Shock-Responsive Social Protection and Household Vulnerability Consultant

Provide technical and analytical support to UNICEF's evidence generation and policy work on household vulnerability and shock-responsive social protection, including collaborative analytical products and policy recommendations with UN partners in the context of recent and compound shocks, including the Middle East crisis.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and analytical support to UNICEF's evidence generation and policy work on household vulnerability and shock-responsive social protection.
• Develop collaborative analytical products and policy recommendations with UN partners in the context of recent and compound shocks, including the Middle East crisis.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree or equivalent in economics, development economics, social policy, public policy, statistics, development studies or another relevant social science.
• A PhD is an asset.
• At least seven years of relevant professional experience in social protection, poverty or vulnerability analysis, development economics, household research, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience in producing high-quality analytical reports or policy products using household-level evidence and multiple data sources.
• Demonstrated experience in analyzing household, administrative, secondary and/or qualitative data to inform social protection, poverty or vulnerability policies.
• Experience undertaking or supporting household-level research, stakeholder consultations or mixed-method analysis.
• Strong analytical and mixed-method skills, including the ability to synthesize household survey findings, administrative and secondary data, qualitative evidence and policy information.
• Strong knowledge of social protection, poverty and vulnerability analysis.
• Ability to assess the quality, comparability and limitations of different evidence sources and translate findings into clear, feasible policy recommendations.
• Ability to design or support focused household-level or stakeholder consultations, where required, and integrate qualitative evidence with existing quantitative analysis.
• Excellent analytical writing, presentation and datavisualization skills.
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, with the ability to work effectively across agencies and disciplines.
• Excellent written and spoken English is required.
• Knowledge of Sinhala and/or Tamil is an asset, but is not required for international candidates.
• Experience assessing social assistance coverage, adequacy, targeting, delivery systems and/or shock responsiveness.
• Knowledge or experience in adaptive or shock-responsive social protection.
• Experience integrating gender, child, disability and other leave-no-one-behind dimensions into policy or vulnerability analysis.
• Familiarity with Sri Lanka’s social protection system and current reform context, including Aswesuma and relevant delivery and administrative arrangements.
• Experience working with UN agencies, government institutions, international financial institutions and/or research organizations.
• Experience working with confidential or sensitive household evidence in accordance with ethical and data-protection requirements.
• Familiarity with statistical analysis software such as Stata, R or Python.

Skills

• Social Protection Systems Analysis
• Poverty Analysis
• Vulnerability Analysis
• Household Research
• Development Economics
• Policy Analysis
• Mixed-Method Analysis
• Qualitative Analysis
• Quantitative Analysis
• Multi-Stakeholder Consultation
• Analytical Report Production
• Data Visualization
• Shock-Responsive Social Protection
• Social Assistance Assessment
• Targeting and Delivery Systems
• Gender and Disability Inclusion
• Ethical Data Practices
• Data Protection Compliance
• Statistical Software Stata
• Statistical Software R
• Statistical Software Python

Languages

English