Consultancy to support the scale up and sustainability of Early Childhood Education and Care and Inclusive Education interventions, Sofia, Bulgaria, 15 months

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to achieve 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 baby, all over the place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means surrender. 

For each baby, dedication. 

Constructing upon the modelling of the European Baby Assure, UNICEF in Bulgaria is dedicated to proceed to develop steerage and coaching packages for professionals for mainstreaming inclusive early childhood training practices. Inside this intervention UNICEF in Bulgaria contributed to the event and testing of the Early Childhood Schooling and Care /ECEC/ High quality Framework and in 2024-2025 will present technical assist to the Ministry of Schooling and Science for the event of ECEC monitoring framework and its implementation at nationwide degree. The Framework goals to hyperlink collectively completely different sectors by introducing a coherent method in the direction of governance, content material, skilled improvement, funding, and monitoring over high quality of ECEC at nationwide, regional, and native degree. The consultancy will assist the coordination, proof era and documentation of UNICEF work within the space of ECEC.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

The aim of the task is to offer technical help to UNICEF in Bulgaria and Ministry of Schooling and Science within the course of to scale up and make sure the sustainability of interventions in Early Childhood Schooling and Care /ECEC/ and Inclusive Schooling.

Key deliverables:

• Assist actions designed for scaling up inclusive ECEC practices amongst professionals
• Assist for the documentation and scaling up of Inclusive Schooling skilled studying communities
• Assist the sustainability of parental programme “Workshops for folks“
• Assist the sustainability of the nationwide Various and Augmentative Communication staff
• Assist the promotion, consciousness and fundraising actions

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

• Grasp’s diploma or larger in a number of of the next areas: Pedagogy, Social Sciences/Social Work, Particular Schooling, Psychology, Mission Administration, Authorized Research, or one other related discipline.
• A minimal of 5 years of confirmed expertise within the space of inclusion of kids with disabilities in early studying and training.
• Fluency in English.
• Wonderful understanding of the conceptual framework, nationwide coverage framework and institutional preparations associated to early childhood training and care.
• Expertise in mission administration, coordination of actions of various stakeholders.
• Capacity to work beneath stress, good negotiation, communication, and presentation expertise. Professional-activity and powerful orientation in the direction of outcomes.
• Capacity to work independently.
• Capacity to handle partnerships throughout range of stakeholders.
• Respect for cultural range and human rights.

For each Baby, 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 world workforce should mirror the range 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 provides 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 utility in case you want cheap lodging in the course of 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 baby safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules 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 offer extra data to conduct a background verify. 

Remarks:  

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

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t 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 supplied therein (corresponding to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service shall be ruled by their contract and the Basic Situations of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are liable 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 whole interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-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 task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and aren’t anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places 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.