Consultant (Partnerships), Education Outcomes Fund (EOF), Hosted Fund, 12 Months, REMOTE, Req:569825

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

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, all over the place, 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 neighborhood 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 Affect Funding (chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen) got here along with our founding CEO (Her Excellency Dr.) Amel Karboul to create EOF. We goal to enhance the training and employment outcomes of 10 million kids 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 assist us to form our strategy and obtain our formidable goals, in addition to leaders in training and impression investing:

EOF helps enhancements within the high quality of training and abilities applications, with a particular deal with women and underserved populations, together with these within the hardest to succeed in rural areas. It measures (and pays for) what issues – each core abilities like literacy and numeracy, but in addition crucial twenty first Century abilities corresponding to socio-emotional abilities, ICT abilities, and different broader fundamentals of a high quality training. It helps shut the persistent hole between the abilities wanted by employers and people attained by in the present day’s youth.

For all of the above, EOF pays totally on the premise of the outcomes achieved, making certain that taxpayer-funded home sources, assist, and philanthropic funds are solely used to pay for what works. This can be a game-changing technique to finance ends in training, focusing consideration and realigning programs on probably the most difficult however most necessary measure of a program’s efficiency: whether or not it’s enhancing lives.

Along with our supporters, we imagine that is the early levels of a a lot bigger motion, with enormous potential to extend studying outcomes for youngsters and youth around the globe, although improved assist effectiveness and authorities spending.

Since our inception in 2018, EOF has:

• Partnered with governments in Ghana and Sierra Leone to ascertain the 2 largest outcomes funds to this point in growing nations, mobilising ~$50M for these applications.
• Established itself as a number one international participant in RBF, and the one devoted heart of experience for RBF in training and abilities.
• Change into the primary outcomes fund hosted by the United Nations inside UNICEF, as a scalable platform to companion with governments around the globe.
• Established a serious partnership with the LEGO Basis, to develop a scale portfolio of RBF applications in early childhood throughout a various vary of nations, in addition to to amplify the motion and ecosystem of companions round this strategy.
• Had our progressive strategy featured within the Stanford Social Innovation Overview, FT, Economist, Brookings, and extra.
• Constructed our institutional capability to contract and implement large-scale outcomes funds extra effectively and successfully than historic impression bonds.
• Established a robust tradition of efficiency and an energetic deal with ongoing skilled growth for all our workforce.

How will you make a distinction?

PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

As Advisor (Partnerships), you’ll assist EOF’s Chief Working Officer to develop EOF’s partnerships and fundraising efforts, advising EOF’s management workforce about rising EOF’s partnerships around the globe, unlocking the funding and constructing the relationships wanted to appreciate EOF’s imaginative and prescient. The Advisor can even play an important function in main EOF’s identification, design and growth of future training and abilities applications and strengthening relationships at senior ranges of organizations and governments around the globe. This guide will report on to EOF’s Chief Working Officer. This project will be accomplished remotely.

DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT

Deliverable	Description	Estimated variety of working days	Deadline/ timeline
Deliverable 1: Written donor experiences, each narrative and monetary updates, to EOF’s donors (estimated 14 donor experiences over the 12-month contract, every report of 5 pages)	Put together narrative and monetary updates to current donors as required, with inputs from EOF’s management workforce. Monitor and monitor common updates and reporting obligations.	28 days    2 days per report	Month-to-month – estimated 1-2 experiences per 30 days
Deliverable 2: Verbal updates to EOF donors on calls (20 high-quality shows estimated over the 12-month contract, every name lasting 60 minutes)	Displays to EOF donors (month-to-month updates for the very best precedence stakeholders, quarterly updates for the second highest precedence stakeholders, bi-annually for the third highest precedence stakeholders). This consists of the event of pre-reading, verbal shows, and follow-up exercise over electronic mail.	15 days 0.75 days per presentation (agenda setting, presentation prep, and put up assembly comply with up)	Month-to-month – estimated 2-3 shows per 30 days
Deliverable 3: Verbal cultivation and solicitation calls to potential EOF donors (40 potential donors over the 12-month contract, every name lasting 60 minutes)	Current to potential EOF donors by way of figuring out alignments with EOF’s work and donor priorities, and main growth work to establish areas for potential collaboration.	30 days 0.75 days per name (agenda setting, presentation prep, and put up assembly comply with up)	Month-to-month – estimated 3-4 calls per 30 days
Deliverable 4: Proposals and supplies for potential companions, prospects and exterior champions (8 proposals or supplies over the 12-month contract, 10-pages estimated per proposal)	Create materials and proposals (corresponding to shows, idea notes, white papers, and so on.) for companions, prospects and exterior champions which can be grounded in our mission. Incorporate suggestions from EOF’s management workforce.	80 days (10 days per proposal)	Quarterly – by finish of June 2024, September 2024, December 2024 and March 2025.
Deliverable 5: Analysis and written content material to contribute to EOF’s idea growth of potential new applications (estimated three potential applications; 10-page Phrase Doc per program).	Lead early-stage program idea growth, in shut collaboration with the applications workforce, by conducting on-line analysis and assembly with in-country stakeholders for potential new EOF applications.	30 (10 days per program)	By the tip of 2024
Complete estimated working days – 183

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

• A complicated college diploma is required in one of many following fields: worldwide relations, political science, communications, worldwide growth, training, public coverage, economics, or one other related technical subject.
  *A Bachelor’s diploma will likely be thought of with a further 2 years of expertise.
• A minimal of 5 years of related skilled expertise in enterprise growth, program design or fundraising/partnerships, particularly within the training and abilities sector.
• Sturdy observe file of partnerships created, and offers secured, with quite a lot of actors corresponding to governments, foundations, company, philanthropy, multilateral non-profit organizations.
• Sturdy relationship-building abilities and the flexibility to domesticate long-term companions, prospects and champions of our work.
• Expertise in working at a senior degree with board members, foundations, and philanthropists.
• Expertise in monitoring a lot of workstreams and tasks, with out shedding sight of important data, well timed actions and long-term planning.
• Expertise within the growth of high-quality materials for exterior audiences corresponding to presentation decks, proposals and budgets.
• Expertise within the design, administration and implementation of training and/or abilities for employment applications.
• Expertise within the creation of multi-stakeholder partnerships and public-private partnerships.
• Expertise with using CRM software program
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish).

For each Baby, you display… 

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 international workforce should replicate the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

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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 little one safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can subsequently 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 likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

People engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought of “workers members” below 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 (corresponding to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will likely 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 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 health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the complete 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 capabilities for UNICEF at some stage in their consultancy contracts.