International Consultancy: Junior Consultant- Yoma Program Officer for Southern Africa (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 youngster, all over the place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

TERMS OF REFERENCE

 

Background and Justification

UNICEF goals to make sure that each youngster and adolescent, learns and acquires abilities for his or her future. It focuses on addressing the worldwide studying disaster, shifting to extend abilities acquisition and various studying pathways to higher attain probably the most marginalized. Consistent with the worldwide prioritization of youth, UNICEF’s Regional Workplace for Jap and Southern Africa (ESARO) priorities are centered on secondary-age schooling and transitions into work to advocate for and guarantee fairness in that extra youth within the area, together with probably the most weak, are geared up with abilities to reach life, college, work and livelihoods.

Whether or not younger persons are educated, skilled or employed has vital implications for his or her general wellbeing and skill to advertise future financial development, growth and socio-political stability. Since 1999, there was a concurrent world lower in younger people’ labour pressure participation while the proportion of youth elevated. In 2020, younger people had been 3 times extra possible than adults to be unemployed (ILO 2020). Many aren’t solely dealing with a difficult current, but additionally, a most unsure future. To fulfill the altering calls for of the labour market, younger folks will should be geared up with a set of abilities and competencies to compete each domestically and globally. The idea of Yoma (Youth Company Market) was developed by younger Africans as a holistic method to handle these challenges and improve youth company throughout the globe.

Yoma is a digital market for youth internationally to construct and rework their futures by actively partaking in social influence duties in addition to making use of studying and incomes alternatives. It’s an ecosystem answer that hyperlinks younger folks with studying, neighborhood engagement and employment alternatives, offered by a spread of companions, equivalent to non-public enterprises and academic establishments. By way of these alternatives Yoma can speed up native influence in a variety of sectors, equivalent to schooling and entrepreneurship (e.g. youth buying market-relevant abilities, management skills and data), in addition to local weather change mitigation (e.g. youth planting bushes, safeguarding wholesome wetlands). As a market creating innovation, it satisfies a worldwide demand for SDG influence as youth can actively contribute to their realization by partaking with the brand new alternatives offered by Yoma. As younger folks interact in Yoma choices, their involvement and accomplishments (e.g., neighborhood engagement, studying actions or work-experience) are recorded on their profile. This enables them to construct a verifiable digital CV utilizing blockchain, which enhances their formal schooling and demonstrates reliability and acquisition of abilities, all of which improve employability and permit for extra knowledgeable matching with the labour market. The report and recognition of accomplished studying, employment and social engagement actions can increase younger folks’s shallowness, thereby creating optimistic behavioural incentives to proceed their development journey. Lastly, younger persons are rewarded by means of Zlto, a digital token that may be redeemed for digital providers (e.g., airtime or premium programs) or bodily items (e.g., bus tickets, fundamental commodities.). The token additionally permits to offset alternative prices of youth to have interaction on Yoma and take part in digital alternatives.

A younger Yoma Operations Staff has been arrange and undergone vital strengthening efforts in 2023. RLabs efficiently recruited a complete of 9 workforce members, constituting the Yoma HQ Staff based mostly in South Africa. This workforce is split into two predominant models: the Operations Staff, chargeable for Communications, Validation/Credentialing, and Buyer Help; and the Design Staff, consisting of younger consultants in UI/UX Design. Beneath the steerage of an Operations Supervisor and a Product Supervisor, these groups function seamlessly. Furthermore, the Yoma Basic Supervisor, recruited in January, offers important management and supervision to the Operations Supervisor and Options Architect, forming an important a part of the Yoma Management Staff. This cohesive construction ensures that Yoma HQ actions are carefully aligned with the general imaginative and prescient and mission of Yoma.

After two years of implementation, greater than 4 million younger folks have been reached and greater than 400,000 younger folks have participated in Yoma associated alternatives, primarily from Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. A rising variety of UNICEF nation places of work, donors and different companions are concerned within the implementation, strengthening the influence and sustainability of the mission.

As a part of the Yoma World Staff, this function will help the growth of Yoma with a deal with Southern Africa international locations together with however not restricted to: South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia and can function point of interest for the help to the Yoma Operation Staff based mostly in South Africa.

Scope of Work

Aim and Goal:  Beneath the overall supervision of the Yoma Program Supervisor, the publish is predicted to steer the coordination for the growth and operationalization of Yoma in Southern Africa and past as required.

1. Present particulars/reference to AWP areas coated: Oversee general coordination and supply Technical Help to UNICEF Nation Workplace’s on revolutionary platforms for youth engagement, abilities constructing, and employability within the inexperienced sector (ie greem yoma, Atingi), in addition to the African Information and Drone Academy (ADDA)

Actions and Duties:  

The Marketing consultant will work carefully with nation places of work and Yoma world workforce to attain the next outcomes/deliverables.

1. Improve the programmatic linkage between Yoma and UNICEF programming to facilitate relevance and scaling inside UNICEF.

• Liaise with Nation Places of work to advertise Yoma and help them in assessing the likelihood to adapt help the roll-out processes of Yoma to their nation context with a specific deal with nation workplace programmatic priorities and interventions.
• Evaluation programmatic priorities at nation ranges to establish entry factors for youth company by means of Yoma and supply strategic orientation leveraging on the Youth4Children (Y4C) mannequin of mobilizing younger folks to help key programmatic priorities and interventions (e.g., in delivery registration, schooling, immunization)

• Present required help to the Yoma operation Staff and help within the workplan growth and monitoring.
• Help COs to develop scalable Yoma fashions particularly amongst younger folks in marginalized communities (with little or no connectivity).

2. Present help to monitoring, strategic studying and proof era.

• Lead the method of documenting classes realized throughout the growth of Yoma and facilitating peer studying processes and compiling experiences gained at varied ranges.
• Facilitate dialogues (by means of nation visits, workshops, webinars) across the strategic relevance of Yoma for UNICEF programming and interventions and maintain in touch with completely different related innovation initiatives.

• Work carefully with GenU and different UNICEF actors engaged within the youth innovation portfolio to make sure that Yoma is linked to the group priorities.
• Conduct in-country technical and monitoring visits.

3. Handle programmes associated to Yoma.

• Monitor the growth of Yoma in Southern Africa and the achievement of its aims by way of scaling and influence by conserving monitor of particular person nation requests and their motion, sustaining an general dashboard containing disaggregated information compiling completely different initiatives. Present help on the preparation of funding proposals that permit for Yoma scaling.
• Make sure the linkage between operational analysis and implementation each within the conceptual and implementation levels.
• Establish alternatives for useful resource mobilization and new partnerships, and work carefully with the regional resources-mobilization unit in creating proposals and partnership growth efforts.
• Develop, construct, and preserve partnerships with native, regional, and world youth-led networks together with civil society networks to advertise and scale Yoma associated actions and packages.

4. Another associated duties as could also be required or assigned by the supervisor.
5. Work relationships:  The advisor will work in shut collaboration with the Programme Supervisor (Yoma) and the Senior Program Supervisor.
6. Outputs/Deliverables:  

As a part of UNICEF workforce, environment friendly, well timed, responsive, client-friendly, and high-quality help rendered to Yoma and its ecosystem companions within the accomplishment of her/his features, together with:

• Well timed and high quality help offered to UNICEF Nation Places of work implementing Yoma and the Yoma operation Staff situated at Rlabs in shut relationship with the Programme Supervisor (Yoma)
• High quality mission proposals and experiences produced and submitted, significantly for GIZ and Fondation Botnar
• Documentation of Yoma growth in Southern Africa

Deliverables	Estimated variety of days	Deadline	Schedule of cost
Validated workplan of the Yoma Operation Staff	10	20 March 2024	25%
Report on standing of Yoma implementation in Southern Africa specifying alternatives for growth.	55	30 Could 2024	30%
Proposal for Botnar Basis	45	30 July 2024	30%
Last report on the project containing assessment of all of the areas coated with corresponding suggestions	15	30 August 2024	15%
	125 days

 Fee Schedule

As per desk above

Desired competencies, technical background, and expertise

1. Training:  Postgraduate diploma in growth economics or economics with background in enterprise administration & administration
2. Expertise in working with younger folks in a digital surroundings.
3. Younger skilled (<35) most well-liked as Yoma is a youth-led initiative.
4. Expertise in working within the World South, earlier expertise in working in Southern Africa an asset.
5. At the very least 2years of related work expertise
6. Robust analytical abilities
7. Robust drafting abilities
8. Fluency in English, Information of French & Spanish an asset as Yoma can also be lively in Spanish & French talking international locations.
9. Should exhibit the UNICEF Core Values of:
   1. Care
   2. Respect
   3. Integrity
   4. Belief
   5. Accountability
   6. Sustainability
10. Key competencies required:

1. Constructing and Sustaining Partnerships

2. Drive to attain Outcomes for Influence

3. Innovates and Embraces Change

4. Manages Ambiguity and Complexity

5. Works collaboratively with others

Administrative points

The Marketing consultant will work below the supervision of the Yoma Programme Supervisor. As a lot of the Yoma workforce is working remotely most conferences will likely be on-line with occasional in individual conferences.

The advisor is predicted to be work remotely with potential journey to a number of international locations in Africa and past relying on COVID-19 journey restrictions in 2021/22 for which the UNICEF workplace would cowl DSA and journey prices. Journey will likely be in economic system class. If the contractor is required to quarantine whereas touring, UNICEF can pay for the quarantine if not organized by the host nation.

Circumstances

• The advisor will work from his/her personal premises as per the UNICEF Versatile Working Coverage and use his/her personal pc and associated infrastructure.
• As this might be a junior advisor function, we’re ideally in search of gifted younger candidates.
• As per UNICEF DFAM coverage, cost will likely be made in opposition to permitted deliverables. No advance cost is allowed except in distinctive circumstances in opposition to financial institution assure, topic to a most of 30 per cent of the entire contract worth in instances the place advance purchases, for instance for provides or journey, could also be crucial.
• People engaged below a consultancy contract is not going to be thought-about ‘workers members’ below the Workers Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and will likely be entitled to advantages offered therein (equivalent to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will likely be ruled by their contract and the Basic Circumstances of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are chargeable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.

Dangers

It is a distant function that doesn’t foresee any direct contact with kids. There aren’t cheap dangers related to this consultancy, all deliverables will likely be cleared by the supervisor earlier than they’re being shared with exterior companions.

The right way to Apply

Certified candidates are requested to submit a canopy letter, CV, P11 kind and their technical proposals to the net recruitment portal (Expertise Administration System) or electronic mail offered.

candidates to point skill, availability, and month-to-month price expressed in US$ to undertake the phrases of reference as a global particular person contractor.

Purposes submitted with out a charge/ price is not going to be thought-about.