Consultant; Early Childhood Education in Emergencies Req.# 569514

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Emptiness Announcement: Marketing consultant

Consultancy Title: Early Childhood Schooling in Emergencies Marketing consultant 

Part/Division/Obligation Station: Schooling Part – PG – NYHQ

Period: 15 March 2024 – 15 October 2024

House/ workplace Based mostly: REMOTE

About UNICEF

If you’re a dedicated, inventive skilled and are enthusiastic about making an enduring distinction for youngsters, 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 improvement. The world’s largest supplier of vaccines for creating nations, UNICEF helps little one 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 totally by the voluntary contributions of people, companies, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 workers in additional than 145 nations.

BACKGROUND

Function of Exercise/Task:

The challenge Reinforcing Higher Early Studying and Improvement at Scale (BELDS) for High quality Inclusive Early Childhood Schooling in GPE Companion International locations builds on earlier work supported by KIX to combine Early Childhood Schooling (ECE) in sectoral planning. 

Carried out by means of consortia of companions, the unique challenge aimed to mobilize international information to tell ECE coverage, planning, and observe within the creating nations; develop a complete e-toolkit of assets to adapt, improve and scale-up confirmed approaches to strengthen ECE programs; and strengthen the capability of nationwide and worldwide stakeholders on early childhood training coverage, planning, and implementation.  Working carefully with 5 goal nations, Lesotho, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the challenge generated proof on the use and adaptation of instruments in a variety of contexts and highlighted profitable approaches and classes learnt in mainstreaming ECE into training sector planning. 

Amplifying nation experiences by means of UNICEF’s international and regional groups, the unique three-year grant has: a) supported ECE system strengthening by means of tailor-made technical help to the Ministries of Schooling (at central and decentralized ranges) in planning, costing, and implementing ECE packages to progressively improve the variety of kids collaborating in high quality ECE b) contributed to the event of instruments to help all phases of the ECE planning cycle by means of the ECE Accelerator Toolkit; c) contributed to the worldwide evidence-base about approaches to efficient planning for ECE and; d) mobilized information sharing between GPE companion nations to reinforce evidence-based coverage and planning.

Throughout implementation of the unique challenge, session with stakeholders revealed a collection of key gaps and desires in ECE planning, which now type the premise of the extension proposal. Below the proposed extension of the challenge, UNICEF and companions will: a) help the event of steering for GPE companion nations round place ECE throughout the GPE Compact (b) help the progressive roll out of an ECE costing and financing software developed and piloted beneath the unique challenge to help budgeting, coverage prioritization, and target-setting; (c) pilot instruments to help advocacy, implementation, monitoring and analysis which have been developed however not examined beneath the unique challenge; and d) help the event of latest instruments designed to facilitate higher inclusion of kids with disabilities, and youngsters in humanitarian contexts, in addition to to help the uptake of gender-transformative ECE.

Below the extension section of the KIX challenge, the Early Childhood Schooling in Emergencies (ECEiE) advisor will probably be chargeable for finishing a complete overview of present ECEiE interventions being applied by UNICEF and the World Schooling Cluster and its companions. This evaluation will inform the event of a report showcasing scalable ECEiE interventions geared toward serving to nations establish contextually applicable ECE interventions within the context of acute and protracted crises. Moreover, the advisor will develop 2 checklists of issues for successfully mainstreaming early childhood training into training sector planning processes and human program cycle.

Scope of Work:

Working with the Schooling Specialist (Early Childhood Schooling), the KIX challenge staff, and the related Emergency Response Groups and companions, the advisor will present technical experience and help the event of a sensible ECEiE software for the ECE Accelerator Toolkit. Extra particularly, the advisor will:

• Full a abstract report documenting how scalable early studying interventions have been developed and applied in numerous emergency contexts (acute, protracted disaster, refugee/displacement contexts, and so on) to help little one improvement and college readiness, referencing the instruments, frameworks and key entry factors and so on. that have been used.
• Develop two risk-informed planning checklists, tailored to mainstream early childhood training in humanitarian crises into: a. sector planning and b. humanitarian program cycle.

Phrases of Reference / Key Deliverables:

• A abstract report on scalable emergency ECE interventions, referencing the instruments, frameworks and key entry factors and so on., is accomplished – Mar 15 – 31 July 2024
• Completion of 4 information merchandise, particularly: 2 case research, 1 weblog, 1 advocacy transient by Might 1 -Jun 30 – 2024
• 2 risk-informed checklists are accomplished and validated by the reference group by August 1st – October 15, 2024

{Qualifications}

Schooling:

• Grasp’s diploma in training, Worldwide Improvement or one other related subject.
• Information and expertise in emergency/humanitarian settings required.

Work expertise:

Not less than 5 years’ expertise working within the subject of training in emergencies, ideally throughout the Cluster system.

Competencies/Information:

• In-depth understanding of the humanitarian sector and the humanitarian program cycle
• Demonstrated understanding early childhood training, the Cluster system, training sector planning processes and UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Kids
• Glorious analytical, written, and oral communication abilities.  Means to speak clearly and sensitively with inner and exterior stakeholders.
• Glorious interpersonal abilities with a demonstrated means to work in partnership with numerous groups and stakeholders.
• Means to work in a multicultural surroundings. Information and expertise in nations which can be a part of the KIX challenge is a plus.
• Fluency in English. Competency in one other UN language most well-liked

Necessities:

Accomplished profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and

• Add copy of educational credentials
• Monetary proposal that can embrace/ replicate:
  • the prices per every deliverable and the entire lump-sum for the entire project (in US$) to undertake the phrases of reference.
  • journey prices and each day subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or journey is required as per TOR.
  • Another estimated prices: visa, medical insurance, and residing prices as relevant.
  • Point out your availability
• Any emergent / unexpected obligation journey and associated bills will probably be coated by UNICEF.
• On the time the contract is awarded, the chosen candidate will need to have in place present medical insurance protection.
• Fee {of professional} charges will probably be primarily based on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the best to withhold fee 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 advisor.

U.S. Visa data:

Apart from the US Residents, G4 Visa and Inexperienced Card holders, ought to the chosen candidate and his/her family members reside in the US beneath a unique visa, the advisor and his/her family members are required to vary their visa standing to G4, and the advisor’s family members (partner) would require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to have the ability to work, even when he/she was approved to work beneath the visa held previous to switching to G4.  

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of

For each Youngster, you reveal…

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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 little one safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can subsequently endure 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 offer extra data to conduct a background verify. 

Remarks:  

People engaged beneath a consultancy is not going to be thought of “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 (similar to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the Basic Situations of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants. Consultants are chargeable 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 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 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 on 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 areas 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.