[Hiring] Senior Humanitarian Learning Expert @AGORA

Role Description

The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation of UNICEF’s risk governance frameworks and practices in humanitarian action. Building on a set of case studies conducted across different emergency contexts, the evaluation will allow tracing the decision-making processes that led to either action or no action during past emergency responses and will attempt to measure their repercussion on the delivery of services and goods to children, especially those in hard-to-reach areas. The evaluation aims to put forward recommendations that will equip UNICEF staff across a variety of emergency contexts to manage, prevent, and share risks more responsibly and effectively in the future.

Qualifications

• Masters in International Development, Management, Anthropology, Social Sciences
• At least 15 years of experience in organizational learning, adaptive management, or developmental evaluation in humanitarian organizations
• Demonstrated experience in humanitarian evaluations, including in UNICEF L3 evaluations
• Demonstrated experience facilitating workshops with senior managers and turning evidence into decision tools or frameworks
• Demonstrated experience in participatory visualization of evaluation key messages
• Experience designing and conducting interviews with local and national NGOs and with affected populations, including safe and ethical protocols
• English required; other UN languages considered an asset
• Demonstrate experience in developing innovative methodologies
• Knowledge of the UN system and the global humanitarian system as a whole
• Excellent analytical, communication, and writing skills
• Ability to integrate youth, gender, age, disability, and other equity considerations into evaluation design, data analysis, and reporting
• Strong writing for practitioner audiences
• Working knowledge of localization commitments and the Grand Bargain, especially risk sharing
• Experience with process tracing, critical incident technique (desirable)

Requirements

• UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS)
• Commitment to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status
• Encouragement of 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
• Zero-tolerance policy on conduct incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF
• Rigorous reference and background checks for all selected candidates

Benefits

• Diverse opportunities for professional and personal development
• Attractive compensation and benefits package

Company Description

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.