Alliance Strategy Review Consultant Vacancy at UNICEF for 2025 (Remote/Work from home). Apply Today!

Alliance Strategy Review consultant
- Position(s): Alliance Strategy Review consultant (Remote/Work from home)
- Organization: UNICEF
- Job no: 577772
- Contract type: Consultant
- Duty Station: New York
- Level: Consultancy
- Location: United States
- Categories: Child Protection
- Consultancy Title: Alliance Strategy Review consultant
- Section/Division/Duty Station: Child Protection, Programme Group, UNICEF NYHQ
- Duration: 15 January 2025 to 30 June 2025
- Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote
- Deadline: Dec 31, 2024
Purpose of Activity
Alliance Strategy Review Consultant Vacancy at UNICEF for 2025 (Remote/Work from home). Apply Today! The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a global network of operational agencies, academic institutions, policymakers, donors and practitioners that facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection in all humanitarian contexts. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) co-leads the Alliance with rotating NGOs, currently World Vision International and Hurras Network /Child Guardians.
The Alliance sets standards and produces technical guidance for use by various stakeholders, particularly field practitioners. Its mission is to support humanitarian actors to achieve high-quality and effective child protection interventions in humanitarian contexts, in both refugee and non-refugee settings. In 2021, the Alliance launched a five-year strategy, Clarion Call, which outlined an overarching goal to ensure that the centrality of children and their protection is recognized and prioritized as essential and lifesaving across the humanitarian system. Since then, all the Alliance’s technical work, advocacy, collaboration, and partnerships contribute to achieving this goal through action and progress on the seven core areas of the strategy, including the four strategic priorities: (1) Accountability to Children, (2) Localization, (3) Multi-sector and Integrated Programming and Collaboration, (4) Prevention and (5) Climate Change as a looking forward area, (6) Goal of the strategy, and (7) Learning and Development –as an elevated core function. The Alliance has launched its Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework to track the progress of the Alliance Strategy and initiated a mid-term review of strategy implementation in October 2023, which included a piloting of the M&E Framework and conducting an outcome harvesting exercise.
The purpose of the assignment is to support the Alliance in conducting a progress review of its 2021-2025 strategy to inform the refresh of the strategy for 2026-2030. To this end, the consultant will complete three, complementary but distinct tasks:
- Part A: examine the process and all material that has come out from the mid-term review that was launched in October 2023, as well as the consultation that took place in October 2024 with Steering Committee members and the leads of technical groups (all material will be made available in an organized fashion).
- Part B: Plan and conduct a review to understand the plans made, resources leveraged, and intended and unintended outcomes of the actions taken to achieve the goal and priorities of the Alliance strategy (by April 2025). This includes, the goal, four priorities, climate crisis component, and learning and development (as an elevated core function).
- Part C (parallel to part B): Solicit inputs regarding improvements that can be made within the current core components of the strategy to make it fit for purpose for the next strategic period (2026-2030).
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Scope of Work
Working in close collaboration with the Alliance secretariat, Strategy Refresh Task Team, and the Assessment, Measurement, and Evidence Working Group (AME WG), the consultant will conduct a review of the Alliance’s 5-Year Strategy. The overarching goal is to capture the progress, achievements, and impact of the Alliance and to identify gaps and challenges to inform the update/refresh of the strategy for the next strategic cycle (2026-2030).
- Task 1: Produce an inception report outlining the steps that will be taken to collect and collate necessary information on the three parts mentioned above.
- Task 2: Produce a strategy progress report, including specific sections on each of the seven core components of the strategy
- Task 3: Draft a set of recommendations for the update/refresh of the Alliance strategy, including breakdown linked to the seven core components of the strategy.
Adequate time should be built-in to ensure time for consultation with Strategy Refresh Task Team, Alliance secretariat, steering committee and technical group leads between the drafts and final reports. For task 1, only the secretariat and the strategy task team will review the inception plan. For tasks 2 and 3, the steering committee and the leads of Alliance technical groups will also be consulted and given a chance to input to the outputs.
Recommended methods of inquiry:
- Desk based review, including data from relevant websites
- Conduct limited key informant interviews and/or FGDs with key stakeholders on child protection in humanitarian action
- A survey to receive contributions from all key stakeholders, including all members of the SC, WG/TF/Initiative leads, and some key donors/partners.*
The survey is meant to ensure wider consultation with key stakeholders that were not included in the key informant interview or FGDs. It also allows for anonymity; in case it helps some of the actors in providing candid reflections.
Note: The maturity of the progress differs across strategic priorities, therefore, the review might have to take on a differential approach to the different components of the strategy. This differential approach should be determined in consultation with those agencies co-leading the advisory or advisory / working groups for each priority / core function to ensure that it is fit for purpose, within what is possible within the scope of the consultancy.
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Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:
Task 1. Produce an inception report outlining the steps that will be taken to collect and collate necessary information on the three parts mentioned above.
- 1 inception report submitted (14 Feb 2025)
Task 2. Produce a strategy progress report, including specific sections on each of the seven core components of the Alliance Strategy.
- 1 draft strategy progress report submitted (30 April 2025)
- 1 participatory reflection meeting organized (15 May 2025)
- 1final report submitted (16 June 2025)
Task 3. Draft a set of recommendations for the update/refresh of the Alliance Strategy.
- 1 draft recommendations submitted (30 June 2025)
Requirements
Education:
- Advanced university degree (Masters) in the area of social sciences, public policy, statistics, human rights/humanitarian law, or in research methods is required.
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Work experience, Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required :
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in monitoring and evaluation
- Strong knowledge and experience in child protection and/or humanitarian action or relevant field
- Experience of leading evaluations of behavior change interventions required
- Demonstrable expertise in designing and conducting qualitative and quantitative evaluations and impact assessments.
- Experience with outcome harvesting
- Excellent and demonstrable skill in participatory monitoring and evaluation methodologies and approaches.
- Proficiency in a range of PC/web applications, including but not limited to: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Outlook
- Fluent in oral and written English.
- Excellent report writing skill in English
- Excellent critical thinking and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to solve problems and adapt.
- A commitment to and aptitude for attention to details
- Ability to work well and punctually under pressure
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to successfully interact with a diverse group of people and build consensus;
- Flexible work attitude, with the ability to follow direction and work independently across a virtual work environment;
- Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to independently track and follow-up on various tasks;
- Collaborative work style, with strong team-player attitude and ability to identify gaps and to take initiative to fill them;
- Ability to operate remotely and across multiple time-zones.
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