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Consultancy: Volunteer Engagement and Strategy Specialist, Our UNICEF, DRP - NYHQ, Requisition #513936

New York City

  • Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
  • Location: New York City
  • Grade: Consultancy - International Consultant - Internationally recruited Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Operations and Administrations
    • Logistics
    • Children's rights (health and protection)
    • Supply Chain
    • Statistics and Monitoring
    • Volunteerism
  • Closing Date: Closed

The purpose of the consultancy is to develop and implement a plan to build a community of practice for volunteer engagement practitioners across UNICEF. The consultant will work full time, leading key events and fora such as Skillshares, webinars and community calls, in alignment and informed by the work with phase one and phase two countries. Consultant will support and recognise emergent leadership in offices. Consultant will support Country Offices and National Committees. This consultancy will require some travel.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

Background & Rationale 

Millions of people all over the world support UNICEF and our cause. They raise money, they campaign and in some countries they volunteer to help children in myriad ways. There is an opportunity to build on this force for good and go to another level of engagement with a committed group of volunteer supporters. Our aim is to build a UNICEF membership cadre of millions who champion the change we need through their individual and collective commitment. A volunteer force would vastly extend UNICEF’s reach and help broaden and transform UNICEF itself.  

By building a membership group of UNICEF volunteers, we can bring millions more people into UNICEF to take action for children -- locally, nationally and globally. They would help us:  

  • create a stronger connection, better communication, and more accountability between UNICEF and the communities we serve; 
 
  • foster vibrant discussion, debate, and sharing of information about child well-being in the places where UNICEF operates, and 
 
  • grow our presence in the places where we work, make our brand even more powerful, and allow us to include the advice and energy of millions of members across the globe. 
 

 Members might volunteer their time and experience through:  

  • Service activities (from building a playground, helping with language learning, to participating in emergency response) in local communities and attending signature events;  
  • Organizing events and volunteer activities;  
  • Speaking about issues for children in their communities;  
  • Advocacy with governments and the private sector; and  
  • Fundraising to support children. 
 

As volunteers periodically take action in support of children, and come to identify with UNICEF, they will not only contribute to their communities but also contribute energy and advice to UNICEF.  

About us

We are a small team working within UNICEF to support the skills, experience, creativity, and ideas of colleagues, and to help them create a global volunteer force of millions who take action for children.

Our team is gathering and consolidating existing tools and resources; generating the additional systems and tools that colleagues need; fostering a vibrant community of practice among colleagues working with volunteers; and offering research, strategic, and execution support to country teams as they launch and/or scale volunteer activities.

Most of the things we make will be accessible to UNICEF's 135 country offices and 30+ National Committees. We will work with 15 pilot 1st phase countries to create dynamic volunteer initiatives that can model ways of working and inspire colleagues across the organization.

Purpose 

The purpose of the consultancy is to develop and implement a plan to build a community of practice for volunteer engagement practitioners across UNICEF. The consultant will work full time, leading key events and fora such as Skillshares, webinars and community calls, in alignment and informed by the work with phase one and phase two countries. Consultant will support and recognise emergent leadership in offices. Consultant will support Country Offices and National Committees. This consultancy will require some travel.

Expected results: (measurable results) 

  • Develop, enable and grow the Community of Practice for volunteer engagement practitioners globally
  • Knowledge management and exchange - Implement a series of fora and virtual repository to access, share, elevate and cross-pollinate experience and expertise throughout the community.
  • Project Manage global Skillshares and other meetings that will serve the Volunteer Engagement community
  • Facilitate bottom-up processes to inform streams of the Volunteer Initiative strategy
  • Oversee content pipeline for websites and newsletter and other relevant internal communications products
  • Develop support and guidance materials for COs and NatComs as necessary
  • Develop standard volunteer engagement toolkits
  • Elaborate annual UNICEF volunteering report and coordinate KPI standards 

Duty Station: The location of this assignment will be NYHQ.  This consultancy will require some travel.

Timeframe 

Start date: 1 August, 2018

End date: 28 February, 2019   

Deliverables 

(See the last page for guidance on formulating deliverables) 

Duration  

(Estimated # of Days) 

Deadline 

Develop, enable and grow the Community of Practice for volunteer engagement practitioners globally

30

On-going

Knowledge management and exchange - Implement a series of fora and virtual repository to access, share, elevate and cross-pollinate experience and expertise throughout the community. 

15

On-going

Project Manage global Skillshares and other meetings that will serve the Volunteer Engagement community 

17

28/02/2019

Facilitate bottom-up processes to inform streams of the Volunteer Initiative strategy

15

On-going

Oversee content pipeline for websites and newsletter and other relevant internal communications products

20

01/07/2018 

Develop support and guidance materials for COs and NatComs as necessary 

20

 20/10/2018

Develop standard volunteer engagement toolkits

15

01/07/2019

Elaborate annual UNICEF volunteering report and coordinate KPI standards

15

28/02/2019

total 

147

 

 Key competences, technical background, and experience required Deadline  

  • Bachelor’s degree in public policy, social science or a relevant field
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience in volunteer and public engagement work
  • Significant experience working with teams to develop, deliver, and optimize successful volunteer initiatives
  • Experience creating functional communities of practice in global organization contexts
  • An ability to tailor engagement approaches to context, adjusting to suit different issues, audiences, cultures, political situations, and systems of government
  • A sophisticated and current knowledge of relevant digital tools and technologies, and a knowledge of trends and best practices in the volunteering and the broader public engagement spaces
  • Experience facilitating workshops, building capacity, and hosting internal communications
  • Excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills; meticulous attention to detail and ability to work under tight deadlines with a commitment to quality 

Please indicate your ability, availability and daily/monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above (including travel and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable). Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered.

Remarks

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4.  

At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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