Local Consultancy with travel: Youth Participation Consultant, Prague, Czech Republic (116 days between March and December 2024)

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. 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, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each youngster, a voice

How will you make a distinction? 

Estimated Period of the Contract

116 working days between March and December 2024.

Advisor’s Work Place and Official Journey

The Advisor will likely be office-based within the UNICEF Refugee Response Workplace in Prague, Czech Republic.

As a part of this task, a number of travels inside Czech Republic are foreseen. The guide will prepare their journey as and after they happen, and associated prices will likely be reimbursed per UNICEF journey coverage.

Journey Clause

• All UNICEF guidelines and laws associated to journey of Consultants apply.
• All travels shall be undertaken solely upon the prior written approval by UNICEF.
• The guide should be match to journey, be in a possession of the legitimate UN BSAFE certificates, compulsory inoculation(s) and have a legitimate personal journey/medical insurance coverage and an immunization/vaccination card.

Estimated Value of the Consultancy & Fee Schedule

Fee {of professional} charges will likely be based mostly on submission of an bill and passable completion of the above-mentioned deliverables. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the guide.

Please submit a canopy letter, CV and monetary proposal (in USD) based mostly on 116 working days to undertake this task. Please don’t embody journey charges as these will likely be reimbursed as and after they happen.

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

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

For each Baby, you exhibit… 

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 youngsters and our international workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. 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 every other private attribute.

UNICEF presents reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This will likely embody, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your software in case you want cheap lodging in the course of the choice course of and afterwards in your task. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict youngster safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can subsequently bear 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 verify. 

Remarks:  

Please embody a full CV, Cowl Letter and a Monetary Proposal in your software by indicating your availability {and professional} charge (in USD) to undertake the phrases of reference above. Purposes submitted with out a proposed skilled charge won’t be thought of. Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. 

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought of “workers members” beneath the Employees Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (corresponding to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will likely be ruled by their contract and the Normal Circumstances of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable 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 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 should be met previous to taking over the task. 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 straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF during their consultancy contracts.