Summary
Date Posted: Monday, May 04, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
UNICEF is the world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Background
In sub-Saharan Africa, UNICEF provides analytical and technical support in child poverty analysis, public financial management and social protection, including emergency cash transfers, in order to support more equitable and sustainable results for children. To support Country Offices in their work in these areas, UNICEF has two Regional Offices, one for Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESARO), based in Kenya, and one supporting Western and Central Africa Region (WCARO), located in Senegal. The Regional Offices have established regional rosters of consultants to facilitate the swift engagement of social and economic policy expertise. However, given the similar profiles of candidates across the continent, UNICEF is now in the process of updating this roster, which will be utilized by Country Offices throughout sub-Saharan Africa for different assignments.
How can you make a difference?
Scope of Work and Duties
UNICEF ESARO and WCARO invites qualified experts to express their interest in being included in the Roster of Consultants to deliver advisory services, access to knowledge, and technical expertise to UNICEF’s social policy portfolio in the following areas:
• Child poverty analysis and advocacy
• Public finance for children (PF4C)
• Child-sensitive social protection
• Emergency cash transfers
Consultants may provide a range of advisory services to UNICEF’s Regional Offices, Country Offices and their government partners in the four thematic areas above. The range of tasks for the consultants may include research and assessments, diagnostic missions, provision of strategic and operational guidance, training and capacity building, development of policy papers, and monitoring and evaluation. Precise tasks, outputs, reporting and working relationships will be specified at the time of contracting for the given assignments.
The roster will serve as human resources repository from which the Regional Offices or Country Offices can draw pre-vetted, well-qualified experts quickly and efficiently for assignments. Note that experts may specialize in more than one of the desired fields. It is therefore requested that candidates self-identify both their field and tier of expertise as well as their language proficiencies. .

Expression of interest must include:
• Fully completed online profile
• Cover letter describing your qualifications and past experiences (maximum 2 pages), which very clearly indicates your daily rate in USD (Note: applications submitted without a daily rate will not be considered)
• Curriculum vitae (CV), including a list of relevant publications with links
• Submission of at least two evaluation reports from previous consulting assignments
• Completion of Mandatory Questionnaire at the end of the online application
• Names and contacts of three referees (applications without referees will not be considered)

Required Skills and Experience
Child poverty experts
• Advanced university degree in economics, statistics, public policies, development studies, social policies or other relevant field.
• Substantial experience in poverty analysis, including child poverty, multi-dimensional poverty and multiple overlapping deprivations.
• Proven track record in working with large national survey data (e.g. integrated household surveys, census, demographic and health survey, multiple indicator cluster surveys, etc.)
• Strong quantitative analysis skills, including ability to use advanced Excel functions and relevant software such as Stata, Eviews, R, SPSS, etc.
• Strong report writing, data visualization, and presentation skills.
• Proven experience with capacity development of partners especially National Statistical Agencies and relevant government departments.
Demonstrable capacity to translate evidence into policy and programmatic proposals. • Good inter-personal and communication (oral and written) skills – publication record on areas related to child poverty is preferred
• Fluency in English or French is required (dependent upon assignment). Knowledge of other languages applicable to the region (Portuguese, Spanish, etc.) is a plus.
Public finance experts
• Advanced university degree or equivalent in economics, statistics, public administration, public policy, development studies or other relevant field.
• Hands-on experience with public finance management (PFM) issues, including PFM legal and policy frameworks; medium-term revenue and expenditure planning; government budgeting approaches and classification systems; financial accountability systems, including Chart of Accounts; fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental transfer systems; budget transparency; fiscal space analyses; costing; designing and implementing Public Expenditure Reviews, Pubic Expenditure Tracking Surveys; value for money analysis; cost-efficiency analysis; cost-benefit analysis; cost of inaction analysis, etc.
• Demonstrable experience working in child-focused sectors, including, but not limited to child protection, health, education, nutrition, social protection, and water, sanitation and hygiene.
• Strong quantitative analysis skills, including ability to use advanced Excel functions and relevant software such as Stata, Eviews, R, SPSS, etc.
• Proven experience with capacity development initiatives targeting legislative and executive arms of government
• Understanding of public finance reform in the Sub-Saharan Africa context is a strong advantage.

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