Qualitative Researcher – Social Policy and Child Rights Monitoring

Conducts qualitative research for UNICEF social policy and child-rights monitoring, designing field tools, facilitating interviews and focus groups, organising evidence and drafting analysis on disability inclusion, child poverty, cash transfers and subnational social protection.

• Review research documents and prepare fieldwork plans, schedules and data-collection guidance
• Develop and finalise tools for key informant interviews and focus group discussions
• Collect qualitative evidence across cash-transfer, disability and social-protection research sites
• Clean and organise data packages and prepare fieldwork summaries with key observations
• Map services in Mandalay and Southern Shan and develop referral protocols
• Analyse cash-transfer and disability-learning evidence and integrate findings across research streams
• Draft final assessment reports and an accessibility audit checklist for learning centres
• Present final findings and recommendations for each operational research exercise

• Master’s degree in social sciences, development studies, public health, public policy or a related field
• Demonstrated experience in qualitative data collection through key informant interviews and focus group discussions
• Experience conducting service mapping within Myanmar
• Strong facilitation and interviewing skills
• Familiarity with Myanmar field contexts and community engagement practices
• Fluency in Myanmar
• Knowledge of written and spoken English
• Myanmar nationality

• Consultancy duration of five months
• Duty station is Yangon with travel to Shan, Ayeyarwady, Mandalay and other research sites
• Consultants are responsible for their own taxes and valid health insurance