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UNICEF is the world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, ...
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Key activities & duties
The successful candidate will be asked to lead on the implementation the following tasks and activities:
Technical guidance and support
Undertake a rapid contextual analysis drawing on existing data and evidence and identify key lessons learnt impacting response/interventions.
Review existing UNICEF tools, platforms and partners/vendors that can support collection of social science data, including U-Report.
Provide technical advice to enhance standardised approaches to the collection, analysis and use of socio-behavioural data.
Provide practical advice and tools to RCCE/AAP/SBC/CEA partners to undertake rapid ethnographic assessments on social norms and beliefs, behaviours, perceptions, power dynamics and political economy.
Commission and provide oversight of social science research activities including design and review of research protocols, data collection, analysis, framing and dissemination of operational findings.
Contribute to knowledge management aspects to ensure tools, protocols, and methodological expertise are made available to all relevant response partners.
Capacity-Building
Undertake a rapid capacity needs assessment among community engagement partners and develops targeted capacity-building and training initiatives to strengthen applied social science research during the emergency response.
Partnership
Map local and national academic institutions and partners with relevant research expertise.
Liaise with agency focal points and strengthen partnerships with main social science stakeholders in the response to ensure the systematic inclusion of social science intelligence in the humanitarian response plan.
Facilitate partnerships between operational community engagement agencies and social science expertise to enhance a better understanding of socio-behavioural factors impacting on health seeking, trust and overall reduction of risks.
Coordination
Map and assess the collection and use of socio-behavioural data across the public health response to identify critical evidence, capacity and resource gaps.
Support the development of an operationally focused community engagement research agenda which responds to local needs and priorities and strengthens communities' voices in the design and implementation of operational social science research, and coordinate closely with other social science experts of the response to advocate for emerging priorities.
Work closely with community engagement partners, Information Managers and available social science expertise to establish effective mechanisms for data sharing and data flow management.
Collaborate with M&E experts and the community engagement interagency team (where available) to adapt and implement the M&E framework.
Collaborate with social science experts deployed to the response (where available) to advocate and ensure the systematic inclusion of all social science intelligence in the humanitarian response plan.
Work closely with the national RCCE/AAP/SBC/CEA Coordinator and commission sub-commission leads to ensure that socio-behavioral research and evidence is underpinning operational and strategic decision-making processes in relation to community engagement and other relevant response pillars. This will mean to assess information needs and data gaps, understand preferred communication channels and formats, and co-develop actionable recommendations with partners and key stakeholders from other response pillars
Key Expected Results
The position will be responsible to embed and strengthen the role of operational social science in the design and delivery of the national community engagement plans with the aim to strengthen community-centred approaches in the overall public health response. The position will provide support to the national level leadership of the response (e.g. national RCCE/AAP/SBC/CEA working group), provide technical guidance and strategic directions and contribute to evidence-based decision-making using a variety of information sources including community-level data (e.g. community feedback, social listening, monitoring data) and social science intelligence (operational social science research). She/he will hereby maximize collaboration and complementarity with other social science capacity across the response.
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