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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant
Consultancy Title: Consultancy; Development and validation of a Toolkit for Investors on Children’s Rights and Stewardship
Section/Division/Duty Station: Business Engagement & Child Rights Section – PG – NYHQ
Duration: 15 May 2024 – 30 October 2024
Home/ office Based: REMOTE
About UNICEF
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children’s survival, protection, and development. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations, and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.
BACKGROUND
Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
UNICEF is seeking an expert consultant to develop a Toolkit for investors on Children’s Rights in Stewardship activities, and to revise the 2021 Tool for Investors on Integrating Children’s Rights into ESG Assessments.
Background:
Investors can have major influence on investee companies in terms of responsible business practices, and social issues and human rights are clearly emerging as issues of concern for many investors. However, children’s rights risks typically aren’t systematically featured in this process. Children tend to be indirectly affected by company policies, either through their parents’ working conditions, through products consumed by them or through impacts on communities affecting them. Efforts of business aimed at improving social responsibility thus tend to partially leave children out, resulting in less effective risk mitigation and social impact on children.
To support investors to better integrate children’s rights in their ESG processes, UNICEF launched the Tool for Investors on integrating Children’s Rights into ESG assessments (2021), building on previously issued guidance for investors. The tool sets out a framework for assessing how well companies identify and manage impacts on children as part of their approaches to human rights due diligence and corporate responsibility. In UNICEF’s engagements with investors since the launch of this Tool, UNICEF has identified the need to complement this guidance with additional tools to support investors to utilize stewardship and active ownership strategies to manage risk and improve child rights outcomes in portfolio companies.
Scope of Work:
Under the guidance of the supervisor of this contract, the consultant will be responsible for:
Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:
Qualifications
Education:
A bachelor’s degree in sustainable business, finance, law or related field is required.
Work experience:
Competencies/Knowledge:
Requirements:
Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and
U.S. Visa information:
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.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
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UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. View our competency framework at: Here
UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors 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.
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:
Individuals engaged under a consultancy 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. Consultants 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.
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