Consultant (Codification, Results Based Financing), Education Outcomes Fund (EOF), Hosted Fund, 6 Months, REMOTE, Req:570068

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each baby, in all places, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means surrender. 

For each baby, EDUCATION 

There are few larger challenges confronted by the worldwide group than the dual crises of studying poverty and youth unemployment. In response, the Training Fee (chaired by Gordon Brown, former UK Prime Minister and UN Particular Envoy for World Training) and the World Steering Group for Impression Funding (chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen) got here along with our founding CEO (Her Excellency Dr.) Amel Karboul to create EOF. We purpose to enhance the schooling and employment outcomes of 10 million youngsters and youth, by supporting governments to make the most of a spread of progressive finance devices at scale, together with outcomes funds and different results-based financing (RBF) devices.

EOF is backed by a range of world leaders who help us to form our method and obtain our bold goals, in addition to leaders in schooling and affect investing:

EOF helps enhancements within the high quality of schooling and expertise packages, with a particular concentrate on ladies and underserved populations, together with these within the hardest to succeed in rural areas. It measures (and pays for) what issues – each core expertise like literacy and numeracy, but additionally essential twenty first Century expertise resembling socio-emotional expertise, ICT expertise, and different broader fundamentals of a top quality schooling. It helps shut the persistent hole between the talents wanted by employers and people attained by at the moment’s youth.

For all of the above, EOF pays totally on the idea of the outcomes achieved, making certain that taxpayer-funded home assets, help, and philanthropic funds are solely used to pay for what works. It is a game-changing strategy to finance leads to schooling, focusing consideration and realigning techniques on probably the most difficult however most necessary measure of a program’s efficiency: whether or not it’s bettering lives.

Along with our supporters, we consider that is the early levels of a a lot bigger motion, with enormous potential to extend studying outcomes for youngsters and youth all over the world, although improved help effectiveness and authorities spending.

Since our inception in 2018, EOF has:

• Partnered with governments in Ghana and Sierra Leone to determine the 2 largest outcomes funds to this point in growing international locations, mobilising ~$50M for these packages.
• Established itself as a number one world participant in RBF, and the one devoted heart of experience for RBF in schooling and expertise.
• Change into the primary outcomes fund hosted by the United Nations inside UNICEF, as a scalable platform to associate with governments all over the world.
• Established a significant partnership with the LEGO Basis, to develop a scale portfolio of RBF packages in early childhood throughout a various vary of nations, in addition to to amplify the motion and ecosystem of companions round this method.
• Had our progressive method featured within the Stanford Social Innovation Evaluate, FT, Economist, Brookings, and extra.
• Constructed our institutional capability to contract and implement large-scale outcomes funds extra effectively and successfully than historic affect bonds.
• Established a powerful tradition of efficiency and an energetic concentrate on ongoing skilled growth for all our staff.

How will you make a distinction?

PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

Element 1: RBF Onboarding:
Help EOF to develop a complete, technical Outcomes-Primarily based Financing (RBF) onboarding program. This on-boarding program will embrace three ranges, to satisfy the wants of various goal audiences inside EOF:

• Degree 1: Introduction to Outcomes-Primarily based Financing and the progressive financing sector (focused in any respect EOF personnel).
• Degree 2: Extra in-depth overview of Outcomes-Primarily based Financing, explaining the totally different mechanisms and the logic on why EOF has chosen to make use of Outcomes Funds particularly (focused at Partnerships and Applications personnel).
• Degree 3: Learn how to design and implement outcomes funds (focused at Applications personnel).

Degree 3 of this on-boarding program might be focused in direction of technical, packages staff personnel to make sure that they’re effectively geared up to begin engaged on the design and implementation of outcomes fund packages. We need to put in place an efficient onboarding program that covers not solely an introduction to RBF, but additionally offers a sensible and hands-on information to allow new starters to rise up to hurry rapidly. We’re in search of a blended method for onboarding, that features informative periods and assets, whereas additionally providing hands-on actions and case research for brand spanking new starters to place their new information to the take a look at and study by doing.

Element 2: RBF Codification:
As EOF designs and launches a number of end result funds, you will need to guarantee standardisation to realize larger effectivity and effectiveness. So as to try this, our method to RBF and outcomes funds must be documented and codified, in a means for present and future groups to grasp.

The purpose is to have a transparent EOF establish within the packages we launch, and in addition guarantee groups are leveraging current inside information and expertise to keep away from duplicating efforts. We require the marketing consultant to help within the creation of technical frameworks in addition to documenting our method to RBF.

DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT

Deliverable	Description	Estimated variety of working days	Deadline/ timeline
Element 1: RBF onboarding
Deliverable 1: Develop an Onboarding Plan to stipulate a technique for a revised onboarding program (an estimated 2-page Phrase doc).	Evaluate current EOF onboarding materials, conduct a skills-gap evaluation throughout the staff, and description a technique for a revised onboarding program, together with a advised schedule of modules and supplies to supply. Incorporate suggestions from EOF’s management staff.	3 days	Finish of March
Deliverable 2: Detailed onboarding schedule (an estimated 10-page Phrase doc).	Produce an in depth plan together with a sequencing of modules, size of modules, advised excessive degree content material for every module, sorts of actions and case research for every module, and total form of the onboarding program. Incorporate suggestions from EOF’s management staff.	6 days	Finish of March
Deliverable 3: Discrete module content material (as much as 10 modules whole).	Produce particular person module content material, together with further assets, case research and actions, based mostly on the agreed detailed onboarding schedule (deliverable 2).	20 days (2 days per module)	Finish of Might
Element 2: RBF Codification
Deliverable 4: Facilitate the creation of as much as 3 technical frameworks (estimated 5-page Phrase Doc per framework).	Facilitate technical design discussions with the EOF packages staff, and doc agreed technical frameworks and step-by-step steering for EOF’s staff on all key levels of this system design course of to make sure consistency and effectivity. Incorporate suggestions from EOF’s management staff.	6 days        (2 days per framework)	Finish of June
Deliverable 5: Create as much as 5 items of codification work (estimated 10-page Phrase Doc per codification)	Present technical enter into particular codification paperwork, technical frameworks and step-by-step steering for EOF’s staff on all key levels of this system design course of to make sure consistency and effectivity. Incorporate suggestions from EOF’s management staff.	15 days (3 days per codification piece)	Finish of August
Whole estimated working days – 50

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

• A sophisticated diploma (Grasp’s) within the related fields of examine consists of Economics, Politics, Worldwide Growth, Training, Public Coverage, and associated fields.
• A Ph.D. in a related topic is fascinating.
• A minimal of 5 years of related skilled expertise in worldwide growth and/or the worldwide schooling sector.
• Expertise in Outcomes Primarily based Finance is crucial.
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish).

For each Baby, 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 youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

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Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. 

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