Consultant: Child Protection Monitoring and Evaluation at UNICEF

Purpose of the Assignment

In Particular, The Consultant Will

Under the supervision of the Child Protection Specialist the consultant will provide overall technical assistance to ESARO and ESAR COs to improve their capacity to effectively monitor the two Global Programmes, the VAC programmes and the ESA Regional Priorities.

• Review all programme and monitoring documents related to the Global Programmes (HQ, RO and COs in ESAR), the VAC evaluation and management response, the ESA Regional Priorities and the findings and recommendations from HQ-led assessments of UNICEF programme countries’ routine administrative systems.
• Provide technical support to the country offices [1] part of the Global Programmes to sharpen their TOC and monitoring framework and mechanisms, including if necessary, the establishment of baselines, targets, and frequency of updates and data sources. This will be based on the outcomes of the evaluability assessment of the child marriage programme.
• Provide technical assistance to country offices in the development of country specific monitoring systems linked to VAC in line with the SDGs and the ESA Regional Priorities.
• Document good practices in monitoring results for child protection and share lessons learned and actionable recommendations with COs in the form of a webinar (Global Programmes and VAC).
• Develop the data section in the regional VAC framework. 

Duration: Tentative start date is September, 2017 and ending in August 2018

Qualifications Of Successful Candidate

• Post graduate qualification in social sciences and/or statistics
• Minimum 8 years of experience in designing and/or implementing M&E systems
• Ability to collect, collate and analyse data in a scientific and effective manner
• Analytical, methodical and precise style of writing
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in English
• Knowledge of child protection is a merit
• Availability to travel frequently in the region