Long-Term Agreement (LTA) for Individual Consultants for the Provision of Quality Assurance Services for Desk-based Evaluations ( Apply by 20th March 2025)

[Dalila Ahamed]

Dear Colleagues, 

UNICEF ESARO has recently advertised a RfP for Individual Consultant to provide support to the Quality Assurance process of UNICEF managed evaluations as part of a forthcoming Long Term Agreement (LTA).  

Prospective LTA holders are required to meet the following requirements:

• Advanced university degree (Master’s) in Evaluation, or another discipline relevant to the work of UNICEF with strong background in evaluation.
• Eight years or more of experience in managing, designing and/or implementing evaluation and research projects with/for UN agencies (particularly with UNICEF) or other international partners, i) covering a wide range of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods and/or ii) covering experimental, quasi- and non-experimental evaluation designs, using participatory, case study, longitudinal as well as rapid approaches. Experience with impact evaluations is considered as an advantage.
• At least 3 years’ experience and capacity in providing quality and/ or oversight of evaluation and research processes and outputs such as ToRs, as well as inception and mature draft reports, preferably with UN agencies. This is a requirement.
• Core expertise and a deep understanding of evaluation quality and ethical issues in UNICEF areas of interventions, and more particularly for evaluations involving children, adolescents and youth as well vulnerable groups of population, including people living with disabilities.
• A proven track record in specific sectoral areas of interest to the UNICEF Mandate (child protection, HIV- AIDS, education, health, nutrition, water and sanitation, social inclusion, adolescence, social policy, Communication for Development, climate change, innovations, gender equality) within development and humanitarian contexts.
• Familiarity with UN agencies’ evaluation quality and ethical standards for ToRs, Inception reports and evaluation reports. Experience with applying UNICEF Quality Standards will be an added advantage.

For more information and to apply, please refer to the link below : 

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