Consultant to support CNF communications efforts - Req # 576170

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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant 

Consultancy Title: Consultant to support CNF communications efforts

Section/Division/Duty Station: Nutrition Programme Division, NYHQ

Duration:  1 November 2024 to 1 October  2025

Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote

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BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

The consultancy aims to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts of the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF), a UNICEF-led initiative designed to mobilize financing and resources to combat malnutrition. The consultant will play a critical role in enhancing data transparency, quality, and storytelling, thereby supporting the CNF’s mission to sustainably scale up interventions addressing wasting, stunting, and anemia in children and women.

The Child Nutrition Fund (CNF) is a UNICEF-led financing mechanism designed to transform the way we address malnutrition. The CNF mobilizes financing to enable the sustainable scale-up of policies, programmes, practices and supplies to address malnutrition. To do so, the CNF provides new opportunities to financially support essential actions to prevent, detect and treat wasting, stunting and/or anaemia in children and women.

The primary objective of this consultancy is to bolster the CNF’s monitoring and evaluation framework, contributing to improved data transparency and quality. The consultant will collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, including UNICEF country and regional offices, data teams, and donors, to ensure the alignment of M&E activities with CNF’s strategic objectives.

 Scope of Work:

The consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:

a. Dashboard and Data Visualization

• Improve, update, and maintain the CNF dashboard in PowerBI, ensuring it accurately reflects targets, costs, and financial flows.
• Develop new data visualizations for presentations, reports, and the CNF website using PowerBI or Infogram as needed.
• Support the visualization of financial data to enhance clarity and comprehension for stakeholders.

b. CNF Strategic Results Framework (SRF)

• Maintain a comprehensive database for monitoring all indicators related to the CNF SRF.
• Ensure high data quality standards and consistency across all indicators within the SRF.
• Assist in reviewing and updating the SRF, including maintaining indicator guidance notes and refining the theory of change as necessary.
• Prepare Data Annexes for inclusion in the CNF Annual Report.

Data Management

• Support the management of various databases, including those related to supplies, match windows, and nutrition supplies forecasting exercises.
• Ensure the quality and consistency of data received from UNICEF country offices.
• Coordinate and work closely with UNICEF Supply Division, to obtain and/or align data on supplies.

d. Evaluation

• Assist in the planning and execution of CNF assessments and evaluations, adhering to UNICEF’s established evaluation criteria and procedures.

e. Donor Reports

• Contribute to prepare donor reports, as requires, highlighting the impact and outcomes of CNF-supported initiatives.

Reporting