Consultancy: Junior Reporting & Communications Consultant: Innovative project for equitable energy for schools and health centers, Office of innovation, 70 days (50% part time)

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, all over the place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each youngster, innovate…

The Workplace of Innovation is a inventive, interactive, and agile workforce in UNICEF. We sit at a novel intersection, the place a company that works on big world points meets the start-up pondering, the expertise, 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.
• Frightening change for kids by an entrepreneurial method — in a historically danger averse discipline — to harness quickly transferring 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 purpose to ship quick, and lasting outcomes for kids.

The Workplace of Innovation particularly seems to kind partnerships round frontier applied sciences (like drones and UAVs, blockchain, twenty first century expertise, 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 particular person wants – and to establish how they’ll develop and scale profitably and inclusively. 

Our workforce

We’re an interdisciplinary workforce world wide tasked with figuring out, prototyping, and scaling new applied sciences and practices. With our companions, we give attention to 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 expertise options from start-ups primarily based in UNICEF’s programme international locations.
• Figuring out confirmed options that may be carried out at nationwide scale in a number of international locations – 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.”

Promoting abstract

UNICEF’s Workplace of Innovation seeks a inventive communications marketing consultant to supply assist on the inner and exterior communication on the just lately launched “ProjectAlpha”, a mission of integrating humanitarian companies by solar-powered faculties and well being facilities utilizing sustainable vitality funding in battle affected areas.

Venture Alpha explores an modern method to vitality fairness. Our mission is to globally mobilize USD 100M to supply sustainable and dependable photo voltaic vitality to youngsters, guaranteeing that they’ve the ability to be taught and dwell, even underneath probably the most difficult circumstances. The endeavor isn’t just one other photo voltaic expertise mission, it represents a dedication to enhance the lives of 100 million youngsters and youth by vitality provision and entry.

On the coronary heart of ProjectAlpha lies agile and adaptable core modules that present the blueprint for sustainable change by helpful impression. The modules leverage frontier applied sciences, modern monetary fashions, and youth talent improvement to deal with core facets of the issue. The modules outlined under summarize how we intend to redefine the best way vitality is generated, distributed, and accessed.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

OOI is searching for a communications marketing consultant that can help in bringing ProjectAlpha to life. The marketing consultant will work intently with the mission supervisor and the remainder of the workforce to provide inspiring communication supplies akin to articles and social media content material to speak Venture Alpha’s improvement and implementation throughout UNICEF groups, mission companions, stakeholders and different events. You’ll possess wonderful communication and writing expertise and the expertise to in an inspiring and fascinating manner talk on the progress of ProjectAlpha to totally different goal teams.

Your essential tasks shall be:

For Venture Alpha to be carried out efficiently buy-in from the initiatives many alternative companions and stakeholder is essential, the place participating communications supplies will have to be and often developed and printed throughout a number of of UNICEF’s channels and occasions. Whereas UNICEFs Workplace of Innovation has a communications workforce, the quantity of fabric wanted for ProjectAlpha would require a marketing consultant solely centered on this mission. The communications marketing consultant shall be a core a part of the ProjectAlpha workforce, and the scope of labor will give attention to two essential areas:  communications and mission administration of communications associated facets, along with the mission supervisor and ProjectAlpha workforce.

The tasks shall be as follows:

Communication

• Develop a comms plan for Venture Alpha. The marketing consultant will analysis, write, edit and produce high-quality written content material together with advocacy and key messages, human curiosity tales, web site articles, truth sheets, and supply multimedia content material i.e photographs and movies for occasions and different awareness-raising actions for communication and advocacy.
• Guarantee accuracy, consistency, and readability on the supplies, together with fact-checking proofreading and following evaluation and approval pointers.
• The marketing consultant will guarantee all content material and printed materials adheres to UNICEF’s branding requirements and editorial pointers, and youngster safeguarding ideas. The marketing consultant may also make sure that communication methods and supplies are inclusive and accessible to various audiences, together with these with disabilities.
• The marketing consultant will act as communication result in assist implementation of the answer as an Workplace of Innovation particular mission, destined for the Humanitarian Improvements Portfolio.
• Collaborate with chosen nation places of work, UNICEF OOI and UNICEF HQ to obtain compelling narratives and quotes that showcase the work and outcomes of Venture Alpha.
• Maximize the environment friendly and efficient use of sources, lowering potential overlap between the numerous companions of the mission and leveraging synergies.
• Provoke and hold up to date a digital area for inner communication with colleagues, for participating updates and data of Venture Alphas progress.

Improvement of reporting and communications-related outputs

• Help the communications side of the mission planning, implementation and reporting. Together with designing, adapting and implementing the communications plan for Venture Alpha, timeframe for publication, figuring out related occasions for communication and balancing the usage of UNICEFs totally different communications channels, consistent with UNICEF and OOIs communications pointers.
• Help the mission supervisor with narrative reporting to the donors per requests from nation workplace administration and world mission workforce requests.
• Taking part in common conferences of the mission workforce as required by the mission supervisor.
• Set up and preserve good working relationships with the mission workforce.
• Coordinate with related UNICEF sections, akin to OOIs communications workforce, to make sure easy implementation of the mission, and the usage of experience from totally different sections the place wanted.

Please discover connected the total ToR with associated info  ToR Project Alpha – Communications Consultant 2024-03-1499.pdf

The UNICEF Workplace of Innovation will present the prevailing supplementary PDF sources and materials that present a further layer of information to Venture Alpha, as required to facilitate this course of.

The communications marketing consultant will report back to the Humanitarian Portfolio Supervisor, on the Workplace of Innovation, UNICEF.

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

• A bachelor’s diploma in communications, journalism, human rights, improvement research or different related discipline. 
• A minimal of two years of related expertise in conducting communicative materials, together with working for various goal teams akin to donors, companions, and inner audiences.
• Information of social and environmental sustainability for kids and youths, notably in fragile and battle affected areas, is helpful.
• Glorious communication and interpersonal expertise for successfully constructing and sustaining constructive teamwork.
• Glorious skill to work independently and ship outcomes on tight deadlines, together with coordinating agreed upon communication strategic plan.
• Growing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset, as is expertise of working with UNICEF or UN. 
• Fluency and wonderful writing expertise 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.

For each Baby, you exhibit… 

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

 Journey:

• The marketing consultant shouldn’t be anticipated to journey.

Fee particulars and additional issues

• Fee {of professional} charges shall be primarily based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the best to withhold fee 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 marketing consultant. 

apply:

• Curiosity applicant is required to submit a monetary proposal with all-inclusive payment.  Please see the monetary proposal template.  Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
• Monetary proposal should embrace journey prices (economic system class) and every day subsistence allowance, if journey is required as per TOR and every other estimated prices: visa, journey/medical insurance
• Functions and not using a monetary proposal won’t be thought-about.

To view our competency framework, please go to  here. 

 UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, 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 likely 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 youngster safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can subsequently 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 info to conduct a background examine. 

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates shall 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 (akin to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service shall be ruled by their contract and the Normal Situations of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are answerable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee 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 your complete 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 have to be met previous to taking on the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF throughout their consultancy contracts. 

Ought to you have got any questions, please contact us at [email protected]