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Emptiness Announcement: Guide
Consultancy Title: Guide, Module on Youngsters and Adolescents Growth QualityRights e-training on Psychological Well being, Restoration and Group Inclusion
Part/Division/Obligation Station: Incapacity Group – Programme Group – NYHQ
Period: 11 December 2023 – 15 August 2024
Residence/ workplace Primarily based: REMOTE
About UNICEF
If you’re a dedicated, inventive 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 creating international locations, UNICEF helps baby well being and diet, good water and sanitation, high quality primary 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 employees in additional than 145 international locations.
BACKGROUND
Function of Exercise/ Task:
The Incapacity Group within the Programme Group Management Group at UNICEF Headquarters is in search of a person advisor to offer technical experience to finish the next duties:
- Develop a brand new module on youngsters and adolescents for QualityRights e-training on Psychological Well being, Restoration and Group Inclusion.
- Validation and overview of the module by exterior overview group and finalization.
Scope of Work:
The work will likely be managed and guided by the Incapacity and Psychological Well being and Psychosocial Help Groups in shut collaboration with WHO to assist the on-going Joint Programme on psychological well being between WHO and UNICEF.
The World Well being Group’s (WHO) QualityRights e-training is a dynamic and complete platform designed to offer data, information and understanding about psychological well being; sort out stigma and discrimination; and enhance how companies and helps are offered to individuals with psychological well being situations or psychosocial disabilities. The WHO’s QualityRights e-training has been instrumental in disseminating very important information about psychological well being, human rights, and wellbeing. Nevertheless, a major hole stays: the distinctive challenges youngsters and adolescents face haven’t been sufficiently addressed. To handle this hole, UNICEF and WHO will develop a brand new module targeted on youngsters and adolescents to enrich the present modules and delve into the intersection of psychological well being and human rights particular to youngsters and adolescents.
The work will entail the next areas of labor, together with the next deliverables:
- Develop a brand new module on youngsters and adolescents for QualityRights e-training on Psychological Well being, Restoration and Group Inclusion.
The brand new module will present data and understanding in regards to the distinctive human rights points and challenges youngsters and adolescents with psychological well being situations or psychosocial disabilities face. It’ll spotlight the significance of recognizing and respecting the rights of younger people and focus on the particular boundaries they could face, together with in psychological well being companies. This module explores the synergies between the UN Conference on the Rights of the Little one and the UN Conference on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities and explains how these requirements ought to information the availability of companies and assist. It’ll current methods for selling restoration and making certain neighborhood inclusion for kids and adolescents with psychological well being situations or psychosocial disabilities.
The Module will likely be addressing the next key matters:
a. Understanding psychological well being in youngsters and adolescents: an summary of psychological well being in childhood and adolescence linking to present UNICEF and WHO assets.
b. Human rights challenges of youngsters and adolescents with psychological well being situations or psychosocial disabilities: potential boundaries to accessing high quality psychological well being companies, stigma and discrimination in varied settings, lack of knowledgeable consent and participation in selections affecting their therapy, and the chance of violence, abuse, and neglect.
c. The UN Conference on the Rights of the Little one and the UN Conference on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities: the rules and obligations of the CRC and the CRPD, how these conventions intersect and complement one another within the context of psychological well being.
d. Methods for care in youngsters and adolescents: significance of person-centred and holistic approaches, early intervention, issues associated to knowledgeable resolution based mostly on the evolving capability of the kid, involvement of households and friends, multisectoral groups working collaboratively, and strong referral programs.
e. Group inclusion for kids and adolescents with psychological well being situations, together with psychosocial disabilities: methods and measures to offer neighborhood assist, foster their independence, guarantee their full participation in neighborhood.
f. Roles of various stakeholders in selling youngsters and adolescents’ psychological well being and rights: mother and father, lecturers, well being professionals, and policymakers, the significance of coordination and follow-up to make sure continuity of care and assist.
2. Group of the validation of the module by exterior overview group.
The analysis of the QR e-training confirmed vital constructive shifts in attitudes in direction of a rights-based strategy to psychological well being, together with understanding authorized capability, selection in therapy, and the significance of neighborhood inclusion.
The module on youngsters and adolescents constructing on this success, will contribute to a extra inclusive, complete, and efficient strategy to psychological well being and human rights. The advisor will arrange the overview and validation of the developed module and based mostly on the consultations will make adjustment wanted and finalize the module accordingly.
These deliverables will likely be developed in collaboration with WHO and extra assist for growth after all supplies based mostly on the course content material might be offered as wanted.
Phrases of Reference / Key Deliverables:
a. Growth of the module curriculum, content material, and quizzes – estimated timeframe 45 days
By 10 March 2024
b. Group of the validation and overview of the module by exterior overview group.
By 10 June 2024
c. Collation of the suggestions and finalization of the module – estimated timeframe 30 days.
By 15 August 2024
{Qualifications}
Schooling:
- Masters diploma/ Social Sciences, Worldwide growth, Incapacity Research, Coverage growth or associated fields
Work expertise:
- Minimal of eight years of related skilled work expertise on incapacity inclusion, human rights, programme design and implementation at international and nation ranges.
Competencies/Data:
- Prior expertise main growth of incapacity inclusive programs based mostly on human rights strategy; enchancment of companies based mostly on human rights; psychological well being and psychosocial assist programs growth.
- Confirmed skill to conceptualize, plan and collaborate with exterior reviewers all through the event of merchandise, robust expertise in capability growth for incapacity inclusion.
- Strong information of UNICEF’s work on incapacity inclusion, implementation of the Conference of the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities (CRPD), CRC, the United Nations Incapacity Inclusion Technique (UNDIS).
- Confirmed expertise in creating incapacity inclusive programs, in multi-sectoral, cross-cutting programming for inclusion of individuals with disabilities. Understanding of and dedication to the rights of individuals with disabilities.
- Confirmed robust writing expertise.
- Familiarity with key UNICEF organizational processes, familiarity with organizations of individuals with disabilities in addition to incapacity and growth neighborhood.
Necessities:
Accomplished profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and
- Add copy of educational credentials
- Monetary proposal that may embrace/ mirror:
- the prices per every deliverable and the overall 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 responsibility journey and associated bills will likely be coated by UNICEF.
- On the time the contract is awarded, the chosen candidate should have in place present medical insurance protection.
- Cost {of professional} charges will likely be based mostly on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the correct to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are lower than the required customary or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the advisor.
U.S. Visa data:
Except the US Residents, G4 Visa and Inexperienced Card holders, ought to the chosen candidate and his/her family members reside in the USA below a distinct 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 below the visa held previous to switching to G4.
Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of
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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 baby safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules 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 examine.
Remarks: People engaged below a consultancy won’t be thought-about “employees members” below the Workers Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (corresponding to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will likely be ruled by their contract and the Basic Circumstances of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants. Consultants are liable 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 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 are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF in the course of their consultancy contracts.
Marketed: 25 Oct 2023 Japanese Daylight Time
Deadline: 03 Nov 2023 Japanese Daylight Time
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