Consultancy: Social and Behaviour Change (with Health expertise) – SBC Data Analytics and Monitoring, Qualitative and Quantitative Insights for Community Health Workforce - Ref.#583073

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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant

Consultancy Title: Social and Behaviour Change (with Health expertise) - SBC Data Analytics and Monitoring, Qualitative and Quantitative Insights for Community Health Workforce

Section/Division/Duty Station: Health Section, Programme Group - NYHQ

Duration: September 2025 – August 2026

Home/ Office Based: NYHQ/ Remote 

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/Assignment: 

The MNCAH Section in the Programme Group at UNICEF Headquarters is seeking an individual consultant to provide SBC data technical expertise to complete deliverables as related to:

1. Focus Group Discussions tools to integrate SBC data within CHW programme data: Standardized existing tools related to community health workers and Young People Perceptions for a career as Community Health Workers, focused around job satisfaction, motivation, and retention
2. Data analysis and reporting: Analyze and develop related materials (reports, data visualization) from the research/assessments with community health workers and young people data collection across 13 countries (UNICEF-Mastercard Foundation CH Workforce Programme)
3. Developing indicators and monitoring standards: Develop a set of products related to results framework for Community Health Workers and Social and Behaviour Change approaches in the area, that could be integrated in the Community Health workforce initiative data platforms.

Background:

Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) is a key component of UNICEF’s work and one of its change strategies.  SBC’s focus on community engagement and social behavioral drivers that influence the lives of children are key to UNICEF results. The area is essential for long-term and sustainable social change and local ownership towards improving the well-being of children and adolescents, their families, and communities.  Furthermore, Social and Behavior Change results are central to the SDGs, and to UNICEF’s work and mandate, having been elevated as such on UNICEF’s Strategic Plan cycle 2022-2025 and continuing to play a central role for 2026-2030 plan. 

Social and Behaviour change deploys a set of approaches that promotes positive and measurable changes toward the fulfilment of rights, including the right to health. It focuses on understanding and addressing cognitive, social and structural drivers of change – of individuals, within communities and diverse population, and institutions and systems. SBC is pivotal to strengthening primary health care, specifically to leaving no child behind, and resilience building efforts. It helps to generate evidence on how people interact and make decisions as well as to empower communities to demand services and be at the heart of the design of services.  SBC also supports service providers to better understand communities and diverse and unique populations, to apply people centered and human rights-based approach to service delivery. 

Currently, in UNICEF there is a need to further measure those results at the community level, as well as institutional and systems levels, working with and empowering implementing partners to institutionalize SBC approaches and interventions, and monitor progress over time. In the health sector, SBC has substantively supported the design and implementation of global sectoral initiatives like that of strengthening Vaccine Confidence through the development of specialized M&E tools for monitoring and reporting.

Recently, UNICEF has been advancing efforts to invest in one of the most critical assets of primary health care, the community health workforce. Leveraging the strong existing partnerships and assets, this program will focus on accelerating some of the key elements of fostering the scale-up of community health worker programs that are mutually equitable – beneficial to the health system as well as the community health workforce - building their skills and providing pathways for their own social development - itself. Acro