Mixed-methods Impact Evaluation Consultant – Adolescent Girls and Violence Against ChildrenNew

Supports UNICEF's Evaluation Office in implementing impact-evaluation windows on child marriage, social norms, violence in schools and adolescent girls. The consultant applies mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to design and accompany rigorous studies, strengthen evidence use and develop future evaluation opportunities with child-protection and adolescent-girls perspectives.

• Support implementation of Impact Catalyst Fund windows on child marriage, social norms and violence in schools
• Undertake work for the demand-driven impact-evaluation portfolio under Power4Girls
• Scope and develop broader impact-evaluation opportunities focused on adolescent girls, violence and child protection
• Apply mixed quantitative and qualitative approaches to impact evaluation design and study implementation
• Coordinate evaluation work across offices and impact-evaluation locations in multiple time zones

• Advanced university degree in economics, public health, public policy, political science, evaluation, development studies or sociology
• More than five years of professional experience leading or contributing to rigorous impact evaluations in low-income settings
• Experience collecting primary quantitative and/or qualitative data on violence against children, including ethics and referral protocols
• Basic ethics certificates for human-subjects primary studies
• English

• Experience delivering data analysis and evaluations under tight deadlines
• Experience working through multi-stakeholder consultative processes
• Ability to present technical information to non-technical audiences
• Excellent English drafting and presentation skills
• Ability and willingness to coordinate across Rome, Nairobi, Beirut and Kolkata time zones

• Impact Evaluation
• Quantitative Evaluation
• Qualitative Evaluation
• Statistical Analysis
• Research Design
• Data Collection
• Technical Writing

• Stata
• R
• Nvivo
• ATLAS.ti
• CITI certificates

• Remote consultancy with travel to project locations for 12 months
• Consultancy applicants must submit a TMS profile, CV, cover letter and separate financial proposal in the linked template
• The Evaluation Office supports organizational learning and accountability across UNICEF country offices