Consultancy Recruitment: Youth Engagement Lead, Prague, Czech Republic (131 days October 31, 2023- June 30, 2024

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. 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 baby, all over the place, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means surrender. 

For each baby, A future  

The Czech Republic at the moment hosts near 400 thousand refugees from Ukraine, with an estimated 30,000 refugees between the ages of 15-19. UNICEF is dedicated to making sure that youth are represented as leaders and alter brokers within the design and implementation of actions.

As such, UNICEF works with companions to include youth into defining and designing interventions that impression youth. This consists of working with youth to steer knowledge assortment, co-create programmes, and conduct qualitative assessments of UNICEF-funded programmes. The aim is to affect key resolution makers by incorporating youth perspective into all programme exercise that impacts them. As a part of this effort, UNICEF seeks a youth guide to coach different youth in amassing info and designing and assessing programmes utilizing design methodologies. The guide may also work with UNICEF workers and companions to interact straight with coverage makers to be able to talk youth-expressed wants with a view to affect coverage and programme initiatives.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

1. The guide will work with UNICEF and companions to implement the next key actions:

a. Work with youth to entry UNICEF-funded programmes and doc their expertise.
b. Determine and prepare youth in the best way to conduct suggestions workout routines.
c. Help the roll-out of workout routines, particularly supporting youth in making certain their outputs are of top quality.

2. Roll-out a collection of youth co-creation workshops about employment and training throughout the nation, in collaboration with UNICEF companions at regional integration facilities.

a. Work with youth representatives employed by regional integration facilities to determine youth throughout the nation to take part.
b. Utilizing human centered design methodology, lead co-creation workshops.
c. Synthesize knowledge from workshops into actionable insights.

3. Help youth representatives throughout the nation to design and implement outreach methods of their areas.4. Help UNICEF crew in integrating youth voice into their methods and advocacy efforts.
4. Help digital outreach and communications efforts focused at Ukrainian refugees throughout all sections.
5. The place related, symbolize youth perspective (personal perspective and synthesis of youth-led analysis) in conferences, workshops, and different related boards.

	Deliverables / Outputs:	Duties / Milestones:	Timeline	Estimate workload. (Working. days)
1	Community of youth educated to evaluate UNICEF-funded programmes by means of suggestions train.	• Work with UNICEF companions to determine youth to take part in evaluation of UNICEF funded programmes. • Practice group members in qualitative suggestions/evaluation methodology • Present ongoing suggestions and coaching focal factors as they conduct the workout routines	October 31, 2023- March 31, 2024	25
2	18 youth co-creation periods accomplished.	• Working with regional integration facilities throughout the nation, assist focal factors in doing outreach for participation in co-creation periods • Conduct co-creation periods throughout regional integration facilities • Working with UNICEF crew, synthesize the info into actionable insights.	October 31, 2023 -November 31, 2024,	46
3	Youth focal factors throughout the Czech Republic are educated and supported to design and implement outreach methods.	• Working with UNICEF crew, develop on-line coaching programme for 28 youth representatives on designing an outreach technique. • Weekly on-line conferences with youth representatives to introduce design methodologies for outreach. • Facilitate in-person lessons-learned convention for 14 youth representatives • Conduct area visits to programme websites to facilitate co-creation workout routines with the youth representatives as wanted.	November 1, 2023- March 29, 2024,	45
4	3-4 digital communications merchandise about UNICEF providers	• Working with UNICEF groups and chosen implementing companions, determine areas the place direct communications to youth could possibly be impactful. • Working with UNICEF groups and chosen implementing companions, develop communications supplies and distribute them by means of essentially the most acceptable digital channels	October 31, 2023- June 30, 2024,	7
5	3-4 consultations with coverage makers on areas particularly associated to youth expertise within the Czech Republic	• Working with UNICEF ADAP and communication crew, synthesize outcomes of consultations into key messages. • Current key messages in decision-making fora, together with to coverage makers, ambassadors, and so forth.	October 31, 2023- June 30, 2024,	4
6	1-2 written items to speak the experiences confronted by youth within the Czech Republic for distribution by means of UNICEF inner communications channels and Czech media.	• Working with UNICEF Communications crew, write blogs, human curiosity tales, and so forth. to current your perspective on the co-creation work with UNICEF, and the challenges confronted by youth within the Czech Republic to a broader viewers.	October 31, 2023- June 30, 2024,	4

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have… 

• A minimal training requirement of Secondary Faculty diploma is required. 
•  Fluent in English and both Ukrainian or Czech.
• Coaching in human centered design, participatory analysis, or qualitative analysis methodologies is very fascinating.
• “Context experience”, e.g., has expertise being displaced youth within the Czech Republic is very fascinating.
• Expertise working with UNICEF, or one other UN Company is very fascinating.
•  Coaching in analysis ethics, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, and familiarity with baby safeguarding ideas is very fascinating.
•  Is entrepreneurial, curious, and keen about social impression.
•  Works properly as a part of a crew, persistently seeks to grasp the attitude of others.
•  Sturdy capability to synthesis a number of streams of data
• Sturdy communication expertise
•  Feels snug with ambiguity. Capable of stability versatile work model whereas sustaining concentrate on aim.

For each Little one, you exhibit… 

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 international workforce should replicate the variety 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 some other private attribute.

UNICEF gives reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may increasingly 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 cheap lodging through 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 baby safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact 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 test. 

 

Remarks:  

 

• Candidate must be between 18 and 25 years outdated and may have some expertise with human centered design; nonetheless formal coaching just isn’t required.
• Completion of the UN/UNICEF obligatory trainings is compulsory upon graduation of the contract.
• Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
• All supplies developed will stay the copyright of UNICEF and UNICEF will probably be free to adapt and modify them sooner or later.
• The Guide will carry out his/her duties consistent with UNICEF requirements and procedures.
• People engaged beneath a consultancy contract is not going to be thought-about “workers members” beneath the Workers Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (akin to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the Normal Situations of Contracts for the Providers 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.
•  Cost {of professional} charges will probably be primarily based on 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 guide.

 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 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 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 places or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF in the course of their consultancy contracts.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should replicate the variety of these kids. The UNICEF household is dedicated to incorporate everybody, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

UNICEF gives cheap lodging for consultants’ contractors with disabilities. This may increasingly 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 cheap lodging through 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 baby safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact 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 test.