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Social and behaviour change (SBC) is a critical component of UNICEF’s efforts to prevent and eliminate harmful practices, including female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage. Over the past five years, UNICEF has invested significantly in developing evidence, tools, methodologies and guidance to strengthen the design, implementation and measurement of SBC interventions to end harmful practices, while also advancing global thought leadership in this area. These investments have resulted in a range of global public goods, social norms measurement tools, strengthened country-level programming, and new evidence on emerging issues affecting efforts to end harmful practices, such a pushback against gender equality.
As UNICEF seeks to consolidate and scale these investments, there is a need for specialized technical support to finalize innovative community monitoring tools that enable implementing partners and communities to monitor behavioural drivers, including social norms, and behaviour change related to the prevention of female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage.
The purpose of this consultancy is to finalize, validate and scale an innovative, accessible and user-friendly community monitoring package that enables communities and implementing partners to monitor behavioural drivers, social norms and behavioural outcomes related to harmful practices. The community monitoring package has been developed and had undergone an initial round of testing. The consultancy will improve the methodological rigour, usability and practical application of the tools through additional pilot testing, refinement and documentation.
Building on a substantial body of evidence, tools and programming approaches developed by UNICEF and its partners over the past five years, the consultant will support the finalization and validation of innovative, accessible and user-friendly community monitoring tools including methodologically sound selection of indicators to measure behavior change through monitoring behavioural drivers at the community level.
The consultancy will contribute to institutionalizing and scaling practical monitoring approaches that strengthen UNICEF’s capacity to support countries to design, implement and monitor behaviour change in evidence-informed SBC programming for the prevention of harmful practices.
Minimum requirements
Education:
Work Experience:
Language requirement:
• Skills:
• Strong understanding of behavioural and social norms drivers related to harmful practices, in particular child marriage and female genital mutilation.
• Strong analytical, research and writing skills, with the ability to translate complex evidence into practical and actionable guidance.
• Demonstrated ability to design and test innovative monitoring and measurement approaches.
• Experience designing practical monitoring systems and user-friendly data collection tools for community-based programming is highly desirable.
Desirables
- Experience working with UNICEF, UN agencies, governments or international development organizations is highly desirable.
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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.
- An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
- Cover letter
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