Join UNICEF: Exciting Consultant Position Open for 2025 – Apply Now!

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Join UNICEF: Exciting Consultant Position Open for 2025 – Apply Now!

Job no: 581244
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: New York
Level: Consultancy
Location: United States
Categories: Programme Management
Deadline: 15 May 2025 Eastern Daylight Time

UNICEF is excited to share a wonderful opportunity for a consultant role in the United States for 2025! This position is perfect for those who are passionate about making a difference in children’s lives around the world. If you want to contribute to meaningful change, we invite you to apply today!

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Scope of Work

Are the ambitions of IMF social spending safeguards adequate?
How comprehensive are social safeguarding approaches in terms of social spending considered, and how does this vary across lower and lower-middle income countries.
This may include:
A list of the social sectors and/or social assistance programs encompassed in the IMF’s social spending floors in each country
Consideration across levels of indebtedness and composition of debt (e.g., domestic vs external, types of external).
Consideration of children’s issues vs broader social safeguards.
Are social spending safeguards effectively implemented?
The extent to which recommendations are effectively implemented and overall patterns of social spending over programme timeframes.
This could include:
Analysis by levels of indebtedness.
Analysis by pre-existing trends in child outcomes
Analysis by additional factors (to be explored once data is collated).
Consideration of children’s issues vs broader social safeguards.
Are some tools and approaches more commonly used and/or effective?
Include consideration of the tools and approaches to track social spending in terms of both their commonality and effectiveness (e.g. the use of social spending floors and structural benchmarks; the use of quantitative performance criteria and indicative targets as means of monitoring and verification).
Does the IMF involve relevant actors in its social safeguarding approaches? Comparing guidance on utilization of non-IMF expertise to realities. E.g. the extent to which spending protections rely on and reinforce World Bank programming rather than consideration of other actors. (Here we could potentially engage UNICEF offices in a sub-set of countries to ask about their involvement or lack of it).
Review the foundations of IMF spending conditionalities. For example, do the models that the IMF (and possibly the World Bank) use to determine future economic prospects and debt sustainability adequately consider the long-term benefits of investing in children.

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Requirements

Education

PhD in Economics or related discipline.
An advanced university degree in economics, development economics, statistics or a related field.
Fluency in English (verbal and written) is required. Working proficiency in another official UN language is highly desirable.

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

PhD in Economics, Statistics, Development Economics, or a related field.
At least 8 years of experience.
Proven academic expertise in the areas of debt analysis and the role of IMF spending approaches.
Familiarity with debt sustainability frameworks, social spending, and child-focused development economics.
Strong analytical writing and research visualization skills, with experience producing clear policy research and analytical papers.

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