Economic Modelling for Adolescent Girls Consultant

This consultancy aims to advance UNICEF’s adolescent girls agenda by strengthening evidence, financing, and investment cases for programmes improving girls’ wellbeing, leadership, and empowerment. The consultant will support country offices with costing, cost-effectiveness analysis, sustainable financing strategies, develop analytical tools and investment cases, and produce evidence products to mobilize resources and influence policy.

Responsibilities

• Support country offices with costing, cost-effectiveness analysis and sustainable financing strategies.
• Develop analytical tools and investment cases, including climate-informed approaches.
• Produce evidence products to help mobilize resources, influence policy, and scale proven solutions for adolescent girls across public, private and philanthropic funding partners.

Requirements

• Advanced University degree (Masters) in Economics, development economics, public policy, public finance, statistics, econometrics, data science, environmental economics, international development, or another relevant field.
• Minimum eight years of relevant professional experience in economic modelling, development economics, public finance, investment cases, programme costing or related analytical work.
• Demonstrated experience developing investment cases, cost-effectiveness analyses, costing models, financing strategies or return-on-investment analyses for social-sector programmes, with a focus on adolescent girls.
• Experience translating complex analysis into practical policy, financing and programme recommendations for governments, development partners and/or private finance audiences.
• Knowledge of gender equality and adolescent girls’ programming, including education, health, protection, social protection or economic empowerment, is highly desirable.
• Experience providing technical assistance to country teams and producing high-quality analytical products for diverse audiences.
• Excellent English oral and written skills;
• Proficiency in another UN language (Spanish, French or Arabic) is desirable.
• Strong quantitative skills, including econometrics and causal-inference methods, with the ability to apply conservative and transparent assumptions.
• Relevant experience with UNICEF, another UN agency or an international development organization is an asset.

Skills

• Econometric Modelling
• Development Economics
• Public Finance
• Investment Case Development
• Programme Costing
• Cost-effectiveness Analysis
• Financing Strategy Design
• Return on Investment Analysis
• Policy Recommendations
• Technical Assistance
• Quantitative Analysis
• Econometrics
• Causal-Inference Methods
• Data Science
• Analytical Product Development
• Gender Equality Programming
• Adolescent Girls Programming
• Social Sector Programmes
• English Language Proficiency

Languages

English, Spanish, French, Arabic