Consultant – Rapporteur for DROPS Meeting, PME Network Meeting and Rapporteur Roster, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO), Bangkok, Thailand

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfilling their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a better future

UNICEF works to ensure the rights of all children in the East Asia and Pacific Region.  This means the rights of every child living in this country, irrespective of their nationality, gender, religion or ethnicity, to:

• survival – to basic healthcare, peace and security;
• development – to a good education, a loving home and adequate nutrition;
• protection – from abuse, neglect, trafficking, child labour and other forms of exploitation; and
• participation – to express opinions, be listened to and take part in making any decisions that affect them

How can you make a difference?

The Programme and Planning Section, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is seeking rapporteurs to capture the meeting contents, main discussions, priority issues, recent developments, exchanged experiences and way forwards, and potentially required for other note taking and report writing as well. The Deputy Representatives Programme & Operations Meeting (DROPS) Meeting will take place from 3-6 June 2024 and Planning Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) Network Meeting is from 4-7 June 2024.

Work Assignment: 

Under the supervision of the Regional Chief of Programme & Planning, the rapporteur is required to provide high quality services and demonstrate a client-oriented approach, tact and ability to work with people of different national and cultural backgrounds. The rapporteur will also ensure effective and efficient provision of services, and full confidentiality in all aspects of the assignment.

The rapporteur will:

• Ensure that s/he gets familiar with the topics of the concerned meeting/s, names of countries, and organizations of participants.

• Meet before the meeting/s to define the plan, tasks and steps applied in the meeting/s.

• Document the questions/discussion/remarks/replies from interactions among speakers /facilitators and participants that link to each session.

• Document the key findings, conclusions and suggestions during the meeting/s.

• Document the action plans and follow up actions.

• Develop and write a draft report of the meeting for the organizers’ comments/reviews.

• Consolidate comments and revise the meeting report for final submission to the organizers.
              

Duration of Contract:  

The contract period for DROPS & PME Network Meetings are as per the below schedules:

• DROPS: 4 days for preparation and 4 days during the meeting period from 3-6 June 2024

• PME: 4 days for preparation and 4 days during the meeting period from 4-7 June 2024

In addition, Programme & Planning section on behalf of UNICEF EAPRO wishes to establish the Rapporteur Roster for 36 months from this recruitment and the roster validity could be extended upon the need and in alignment of the UNICEF HR guideline.

Duty Travel:  

For DROPS and PME Network meetings, Bangkok based consultant(s) is preferred.

For the Rapporteur Roster, mission travels are possible upon request from the hiring office. Once the travel is agreed, the rapporteur shall make his/her own travel arrangements (including visa, insurance, hotel and ticketing, etc.) and provide UNICEF with a price estimate and get the approval prior to travel.
 

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Academic Qualifications

University degree in English language, international relations, or related areas.

Professional experience

• At least 2 years of progressively responsible experience with an international organization.

• Excellent oral and interpersonal communication skills in English.

• Sets high standards for quality of work and consistently achieves project goals.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work under pressure in an organized and systematic way.

• Ability to work unsupervised and independently.

• Willingness to cooperate with country focal points to facilitate their outputs.

• Able to maintain attention for extended periods of time and to maintain high quality outputs.

• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team.

• Demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish harmonious and effective relationships with national partners.

Specific experience relevant to requirement of the assignment

• 3 years of working experience in similar assignment as Rapporteur and report writing with proven track record.

• Previous experience of working in East Asia and Pacific is an asset.

Interested candidates are requested to submit CV, full contact information of minimum 3 references, availability, and proposed daily professional fee in USD by 30 April 2024.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

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UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check. 

Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.