Consultancy: Edtech Sourcing Consultant, Learning Hub, Office of Innovation, Helsinki, Finland (12 months)

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in 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 little one, in every single place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each little one, 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 important to enhancing their lives.

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

UNICEF’s Workplace of Innovation creates alternatives for the world’s youngsters by specializing in the place new markets can meet their very important wants. We do that by:

• Connecting youth communities (or extra broadly — anybody disconnected or under-served) to decision-makers, and to one another, to ship knowledgeable, related and sustained programmes that construct higher, stronger futures for kids.
• Scary change for kids via an entrepreneurial strategy — in a historically threat averse area — to harness quickly shifting improvements and apply them to serve the wants of all youngsters.
• Creating new fashions of partnership that leverage core enterprise values throughout the general public, personal and educational sectors with a view to ship quick, and lasting outcomes for kids.
• The Workplace of Innovation particularly appears to type partnerships round frontier applied sciences (like drones and UAVs, blockchain, twenty first century abilities, city applied sciences, new banking instruments, wearables and sensors, or 3D-Printing) that exist on the intersection of $100 billion enterprise markets and 1 billion individual wants – and to determine how they will develop and scale profitably and inclusively. 

Our crew

We’re an interdisciplinary crew world wide tasked with figuring out, prototyping, and scaling new applied sciences and practices. With our companions, we concentrate on convening and collaborating on new and totally different options, low- and high-tech, by:

• Trying on the 2–5-year horizon to guage rising and trending applied sciences and to see how UNICEF can work with the personal sector on doing higher enterprise whereas enhancing important companies for kids.
• Investing in early-stage options that present nice potential to positively impression youngsters within the 02-year future together with the Enterprise Fund that invests in open-source know-how options from start-ups primarily based in UNICEF’s programme nations.
• Figuring out confirmed options that may be carried out at nationwide scale in a number of nations – taking the concepts that assist 1000’s in a single nation, bringing them to dozens of nations throughout a number of sectors, and impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands of youngsters.”

The Studying Innovation Hub inside OOI has just lately been established in Helsinki with the mission to radically remodel training world wide by making it a beautiful journey for each little one. The Hub contributes to UNICEF’s Reimagine Training initiative and has the daring ambition to turn into a worldwide “residence for the architects of the way forward for studying” and assist resolve the training disaster in addition to think about and develop different studying futures for all youngsters.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

Key outputs of this consultancy place are:

The EdTech Sourcing Guide will play a pivotal function in strengthening the UNICEF International Studying Innovation Hub’s efforts to remodel the training outcomes of youngsters via the strategic curation of a world-class EdTech portfolio.

The important thing outputs of this consultancy embody coordinating the UNICEF EdTech Award choice course of, executing a sturdy sourcing technique for the Blue Unicorn Farm portfolio, and facilitating due diligence processes. Moreover, the marketing consultant will contribute to steady panorama analysis, sustaining a complete innovator database, and aligning potential options with the Studying Innovation Hub’s EdTech Portfolio Drawback Statements. The outputs embody a curated checklist of judges for the EdTech problem, a various pipeline of high-quality EdTech options, and a well-managed database of cutting-edge innovators within the EdTech house, making certain the Studying Cupboard and Blue Unicorn Farm are outfitted with progressive and impactful options.

Your primary duties will likely be:

1. Detailed duties / deliverables.

•  Coordinate the UNICEF EdTech Award choice course of.
• Help the sourcing technique to the Blue Unicorn Farm portfolio of the Studying Innovation Hub to make sure various and high-quality pipeline EdTech options.
• Present help to the appliance and due diligence course of for the Blue Unicorn Farm
• Help the analysis and evaluation for the Studying Cupboard, Studying Innovation Hub’s edtech challenges and requires purposes for the “Blue Unicorn Farm.”

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have… 

• A complicated college diploma in one of many following fields is required: enterprise, finance, entrepreneurship, enterprise administration, digital enterprise or related area.
   *A primary College Diploma in a related area mixed with 2 extra years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.
• Substantial expertise (at the least 5 years) in enterprise growth, enterprise funding, or an analogous function, with a concentrate on edtech or technology-driven options.
• Expertise in sourcing and evaluating progressive options, ideally for instructional challenges, is crucial.
• Expertise in managing massive scale software, choice and contracting processes for initiatives, investments or grants is desired.
• Expertise in conducting analysis, notably market analysis, desired.
• In-depth information of the worldwide edtech ecosystem, developments, and rising applied sciences, with a confirmed monitor report of figuring out and choosing profitable edtech options is an asset.
• Expertise of working in complicated, useful resource poor contexts is a plus.
• Robust written and verbal communication abilities required, together with exterior illustration and shows, facilitation of networks of communities.
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

Please discover hooked up full ToR and associated info  Edtech Sourcing consultant, Helsinki, Finland.pdf

Journey:

• The marketing consultant could also be anticipated to journey, particulars will likely be agreed upon with the supervisor, and journey prices will likely be lined individually per UN’s journey coverage.
• The marketing consultant is liable for arranging his/her personal journey, together with visa and journey insurance coverage.

Fee particulars and additional issues

• Fee {of professional} charges will likely be primarily based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the precise to withhold cost in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the marketing consultant. 

Easy methods to apply:

• Curiosity applicant is required to submit a monetary proposal with all-inclusive price.   Please discover hooked up the monetary proposal template  Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
• Purposes and not using a monetary proposal is not going to be thought-about.

For each Little one, you reveal… 

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 id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

UNICEF affords reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This will embody, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your software in case you want affordable lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your project. 

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

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “employees members” underneath the Employees Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (reminiscent of depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will likely be ruled by their contract and the Basic 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 entire interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of absolutely 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 project. 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 areas or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF all through their consultancy contracts. 

Contact: For any queries, please contact: [email protected]