National Consultant for technical assistance in using digital tools in the benefit of children’s welfare [Part-time,100 working days], Bucharest, Romania

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, in all places, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means surrender. 

Objective of Exercise/Project:

Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, increasingly more governments and companions have been utilizing digital expertise to answer youngster safety points. UNICEF in Romania was testing in partnership with public authorities the transferring from paper-based case administration to on-line methods even earlier than 2020, demonstrating elevated effectiveness and effectivity of outreach work and built-in group companies. Confirmed by impartial analysis, the digital applied sciences contribute to extend communication, coaching, exchanges, and coordination amongst social work and social service suppliers.

Whereas the push towards digitalization has yielded advantages, challenges stay, together with a urgent want for user-centred design, sturdy safeguards, and approaches that use expertise to enhance – relatively than supplant – social work capacities. On this context, UNICEF’s assist to the Authorities of Romania consists of each, assist for scale-up of improvements that overcome challenges associated to the particularities of the social companies for many weak youngsters and their households (with particular deal with geographical disparities and inequities) and help with efforts to enhance the capability, expertise and equipping of the social companies as properly.

UNICEF Romania supplies technical help to central authorities to determine developments and alternatives for effectivity beneficial properties utilizing expertise, whereas prioritizing relationship-based observe and person-centred care and private information safety. On the identical time, UNICEF’s assist on this space is corroborated with initiatives associated to strengthening and professionalizing the social companies workforce, as new applied sciences ought to increase the work of social employees relatively than making an attempt to switch it. Furthermore, help is required additionally for service customers as they should have a selection about how they work together with companies, and their proper to self-determination must be enhanced – relatively than restricted – by expertise.

On this sense, UNICEF is on the lookout for particular data expertise consultancy to enhance work of UNICEF Specialists in numerous programmatic areas and guarantee clean implementation at scale of exiting digital instruments utilized in the advantage of youngsters’s welfare and social inclusion of most weak classes of inhabitants.

Scope of labor:

The scope of the consultancy is to supply technical help to the Nationwide Authority for Baby Rights and Adoption (NAPCRA) for i) accompanying the roll-out of the Kids’s Observatory on the nationwide degree (together with steady coaching and help-desk kind of help) for the end-users; ii) guaranteeing interoperability with different modules of the brand new digital software or different methods for use in youngster rights and youngster safety. Furthermore, technical assist might embody assist for documentation of classes discovered, data administration, and horizontal cooperation, implying doable use of the brand new administration data methods’ parts in different nations.

 

Work Assignments Overview	Deliverables/Outputs	Timeline
clean implementation and monitoring of the roll-out of the Kids’s Observatory (CO).	CO implementation monitoring report (20 days)	December 23
ample implementation of knowledge safety and safety measures, observing the European and nationwide laws,	Information safety and safety measures implementation report (10 days)	December 23
steady coaching and help-desk kind of help (person voice facility) for the end-users of the CO,	Assist-desk help report (20 days)	March 24
repeatedly monitoring exercise registered in CO and put together numerous experiences based mostly on wants,	CO report on key indicators (10 days)	June 24
inter-operability of the CO with different modules of the brand new digital software or different administration data methods,	Inter-operability evaluation report (20 days)	September 24
data administration and horizontal cooperation as regards to on-line instruments and methods developed, examined and scale-up in the advantage of youngsters.	KM documentation of transition and scale-up – progress and remaining report (20 days)	December 24

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

• Bachelor’s diploma in software program engineering, data applied sciences, laptop sciences, and so forth.

  Data/Experience/Expertise required:

  –   A minimal of three years {of professional} expertise in initiatives with an data communication expertise for growth element,

  –   Confirmed and intensive expertise within the growth and upkeep of advanced methods together with cellular functions,

  –   Confirmed expertise with massive database growth and upkeep,

  –  Expertise in offering technical help and management surrounding the design and implementation of digital options for interoperability and system strengthening,

  –   Confirmed expertise in implementation of software program options for placing in observe authorized provisions within the area of social safety, well being and/or training,

  –   Glorious communicator of technical ideas, each verbally and in writing, to authorities counterparts and non-technical audiences,

  –   Earlier expertise in working with native, county and central authorities, together with gathering concepts and insights from end-users in any respect ranges,

  –    Earlier expertise in aiding Governments in implementation of software program merchandise,

  –   Earlier expertise in working with UN companies is taken into account a plus,

  –    Analytical and conceptual skill; communication expertise; verifiable area expertise,

  – Good talking and writing expertise in Romanian and English,

  –    Potential to work in a multi-disciplinary workforce and set up harmonious and efficient working relationships each inside and outdoors the group,

  –   Availability for work throughout the proposed timeframe,

  –   Availability to journey within the nation, to the beneficiary districts, if crucial.

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 world workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

UNICEF gives reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This will 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 affordable 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 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 youngster safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact 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 test. 

Utility process:

The applying can be made within the devoted UNICEF platform and it should embody

1. An up to date CV targeted on the abilities and expertise matching these requested by the present consultancy
2. A letter of intent describing particular data and expertise
3. Monetary Provide ought to point out the GROSS quantity in RON  as per the connected template Financial Offer National Consultant for technical assistance.xlsx

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “employees members” beneath the Employees Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (comparable to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service can be ruled by their contract and the Normal Situations 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 cost 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 all the interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of absolutely vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking over the task. 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 capabilities for UNICEF all through their consultancy contracts.