UNICEF Remote Internship: National YEE 2023

In order to address the pressing needs of children in Yemen, the Middle East’s poorest nation, UNICEF established a presence there in the 1970s. Yemen ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1991, and it went into effect right away. Since then, Yemen has steadily improved conditions for children, but even before that, the country desperately needed humanitarian aid. In 2015, Yemen entered a terrible conflict. UNICEF is working in all the governorates of Yemen in partnership with local authorities, non-governmental organizations, and community partners to address the needs of children across the nation with a continuum of services to support children’s survival and development through the following programs: Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Basic Education, and Child Protection.

UNICEF Yemen is focused particularly on the role of young and emerging (YEEs) national evaluators at all stages of the evaluation process. Evaluations at UNICEF Yemen are governed by an evaluation reference group (ERG) that provides feedback at all key stages of the evaluation (planning, implementation, dissemination, and use) and guidance to the evaluation in cases of conflict or other contractual and contextual issues. At UNICEF Yemen, the ERG for 2023-2024 will be comprised of a core group of cross-sectoral UNICEF staff and young and emerging evaluators, who will be joined by a rotating set of program-specific members based on the evaluation program. The YEEs’ addition to the ERGS for UNICEF’s evaluations is intended to: Strengthen youth voices during all stages of the evaluation process; and Provide opportunities for YEES in Yemen to gain substantive experience with the evaluation process.

The National YEEs will support improving the quality of evaluation ToRs, inception reports, and final reports by contributing perspectives that have often been lacking in the evaluation process. National YEEs’ participation will also provide entry-level experience dealing with substantive issues around evaluation to the participating young/emerging evaluators, which will support the development of systemic evaluation capacity in Yemen. Age, Gender, and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated, and documented in all activities throughout the assignment.

The National YEEs on the ERG will particularly serve to support in representing the perspectives of evaluators aged 35 and younger, as well as evaluators with less than 5 years of experience in evaluation. However, participants will act as a collective group and, to the extent possible, will not represent national/organizational interests. This is a part-time internship & the duration is 6 months. The supervisor together with the other team members will provide training and guidance to the National YEE. The National YEE is expected to work remotely and onsite from the UNICEF offices in Yemen based on the work requirements. Occasional travel inside Yemen is anticipated as part of this assignment but is negotiable. The duration of the assignment is on a part-time basis with the possibility of an extension. The successful candidate can arrange their working days flexibly, depending on the work plan they jointly prepare with the section team.