Consultancy: WASH Knowledge management consultant WCARO- Dakar, Senegal, 7months (Remote/Work from home)

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For each youngster, Hope

Goal of Exercise/Task:

Within the body of UNICEF’s work total and in WASH, information administration (KM) represents one of many change methods to help the achievements of outcomes for youngsters. Fulfilling the 2030 Agenda depends upon our capacity to offer governments and different WASH actors with information and knowledgeable recommendation to assist guarantee their choices and actions are primarily based on the very best info obtainable and ship the very best outcomes for youngsters and the poor, as effectively as potential. (UNICEF Strategic plan 2022-25) KM underpins the effectiveness and efficacy of the WASH programme to maximise its influence with the obtainable sources. KM actions must be supported by an enabling atmosphere consisting of enough sources (monetary and human), a KM oriented tradition, good governance, and sturdy expertise. It ought to be used to generate, seize, use and share UNICEF’s organizational WASH information to enhance the standard, fairness, and sustainability of WASH companies. UNICEF WCARO engaged to ship help to information administration (documentation) and facilitation of information alternate in particular person and nearly as a part of its 2024 BMGF venture workplan. This consultancy will facilitate the documentation and capability constructing points for CO colleagues on information technology beneath the direct supervision of the WASH specialist Sanitation and Hygiene. The aim of this consultancy is to help UNICEF nation places of work in West and Central Africa and WCARO of their WASH information administration actions, by supporting the event of high-quality, progressive technical WASH information merchandise, particularly round sanitation outcomes documenting the progress in direction of Ending Open Defecation (KRC8). The primary goal of this consultancy is to make sure WASH workers within the area are supported with the event of WASH information merchandise. The marketing consultant’s analytical experience might be used for the elaboration of progressive high-quality WASH information merchandise together with these utilizing UNICEF WASH templates and extracting and synthesizing from present information initiatives developed by nation places of work. The information merchandise elaborated by the consultancy might be prepared for exterior dissemination and use by UNICEF and companions within the area and past.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

Scope of Work:

• At first of the consultancy and quarterly going ahead the marketing consultant will facilitate a WASH KM planning assembly, with the target to develop a KM workplan for every CO for the next 2 months.
• Primarily based on CO request the marketing consultant will develop an in depth workplan for her/himself, assigning working days as per recognized regional documentation priorities and information gaps to CO help and information product growth. Precedence subjects concentrate on sanitation, however in detailed framing will range by CO and for the RO embody: city sanitation, Local weather Resilient sanitation, Proof Primarily based Behaviour Change Approaches, Hand and Menstrual Hygiene, Methods Strengthening (batch of information merchandise).
• The elaboration of every WASH information product can embody the next detailed actions and remaining deliverables:Identification and validation of documentation worth of proposed information merchandise by CO (as much as 0.5 days per CO) as per “Information product pre-approval guidelines”, which incorporates particular standards comparable to: alignment with the CO publication plan, responding to the proof hole mapping of COs, offering unique information and insights related to the broader sector,
• Help the elaboration of a remaining draft of information merchandise, utilizing agreed codecs, incl. UNICEF WASH templates, particularly Fieldnotes, technical papers and dialogue papers and innovativeproducts focusing on digital exterior dissemination channels, comparable to MS Sway variations, quick summaries and infographics for social media of WASH templated merchandise, (zero draft to be delivered by COs) as soon as proposed information product was permitted for help by the marketing consultant, by means of the RO
• Talk about the ultimate draft with WCARO and nation workplace focal factors as mandatory and get preliminary feedback and inputs. Incorporate the feedback and inputs and elaborate the ultimate model of the information merchandise.
• Submit remaining model of the information product to WCARO WASH workforce for publication by means of HQ or direct.

Work Assignments Overview	Deliverables/Outputs	Supply deadline
Information merchandise Batch 1: together with workplan, listing of permitted information merchandise, remaining draft and remaining copy-edited information merchandise	KM merchandise associated to information batch 1	01.05.2024
Information merchandise Batch 2: together with workplan, listing of permitted information merchandise, remaining draft and remaining copy-edited information merchandise	KM merchandise associated to information batch 2	15.07.2024
Information merchandise Batch 3: together with workplan, listing of permitted information merchandise, remaining draft and remaining copy-edited information merchandise	KM merchandise associated to information batch 3	30.09.2024

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

• An Superior (Grasp) College Diploma in Public Well being, Engineering, Growth Research, Social Sciences, Communications Sciences, Worldwide Relations, or associated fields.
  • A Bachelor’s diploma with 8 years of related work expertise in lieu of a Grasp diploma is appropriate.
• minimal of 8 years’ expertise within the WASH sector, associated with administration of water and/or sanitation programmes in growing international locations.
• Expertise in enhancing and writing technical WASH UNICEF WASH templates associated to the WASH sector and social science.
• Wonderful writing abilities and demonstrated document of high-quality publications on WASH, social science and growth points.
• Information and demonstrated expertise of evaluation, enhancing, report writing and proofreading of UNICEF WASH information merchandise in English.
• Earlier expertise enhancing and writing for UNICEF and familiarity with UNICEF’s model pointers
• Confirmed excellence in writing WASH information merchandise in English required, French an asset
• Fluency in English and French

Different Necessities

• Accomplished profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system /Resume
• Educational credentials/certificates
• Consultancy proposal
• Monetary proposal that can embody
  • Prices for every deliverable and whole all-inclusive (lump sum) charges for the entire project
  • Journey prices and each day subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or journey is required as per TO
  • Some other estimated prices: visa, medical health insurance, and residing prices as relevant.
• Beforehand related consultancy merchandise & remaining evaluations (if obtainable)
• Point out your availability
• On the time the contract is awarded, the chosen candidate will need to have in place present medical health insurance protection.
• Cost {of professional} charges might be primarily based on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the suitable 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 marketing consultant.

For each Little one, you reveal… 

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

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 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 identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

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UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets 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 rules. All chosen candidates might 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 info to conduct a background examine. 

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates might 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 Employees Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (comparable to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service might be ruled by their contract and the Common Circumstances 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 health 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 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 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 places or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF at some stage in their consultancy contracts.