Consultancy 12 months: Project Coordinator (Connectivity Credits Marketplace), Office of Innovation (Giga), Geneva, Switzerland

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, in every single place, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each baby…Innovate

UNICEF has a 70-year historical past of innovating for kids. We consider that new approaches, partnerships and applied sciences that help realizing youngsters’s rights are crucial to enhancing their lives.

The Workplace of Innovation is a artistic, interactive, and agile workforce in UNICEF. We sit at a singular intersection, the place a company that works on big international points meets the start-up pondering, the expertise, and the companions that flip this vitality into scalable options.

About Giga

Launched in 2019 as a joint initiative between UNICEF and ITU, Giga has set the formidable objective to attach each college on the planet to the web.  Half of the world’s inhabitants has no common entry to the Web. Thousands and thousands of kids depart college with none digital abilities, making it far more troublesome for them to thrive and contribute to native and international economies. This has created a digital divide between those that are related and people who usually are not, a divide that has change into even wider throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. UNICEF and ITU have due to this fact joined forces to create Giga, an initiative to attach each college on the planet to the Web and deal with this new type of inequality. 

Giga focuses on connecting colleges in order that youngsters and younger individuals have entry to data, alternative, and selection. It additionally makes use of colleges as anchor factors for his or her surrounding communities: when you join the varsity, it’s also possible to join native companies and providers. This creates alternatives for service suppliers to generate income from paying customers, making connectivity extra sustainable. A 2021 report by the Economist Intelligence Unit discovered {that a} 10% improve in class connectivity can improve efficient years of education by 0.6% and improve GDP per capita by 1.1%. 

You may learn extra about Giga’s work at https://giga.global/ and by following us on twitter @Gigaglobal

How will you make a distinction? 

Giga is constructing a World Connectivity Market. {The marketplace} is envisioned to function on the intersection of a carbon credit market and a common service/entry fund, serving as a catalyst for incentivizing connectivity in particular person nations by issuing tokens for firms connecting rural areas, underserved populations, and public amenities. Firms can redeem these credit for diverse incentives, together with tax reliefs, via respective Ministry of Finance or regulatory our bodies, topic to particular person nation determinants.

The Venture Coordinator is an integral a part of the Connectivity Credit Market workforce at Giga, bridging the hole between varied technical, authorized, and regulatory entities concerned within the initiative.

Reporting to the Program Supervisor, the coordinator will synchronize efforts between the Geneva workforce, the technical product workforce in Barcelona, the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU), and Common Service Funds (USFs) to make sure seamless development in direction of the overarching objectives of {the marketplace}. This position calls for a balanced mix of adept venture administration abilities, a forward-thinking mindset, and a capability to harmonize numerous groups in direction of attaining grander aims.

Particularly you’ll:

Venture Coordination and Administration:

• Set up a coherent venture plan, setting clear milestones, and guaranteeing well timed execution throughout totally different groups and stakeholders.
• Coordinate carefully with the technical product workforce in Barcelona and different workforce members, guaranteeing alignment and supporting the nation implementation within the improvement and rollout of prototypes.

Regulatory and Authorized Liaison:

• Work alongside ITU consultants to grasp and navigate regulatory landscapes that impression {the marketplace}.
• Collaborate with authorized groups to make sure that the venture stays compliant with the legal guidelines and rules throughout totally different jurisdictions.

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication:

• Foster productive relationships with Common Service Funds, governmental our bodies, and different related stakeholders.
• Guarantee clear communication and understanding amongst all events concerned, facilitating a collaborative atmosphere for venture development.

Outcomes-Oriented Execution:

• Drive a results-oriented tradition, specializing in attaining milestones and delivering tangible outcomes.
• Monitor and consider venture progress, guaranteeing that aims are met inside specified timelines.

Quantitative Evaluation:

• Make the most of robust quantitative abilities to investigate venture knowledge, assess dangers, and make knowledgeable selections.
• Translate knowledge insights into actionable methods to propel the venture ahead.

Staff Synergy:

• Domesticate a conducive and inclusive working atmosphere that encourages open communication, mutual respect, and collective problem-solving.
• Act as a catalyst to amalgamate the strengths of various groups in direction of attaining broader objectives.

Steady Enchancment and Innovation:

• Encourage progressive pondering to beat venture challenges and to boost the effectiveness of {the marketplace}.
• Lead opinions and evaluations of accomplished initiatives to determine classes realized and finest practices for future endeavors.

Please entry the total Time period of Reference (ToRs) and browse a extra detailed description of the task on this file with the intention to put together your monetary proposal and know extra in regards to the position:  Project Coordinator ToR .pdf

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have… 

• A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or increased) in Venture Administration, Enterprise Administration or associated diploma is required.*A primary College Diploma in a related subject mixed with 2 extra years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.
• A minimal of 5 of related work expertise in venture administration, ideally inside a multidisciplinary and multicultural setting.
• Confirmed means to handle advanced initiatives with a number of stakeholders, ideally throughout the Telecom, Media, and Expertise (TMT) sectors.
• Robust quantitative and analytical abilities, with proficiency in knowledge evaluation and efficiency/operation metrics.
• Distinctive interpersonal and communication abilities, with the flexibility to have interaction with a various vary of stakeholders.
• Potential to assume strategically, fostering a tradition of innovation and steady enchancment.
• Excessive diploma of professionalism, with a concentrate on delivering high quality outcomes whereas nurturing a constructive workforce dynamic.
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.

Journey:

• The advisor is predicted to journey to Barcelona from Geneva. Two (2) journeys, for a keep of 5-6 nights every.
• The advisor is liable for arranging his/her personal journey, together with visa and journey insurance coverage.

Fee particulars and additional concerns:

• Fee {of professional} charges will probably be primarily based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withhold cost in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required normal or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the advisor.
• Advisor is liable for his/her personal well being and journey insurance coverage.
• Advisor is liable for arranging his/her personal journey, together with visa.

The way to apply:

• candidates are required to submit a monetary proposal with an all-inclusive price.  Please see the monetary proposal template right here:  Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
• Monetary proposal should embrace journey prices (economic system class) and each day subsistence allowance, if journey is required as per TOR and another estimated prices: visa, journey/medical health insurance
• Purposes with no monetary proposal won’t be thought-about.

For each Baby, you show… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

To view our competency framework, please go to  here. 

 UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should mirror the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute.

UNICEF gives reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may occasionally embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your utility in case you want cheap lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your task. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict baby safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply extra data to conduct a background test. 

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. 

People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “employees members” underneath the Workers Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (similar to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the Normal Situations of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are liable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking over the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and usually are not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF during their consultancy contracts.