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Consultant; Social and Behavior Change

Category: Research/Consultancy
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Job Description

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Job Responsibilities

  • How to apply systems thinking to map out the components of a target behaviour.
  • How to identify sectors that could provide interventions or services to address some of those components.
  • How to design new multi-sectoral interventions or leverage services that are already being delivered to be a part of the intervention.
  • To develop and test this approach, the project will focus on a health-related issue in Kenya and Burkina Faso:
  • Understanding the main drivers and barriers of the health issue to be determined.
  • Identifying opportunities to intervene on both the supply and demand side of the issue, leveraging the multi-sectoral approach.
  • Designing the interventions or identifying sectoral services that can be leveraged as interventions (e.g., cash transfers, nutrition interventions, WASH infrastructure services).
  • Designing, implementing, and evaluating the impact of the intervention, ideally as a randomized control trial or a quasi-experimental method (e.g., synthetic control).
  • Inception Report developed with inputs incorporated from the team - By 10 May 2024
  • Spreadsheet of relevant academic papers, document with summaries of technical papers, PPT summary of key insights from desk review created. – By 30 May 2024.
  • Qualitative survey instruments for understanding the programme landscape of sectoral colleagues developed – By 30 May 2024
  • 8 interviews with colleagues from different sectors in both Burkina Faso and Kenya organised and conducted. – By 20 June 2024
  • A summary of findings and identified opportunities for intervention area(s) prepared. - By 1 July 2024.
  • Research instruments using qualitative/quantitative research to gain insights from communities on target behavior and related behaviors designed. – By 15 July 2024
  • Rapid desk research on target behavior and related interventions conducted. – By 20 July 2024
  • A data landscape analysis to identify administrative data to contribute to diagnostic as well as to inform intervention design undertook – By 1 August 2024
  • A summary of insights, behavioral diagnostics, and key hypotheses developed. - By 5 August 2024
  • Two co-creation workshops (one with Kenya CO and one with Burkina Faso CO) with stakeholders from relevant sectors to design interventions based on the behavioral diagnostics designed          -By 10 August 2024
  • Low fidelity prototypes of the main interventions developed – By 1 September 2024
  • Four community feedback workshops to test the prototypes (two in Kenya and two in Burkina Faso) designed and organized. – By 20 September 2024
  • Experimental design and pre-analysis plan for the evaluation of the programme developed.

Other Educational Qualification

  • An advanced master’s degree in - Behavioral science, Economics, Psychology, Political Science, Development studies

Skills

  • A minimum of 7 years' experience executing and evaluating field experiments of applied behavioral science projects, including randomised controlled trials is required. Specifically:
  • Researching, designing and implementing interventions that apply behavioral insights methodologies, tools and approaches.
  • Research design focused on experimental and quasi-experimental methodologies.
  • Executing and evaluating field experiments (behavioral insights interventions).
  • Proven track record in conducting field experiments remotely through a local partner.
  • Proven track record in conducting field experiments in an African context.
  • Data Management & Security Skills for Data cleaning and Data analysis.
  •  written proficiency in English is required.
  • Upload copy of academic credentials
  • Financial proposal that will include/ reflect:
  • the costs per each deliverable and the total lump-sum for the whole assignment (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference.
  • travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR.
  • Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable.
  • Indicate your availability.
  • Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.
  • At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.
  • Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

Salary

  • Negotiable

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UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund

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Job Summary

  • Salary: Negotiable
  • Job Type: Full Time
  • Job Location: United Kingdom
  • Employment Type: Contractual
  • Experience: 7 to 8 Year (s)
  • Vacancy: Not Specific
  • Gender: Any
  • Published on:September 12, 2024
  • Application Deadline: November 12, 2024
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About the Company

  • Company Name: UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
  • Address: UNICEF House, Plot E-30 Syed Mahbub Morshed Avenue
  • Website: https://www.unicef.org/
  • UNICEF's activities include providing immunizations and disease prevention, administering treatment for children and mothers with HIV, enhancing childhood and maternal nutrition, improving sanitation, promoting education, and providing emergency relief in response to disasters.


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