Long Term Agreement-LTA for an individual consultant for services relating to quantitative research on children's digital engagement & protection-Innocenti-Global Off Research & Foresight-remote

The Digital Engagement and Protection unit at UNICEF Innocenti conducts rigorous research to strengthen the evidence base around how digital transformation affects children’s lives. To ensure timely and high-quality research support, the Unit regularly engages specialists with expertise in quantitative and mixed-methods research to contribute to research design, implementation, and data analysis and to provide expert technical services related to quantitative and mixed-methods research activities. Individual consultants on the Long-Term Agreement (LTA) may be called upon to provide services in one or several of the following four areas: (1) Research conceptualisation and design; (2) Implementation and oversight of data collection activities; (3) Data cleaning, analysis and write-up; (4) Dissemination and engagement.

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The Digital Engagement and Protection unit at UNICEF Innocenti conducts rigorous research to strengthen the evidence base around how digital transformation affects children’s lives. To ensure timely and high-quality research support, the Unit regularly engages specialists with expertise in quantitative and mixed-methods research to contribute to research design, implementation, and data analysis.

How can you make a difference? 

The consultant will provide expert technical services related to quantitative and mixed-methods research activities.

Individual consultants on the Long-Term Agreement (LTA) may be called upon to provide services in one or several of the following four areas:

(1) Research conceptualisation and design

(2) Implementation and oversight of data collection activities

(3) Data cleaning, analysis and write-up

(4) Dissemination and engagement.

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

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

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Educated to at least master's degree level in Psychology, Public Health, Epidemiology, Statistics or a relevant social science discipline. One year of relevant work experience will be accepted in lieu of a master's degree.
• Work Experience: At least two years of relevant experience conducting quantitative research in relation to children's digital engagement or protection. Proven experience cleaning, managing, and analysing household survey datasets from multi-country research projects, using both Stata and R.
  Experience contributing to mixed-methods research, integrating quantitative and qualitative data.
• Skills: Demonstrated capacity to produce and disseminate high-quality analytical outputs in relation to children’s digital engagement and protection (tables, figures, reports, or publications).
• Language Requirements: English

Desirables:

• Experience of quantitative research design, including questionnaire design, ideally related to children's digital engagement and protection.
• Experience of designing quantitative data analysis plans, ideally related to children’s digital engagement and protection.
• Experience working on sensitive research related to online violence, sexual exploitation and abuse of children.

Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts. 

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

REMARKS:

Before applying, please review the complete Terms of Reference carefully:  GORaF_ToR_LTA_Quant_Digital EXT.pdf

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

Individuals engaged under a consultancy will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Individual Consultants. Consultants are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts. 

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment. 

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.