Consultancy Gender-based violence in emergencies (GBViE) Consultant – CEFM Req.#569809

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Emptiness Announcement: Advisor

Consultancy Title: GBViE Advisor – CEFM

Station: Little one Safety Part – Programme Group – NYHQ

Period: 16 March 2024 – 25 September 2025

House/ workplace Primarily based: REMOTE

About UNICEF

If you’re a dedicated, artistic skilled and are keen about making an enduring distinction for youngsters, the world’s main youngsters’s rights group want to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been engaged on the bottom in 190 nations and territories to advertise youngsters’s survival, safety and improvement. UNICEF is funded completely by the voluntary contributions of people, companies, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 employees in additional than 145 nations.

BACKGROUND

Function of Exercise/Project:

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each baby, in every single place, in every little thing the group does – in applications, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded youngsters and households, interprets this dedication to youngsters’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all youngsters have a possibility to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any baby has an unequal probability in life – in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions – her or his rights are violated. There’s rising proof that investing within the well being, training and safety of a society’s most deprived residents – addressing inequity – not solely will give all youngsters the chance to meet their potential but in addition will result in sustained progress and stability of nations. Because of this the give attention to fairness is so important.

Associated to this mission, UNICEF is instantly concerned in addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in a number of the world’s most intense and sophisticated conflicts and disasters. GBV in its numerous kinds constitutes a world disaster which undermines social and financial progress; as one of many world’s best human rights violations, GBV should be addressed to make sure common rights and ideas with regard to equality, safety, liberty, integrity and dignity of human beings. Stopping and responding to gender-based violence in emergencies (GBViE) is acknowledged as a life-saving measure and a vital part of humanitarian motion. As a lead company in addressing GBViE, UNICEF has expanded its on-the-ground programming lately and made prevention and danger mitigation of, and response to GBViE considered one of its focused priorities in its new Strategic and Gender Motion Plans (GAP) 2022-2025, in addition to within the new Little one Safety Technique. GBViE contributes to the outcomes beneath Aim Space 3 and can also be now a cross-cutting precedence throughout the brand new Strategic Plan-, making GBV danger mitigation considered one of UNICEF’s change methods and a key contributor throughout all Aim Areas.

Following years of implementation of the GBV Case Administration Capability Constructing Initiative (CM CBI), UNICEF acquired suggestions on the necessity for sensible steering on tips on how to ship GBV case administration within the context of kid, early and compelled marriage (CEFM). To answer this want, UNICEF will revise the 2017 Interagency GBV Case Administration Tips part that addresses case administration for baby/early marriage, in addition to the accompanying coaching module. The target is to enhance and harmonize the standard of case administration offered for CEFM instances by creating sensible steering and instruments for coaching caseworkers. The mission began with (1) the institution of an Advisory Board; (2) an preliminary scoping of related stakeholders; and (3) the identification of the nation for the co-creation workshop and pilot: Somalia. Throughout the contract interval, the guide will finalize the event of the CEFM steering, as described under.  

The guide may even assist the growth of the rollouts of Primero/GBVIMS+. In November 2020, the most recent iteration of Primero was launched (Primero v2) with the primary inter-agency launch of the GBVIMS+ v2 in September 2021. Since 2021, UNICEF has been main on the inter-agency efforts to rollout Primero/GBVIMS+ into nationwide, government-level constructions for larger sustainability. This initiative is being carried out in Sierra Leone and Iraq. At this stage of implementation, the system deployment nonetheless requires, each in humanitarian and authorities contexts, steering and capability improvement to make sure sustainable use.

Scope of Work:

1. Arrange and facilitate quarterly Advisory Board conferences to assist the event of the CEFM Steerage;
2. Finalize the worldwide desk overview and produce the report;
3. Plan and facilitate the co-creation workshop in Somalia, together with drafting the report with suggestions;
4. Develop the Steerage primarily based on the suggestions and the Advisory Board’s inputs;
5. Facilitate the sphere testing in Somalia and generate suggestions to finalize the bundle;
6. Finalize Steerage primarily based on the suggestions of the pilot, with the Advisor Board’s overview;
7. Facilitate a world dissemination occasion to launch the CEFM bundle;
8. Present mentoring periods for the top person of GBVIMS+ in Sierra Leone, particularly centered on knowledge evaluation;
9. Develop and disseminate at the very least two GBVIMS+ studying merchandise;
10. Present teaching periods for in-country or regional system directors.

The consultancy can be home-based with travels when want be/possible.

Phrases of Reference / Key Deliverables:    

Deliverable 1: 6 conferences held and MoM shared  By 25 September 2025

Deliverable 2: Desk overview report drafted By 30 Could 2024

Deliverable 3: Desk overview report finalized By 30 June 2024

Deliverable 4: Co-creation workshop report finalized By 31 July 2024

Deliverable 5: Steerage Define finalized   By 31 August 2024

Deliverable 6: Draft Steerage submitted for overview By 30 September 2024

Deliverable 7: Draft Coaching Package deal submitted for overview By 31 October 2024

Deliverable 8: Steerage and Coaching Package deal developed for pilot By 15 January 2025

Deliverable 9: Mission ToR and Coaching Agenda finalized By 15 March 2025

Deliverable 10: Pilot Coaching Report finalized By 30 April 2025

Deliverable 11: Steerage and Coaching supplies finalized By 15 August 2025

Deliverable 12: One Dissemination Occasion held  By 25 September 2025

Deliverable 13: At the least one coaching or mentoring session  By 15 Could 2024

Deliverable 14: At the least 2 GBVIMS+ studying merchandise finalized. By 31 July 2024

Deliverable 15: At the least 2 capability improvement initiatives carried out By 15 September 2024

{Qualifications}

Schooling:

• Masters in Public well being, social work, gender research, worldwide legislation or different associated diploma.

Work expertise:

• Minimal of 8 to 10 years of programme administration expertise, together with at the very least 5 years implementing GBV programming and/or participating with GBV coordination in humanitarian contexts.
• Demonstrated expertise with GBV case administration and its intersections with info administration. Data of the inter-agency GBV case administration pointers a plus.

Competencies/Data:

• Deep understanding of GBV guiding ideas and the survivor-centred response.
• Expertise on Primero/GBVIMS+ and its deployment. Expertise offering coaching on GBV info administration, case administration and GBVIMS+ a plus.
• Demonstrated understanding of points associated to confidentiality, knowledge security/safety and different moral considerations associated to the sharing of delicate knowledge between humanitarian businesses.
• Glorious Pc expertise and in-depth information of pivot desk/chart and knowledge evaluation.
• Demonstrated expertise facilitating distant workshops.
• Expertise in GBV associated information administration and sharing is an asset.
• Capability to develop an understanding of the UNICEF processes.
• Glorious drafting expertise and skill to jot down successfully for UNICEF.
• Demonstrated organizational expertise, together with the power to work independently and productively with a number of stakeholders in a fast-paced surroundings.
• Glorious interpersonal and communication expertise.

Language proficiency:

Fluency in written and oral English is required. French and/or Arabic are an asset for this position.

Necessities:

Accomplished profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and

• Add copy of educational credentials
• Monetary proposal that can embrace/ replicate:
  • the prices per every deliverable and the full lump-sum for the entire project (in US$) to undertake the phrases of reference.
  • journey prices and day by day subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or journey is required as per TOR
  • Another estimated prices: visa, medical insurance, and residing prices as relevant.
  • Point out your availability
• Any emergent / unexpected obligation journey and associated bills can be lined by UNICEF
• On the time the contract is awarded, the chosen candidate should have in place present medical insurance protection
• Fee {of professional} charges can be primarily based on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withhold cost in case the deliverables submitted are lower than the required normal or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the guide.

U.S. Visa info:

Apart from the US Residents, G4 Visa and Inexperienced Card holders, ought to the chosen candidate and his/her family members reside in the US beneath a unique visa, the guide and his/her family members are required to vary their visa standing to G4, and the guide’s family members (partner) would require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to have the ability to work, even when he/she was licensed to work beneath the visa held previous to switching to G4

Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of

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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 baby safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates can 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 offer extra info to conduct a background test

Remarks:  People engaged beneath a consultancy won’t be thought-about “employees members” beneath the Workers Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (comparable to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service can be ruled by their contract and the Basic Circumstances of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants. Consultants are chargeable 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 insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for all the interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should 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 at some point of their consultancy contracts.