Research and Evaluation Officer, NOA, Lebanon Beirut, Temporary Appointment

For every child, a Champion

Lebanon has been responding to one of the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in the world: between 2011 and 2014 1.2 million Syrian refugees crossed into Lebanon seeking refuge from war torn Syria. Furthermore the country already had 280 thousand Palestine refugees and 1.2 million Lebanese poor.
The Lebanese public system already suffering systemic issues from post-civil-war era was further exacerbated by the added strain. National systems with regard to information generation on the situation of children and women was further deprioritized by the government against mounting challenges.
It is within this context the incumbent is expected to provide support and high level technical guidance to UNICEF office, partners, government counterparts and line ministries on studies, research and evaluations.

The incumbent will ensure that the UNICEF Country Office has useful, valid and reliable information on:
• the situation of children's and women's rights;
• the performance of UNICEF-supported programmes including their relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability, and in emergency contexts, their coverage, coordination and coherence.
The incumbent will work within the Planning, Research, Monitoring, Innovation and Evaluation section to support the delivery of valid and reliable information on the situation of children and women. The incumbent will assist in the development of national capacities for research and evaluation.

How can you make a difference?

1.Evaluation & Research Planning: The Country Office has well-prioritized and realistic plans of research, monitoring and evaluation activities, developed in collaboration with national partners, which provide strategic evidence base needed to manage Country Programmes and influence national policies and strategies.

2.Situation Monitoring and Assessment: The Country Office and national partners have timely and accurate information of change in conditions of children, women, and their families in the countries; this information is available to facilitate planning and measure program impact.

- Performs further data processing and analysis of data from these surveys.
-Develop friendly summarized booklets on research.

3.Research: UNICEF-supported research in Lebanon attains established high-quality standards, the results are disseminated in a timely fashion to stakeholders for improving programme performance and contributing to national and corporate learning.

- Provides technical support and quality assurance of draft final reports for research and studies commissioned by Country Offices (COs) across the region and by the Regional Office.
- Provides technical advice on research/evaluation design and methodologies.

4.Evaluation: Ensure that UNICEF-supported evaluations are designed and implemented to established UN quality standards, and the results are disseminated in a timely fashion to stakeholders in order to improve programme performance and contribute to wider learning.
-Monitor and ensure the quality of the data management during the implementation phase, and the quality of the analysis and ease of understanding during the report writing phase.
-Disseminate research findings and recommendations to the intended audiences in user-friendly methods.  In particular, to ensure that effective participatory feedback is provided to community and civil society stakeholders.
-Monitor and ensure that a management response to the findings and recommendations of the evaluation is completed, recorded, and followed up for implementation. 
-Research Capacity Strengthening: The research capacities of Lebanon Country Offices' staff and national partners – government and civil society – meet the expectations and requirements of their positions and responsibilities.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

A university degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Monitoring, Evaluation, Demography, Development Planning, or a directly-related technical field(s) is required.

A minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience at the national or international levels, on demography, statistics, data processing, analysis and interpretation, statistical inference methods and/or data management is required.

Prior knowledge and experience in research methodology, including theories, standards and models, quantitative/qualitative/mixed methods, validity and reliability testing of data is considered highly desirable

Previous work experience in Lebanon on nationally representative household survey is an asset

Fluency in English and Arabic is required. French is an asset

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The competencies required for this post are….

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.