforced in the draft Strategic Plan for 2026 – 2029, where impact level targets are prioritized, requiring a strong impact evaluation function to demonstrate achievement of targets, particularly with shrinking fiscal space. The Impact Catalyst Fund (ICF) is a flagship initiative to support these efforts. The first ICF call builds on a partnership with the Global Program to End Child Marriage (GPECM) focused on the thematic area of child marriage and social norms. A further ICF is being launched in 2026 focused on “Preventing Violence in, Through and Around Schools” in partnership with the Safe to Learn Initiative. The EO also partners with the global program division of UNICEF to undertake demand driven evaluations, not in the costed plan for global evaluations. A set of demand driven impact evaluations have been initiated with the UNICEF Adolescent Girls Hub, focused on increasing girls’ agency, health and wellbeing under the Power4Girls initiative.

The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation of the ICF thematic windows on child marriage and social norms, violence in schools and demand driven portfolio under Power4Girls. In addition, the consultancy will undertake activities central to the scoping, development and accompaniment of broader impact evaluation opportunities with adolescent girls, violence and child protection lens, if required. 

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here:  ToRTMC0005643..pdf

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

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Advanced university degree (Masters or above) in economics, public health, public policy, political science, evaluation, development studies or sociology

• Work Experience:

• Over 5 years of professional experience leading or contributing to rigorous impact evaluations including design, preparation, and study implementation in low-income settings.
• Experience collecting primary data (quantitative and/or qualitative) on violence against children topics, including understanding of ethics and referral protocols needed to safeguard children during data collection. Basic ethics certificates to facilitate primary studies on Human Subjects (i.e. CITI certificates or similar)
• Familiarity with UNICEF programmatic mandate and understanding evidence generation standards and processes for child-focused impact evaluations.

• Skills:

• Solid technical expertise in both quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods used for identifying and measuring impacts and complementarity evaluation questions, including cost- effectiveness.
• Proficiency in using statistical analysis software packages, including Stata/R and Nvivo/ATLAS.ti.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the current evidence and previous research on child marriage, violence against children and adolescent girls. Track record of authorship/co-authorship in peer- reviewed journals.

• Language Requirements: English required, French, Spanish or Arabic is an asset.
• Desirables:

• Delivering data analysis and evaluations under tight deadlines and through multi-stakeholder consultative process.
• Excellent abilities in presenting technical information to a non- technical audience, including excellent drafting and presentation skills in English.
• Ability and willingness to coordinate and work across relevant time zones, primarily including Rome, and Nairobi (EO locations), as well as Beirut and Kolkata (the identified impact evaluation locations).

 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 TMC0005643.xlsx