Consultant for Mid-term Evaluation of Safeguarding Children’s Rights Program

Conducts the mid-term evaluation of UNICEF’s Safeguarding Children’s Rights programme in East Jerusalem, assessing outcomes attributable to protection interventions and their effects on beneficiaries. The consultancy will generate evidence and recommendations through rigorous research, child-protection expertise, gender-responsive analysis and qualitative and quantitative data collection, interviews, transcription and translation.

• Evaluate programme outcomes attributable to UNICEF protection interventions
• Assess effects of safeguarding interventions on beneficiaries
• Generate evidence and recommendations on programme results
• Lead quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
• Conduct interviews, transcription and translation for the evaluation
• Apply child-centred and gender-responsive evaluation approaches
• Prepare evaluation findings and reports

• Master's degree in evaluation, child protection, social research, social work, psychology, sociology, international development, public policy, international relations, human rights, humanitarian studies or a related field
• At least ten years of documented experience in development programme or project research and evaluation, or at least eight years in child-protection programmes or projects
• Expertise in gender programming
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Arabic for interviews, transcription and translation
• Experience in international humanitarian and human-rights law, the Palestine context, and work with NGOs and UN agencies
• Demonstrated evaluation-report writing, analytical, facilitation and communication skills
• Freedom from conflicts of interest in conducting the evaluation

• Previous evaluation experience with UNICEF, UN agencies or international humanitarian organisations
• Experience evaluating child-protection or mental health and psychosocial support programmes
• Experience applying gender-responsive evaluation approaches and child-centred methodologies

• Programme Evaluation
• Child Protection
• Safeguarding
• Qualitative Research
• Quantitative Research
• Gender-responsive Evaluation
• Evaluation Report Writing
• Data Collection
• Facilitation
• Human Rights Analysis
• Project Management

• Four-month consultancy
• Home-based or remote working arrangement
• Apply through the online recruitment portal with an up-to-date CV, cover letter and separate financial proposal using the linked template
• This is an elevated child-safeguarding risk role and additional vetting may apply