New York, USA
UNICEF New York
Consultancy: Education Data and Statistics Consultant (MICS-EAGLE Initiative), Data & Analytics (D&A), DAPM, NYHQ (11.5 months – home based)
Job no: 532329
Position type: Consultancy
Location: United States Division/Equivalent: Programme
School/Unit: Division of Analysis, Planning & Monitor
Department/Office: DAPM – Data and Analytics
Categories: Consultancy
About UNICEF
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children’s survival, protection and development. 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. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.
BACKGROUND
UNICEF launched the MICS-EAGLE (Education Analysis for Global Learning and Equity) Initiative in 2018 with the objective of addressing two critical issues with education data: (1) gaps in the availability of education indicators; (2) lack of effective data utilization by governments and education stakeholders.
MICS-EAGLE is designed to build national capacity for education sector situation analysis and leverage the vast wealth of disaggregated education data collected by MICS6 (or future iterations). Furthermore, the initiative aims to build on the data provided by MICS6 to conduct disaggregated analysis that yields insights on how to remove barriers preventing every child from achieving their full potential through education opportunities.
The MICS-EAGLE Initiative offers activities at the national, regional and global levels. National level activities seek to identify specific education issues using MICS data linking to policy discussions, and key education data gaps that require additional studies or data sources. Global and regional level activities are geared toward capacity building by enhancing knowledge regarding the use of household data analysis to inform education sector policy discussions .
Terms of Reference / Deliverables
The purpose of the consultancy is to provide technical support and expertise to the MICS-EAGLE Initiative (MICS-Education Analysis for Global Learning and Equity), including activities such as data analyses, organization of workshops, capacity building exercises, technical reviews and drafting of reports and factsheets. The total duration of the consultancy 11.5 months. Where travel was originally planned to deliver some of the outputs, virtual means will be used instead. In selected cases, and when the situation allows, the products outlined in this Terms of Reference can be accompanied by some on-site support. In particular, the consultant will perform the following tasks (see above about travel): 1) MICS-EAGLE – virtual workshops, reports and direct support to country offices
- Provide capacity development training sessions targeting officials from the Ministries of Education, National Statistics Offices, and other education stakeholders including UNICEF country offices.
- Provide support to the annual virtual MICS-EAGLE Global workshop with representatives of over 10 countries.
- Carry out cross-country data analysis of MICS 6 data and draft the Global MICS-EAGLE report.
- Coordinate with country offices and regional offices for the organization of direct online / virtual support to country offices in the implementation of the MICS-EAGLE initiative.
- Develop factsheets for all countries participating in the MICS-EAGLE initiative: data analysis, drafting, coordinating with editors and designers, as well as country offices.
- Draft MICS-EAGLE regional and thematic reports following demands from regional offices.
2) MICS-EAGLE – capacity building
- Develop materials and tools for on-line MICS-EAGLE training.
- Design training materials, including presentations, STATA and SPSS codes, as well as tests and online modules for capacity building exercises (both in English and French).
- Support the education Specialist for organizing and implementing virtual capacity development workshops regarding the household data analysis for education planning.
- Support the Education Specialist to expand partnership for education data analysis capacity development.
3) Research and methodological development
- Coordinate with County Offices, Regional Offices and the MICS team to launch the pilot of MICS-Link project aiming to connect MICS data with EMIS data in Eswatini.
- Provision of data analysis technical support to the ECARO education team regarding equity issues among Roma children in Europe.
- Provide technical support implementation of pilot tests of new education modules, in particular the inclusive education module, for the new seventh round of MICS.
- Participate in virtual cooperation meetings with other major agencies to enrich the debate on calculation and monitoring of education indicators (e.g. UNICEF, UNESCO, World Bank and Global Education Monitoring Report).
- Present research developments from the team in (online) conferences and (online) workshops.
- Actively engage in the research for development of new blog posts, research briefs and academic papers for scientific journals.
4) Responding to ad-hoc requests
- Conduct any other analysis and provide any other support to the Data & Analytics Section, depending on the organizational need such as analyzing data for blog posts and data check for blogs/papers/documents drafted by internal and external partners.
Qualifications:
1) Education
- Advanced university degree (Masters or equivalent) in Education, Economics of Education, Sociology of Education or another relevant field.
- Expertise in analyzing education data, particularly from household surveys including MICS.
- The individual should be highly proficient in a statistical package (STATA, SPSS or R), as well as in MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Outlook.
2) Work experience
- At least six years of experience in education data analysis, education policy research and capacity building, particularly at the international level.
3) Competencies:
- Computer skills: Competent in advanced Excel, Word, PowerPoint. Advanced skills in statistical software (SPSS and STATA), and data visualization program (e.g., Tableau/R).
- Languages needed: Ability to speak and write fluently in English is required. Working knowledge of French, Spanish, Arabic or Russian will be an asset.
- Other skills and attributes: excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize and manage multiple takes; Strong writing and interpersonal communication skills.
Requirements:
- Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and provide Personal History Form (P11) Upload copy of academic credentials
- Financial proposal that will include:
- your daily/monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference (can be downloaded here: https://www.unicef.org/about/employ/index_consultancy_assignments.html
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- 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.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) 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.
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.
Advertised: Jun 16 2020 Eastern Daylight Time Application close: Jun 23 2020 Eastern Daylight Time
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