Consultant – Instructional Design – Innovations & Technology (GBViE) Req.#567065

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Emptiness Announcement: Guide

 Consultancy Title: Guide – Educational Design – Improvements & Expertise (GBViE)

Part/Division/Responsibility Station: Youngster Safety – Programme Group – NYHQ

Length: 27 January 2024 – 27 July 2024

Dwelling/ workplace Primarily based: REMOTE

About UNICEF

If you’re a dedicated, artistic skilled and are captivated with making an enduring distinction for kids, the world’s main youngsters’s rights group wish to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been engaged on the bottom in 190 international locations and territories to advertise youngsters’s survival, safety and growth. The world’s largest supplier of vaccines for growing international locations, UNICEF helps youngster well being and vitamin, good water and sanitation, high quality fundamental schooling for all girls and boys, and the safety of youngsters from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded solely by the voluntary contributions of people, companies, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 workers in additional than 145 international locations.

BACKGROUND

Objective of Exercise/ Task:

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each youngster, in every single place, in every thing the group does – in packages, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing probably the most deprived and excluded youngsters and households, interprets this dedication to youngsters’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all youngsters have a chance to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any youngster has an unequal likelihood in life – in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions – her or his rights are violated. There’s rising proof that investing within the well being, schooling and safety of a society’s most deprived residents – addressing inequity – not solely will give all youngsters the chance to satisfy their potential but in addition will result in sustained progress and stability of nations. For this reason the give attention to fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in the direction of realizing the human rights of all youngsters, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster, whereas additionally supporting the equitable growth of countries.

Associated to this mission, UNICEF is straight concerned in addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in a number of the world’s most intense and sophisticated conflicts and disasters. GBV in its numerous kinds constitutes a worldwide disaster which undermines social and financial progress; as one of many world’s biggest human rights violations, GBV have to be addressed to make sure common rights and rules with regard to equality, safety, liberty, integrity and dignity of human beings. Stopping and responding to gender-based violence in emergencies (GBViE) is acknowledged as a life-saving measure and a vital part of humanitarian motion. As a lead company in addressing GBViE, UNICEF has expanded its on-the-ground programming lately and made prevention and threat mitigation of, and response to GBViE certainly one of its focused priorities in its new Strategic and Gender Motion Plans (GAP) 2022-2025, in addition to within the new Youngster Safety Technique. GBViE contributes to the outcomes underneath Objective Space 3 and can be now a cross-cutting precedence throughout the brand new Strategic Plan-, making GBV threat mitigation certainly one of UNICEF’s change methods and a key contributor throughout all Objective Areas. GBViE threat mitigation is now additionally throughout all sectors and areas of labor in UNICEF’s up to date Core Commitments for Youngsters.

In 2019, UNICEF’s Government Director issued a name to innovate to fill gaps in accessibility and availability of providers on the Oslo Convention on Ending GBV in Emergencies. Since 2020, UNICEF has embarked in growing new applied sciences for gender-based violence programming. Considered one of these progressive options is Laaha, a Digital Protected House platform for girls and ladies.

Girls and ladies’ secure areas have lengthy been established as a key method to supply survivors with info, hyperlinks to providers, skills-building, peer connection, and help. But, as entry to bodily secure areas is usually restricted, UNICEF has been growing Laaha, a digital secure house (VSS) platform for girls and adolescent ladies to entry info. Following profitable piloting, a second model of a extra interactive platform has been developed and piloted in Iraq and Ecuador. Laaha is at present being deployed in quite a few extra international locations, together with Afghanistan, Lebanon, Ukraine and Venezuela. New international locations are expressing curiosity for the scaling section. Laaha goals at reaching 1 million customers and 15 languages by 2025. On this context of enlargement, technical experience on tutorial design is important to help the creation of extra modules on numerous matters requested by girls and ladies (together with medias and illustrations) and growth of content material in new languages.

Through the 6-month interval of the contract, the advisor will help the design of the VSS via the implementation of workplan particular duties listed beneath.

 Scope of Work:

 Beneath the supervision of the Youngster Safety Specialist (GBViE Innovation and Service Supply), the advisor shall be chargeable for completion of the next deliverables:

1. Create content material in at the least 2 new recognized languages (translated and proofread content material offered);
2. Create multimedia content material for IRC’s digital literacy coaching toolkit.

The consultancy shall be home-based with travels to emergency-affected contexts as possible.

 Phrases of Reference / Key Deliverables:

• Content material created in at the least 2 new recognized languages and added to platform

            By 27 July 2024

• All new modules on digital literacy revealed on laaha.org

           By 1 June 2024

{Qualifications}

Schooling:

• Bachelors/College diploma, ideally in tutorial design, academic expertise, media, laptop science. College diploma in social science, undertaking administration, human sources, enterprise administration, worldwide relations, psychology offered related expertise. Human-computer interplay or on-line and distance schooling fascinating.

Work expertise:

• 8-10 years of methods evaluation expertise in a non-profit setting and/or within the worldwide growth area, together with with a UN company.
• Worldwide expertise is extremely fascinating.

Competencies/Information:

• Publicity to and consciousness of the methods growth life cycle, structured evaluation, design and programming strategies, web-based instruments / options, system utilities and growth instruments, software software program packages, and PC-based packages utilized in growth or help of manufacturing methods.
• Publicity to web-based Information Administration and Intranet functions
• Means to rapidly develop a sound understanding of the processes carried out by UNICEF practical areas, each at Headquarters, Regional and Nation Workplace ranges.
• Information and understanding of girls’s rights, gender-based violence and humanitarian safety, particularly associated girls and ladies.
• Expertise growing expertise merchandise efficiently, particularly in product administration. Technical expertise and monitor report on Apps growth processes.
• Familiarity with Agile growth methodology and Software program growth undertaking administration utilizing GitHub e.g., Pivotal Tracker, Redmine, Trello, and so on.
• Extra skilled coaching in LMS (Totara/Moodle), programming languages (HTML, JavaScript, Java, and so on.) is a bonus.
• Inventive, progressive thinker who may translate concepts into sensible functions.
• Deep understanding of GBV guiding rules and what it means to supply a survivor-centered response.
• Robust interpersonal expertise and skill to work with a crew in addition to independently in a multi-cultural surroundings.
• Confirmed skill to handle relationships with UNICEF companions, together with girls and ladies.
• Confirmed expertise in communication, networking, strategic pondering, advocacy, negotiation, and skill to narrate this to new media and younger individuals.
• Confirmed capability to work with and lead collaborative groups throughout completely different areas and with completely different technical expertise.

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 overall lump-sum for the entire task (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
  • Every other estimated prices: visa, medical health insurance, and residing prices as relevant.
  • Point out your availability
• Any emergent / unexpected obligation journey and associated bills shall be lined by UNICEF
• 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 shall be based mostly on submission of agreed passable 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 advisor.

U.S. Visa info:

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 underneath 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 underneath the visa held previous to switching to G4

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

For each Youngster, you display…

UNICEF’s core values of Dedication, Variety and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with Individuals and Drive for Outcomes. View our competency framework at Here

UNICEF affords reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may occasionally embrace, 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 affordable 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 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 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 embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply extra info to conduct a background examine

Remarks:  People engaged underneath a consultancy is not going to be thought of “workers members” underneath the Employees Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (comparable to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service shall be ruled by their contract and the Basic Circumstances of Contracts for the Companies 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

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 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 task. 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 during their consultancy contracts.