Consultancy – Microsoft PowerApps Consultant, Programme Effectiveness Team (PET), DAPM NYHQ (remote-based)

Consultancy Title: Microsoft PowerApps Guide

Part/Division/Obligation Station: Programme Effectiveness Group (PET), DAPM NYHQ (remote-based)

Length: 8 January 2024 – 15 March 2024 (2 months)

About UNICEF

In case you are a dedicated, artistic skilled and are enthusiastic about making a long-lasting distinction for kids, the world’s main kids’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 kids’s survival, safety and growth. The world’s largest supplier of vaccines for creating nations, UNICEF helps youngster well being and diet, good water and sanitation, high quality fundamental training for all girls and boys, and the safety of kids from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. 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:

UNICEF is within the means of creating a coverage, procedures and technical implementation help instruments on Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS).  capability strengthening bundle, to help the graceful rolling out and integration of ESS in all its world programmes. 

One of many key technical instruments underneath growth is the Environmental and Social dangers screening matrix. As an preliminary step in ESS integration, this device will help the harmonised and constant screening of programme actions for environmental and social dangers. It will likely be the important thing device that may facilitate the categorization of a programme exercise or challenge, and the ensuing actions required to keep away from, decrease and mitigate any associated environmental and social dangers. 

UNICEF had developed the environmental and social threat screening device in excel. Nevertheless, to maximise its use and advantages throughout UNICEF, the device must be remodeled right into a extra user-friendly platform with enhanced capabilities to permit for simultaneous a number of use and different advantages that aren’t obtainable in excel.

UNICEF is due to this fact requesting consultancy companies to undertake the next key duties:

1. Develop and publish Environmental and Social Requirements questionnaires in Microsoft Varieties/PowerApps
2. Adapt and enhance associated Excel spreadsheets

Scope of Work:

1. Conduct a complete evaluation of UNICEF Environmental and Social Requirements –refer to enclosed presentation and spreadsheets.
2. Develop Microsoft Type / PowerApps questionnaires for every movement and/or sub-flow
3. Adapt and enhance the associated spreadsheets with automated updates from Microsoft Type / PowerApps, guaranteeing that the ultimate product isn’t restricted to variety of customers, could possibly be used offline, and could be tailored to a number of languages use.
4. Subject testing of the device and adapting primarily based on take a look at outcomes.
5. Coaching and handover

Phrases of Reference / Deliverables

1. Half-day workshop to current findings and answer blueprint – 29 Jan. 2024.
2. Printed Microsoft Type / PowerApps questionnaires – 29 Jan. 2024.
3. Tailored and auto up to date spreadsheets – 29 Feb. 2024.
4. Coaching for ESS employees to keep up Microsoft Type / PowerApps questionnaires and spreadsheets – 8 March 2024.

{Qualifications}

(1) Training

• BSc in Data Techniques or related subject, e.g., Knowledge Science, Laptop Science, Quantitative evaluation

2) Work expertise

• A minimal of three years of progressively accountable expertise in Data Techniques or related subject, e.g., Knowledge Science, Laptop Science, Quantitative evaluation.
• It’s preferable that the person has expertise with, or in, multilateral establishments. Information of UNICEF context important.  Information of UN frequent practices in Data Techniques an added benefit.

3) Competencies

• Microsoft PowerApps
• Integration and APIs
• Robust background in information science
• Confirmed expertise in working with massive multinational company and/or businesses.
• Please submit a pattern or demo as a part of the submission.

Necessities: 

• Accomplished profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system
• Add copy of educational credentials
• Monetary proposal that may embrace:
• the prices per every deliverable and the entire all-inclusive (lump-sum) charges for the entire task (in US$) to undertake the phrases of reference.
  • journey prices and every day subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or journey is required as per TOR.
  • Every other estimated prices: visa, medical health insurance, as relevant.
  • Point out your availability
• Any emergent / unexpected obligation journey and associated bills might be coated by UNICEF.
• On the time the contract is awarded, the chosen candidate should have in place present medical health insurance protection.
• Fee {of professional} charges might be primarily based on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the correct to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required customary or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the advisor.

For each Little one, you display… 

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 kids and our world workforce should mirror the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

UNICEF presents reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may increasingly embrace, 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 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 might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact bear 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 might 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 of “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 (comparable to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service might be ruled by their contract and the Basic Circumstances of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable 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 health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the complete 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 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 areas or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF throughout their consultancy contracts.