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UNICEF Vacancy: Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist – Evidence & Learning with and for Adolescent Girls in New York HQ for 2025

Vacancy Details

  • Job no: 577863
  • Grade: (P-4)
  • Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
  • Duty Station: New York
  • Location: United States
  • Categories: Gender Development
  • Organization: UNICEF
  • Target Audience: Professionals, Job Seekers
  • Deadline: 01 Jan 2025 Eastern Standard Time

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF is seeking a passionate Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist to drive evidence and learning in support of adolescent girls’ well-being and empowerment. Guided by UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan and Adolescent Girls’ Programme Strategy, this role will work under the supervision of the Senior Advisor, Gender Equality. As part of the Global Team leading the adolescent girls’ agenda, you will collaborate with Gender and Adolescent Development colleagues to oversee a robust portfolio of 46 country programs under the POWER4Girls Initiative. These programs aim to enhance adolescent girls’ skills, protection, health, and leadership through multisectoral approaches.

This role presents a unique opportunity to shape the ‘evidence into action’ agenda, translating research into impactful programming for girls worldwide. You will lead knowledge generation efforts, support implementation research, and work closely with UNICEF’s Office of Research – Innocenti, Data & Analytics, and Global Office of Evaluation to bridge the gap between evidence and practice. If you are passionate about improving outcomes for adolescent girls and advancing gender equality, this position offers a chance to make a tangible, lasting impact.

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The Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist will lead the development of a strategic evidence and learning agenda centered on advancing the rights and empowerment of adolescent girls. Working closely with the Senior Advisor and collaborating with the Global Girl Leaders Advisory Group, UNICEF staff, and research colleagues, the role ensures that the evidence agenda is both inclusive and practical, driving meaningful shifts in policy and practice. Key responsibilities include planning the overall evidence portfolio, aligning global research priorities with programmatic needs, and coordinating with external partners to build high-quality learning opportunities. By managing contracts, consultants, and partnerships, this role will deliver evidence-based insights that inform and enhance UNICEF’s adolescent girls’ programming.

The Specialist will co-create and manage evidence generation projects in collaboration with UNICEF’s country offices and a global network of adolescent girl champions. This includes designing project management plans, providing technical oversight for research methods, and ensuring high-quality outputs such as reports and policy briefs. Additionally, the role involves conducting literature reviews, identifying knowledge gaps, and fostering engagement with internal and external stakeholders to shape UNICEF’s adolescent girl agenda. By staying abreast of emerging research and representing UNICEF in evidence forums, the Specialist will strengthen the organization’s capacity to advocate for and implement transformative policies and programs for adolescent girls worldwide.

Minimum requirements:

Education:

Advanced university degree (Masters or higher) in the social sciences (i.e. sociology, demography, psychology, political science, social policy or economics), public health, public policy, public administration, international development, or in an area relevant to UNICEF’s sectoral work (e.g. Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Child Protection, Social Inclusion, HIV/AIDs, etc.)

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Work Experience:

  • Minimum eight years of relevant professional experience and demonstrated track record of having undertaken and led substantive programming and research on gender/adolescent girls and development in key issue areas that are the focus of UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan.
  • Proven experience drafting quality research outputs for different stakeholders and audiences is required.
  • Experience working in a development setting, managing programmes and / or research is required.

Desirables

  • Strong experience in statistical analysis utilizing large data sets, is as asset.
  • Experience with qualitative data collection methods and analysis techniques highly desirable.
  • Demonstrated people management skills and the ability to forge and manage partnerships.

Assets

  • Experience advocating with industry and multistakeholder platforms, investment institutions, governments, NGOs, or within the corporate sector, including coordinating advocacy efforts with others.
  • Knowledge of econometric models and identification strategies to test impact of programmes an asset
  • Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
  • Familiarity/ background with emergency contexts is considered as an asset.
  • Demonstrated excellence in writing and verbal communication; experience with proposal writing an asset.

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Language Requirements:

  • Fluency in English is required. Working knowledge of another UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) is considered an asset.

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Competencies

  • Builds and maintains partnerships
  • Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
  • Drive to achieve results for impact
  • Innovates and embraces change
  • Manages ambiguity and complexity
  • Thinks and acts strategically
  • Works collaboratively with others

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