Location : Home-based
Application Deadline : 09-Jul-21 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time left : 14d 7h 53m
Type of Contract : Individual Contract
Post Level : International Consultant
Languages Required :
English
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
Background
Introduction
These terms of reference guide the services sought by the UN Women Independent Evaluation Service (IES) for a Data Analyst Consultant to support an IES-led formative evaluation of UN Women’s Climate Change work at the headquarters, regional and country levels. The Data Analyst Consultant will have expertise in survey design, implementation and analysis using Survey Monkey or MS Forms and experience with quantitative and qualitative data collection, analysis using NVivo and report writing.
The formative evaluation will be forward-looking with a focus on future strategy development for implementing climate change programming within the context of UN Women’s Strategic Plan. It will draw on past and ongoing work to present evidence and develop learnings. The evaluation is expected to be complete by December 2021. The evaluation will be utilization focused and intended for strategic decision making and organizational learning by UN Women, partners, and others within the policy advocacy community of practice.
Context
UN Women’s climate change work is guided by a series of international normative frameworks relating to climate change, including the Paris Agreement, Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the Sustainable Development Goals. UN Women delivers on its commitment to support UN Member States in addressing structural barriers to gender equality and women’s empowerment by leveraging its triple mandate of normative support, UN system coordination and operational activities. Within this mandate, UN Women works to mainstream gender into national climate action plans and strategies, while climate change programming work includes awareness raising and capacity building to support environmentally friendly agriculture practices, disaster risk reduction and resilience work and other interventions. UN Women’s forward-looking areas of interest include gender-responsive green economy, decent work and economic autonomy for women?, violence against women in the context of disasters and climate change?, climate security, women’s agency and leadership in climate change?, climate financing, sustainable energy, gender-responsive budgeting, climate related migration, and ?increasing data and knowledge on the gendered dimensions of climate change.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Evaluation Lead and in collaboration with other evaluation team members, the Data Analyst Consultant will utilize their expertise to design quantitative data collection tools using Survey Monkey or MS Forms, support quantitative data analysis and triangulate quantitative results with other data sources (including focus group discussion and key informant interview data and key documents and literature). Although the focus of the work will be on the survey(s) and survey results, the Data Analyst will also participate in focus group discussions and key informant interviews to take notes and prepare transcriptions. The Data Analyst will also support the coding and analysis of qualitative data using NVivo and support the analysis with in-depth knowledge of the survey results.
The Data Analyst must adhere to the UN Women evaluation policy, the IEAS charter, the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards for Evaluation and Ethical Guidelines for Evaluation, and it should apply the criteria of UN Women’s Global Evaluation Reports Assessment and Analysis System (GERAAS) standards to the highest degree possible.
From the commencement of the contract, the consultant will be responsible for:
Designing quantitative survey tools (timeframe 3 weeks) using Survey Monkey or MS Forms data collection platforms. The consultant will support question construction and lead on the development of electronic tools, including skip logic and appropriate response options. The Data Analyst will be responsible for testing the tools to ensure logic and question interpretation are acceptable. The Data Analyst will be responsible for the overall quality control of the tools and survey data.
Expected Timeframe: July, 2021
Supporting Quantitative and Qualitative data collection, data analysis and cleaning (timeframe 3 weeks) in conjunction with other members of the evaluation team. The Data Analyst will support the roll-out of the survey(s), manage collected data and associated datasets, and ensure that survey data is cleaned. The Data Analyst will lead on quantitative data analysis to produce results tables/frequency tables, data visualizations and analysis using Excel presented in a survey report. The consultant will provide in-depth analysis of the survey results and triangulate results with other data sources. Through this process, the consultant will support the development of key findings and help form recommendations for the final report. The Data Analyst will also support the qualitative data collection through note taking and transcribing interviews, as required. In addition, the consultant will support coding and analysis of qualitative data from key informant interviews and/or focus group discussions using NVivo.
Expected Timeframe: August – September, 2021
Support the drafting and sharing of preliminary findings (timeframe 1 week) by contributing to presentation materials, developing and highlighting key findings and recommendations, creating data visualizations and participating in results sharing workshops with key stakeholders and the external evaluation reference group.
Expected Timeframe: October 2021
Support the drafting of the evaluation report (3 weeks) through analysis, visualizations and data quality assurance. The Data Analyst will be responsible for ensuring that survey results are incorporated, described and analyzed accurately and effectively within the evaluation report. The consultant will also produce annexes to the report that include the final survey tool(s) and data tables/frequency tables with all results. The consultant will produce clear and accessible data visualizations and tables for the report and contribute to writing within various sections of the report, including the methodology, findings and other sections.
Expected Timeframe: November – December 2021
Key success factors:
Contribute to a clear, final evaluation report that summarizes the results of the assignment.
Maintain a positive and productive working relationship with the IES personnel assigned to the assignment as well as with key stakeholders.
Raise and escalate issues of concern in prompt manner with the Evaluation Lead so that these may be resolved in a productive manner.
Adhere to UN Women and IES ethical and data protection guidance and protocols.
Competencies
Functional Competencies:
Demonstrated experience supporting evaluations through quantitative and qualitative data collection, with specific expertise in tool design, quality assurance, and data collection, cleaning and analysis.
Demonstrated experience supporting gender responsive evaluations,
Strong note taking experience and ability to transcribe interview notes
Ability to produce timely, quality outputs.
Ability to work well in a collaborative, team environment, multi-task and work independently with little supervision as required.
Strong interpersonal, negotiation, presentation and communication skills including ability to listen actively and responds effectively.
Strong resourcefulness, logical thinking and analytical skills.
Demonstrated ability to use Survey Monkey, MS Forms, NVivo, Excel or other data collection and analysis software.
Strong writing skills and the ability to write clear, concise analysis using quantitative and qualitative data.
Required Skills and Experience
Education
Advanced university degree in Evaluation, Social Science, Gender Studies, International Development or related field
Experience
At least 3-5 years-experience supporting data collection and analysis for evaluation of organizational programmes and thematic areas in the international development field required.
Expertise in survey design and administration, as well as analysis and presentation of survey data and use of electronic data collection tools, such as Survey Monkey and MS Forms required.
Expertise in qualitative data analysis using NVivo required.
Strong understanding and experience in the areas of gender equality and women’s empowerment, gender mainstreaming, gender analysis preferred.
Experience and knowledge on human rights issues, intersectionality, the human rights-based approach to programming and evaluation, programming with marginalized groups, human rights analysis and related mandates within the UN system preferred.
Expertise in climate change programming, DRR and relevant international frameworks and policies preferred.
Strong knowledge and understanding of the UN system, UN reform processes, and UN programming at the country level preferred.
Excellent analytical, writing, facilitation and communications skills and the ability to engaged and negotiate amongst a wide range of stakeholders.
Languages
Fluency in English is required.
Working level knowledge of French, Spanish, Russian or Arabic languages is an asset.
.Workplan
Activity
Timeframe (2021)
Inception Period
Draft inception report
End-July
Inception meeting
Early August
Finalize inception report
Early-July
Data collection and analysis
Data collection
August – September
Qualitative and quantitative data cleaning and analysis
October
Preliminary results presentation
Team analysis meeting and presentation of preliminary results
End-October
Development and design of PowerPoint presentation
Early-November
Presentation of preliminary results
Early-November
Report writing and dissemination
Draft report
End-November
Final report
Mid-December
Management response
January
Dissemination
January
Payment Plan
A lump sum consultancy fee based on UN Women standard consultancy rates will be paid in three tranches upon satisfactory certification of the following deliverables:
First tranche to be paid upon completion and acceptance of the inception report (20%),
Second tranche to be paid upon completion of the preliminary results sharing workshop (30%)
Third tranche to be paid upon completion and acceptance of the final report (50%)
No travel is expected. All work will be home based.
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