Consultant (Management), Education Outcomes Fund (EOF), Hosted Fund, 6 Months, REMOTE, Req:568864

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. 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 little one, in all places, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each little one, 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 International Training) and the International Steering Group for Influence Funding (chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen) got here collectively to create EOF. We goal to enhance the schooling and employment outcomes of 10 million kids and youth by supporting governments to make the most of a spread of revolutionary finance devices at scale, together with outcomes funds and different results-based financing (RBF) devices.

EOF helps enhancements within the high quality of schooling and expertise packages, with a particular give attention to underserved populations, together with the toughest to achieve, rural populations, ladies, kids with disabilities, and refugees. It measures (and pays for) what issues – each core expertise like literacy and numeracy, but in addition important twenty first Century expertise equivalent to socio-emotional expertise, ICT expertise, and different broader fundamentals of a top quality schooling. It helps shut the persistent hole between the abilities wanted by employers and people attained by at this time’s youth by paying for employment and retention outcomes.

For all of the above, EOF pays totally on the premise of the outcomes achieved, guaranteeing that taxpayer-funded home assets, help, and philanthropic funds are solely used to pay for what works. This can be a game-changing approach to finance ends in schooling. It’s greater than only a fund – it’s a highly effective new set of partnerships and approach of working.

Along with our supporters, we imagine that is the early phases of a a lot bigger motion. Our method is on the chopping fringe of improvement finance, shifting threat to the personal sector, crowding in personal capital, and harnessing the capability and functionality of non-state actors, with large potential to realize higher outcomes for kids and youth world wide.

How are you going to make a distinction?

RATIONALE FOR THE CONSULTANCY

We’re in search of to recruit a Administration Advisor to advise EOF on a spread of organizational and strategic areas. The profitable candidate will work in shut partnership with EOF’s management group and the broader CEO Workplace, offering technical steering and recommendation throughout the breadth of their actions.

PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

By way of offering technical steering and help, the Administration Advisor will play a coordinating function throughout the breadth of EOF’s work. The Administration Advisor will report on to the Senior Operations Affiliate and collaborate with all members of EOF’s group.

DELIVERABLES

SLEIC Programme

Deliverable	Description	Estimated variety of working days	Deadline/ timeline
Deliverable 1: A briefing doc and journey itinerary ready earlier than every worldwide journey undertaken by EOF’s management group	Put together a briefing doc (estimated 3-5 pages) forward of every worldwide journey by EOF’s management group, together with particulars of flights, lodging, schedule, visa, and vaccinations. It also needs to embrace an summary of the stakeholders they may meet and the important thing messages and briefing for the conferences.	48 (Estimated 2 journeys per 30 days, 4 days per journey)	Month-to-month to finish of contract
Deliverable 2: Steering produced for EOF’s management group forward of their attendance on the United Nations Normal Meeting	In collaboration with the broader CEO Workplace and EOF’s Communications Advisor, put together a steering doc (estimated 5-10 pages) for EOF management group forward of their attendance on the UN Normal Meeting in 2024. This could embrace logistical data (flights, lodging, visa, vaccinations) and strategic data (overview of key stakeholders, schedule, key messages).	10	By finish of contract
Deliverable 3: Replace EOF’s buyer database system with contact studies (equivalent to stakeholder contact particulars, and notes from their conferences with EOF)	Replace EOF’s buyer database system with contact studies following exterior conferences between stakeholders and EOF’s management group (estimated 20 contact studies over the 6-month contract)	5 (0.25 per contact report)	Month-to-month to finish of contract
Deliverable 4: Scheduled conferences within the diaries of EOF’s management group	Coordinate 6 complicated conferences per 30 days (a number of exterior stakeholders throughout varied time zones, on-line and in-person) for EOF’s management group and share any pre-reading at the least 2 working days prematurely.	18 (0.5 days per assembly)	Month-to-month to finish of contract
Deliverable 5: Pre-reading ready forward of key exterior conferences	Lead the preparation of pre-reading (estimated 10 pages / slides) forward of key exterior conferences for EOF’s management group.	20 (2 days per assembly)	1-2 conferences per 30 days
Whole estimated working days – 101

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have… 

• A primary-level college diploma (i.e., Bachelor) in a related topic equivalent to Enterprise, Administration, Public Coverage, Training, Economics, Worldwide Improvement, or Communications.
• A minimal of two years of related skilled work expertise in exterior relations, public affairs or worldwide improvement cooperation, ideally inside the UN, or in a authorities establishment, non-governmental organizations, and many others.
• Prior expertise of working in coordination, planning, or in an govt workplace in shut collaboration with senior enterprise leaders is an asset.
• Skilled in utilizing Microsoft Workplace suites and different know-how (e.g., Zoom, CRM techniques, SharePoint) and with the flexibility to study new instruments shortly.
• Expertise within the logistics and administration of worldwide journey (together with complicated multi-destination itineraries, worldwide occasions, demanding and evolving schedules).
• Expertise in managing complicated and changeable diaries (together with performing as a gatekeeper, managing expectations, navigating totally different time-zones).
• Expertise in assembly preparation (together with making ready and setting agendas, guaranteeing right attendees, managing assembly logistics).
• Earlier expertise or an curiosity in worldwide improvement, the worldwide schooling sector, and worldwide help is fascinating
• Glorious drafting, enhancing, and communication expertise.
• Glorious time administration expertise to take care of conflicting and pressing priorities.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish).

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

UNICEF gives reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This will likely 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 cheap lodging through the choice course of and afterwards in your project. 

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 rules. All chosen candidates will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can due to this fact bear 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 further data to conduct a background examine. 

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably 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 Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (equivalent to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the Normal Situations 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 your entire interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing in opposition to 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 usually are not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF all through their consultancy contracts.