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Job no: 596829
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: New York
Level: Consultancy
Location: United States
Categories: Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, the right to safety

How can you make a difference?

The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO) is commissioning a global evaluation of UNICEF’s risk governance frameworks and practices in humanitarian action. Building on a set of case studies conducted across different emergency contexts, the evaluation will allow tracing the decision-making processes that led to either action or no action during past emergency responses and will attempt to measure their repercussion on the delivery of services and good to children, especially those in hard-to-reach areas.

The evaluation aims to put forward recommendations that will equip UNICEF staff across a variety of emergency contexts to manage, prevent and share risks more responsibly and effectively in the future.

The EO is seeking a Senior Expert in Organizational Decision-making for this evaluation.

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

Minimum requirements:

|( Qualifications/Experience/ Knowledge/Expertise/Skills)

• Education: PhD in Behavioural science, decision science, organizational psychology, social sciences or a related field.
• Work Experience:
  • At least 12 years of applied experience studying how people and organizations make decisions under uncertainty.
  • Proven experience designing survey experiments or vignette studies, including factorial designs, and analyzing the results
  • Applied work in humanitarian, security or public-sector settings
  • Experience translating behavioural findings into organizational design recommendations
• Language Requirements: English required; other UN languages considered an asset
• Knowledge/Expertise/
  
  Skills:
  
  
  • Knowledge of the risk culture literature, including calculative cultures, and of cognitive biases relevant to evaluation such as hindsight and outcome bias
  • Knowledge of the UN system and the global humanitarian system as a whole;
  • Excellent analytical, communication and writing skills

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone , irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications…