Overview
Consultant to support the adolescent girls’ agenda by providing research and evidence synthesis, identifying knowledge gaps, and offering technical support to country offices.
Key Responsibilities
- - Need and deliverable based support on research and evidence synthesis of UNICEF adolescent girls programming and research
- Identify knowledge and evidence gaps across adolescent girls priority areas to guide UNICEF research priorities
- Work with a core team on support to COs for research, evidence methodology testing, review and quality oversight
- On demand technical support to COs identified by ROs/HQ rolling out any evidence or measurement product related to adolescent girls
- 2 working briefs on ‘what works’ on topics related to adolescent girls
- Technical support to new workstream on adolescent boys and advice on U report poll design
- Guidance and support on any other evidence pieces related to work on gender equality in adolescence
Required Experience
- Minimum eight years of relevant professional experience and demonstrated track record of having undertaken and led substantive programming and research on gender/adolescent girls and development in key issue areas that are the focus of UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan 2026-2029.
- Experience of practice-based research
- Experience of capacity building and technical support to teams in carrying out evidence pieces
- Strong experience in designing research and evidence practices and rolling out surveys
- Proven experience drafting quality research outputs for different stakeholders and audiences is required.
- Experience working in a development setting, managing programmes and / or research is required.
- Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
- Familiarity/ background with emergency contexts is considered as an asset.
- Experience with proposal writing is considered as an asset
Qualifications
- Advance University degree (Masters) in the social sciences (i.e. sociology, demography, psychology, political science, social policy or economics), public health, public policy, public administration, international development, or in an area relevant to UNICEF’s sectoral work (e.g. Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Child Protection, Social Inclusion, HIV/AIDs, etc.).
- Academic credentials in gender and/or adolescence.
