Description : Consultancy: Data Analyst and Reports Writer for the Safe Online Initiative. Company : UNICEF. Location : United States

Job no: 560931
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: New York
Level: Consultancy
Location: United States
Categories: Child Protection, Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

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The Opportunity

The Global Partnership to End Violence against Children is seeking an experienced data analyst and donor reporting professional to produce two reports on activities related to online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA). The successful candidate will have experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis, as well as drafting of compelling reports or other communication materials to different types of audiences. Experience in the international development sector, including UN, international donors, INGOs, and foundations, would be a strong asset. We are seeking a solutions-driven and entrepreneurial individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment, with limited supervision and good capacity to absorb feedback in a timely and constructive manner.

Background

The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, and its associated Fund, (End Violence), is a unique public-private coalition launched by the UN Secretary-General in July 2016 to accelerate progress towards SDG 16.2: ending all forms of violence against children by 2030. End Violence convenes partners that collaborate globally to raise awareness, catalyse leadership commitments, mobilise new resources, promote evidence-based solutions and innovation, and support those working to end all forms of violence, abuse, and neglect of children. The Partnership connects and facilitates collective evidence-based advocacy, especially to keep children safe in communities, online, and in and through schools, while the integrated Fund is a flexible funding vehicle that identifies new and emerging challenges to SDG 16.2, funds innovative initiatives that have the potential to replicate and scale, and generates data, evidence, and learning to inform policy and increase the impact of programmes. End Violence has four priority areas:

1. Works with countries to end violence against children through the process of Pathfinding, whereby governments commit to ending violence against children by implementing evidence-based solutions such as the INSPIRE strategies.

2. Strengthens the network of organisations working to keep children Safe Online by leveraging its network of grantees and partners to influence global policy debates and investing in solutions to tackle child online sexual exploitation and abuse.

3. Builds on existing efforts to ensure children are safe in and through schools via the Safe to Learn initiative, backed by a growing coalition of partners as well as countries who endorse its five-point Call to Action.

4. Since 2001, the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children (GI) worked to end corporal punishment, advocating for full and comprehensive law reform to prohibit violent discipline, raise awareness about the issue, and monitor law throughout the globe. In September 2020, the Global Initiative became part of the End Violence Partnership, allowing the organisation's essential work to continue under the new name End Corporal Punishment.

From its inception in 2016 until December 2022, End Violence raised nearly US$ 100 million for the Safe Online portfolio from the UK Home Office, Human Dignity Foundation, Technology Coalition, and the Oak Foundation. By July 2022, it has awarded US$71 million in capacity building, tools, programmes, and technologies to prevent and respond to online child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), through 89 projects with impact in over 75 countries.

Through its Safe Online investment portfolio, the End Violence Fund implemented the following funding rounds to date:

• First two, in 2017 and 2018, were focused on building the foundations of an integrated response to online CSEA through focusing on national, regional, and international capacities aligned with the Model National Response (MNR) to end and prevent online CSEA, a framework developed and promoted by the WePROTECT Global Alliance. Thirty-one grantees were selected via these two open Calls for Proposals and represent organisations working across the world, ranging from Latin America, Southeast Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, North America, as well as some organisations in Central Europe, South America, and two in the Middle East.
• In 2019, the Safe Online portfolio of End Violence built on the progress made during the previous two years. It continued financial and technical support to programmes and activities that delivered practical and innovative solutions to end violence against children online. In early 2019, as part of its third funding round and a targeted call focusing on Southeast Asia and Eastern/Southern Africa, End Violence focused on generating more data, evidence, and learning, one of the key capabilities of the MNR. It invested US$7 million to develop Disrupting Harm, a holistic and innovative methodology and approach to conducting comprehensive assessments of online CSEA at national and regional levels in 13 countries. Disrupting Harm is a large-scale research project with multiple data collection components carried out by three international organisations that aims to better understand how digital technology facilitates the sexual abuse and exploitation of children, both online and in person.
• To further invest in building the capabilities related to technology and innovation as outlined in the MNR, End Violence focused on channelling funding into potentially higher risk areas of investment such as technology solutions and innovation. The fourth funding round was launched in September 2019 through an Open Call for Solutions focused on cutting-edge technology tools for the global community to make children safe online. As a result of this Call, we welcomed a new cohort of 15 grantees, which were awarded a total of US$ 10 million for the development and scale-up of these tools.
• In January 2021, End Violence and the Technology Coalition launched the Tech Coalition Safe Online Research Fund to expand knowledge of online child sexual exploitation and abuse and explore the most effective measures to prevent it. Through this collaboration, End Violence is teaming up with the biggest players in the technology space as part of Technology Coalition’s Project Protect. Project Protect seeks to prevent and eradicate online CSEA through technology innovation, collective action, research, knowledge sharing, and increased accountability. This fund is an essential part of that process, supporting actionable research that will lead to real, lasting change for children’s digital safety. Eight new grants are expected to be awarded by the end of the fourth quarter of 2022, bringing the total number of grants in this Fund up to 13 for a total amount of US$ 1,600,000.
• In 2021, End Violence also invited UNICEF Cambodia and Red PaPaz (Colombia) to submit applications through their invitation-only funding modality. Through these new investments, we will support UNICEF Cambodia and Red PaPaz in Colombia to strengthen Safe Online National Centres, nationally owned and operated spaces for countries to prevent, detect and respond to online child sexual abuse. These projects will be running during the next three years, for a total awarded amount of US$ 3 million.
• On September 2021, End Violence launched two open calls for proposals through a US$ 15 million investment round focused on strengthening systems and technology solutions to enable more effective and coordinated efforts to tackle online CSEA. As a result of these two calls, 18 grants were awarded for the implementation of projects in Eastern and Southern Africa, and Southeast Asia, as well as globally.
• On September 2022, a new round focused on evidence generation and scalable impact was launched among targeted organisations, for the development of project interventions building on existing project funded by End Violence, with the objective of conducting as well evaluations.

End Violence also supports the Safe Online grantee community through creating a strong network which maximises the collective impact and leverages synergies i.e. we invest in more than just individual projects, we invest in global prevention and response to online CSEA. This is done in several ways: through tailored technical support in the form of programmatic visits, check-in calls, in-person convenings, networking facilitated by the End Violence, and knowledge exchange opportunities via the Safe Online Network Forum and global and regional webinars to promote learning within the grantee community and the wider ecosystem. Going forward, the Safe Online team aims to continue investing in the online CSEA ecosystem and collaborative efforts, while also promoting a collaborative culture through connecting grantees to each other, and relevant key resources and mentors to ensure cross-collaboration, knowledge exchange, and learning.

Purpose

The Data Analyst and Report Writer will support the Safe Online team by:

• Drafting the Safe Online 2022 Annual report section. For that, the consultant will review the quantitative and qualitative data reported by the Safe Online grantees in their 2022 Annual Reports and Final reports. Quantitative data will be provided by the grantees in the form of log-frame analysis (mainly), while qualitative data will be embedded in the narrative reports.
• Drafting the Safe Online 2022 Network Forum report (an event held in Brussels in May 2022), based on the documentation to be provided by the Safe Online team.

Key deliverables:

The Data Analyst and Report Writer will be required to:

• Review the quantitative and qualitative data provided by the Safe Online grantees in their 2022 Annual and Final Reports (around 55 grantees).

• Detect and communicate to the Safe Online team data inconsistencies in these reports

• Consolidate and aggregate definitive quantitative data, in a user-friendly manner compatible with MS Office 365 tools, and consistent with the baseline provided by the Safe Online team at the beginning of the assignment.

• Consolidate and draft the Safe Online 2022 Annual Report section on the impact of our grantees on the ground (an example of this can be accessed here)

• Draft the Safe Online Network Forum 2022 report (main take-aways of event held in Brussels in May 2022), based on the documentation to be provided by the Safe Online team. An example of a similar report can be found here.

• Participate in online meetings as needed to discuss and clarify certain aspects of the above referred deliverables and receive inputs from the Safe Online team.

Expected Deliverables (measurable results)

The consultant(s) will be expected to deliver the following key results:

• Final Draft data table (ie. spreadsheet) with quantitative and qualitative results from Safe Online grantee reports: By 5 May 2023 (est. ten days)

• Final Consolidated data table (ie. spreadsheet) with quantitative and qualitative results from Safe Online grantee reports: By 19 May 2023 (est. ten days)

• Draft Final Safe Online 2022 Annual report (word document): By 31 May 2023 (est. eight days)

• Final consolidated Safe Online 2022 Annual report (word document): By 15 June 2023 (est. 10 days)

• Draft Safe Online 2022 Network Forum report (based on the event held in Brussels in May 2022) (word format): By 22 June 2023 (estimated five days)

• Final Safe Online 20223 Network Forum report (word format): By 7 July 2023 (est. five days)

Management and coordination of assignment

The consultant will work remotely and will be supervised by the Grant Manager with guidance and oversight by the Safe Online Director. The consultant(s) will work closely with End Violence’s Safe Online team, including the Knowledge Management and Advocacy Specialist, Communications Specialist, Industry Lead, and the Grant Portfolio Specialists.

Please note that members of the Safe Online team are based in New York, Tunis, Phnom Penh, Johannesburg, San Francisco, Geneva, and Madrid. While effort will be made to conduct meetings during working hours in the location of the Consultant, she/he will be asked for reasonable flexibility in their schedule, depending on their location.

Payment plan

• Payment is available upon completion of satisfactory deliverables as per the above timeline, and as approved by the Supervisor.

Consultant is responsible for their own health insurance and other supply costs associated with work as needed. Work-related travel is not required.

Required and Desired Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social sciences, international relations, public administration, communications, journalism, and related fields. PhD will be considered an advantage.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in Monitoring and Evaluation, Donor Reporting, Data Analysis, Journalism, Communications, or other relevant field. Additional experience in the following areas will be considered an asset:

• Legal frameworks and/or judicial systems related to child protection and violence prevention also specific to gender-based violence (GBV), as well as data protection, privacy and cyber-security.
• Public policy and legislation formulation, implementation, and/or evaluation.
• Social Services and Child Protection (online and/or other forms of violence), including prevention, education system and caregiver’s engagement, and/or victim support.
• Data science, new and emerging technology, and/or cybersecurity.
• Technology industry or other private sector experience.

• The successful candidate will be highly responsive, discreet, analytical, results-oriented, with a flexible approach and able to contribute strategic and out-of-the-box thinking.

Languages

• English near-native speaker (both oral and written) is required. English native speaker will be desirable
• Knowledge of other UN languages is highly desirable.

To apply

Applications must include a cover letter, CV, and a sample of your written work. Please also indicate your ability, availability, and financial proposal based on the estimated number of days per deliverable (in US$) to undertake the above terms of reference. Applications submitted without a financial proposal will not be considered.

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UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

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Remarks

As a UNICEF-hosted partnership, End Violence is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organisation.

End Violence has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. End Violence also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Advertised: 06 Apr 2023 Eastern Daylight Time
Deadline: 21 Apr 2023 Eastern Daylight Time