International Consultant: Adaptive Social Protection for UNICEF Indonesia

UNICEF Indonesia is looking for an international consultant to support the Adaptive Social Protection programme.

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UNICEF Indonesia is looking for an international consultant to support the Adaptive Social Protection programme.

Title: International Consultant: Adaptive Social Protection
Duty Station: Home based with travel to Jakarta
Type of Contract: Individual Consultant - Special Service Agreement
Duration: January – March 2021 (40 days within 3 months duration) 

How can you make a difference?

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.

In 2020 - 2021, UNICEF playing roles as the lead agency for the joint programme of Joint-SDGs Fund.  This Joint – Program aiming to support the Government of Indonesia (GoI) in transforming the existing social protection schemes into an Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) system by bringing together expertise and experiences from four UN agencies: UNICEF, UNDP, WFP and UN OCHA. For the purpose to support the program implementation, UNICEF is looking to hire International Consultant for ASP. This international consultant will support the work of Program Management Unit (PMU) to deliver UN framework on ASP and conduct training and policy dialogue.

Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) is part of the priority agenda of the Government of Indonesia (GoI) on their current 2020–2024 National Mid-Term Development Plan (Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Menengah Nasional/RPJMN). This agenda is part of the social protection reform aiming at integrating disaster risk management and climate change adaptation into the social protection system for 15 million households, with 3.7 billion USD of government’s biannual financing (constituting the second largest social protection system in the world).

As a concept and practice, many governments and donors are now exploring policy framework ASP aiming for the linkages of the roles of social protection in responding and mitigating to shocks and climate risk. ASP serves as a bridge between humanitarian and development by improving capacities of humanitarian aid to response and strengthening adaptive capacities of affected community in the aftershock. Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) aims to integrate three communities of practices called Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Social Protection (Davis, et.al, 2009, OECD, 2014). Although each of the concepts has different set of narrative, policy, agenda and regimes, those three concepts shared underlying concerns on risk and vulnerability of the affected people. Through ASP, it is expected that the existing social protection policy and mechanism would help the affected community to recover its livelihood. This can be done to different mechanisms (a) conditional cash transfer (b) weather-indexed crop insurance (c) asset transfer program (d) small-scale revolving credit (e ) community-driven development programs (f) food security program (Davies, et.al, 2008, Davies, et.al, 2009, OECD, 2014, Schnitzer, 2019, Kemensos, 2020)

For this program, the UN targeting to achieve four outputs: (1) developing partnership and coordination, especially the institutional coordination between stakeholders in charge of social protection and relevant climate and disaster risk management; (2) identifying mechanisms to finance  ASP, creating gender-responsive fiscal space within the existing social assistance schemes; (3) enhancing the existing Early Warning System (EWS) useful to assess risks and vulnerabilities as well as the criteria for the identification of population groups vulnerable to climate-related risks; and (4) monitoring the progress and impact of the measures taken towards the targets as well as fostering collective learning.

For this consultancy, the consultant is expected to deliver three components:

1. Development of UN strategy on ASP Indonesia
2. Basic training on ASP for relevant ministries and UN personnel
3. Provide technical assistance for a Webinar on ASP with the government, development partners, academician

Work Assignments and Outputs:

1. Technical assistance for the development of UN strategy on ASP Indonesia, based on consultative process and internal workshop with UN, relevant development partners and government. Output: UN Strategy on ASP in Indonesia
2. Provide basic training on ASP for relevant ministries and UN personnel. Output: Training on ASP
3. Technical assistance for a Webinar on ASP with the government, development partners, academician. Output: Webinar on ASP

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Minimum post-graduate (Masters) degree in social protection, social policy, disaster management, international development, policy and/or management, or other related science field with 5 years of progressive work experience OR 8 years of work experience in lieu is required.
• Demonstrated experience in complex project management, delivering expert advice, technical support and capacity development to governments.
• Familiarity with government and administration regulations in Indonesia and experience working with sub-national governments is considered an advantage.
• Strong knowledge and experience on shock responsive on social protection / ASP especially in the region of Asia
• Experience in baseline study, evaluation, end-line survey, action research, policy research
• Strong attention to consistency, detail and quality
• Ability to write high quality, clear and concise report. Strong analytical, reporting, presentation and writing skills;
• Ability to manage heavy workloads and solve complex problems with minimum supervision.
• Flexibility and experience in working remotely.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

• Builds and Maintains Partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others

 SSA ToR - International Consultant on ASP for candidates.docx

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.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

The screening of your application will be conducted based on the information in your profile. Before applying, we strongly suggest that you review your profile to ensure accuracy and completeness. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.