Vacancy Announcement Details

The UNICEF Evaluation Office is launching an evaluation of the L3 UNICEF response to COVID-19. This evaluation is an organizational requirement, as outlined in the UNICEF Evaluation Policy that prescribes that all L3 emergencies must be evaluated (and the EO is responsible for managing them). While this evaluation is further expected to generate learning for UNICEF moving forward, it represents a unique opportunity to evaluate a L3 emergency that featured a global, as opposed to the more typical country-level, scale, gauging how it was made operational and the results it achieved.

The proposal for this L3 evaluation is for it to be a relatively light exercise as it will largely harness and synthesize the wealth of evidence that was generated over the past year, including evaluations, reviews and assessments, as well as the vast amounts of monitoring data and information available within the organization. The evaluation will also yield new evaluative judgment on aspects of the response that have remained outside the scope of the exercises undertaken throughout the pandemic, through a ‘light’ primary data collection module.

The evaluation of UNICEF’s L3 response to COVID-19 has both an accountability and learning purpose. It fulfils the requirement of the UNICEF Evaluation Policy (2018) whereby all L3 emergencies must be evaluated, while also offering an opportunity to help UNICEF further consolidate learning for future emergencies. In doing so, the evaluation is expected to capture learning and make actionable recommendations that can help UNICEF strengthen its response across future global L3 emergencies, especially future pandemics and other public health emergencies (L3 or otherwise), while also continuing to shape the on-going COVID-19 response in many countries.

The objective of this evaluation is to assess, from a global perspective, how well UNICEF has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and the extent to which it realized its intended role in the global response to COVID-19.

To undertake this evaluation, the UNICEF Evaluation Office are looking for:

• A team leader
• Team Member, Senior-level Consultant 
• Team Member (Mid-level Consultant)

Any clarification questions on the TOR or application process should also be submitted electronically to Jane Mwangi (jmwangi@unicef.org) and copy to Carlotta Tincati (ctincati@unicef.org) no later than midnight 29 October, 2021 (New York time).

The deadline for applications for all three opportunities is 3rd November.