[Hiring] Consultancy - Data and Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) @AGORA

Role Description

The Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) is a pooled financing mechanism led by UNICEF that aims to accelerate the scale-up of high-impact nutrition interventions for children and women by catalyzing domestic and international financing. The CNF operates through several windows:

• Grants funding
• The Match for Supplies
• The Match for Programmes
• Innovative financing

Since its launch, the CNF has surpassed USD 1 billion in signed legal agreements. It supports multi-year partnership frameworks in countries including:

• Bangladesh
• Benin
• Cambodia
• Côte d’Ivoire
• Indonesia
• Lao PDR
• The Philippines
• Rwanda

As the portfolio expands, the CNF Steering Committee and financial partners have requested more frequent, standardized, and granular information on results, domestic co-financing, utilization, and cost-effectiveness. This includes:

• Country progress snapshots
• Standardized proposal summaries
• Pipeline and resource-allocation overviews
• Proportionate attribution of pooled-fund results to individual financial partners

The purpose of this consultancy is to provide dedicated technical support to the CNF Management Unit on data management, data visualization, monitoring, and evaluation over a two-year period (January 2027 – December 2028). The consultant will:

• Maintain and strengthen the CNF Strategic Results Framework (SRF) and its monitoring database
• Manage the CNF Power BI dashboard
• Support data systems that underpin CNF reporting to the Steering Committee, financial partners, and the public

The consultant will work closely with the Programme Specialist – Monitoring and Quality Assurance to ensure technical rigor, consistency, and alignment in monitoring and reporting of child nutrition and development programme results.

This will ensure that CNF results and financial information are accurate, consistent, timely, and presented in a way that supports decision-making and accountability.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Statistics, data science, economics, public health, nutrition, international development, or a related field
• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible professional experience in monitoring and evaluation, data management, and analysis, preferably in international development, nutrition, health, or development financing
• Demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining results frameworks, indicator databases, and dashboards
• Proven experience in designing and maintaining Power BI dashboards and data models, including integrating multiple data sources
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required; knowledge of French, Spanish, or another UN official language is an asset

Requirements

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including data cleaning, validation, and quality assurance
• Advanced proficiency in Power BI (DAX, Power Query, data modeling) and Excel; experience with data visualization tools such as Infogram
• Knowledge of results-based management, theory of change, and M&E methodologies
• Ability to translate complex financial and programme data into clear visuals and messages for senior audiences
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple deadlines
• Ability to work independently and remotely, and to coordinate with multiple teams across time zones

Benefits

• UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere
• UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence
• Reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities throughout the recruitment process