Job no: 577800

Contract type: Consultant

Duty Station: Ashkhabad

Level: Consultancy

Location: Turkmenistan

Categories: Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

Purpose of the Job

Under the overall supervision of the Child Rights Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, the National MICS Consultant (NMC) will support the processes of developing and finalizing MICS7 reporting phase. The NMC will communicate effectively between the UNICEF CO and SSC, responding promptly to MICS related needs and issues as they arise.

The NMC will be responsible for coordinating and supporting the work of other resource persons UNICEF may hire to provide technical assistance to the MICS process. The consultant will work in close collaboration with the survey team, the stakeholders, and Steering and Technical Committees and will represent UNICEF in meetings and workshops in relation to the survey as needed. The NMC will also work in close collaboration with the Regional MICS Coordinator at the UNICEF Regional Office (RO) and the MICS Team at UNICEF Headquarters (HQ), as well as expert consultants assigned to support the Turkmenistan MICS Team.

Main Tasks Related to the Job

• Provide technical support with completing the reporting phase of the MICS7 including the development and translating of snapshots and SFR to Russian and English.
• Communicate regularly with the UNICEF CO and/or the UNICEF MICS Team responding to all MICS related issues in a timely manner.
• Provide monthly updates on MICS activities to the UNICEF CO and SSC MICS Coordinator.
• Coordinate the work of NSO specialists and the UNICEF MICS Team and other resource persons assigned by the UNICEF CO and/or the UNICEF MICS Team to support MICS7 reporting activities.
• Ensure that external technical reviews by experts (i.e., Sampling, Data Processing, and Household Survey expert consultants) are carried out at key survey stages and coordinate the feedback and response between the CO, the UNICEF MICS Team and the SSC.
• Ensure that all survey related documents and deliverables are properly archived throughout the survey reporting process (for example: unput and tabulation plan tables, syntaxes, datasets, Survey Findings Report, Statistical Snapshots, dissemination materials).
• Participate in all MICS Steering and Technical Committee meetings.
• Ensure that lessons learned, problems, and good practices are documented throughout the MICS process and rapidly shared with the MICS community (other MICS implementing countries and the UNICEF MICS Team) through all means available.

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

Education:

• University degree in Economics, Statistics, Social Sciences or any other related technical field is required.
• Skills and Experience:
• Proven minimum of 5-year experience in the coordination and/or management of quantitative household surveys.
• Strong computer skills and strong expertise in statistical analyses (familiarity with data processing and data analysis software, particularly SPSS).
• Prior experience with MICS is desirable.
• Training experience and ability to organize and facilitate training and presentations.
• Experience in data analysis and survey report writing.
• Excellent knowledge of Russian and English. Turkmen is desirable.

Other competencies:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent oral and written communications in language(s) required.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural environment and to establish harmonious and effective relationships both within and outside the organization, more specifically with State Statistics Committee of Turkmenistan.

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