Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Monitoring and Measurement Consultant, UNICEF GPD-Child Protection, Nairobi, Kenya, 10 months, remote

Contract Duration: 10 months

Working arrangement: remote

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TERMS OF REFERENCE

Social and behaviour change (SBC) is a critical component of UNICEF’s efforts to prevent and eliminate harmful practices, including female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage. Over the past five years, UNICEF has invested significantly in developing evidence, tools, methodologies and guidance to strengthen the design, implementation and measurement of SBC interventions to end harmful practices, while also advancing global thought leadership in this area. These investments have resulted in a range of global public goods, social norms measurement tools, strengthened country-level programming, and new evidence on emerging issues affecting efforts to end harmful practices, such a pushback against gender equality.

As UNICEF seeks to consolidate and scale these investments, there is a need for specialized technical support to finalize innovative community monitoring tools that enable implementing partners and communities to monitor behavioural drivers, including social norms, and behaviour change related to the prevention of female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage.

The purpose of this consultancy is to finalize, validate and scale an innovative, accessible and user-friendly community monitoring package that enables communities and implementing partners to monitor behavioural drivers, social norms and behavioural outcomes related to harmful practices. The community monitoring package has been developed and had undergone an initial round of testing. The consultancy will improve the methodological rigour, usability and practical application of the tools through additional pilot testing, refinement and documentation.

Building on a substantial body of evidence, tools and programming approaches developed by UNICEF and its partners over the past five years, the consultant will support the finalization and validation of innovative, accessible and user-friendly community monitoring tools including methodologically sound selection of indicators to measure behavior change through monitoring behavioural drivers at the community level.

The consultancy will contribute to institutionalizing and scaling practical monitoring approaches that strengthen UNICEF’s capacity to support countries to design, implement and monitor behaviour change in evidence-informed SBC programming for the prevention of harmful practices.

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: TMC0004158 ToR.pdf

Minimum requirements:

• Education:
  • Advanced university degree (Master's degree or higher) in Social and Behaviour Change, Social Sciences, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Public Health, International Development, Law, Gender Studies, Research Methods, or a related field.
• Work Experience:
  • Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible professional experience in social and behaviour change (SBC), social norms programming and measurement, community engagement, social norms research, behavioural research, or related fields.
  • Demonstrated experience designing, implementing and measuring programmes aimed at addressing harmful practices, gender equality, violence against women and girls, child protection, sexual and reproductive health, or related issues.
  • Proven expertise in social norms theory, measurement and application, including experience developing or adapting tools, indicators and monitoring frameworks.
  • Demonstrated experience conducting qualitative and mixed-methods research, including literature reviews, key informant interviews, data analysis and synthesis of findings.
  • Experience developing practical guidance, toolkits, frameworks, methodologies or other global public goods for governments, development partners or international organizations.
  • Experience producing high-quality, knowledge products, publications, journal articles and/or technical reports for international audiences.
• Language requirement:
  • Excellent written and spoken English is required.
  • Fluency in French is highly desirable given the geographic focus of the assignment

• Skills:

• Strong understanding of behavioural and social norms drivers related to harmful practices, in particular child marriage and female genital mutilation.

• Strong analytical, research and writing skills, with the ability to translate complex evidence into practical and actionable guidance.

• Demonstrated ability to design and test innovative monitoring and measurement approaches.

• Experience designing practical monitoring systems and user-friendly data collection tools for community-based programming is highly desirable.

Desirables:

• Experience working with UNICEF, UN agencies, governments or international development organizations is highly desirable.

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Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate financial proposal TMC0004158 Financial Proposal Template.xlsx

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