Innovation Specialist – Mental Health & Psychosocial Wellbeing Consultant, Office of Innovation, 12 months (remote)

UNICEF works in a number of 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, all over the place, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each little one…innovate

UNICEF has a 70-year historical past of innovating for youngsters. We imagine that new approaches, partnerships and applied sciences that help realizing kids’s rights are essential to enhancing their lives.

The Workplace of Innovation is a inventive, interactive, and agile workforce in UNICEF. We sit at a singular intersection, the place a corporation that works on big world points meets the start-up pondering, the know-how, and the companions that flip this power into scalable options.

UNICEF’s Workplace of Innovation creates alternatives for the world’s kids by specializing in the place new markets can meet their important wants. We do that by:

• Connecting youth communities (or extra broadly — anybody disconnected or under-served) to decision-makers, and to one another, to ship knowledgeable, related and sustained programmes that construct higher, stronger futures for youngsters.
• Frightening change for youngsters via an entrepreneurial method — in a historically threat averse subject — to harness quickly shifting improvements and apply them to serve the wants of all kids.
• Creating new fashions of partnership that leverage core enterprise values throughout the general public, personal and educational sectors as a way to ship quick, and lasting outcomes for youngsters.

  The Workplace of Innovation particularly appears to kind partnerships round frontier applied sciences (like drones and UAVs, blockchain, twenty first century abilities, city applied sciences, new banking instruments, wearables and sensors, or 3D-Printing) that exist on the intersection of $100 billion enterprise markets and 1 billion particular person wants – and to determine how they’ll develop and scale profitably and inclusively. 

Our workforce

We’re an interdisciplinary workforce around the globe tasked with figuring out, validating, and scaling new applied sciences and practices. With our companions, we deal with convening and collaborating on new and completely different options, low- and high-tech, by:

• Wanting on the 2–5-year horizon to judge rising and trending applied sciences and to see how UNICEF can work with the personal sector on doing higher enterprise whereas enhancing important companies for youngsters.
• Investing in early-stage options that present nice potential to positively influence kids within the 02-year future together with the Enterprise Fund that invests in open-source know-how options from start-ups based mostly in UNICEF’s programme international locations.
• Figuring out confirmed options that may be applied at nationwide scale in a number of international locations – taking the concepts that assist hundreds in a single nation, bringing them to dozens of nations throughout a number of sectors, and impacting the lives of tens of millions of kids.

How are you going to make a distinction?

Your foremost accountability will probably be to help the Innovation Supervisor (Psychological Well being) in advancing our psychological well being initiatives. Your venture administration experience will probably be invaluable, as you’ll information chosen portfolio options. Your function will embody providing insights on scalability, overseeing fund governance, and guaranteeing meticulous venture monitoring and reporting.

Equally important, your adeptness at constructing relationships will create robust bonds with a various vary of UNICEF stakeholders. This contains specialised groups inside the UNICEF Programme Group and extends to our nation and regional workplaces. By way of these relationships, you will be sure that our psychological well being initiatives are usually not solely well-aligned with broader organizational objectives but additionally positioned for efficient scalability.

Moreover, you will conduct Wants Assessments to supply our groups inside the workplace of worldwide innovation the essential knowledge needed for making knowledgeable, optimized choices on useful resource allocation and repair supply. Tapping into our in depth psychological well being innovation landscaping and horizon scanning, you’ll carry out Drawback-Match Assessments. This focused evaluation allows us to allocate sources towards essentially the most impactful and scalable options. Moreover, you will provide help in decision-making to the UNICEF Enterprise Fund name for frontier know-how functions, steering us towards essentially the most promising and revolutionary investments. Using Methods Innovation methodologies, you will advise on what roles UNICEF can play to help and allow visions elaborated by youth for the way forward for their psychological well being & what function do native innovation ecosystems play in enhancing youth-centered psychological well being.

To spherical out your multi-faceted function, you will collaborate with our achieved communications workforce to determine compelling tales that amplify our mission and entice invaluable partnerships and funding. By way of your complete efforts, you will markedly improve the standard and attain of psychological well being companies, particularly in underserved communities, making an enduring and measurable influence on the lives of younger individuals.

Your essential duties will probably be:

1. Present specialised venture administration for scaling world psychological well being innovation options, specializing in insights associated to Enterprise Mannequin, fund governance, Impression, Threat and constant monitoring and reporting.
2. Present specialised venture administration for scaling a worldwide psychological well being innovation resolution targeted on selling social and emotional competence of younger individuals.
3. Provide technical help and coordination for efficient implementation and scalability of chosen portfolio options, complying with the Workplace of Innovation Efficiency & Proof method.
4. Guarantee efficient coordination with inside and exterior stakeholders, together with specialised groups inside UNICEF’s Programme Group, nation and regional workplaces, and different related companions to align and scale psychological well being initiatives.
5. Conduct Wants Assessments and Drawback-Match Assessments which are data-driven, leveraging our dynamic psychological well being innovation landscaping and horizon scanning, to tell useful resource allocation and resolution effectiveness.
6. Take part within the choice strategy of the UNICEF Enterprise Fund, with a particular deal with promising and revolutionary applied sciences in psychological well being.
7. Have interaction youth immediately within the growth and scaling of psychological well being options, leveraging Methods Innovation methodologies to discover roles that UNICEF and native innovation ecosystems can play.
8. Contribute to the documentation of the psychological well being innovation administration physique of information, in alignment with the general Workplace of Innovation (OOI) administration method.
9. Collaborate with the communications workforce to determine and spotlight compelling tales that promote the mission and entice important partnerships and funding.
10. Execute different strategic duties and duties as mutually agreed upon by the Workplace of Innovation.

By fulfilling these duties, you’ll considerably contribute to the scalability and influence of worldwide psychological well being improvements, successfully coordinate with key stakeholders, and interact youth in a significant means.

Please discover connected the complete ToR with associated data.  Innovation Specialist for mental health psychosocial wellbeing equity.pdf

Further Notes:

The best candidate for this function shouldn’t solely have distinctive venture administration abilities but additionally deep connections inside the UNICEF community and the innovation ecosystem. With a singular mix of psychological well being coaching and an innovation background, the candidate will work carefully with numerous stakeholders and contribute to youth engagement. This isn’t only a coordination function; it is a chance to orchestrate and elevate UNICEF’s present portfolio of psychological well being improvements, taking part in a pivotal function in shaping a extra equitable psychological well being panorama, significantly for youth.

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

• A complicated college diploma (grasp’s or greater) in psychology, Public Well being with a deal with Psychological Well being, psychiatry, or a associated subject.
   *A primary College Diploma in a related subject mixed with 5 further years of expertise in public psychological well being companies, together with subject expertise in disaster settings could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.

• A minimal of 5 years’ skilled expertise in managing advanced initiatives; with demonstrated skill for inventive pondering and revolutionary approaches, ideally with expertise in design pondering, prototype growth and implementation of innovation. 
• Established connections inside UNICEF and wider United Nations innovation ecosystems.
• Expertise or demonstrated functionality in partaking with youth or youth-centric applications.
• Growing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency context is taken into account an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

Journey:

• Through the interval of the consultancy, the guide is predicted to journey to Stockholm for 10 nights, & New York for five nights – 15 nights in whole.
• The guide is liable for arranging his/her personal journey, together with visa and journey insurance coverage.

Fee particulars and additional concerns

• Fee {of professional} charges will probably be based mostly on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the proper 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 guide. 

Learn how to apply:

• Curiosity applicant is required to submit a monetary proposal with all-inclusive charge.  Please see the monetary proposal template.
• Monetary proposal should embody journey prices (financial system class) and every day subsistence allowance, if journey is required as per TOR and another estimated prices: visa, journey/medical health insurance.

Purposes with no monetary proposal won’t be thought of.

Please discover connected the monetary proposal template  Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx

For each Little one, 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 mirror the range of these kids. The UNICEF household is dedicated to incorporate everybody, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute.

UNICEF affords cheap lodging for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may increasingly 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 in the course of the choice course of and afterwards in your project.

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 probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody 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 subsequent stage of the choice course of.

People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought of “employees members” underneath the Workers Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (similar to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the Basic Situations of Contracts for the Companies 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 your 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 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 during their consultancy contracts.