National Consultant: Resilience

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, all over the place, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each youngster, hope

UNICEF Ukraine

How will you make a distinction? 

Goal of project:

The target of this consultancy is to assist the Resilience Providers/Facilities+ portfolio by offering technical and operational steerage to Oblasts, hromadas, UNICEF nation workplace and discipline workplaces within the institution of Resilience Providers+. The position sits within the Baby Safety Part’s MHPSS/Resilience group, however has shut linkages to different elements of the part, particularly the group engaged on community-based social providers, in addition to different UNICEF sections concerned in supporting resilience+, and UNICEF discipline workplaces implementing the mannequin at sub-national stage.

Specifically, the guide will assist the next areas of labor, beneath the administration of the Baby Safety Specialist (Resilience):

 

1. Present technical steerage and operational assist to related the sphere workplaces implementing Resilience Providers+, with a concentrate on Kharkiv oblast:

1. Present operational assist to Kharkiv and different discipline workplaces, sub-national and native authorities counterparts and CSO companions for the profitable roll-out of resilience providers+.
2. Help common monitoring of progress and high quality assurance of resilience providers+ roll-out at subnational stage, in Kharkiv and past. Handle the documentation of classes learnt and finest practices based mostly on the 5 pilot Resilience Facilities+ in Kharkiv oblast.
3. Draft steerage notes, procedures, and different related assist paperwork for discipline workplace implementation of resilience providers+, each for the onerous part (rehabilitation or restore work), and gentle part (social providers).

Help the pre-service and in-service capacity-building of resilience providers+ employees in Kharkiv oblast and past, together with improvement of standardized coaching packages, overview of capacity-building efforts, compilation of finest practices, coordination of NGO companions implementing trainings, and many others

 

2. Present technical steerage and operational assist to the UNICEF Baby Safety part and different sections (SBC, ADAP, Schooling, Well being, WASH, Comms) on the operationalization of Resilience Providers+:
   1. Present steerage on related native legal guidelines and rules at nationwide, regional and native self-Authorities stage for the implementation for Resilience Providers+
   2. Present technical assist to the event of steerage notes, manuals, and commonplace working procedures related for the nation-wide roll-out of Resilience Providers+
   3. Overview resilience-related content material, paperwork and key messages, and supply technical backstopping and high quality assurance.
   4. Draft briefs, studies, and inputs to different strategic programme supplies for part and administration use, info and/or consideration.
   5. Draft and compile classes discovered, finest practices and human curiosity tales associated to the roll-out of Resilience+.
3. Help collaboration with Resilience+ counterparts and stakeholders, particularly with MOSP, Regional Governments, hromadas, Maestral, and different stakeholders as acceptable
   1. Help efficient inner collaboration with different sections concerned in resilience+, particularly SBC, ADAP, Schooling, Well being, WASH, Comms, for profitable alignment and coordination.
   2. Help the convening of related stakeholders, together with MOSP, regional/native Authorities, and NGO companions.
   3. Draft abstract notes, displays, and different related supplies for normal coordination conferences with MOSP and different stakeholders
   4. Help the creation and sustaining of a useful resource information base with methodologies for resilience providers+

 

Work project overview:

Deliverable	Deadline	# of w/days
1 Inception Report and workplan	31 March 2024	15
Report on supply of technical steerage and operational assist to Kharkiv Subject Workplace particularly and probably different workplaces implementing Resilience+, particularly: 5 steerage notes and different related assist paperwork for onerous and gentle part operationalization at discipline stage 3 monitoring studies indicating progress and high quality assurance of roll-out at sub-national stage. Palms-on, field-based assist to at the very least 3 workplaces, and at the very least 6 missions to assist workplaces implementing resilience+ 3 capacity-building / trainings offered for resilience+ employees (pre-service and in-service) of	31 December 2024	80
Report on supply of technical steerage and operational assist offered to UNICEF Nation Workplace (Baby Safety and different sections) on operationalization of Resilience Providers+, particularly: 3 Steerage notes on related native legal guidelines and rules related at nationwide stage 5 contextualized manuals, steerage notes, working procedures for roll-out 6 briefs, studies, and inputs to different strategic program supplies	31 December 2024	70
Stories on assist offered to collaboration with resilience+ counterparts and stakeholders, particularly: 10 conferences held for convening of related stakeholders, together with MOSP, and minutes captured and disseminated. 10 displays, and different related supplies produced for normal coordination conferences with MOSP and different stakeholders	15 February 2025	30
Report on institution of Resilience+ information administration, particularly: Drafting and compilation of 5 classes discovered, finest practices, human curiosity tales associated to resilience+ Creation and sustaining of 1 frequent useful resource information base with all methodologies, instruments, steerage notes and many others. for resilience providers+	15 February 2025	30
1 remaining suggestions and handover report	25 February 2025	15
Sub-total:		240

Journey plan: Upon request 6 spherical journeys inside Ukraine (30 days).

Please present an all-inclusive monetary proposal together with travels to hold out the deliverables listed above.

Schooling: A sophisticated college diploma (Grasp’s or greater) in one of many following fields: social sciences, psychology, human rights, sociology, worldwide relations, worldwide improvement, or different associated disciplines.

Skilled expertise: 

• A minimal of two years {of professional} expertise in social providers at nationwide or subnational stage is required.

• Expertise working in war-affected areas of Ukraine is an asset.

• Related expertise in social providers, Baby Safety, Resilience or associated areas, program/undertaking improvement and administration in a UN system company or group is an asset.

• Expertise in each humanitarian and improvement contexts is an added benefit..

Languages: 

• Ukrainian: Superior [C1] ;
• English: Higher-Intermediate [B2].

Expertise and competencies:

• Good analytical abilities;
• Good communication abilities;
• Help to programme/undertaking improvement and planning;
• Networking and partnership constructing;
• Innovation, information administration and capability constructing.

For each Baby, you display… 

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

 To view our competency framework, please go to  here. 

 Fee {of professional} charges shall be based mostly on submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the proper 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.

 UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the variety 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 another private attribute.

UNICEF affords 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 through the choice course of and afterwards in your project. 

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 shall 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 offer further info to conduct a background examine. 

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates shall 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 offered therein (resembling depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service shall 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 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 over the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should 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 all through their consultancy contracts.