Consultant Recruitment: Youth Participation Consultant, ECAR O/P, Prague, Czech Republic (8 months) #569810

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As of December 2023, 5,9 million Ukrainian refugees have been recorded throughout Europe. As nationwide social safety measures lower, the chance of refugee youngsters from Ukraine falling into poverty is rising. The re-registration knowledge present that presently there are 375,021 refugees from Ukraine with Short-term Safety within the Czech Republic. This consists of 97,054 youngsters underneath the age of 18 years (26%), 176,907 ladies aged 18+ years (47%), and 101,060 males aged 18+ (27%). There are 21,996 Ukrainian refugee youth aged 15-18 within the nation. Ukrainian refugee youth reside in each single area of the Czech Republic, with the best variety of adolescent refugees within the areas of Prague (5,635) and Central Bohemia (2,978). The developments point out a mean of 1,100 newly registered refugees per week.

As such, UNICEF Refugee Response within the Czech Republic will work with companions to include youth into defining and designing interventions that affect youth. It will embody working with youth to guide knowledge assortment by participatory actions, co-create programmes, and conduct qualitative assessments of UNICEF-funded programmes. The objective is to affect key determination makers by incorporating youth perspective into all programme actions that affect them.

As a part of this, UNICEF Refugee Response Workplace seeks a youth marketing consultant who will probably be chargeable for co-creating, designing and implementing an outreach technique utilizing participatory approaches whereas reaching and connecting with displaced youth from Ukraine residing within the Czech Republic. The youth marketing consultant will design the technique primarily based on assortment of qualitative knowledge and youth consultations in numerous areas throughout the Czech Republic to establish and perceive youth wants, alternatives and challenges they face. An integral a part of the marketing consultant work will probably be creating communication technique which includes designing related instruments, types, channels and content material in addition to testing and prototyping it to make sure the data are reaching related youth and content material is accessible and complete. The youth marketing consultant will use design methodologies together with human middle design. The marketing consultant will collaborate with designated UNICEF Refugee Response workers and different companions.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

The youth Marketing consultant will probably be chargeable for implementing youth-led analysis and co-creation actions to help programmes carried out by UNICEF Refugee Response Workplace and companions within the Czech Republic.

The important thing duties for the youth marketing consultant embody:

1.  Figuring out Ukrainian refugee youth by UNICEF supported applications within the Czech Republic whereas utilizing numerous outreach methodologies and instruments.
2. Conducting youth co-creation consultations, trainings, and workshops in individual and on-line about employment, abilities constructing, schooling and wellbeing and psychological well being. It will embody utilizing numerous instruments and participatory approaches.
3. Amassing info and knowledge, analyzing, and synthetizing the info, decoding, and understanding the data whereas utilizing numerous instruments for that. On this exercise proposing insights and actionable factors is required.
4. Coaching and dealing with Ukrainian youth representatives (Regional Integration Facilities) in numerous areas of the Czech Republic to design and implement native outreach methods reaching out to younger individuals of their areas, understanding their scenario with give attention to their academic and monetary wants, and connecting them to related native and different providers and help applications.
5.  Planning, coordinating, and speaking with Ukrainian youth throughout the nation in addition to different related companions, particularly the personnel of Regional Integration Facilities and different companions in type of written report and shows on related platforms. It will embody incorporating suggestions mechanisms and knowledge sharing. This course of will probably be ongoing and will probably be accomplished on-line and/or in individual to satisfy stakeholders’ wants.
6. Representing the youth voice, wants and viewpoints on related platforms and boards (determination making occasions, Cesty working group, media and others)
7. Supporting improvement of the youth employment and studying program CESTY with insights from the younger Ukrainian refugees within the areas.

Given the youth design nature of the consultancy it should require a candidate to totally relate to the younger audience past acquired data. This consultancy requires a candidate who can naturally perceive the life expertise of younger Ukrainian refugees within the Czech Republic.

The candidate will probably be between 18 and 25 years previous, shall have a firsthand expertise and insights into the wants, preferences and behaviors of younger refugees and will have some expertise with human centered design; nonetheless formal coaching just isn’t required.

 

Process #	Deliverables /Outputs	Duties/Milestones:	Timeline
1	Two youth-led design processes are accomplished in collaboration with youth representatives in regional integration centres, round youth-defined priorities. Outputs: Plan of actions, Set of HCD Instruments, Co-creation workshops performed, FCM developed.	• Lead the youth-led design course of in regional hubs. • Journey to areas and conduct approx. 8-10 in individual and/or on-line co-creation workshops with youth reached out by the outreach technique improvement. • Design instruments to be carried out by the co-creation periods. • Help youth to co-create and develop outreach instruments. • Preserve database of contacts for additional engagement • Co-create and develop youth pleasant suggestions mechanisms, apply, and facilitate suggestions from youth	March 2024 – June 2024
2	Youth-led analysis initiatives on limitations to accessing providers amongst displaced youth is accomplished/Outputs: written type of recognized limitations, precedence challenges and youth-proposed options.	• Youth-lead analysis to establish limitations to accessing key providers is deliberate and performed. • Key precedence challenges and desires within the areas of employment, schooling and psychological well being are recognized. • Youth-led analysis to outline options to precedence challenges and desires that are fascinating and accessible by youth. • Massive quantities of qualitative knowledge are synthesised into actionable insights	March 2024– August 2024
3	Report on youth-led analysis (progress/remaining) on limitations to entry to key providers is communicated and outcomes are offered on related platforms/Outputs: min. 4 Political/determination makers platforms, min. 2 Cesty working group conferences, min. 5 chosen media outcomes.	• Information and outcomes are offered by the youth marketing consultant on min 4 determination makers platforms. • Information and outcomes are offered and fed into broader employment and studying program CESTY by way of participation on the working group platform. • Related on-line and/or broadcasting media are used to current and signify the voice of youth, min 5 media outcomes	March 2024 – September 2024

 

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have… 

• Expertise in coaching human centered design, participatory analysis, or qualitative analysis methodologies is very fascinating.
•  Confirmed “Context experience”, e.g. has expertise being displaced youth within the Czech Republic is very fascinating.
• Robust capability to synthesize a number of streams of data.
• Robust communication abilities and planning abilities Coaching in analysis ethics, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, and familiarity with baby safeguarding ideas is very fascinating.
• Expertise working with UNICEF, or one other UN Company is very fascinating.
• Fluent in English and both Ukranian/Russian or Czech.

Property:

•  Is entrepreneurial, curious, and enthusiastic about social affect.
• Works nicely as a part of a staff, constantly seeks to know the attitude of others.
• Feels snug with ambiguity. Capable of stability versatile work fashion whereas sustaining give attention to objective.

What to submit (kindly notice that your utility is not going to be thought-about if the beneath will not be included together with your utility):

• CV
• Motivational letter
• Monetary Proposal

For each Little one, you show… 

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

  

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Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. 

This consultancy will probably be workplace primarily based. 

Cost {of professional} charges will probably be primarily based on submission of agreed 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 marketing consultant.

People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “workers members” underneath 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 (resembling depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the Basic Circumstances of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are chargeable 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 whole 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 should be met previous to taking on the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and will not be anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF at some point of their consultancy contracts.

UNICEF affords reasonable accommodation for consultants with disabilities. This may occasionally embody, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your utility in case you want cheap lodging through the choice course of and afterwards in your task.