Remote/Home-Based Consultancy: Capacity Strengthening Consultant (210 working days between Feb and Dec 2023) - EMOPS, Geneva, Switzerland

The Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS) is seeking a qualified consultant to update, organize and deliver trainings on coordination and information management to country education clusters, working groups and partners.

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.

For every child, a champion

Purpose of Activity/Assignment

The purpose of this consultancy is to update, organize and deliver trainings on coordination and information management to country education clusters, working groups and partners. These trainings are key to ensuring country teams and partners are equipped to coordinate, plan, and lead effective, accountable, efficient, and quality education responses to meet the increasingly complex needs of crisis affected children and young people.

Scope of work

Strengthening local and national capacity in preparedness, response, coordination, and information management is one of seven core functions of the Cluster Approach. The Capacity Building Consultant will leverage their expertise and skillset to reinforce the GEC’s training portfolio, namely the Core Coordination Training, Strengthening Rapid Education Response Training, Approaches to Joined Up Coordination Training, and IM Advanced Training.

Core Coordination Training (CCT)

The CCT is the GEC’s flagship training on the fundamentals of cluster coordination and information management (Capacity Development | Global Education Cluster). Delivered at global and country levels, the CCT deepens participant’s skills and knowledge across the humanitarian programme cycle by blending theory and practice.

• Deliverable 1: Update of the CORE 1 Training package (16 days)
• Deliverable 2: Plan, organize and deliver Global CCT CORE 2 Training (30 days)
• Deliverable 3: Plan, organize and deliver two contextualized Country CCT CORE 2 Trainings (35 days)

Strengthening Rapid Education Response Training

Structured around the sections of the new and first of its kind toolkit on Rapid Education Response, this training ensure practitioners have the requisite skills, knowledge, and tools to advocate for and facilitate education’s inclusion either through a Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) or complementary rapid response.

• Deliverable 4: Update existing training module based Strengthening Toolkit and plan, organize and deliver Strengthening Rapid Response Training (28 days)

Approaches to Joined Up Coordination Training

As part of the Initiative for Strengthening Education in Emergencies Coordination (ISEEC) the Approaches to Joined-Up Coordination Training equips participants with the skills and knowledge to strengthen coordination across IDP, refugee, and development coordination mechanisms for a strengthened response.

• Deliverable 5: Plan, organize and deliver Approaches to Joined Up Coordination Training (18 days)
• Deliverable 6: Development of an E-Learning Module (17 days)
• Deliverable 7: Plan and deliver the Initiative for Strengthening Education in Emergencies Approaches to Joined-Up Coordination Facilitated Dialogue module (19 days)

Information Management Advanced Training

The GEC is also looking to develop an advanced information management training, envisioned to build on fundamentals taught at the CCT.

• Deliverable 8: Develop the Information Management Advanced Training (18 days)
• Deliverable 9: Plan, organize, and deliver the Information Management Advanced Training (14 days)

Cluster Coordination Familiarization Session

The GEC is looking to develop a comprehensive cluster coordination familiarization session to raise awareness of its important role among stakeholders, decision makers and partners, including development and other humanitarian actors.

• Deliverable 10: Plan, organize and deliver a cluster coordination familiarization session (15 days)

Work Assignment Overview

Estimated Duration of the Contract

210 working days (between February and December 2023)

Consultant’s Work Place and Official Travel

The Consultant will be remote/home-based, but there are an estimated of 6 travels planned as part of this contract. The consultant will be reimbursed based on travel invoice following each trip.

Estimated Cost of the Consultancy & Payment Schedule

Payment will be made upon submission of an invoice and satisfactory completion of the above-mentioned deliverables. Please indicate an all-inclusive lumpsum based on 210 working days to undertake this assignment.

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

• Master's in International Affairs, Humanitarian Affairs, Education, Political Science, Management or other relevant field.
• Minimum of 8 years of work experience in the humanitarian sector and/or the education in crises sector, both at the country and global level.
• Significant experience in developing and delivering trainings and other capacity building initiatives for the humanitarian sector.
• Previous experience working in cluster coordination and/or education in emergencies sector.
• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this consultancy, fluent oral and written English is essential.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

View our competency framework at http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Remarks:

Please include a full CV and Financial Proposal in your application by indicating your availability and all-inclusive lumpsum (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above. Applications submitted without an all-inclusive lumpsum will not be considered. 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.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.