Re-advertisement: Social Policy Consultant Roster, Regional Office for South Asia (36 months)

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each baby, all over the place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each baby, Laughter

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How are you going to make a distinction? 

UNICEF Social coverage groups supplies programmatic, analytical, and technical assist in social safety (together with inclusive disability-sensitive, nutrition-sensitive, gender-responsive, shock-responsive, and humanitarian money transfers), public finance for kids, native governance and concrete programing and baby poverty evaluation and advocacy, to assist extra equitable and extra sustainable outcomes for kids. To assist Nation Places of work of their work in these areas, UNICEF’s Regional Workplace for South Asia (ROSA) is growing a regional roster of consultants to facilitate the swift engagement of related experience.

Key Assignments/Duties:

UNICEF’s Regional Workplace for South Asia invitations certified consultants to specific their curiosity to be included within the Specialists’ Roster to supply specialised companies, entry to information, and technical experience to UNICEF’s social coverage portfolio within the following areas:

• Baby-Delicate Social Safety (together with money plus programing)
• Gender transformative social safety
• Diet delicate social safety
• Incapacity Inclusive Social safety
• Shock Responsive Social Safety, together with humanitarian money transfers
• Social Safety Techniques Strengthening
• Public Finance Administration for Youngsters
• Baby poverty measurement and coverage
• Native governance, together with decentralization and concrete planning

Consultants might present a spread of specialised companies to UNICEF’s Regional Workplace, Nation Places of work and their authorities companions within the six thematic areas above. The vary of duties for the consultants might embrace analysis, evaluation, and analysis missions, provision of high-level coverage and operational steerage, coaching and capability constructing together with growth of instruments and steerage, growth of coverage papers, communication and advocacy, monitoring and analysis companies and others as required. Exact duties, outputs, reporting and dealing relationships might be specified on the time of contracting for the given assignments.

The roster will function a human assets repository from which the Regional Workplace or Nation Places of work can draw pre-vetted, effectively certified consultants rapidly and effectively for assignments.

Particular Abilities Required

Necessities relevant for Social Safety consultants– together with inclusive (together with gender incapacity, vitamin, money plus) and Shock Responsive Social Safety (together with Humanitarian Money Transfers)

• Substantial demonstrated expertise with planning, design and implementation of social safety insurance policies and laws together with social help, and incapacity advantages, social insurance coverage (together with maternity insurance coverage), incapacity delicate social safety together with incapacity evaluation and willpower, family-friendly insurance policies, vitamin delicate social safety, gender transformative insurance policies or a associated area.
• Demonstrated expertise with planning, design and implementation of Shock Responsive Social Safety in humanitarian, fragile and danger susceptible contexts together with Humanitarian Money Transfers contexts reminiscent of: (a) proof, evaluation assessments; (b) coverage, technique, laws, coordination and financing mechanisms, together with catastrophe danger financing; (c) programmes and design options, together with anticipatory motion, (d) administration and supply programs; (e) information administration and capability constructing (f) monitoring multi-sectoral impacts on kids, classes realized, exit methods and resilience constructing.

Confirmed monitor document in among the following areas:

• analysis and analysis (Poverty evaluation, danger and vulnerability assessments, Price-benefit and profit incidence analyses, social safety effectiveness and affect evaluation, social safety programs mapping and purposeful evaluations, Programmes and programs evaluations, Qualitative analysis strategies, Meta-analysis/synthesis).
• programs and programmes (Design of protocols and instruments, together with PMT formulation for outreach, focusing on, referrals, coordination, and so forth., Design and administration of beneficiary ID and administrative knowledge programs/ administration info programs/ social registries, Evaluation, design and/or piloting of shock responsive social safety, Evaluation, and growth of authorized, regulatory and/or coverage frameworks, Evaluation of Social Safety Techniques (CODI, ABND).
• info dissemination and communication (information sharing and advocacy).
• high-level coverage evaluation and recommendation (growth of nationwide methods, insurance policies and plans, growth of laws and by-laws, growth of monitoring and analysis frameworks for nationwide social safety insurance policies) together with direct expertise with strengthening social safety MIS; Coverage formulations within the areas of child-sensitive and/or gender-responsive and/or vitamin delicate social safety; expertise in supporting governments to reform social safety programs.

Necessities relevant for Baby Poverty consultants

Substantial expertise in poverty evaluation and advocacy, together with each financial and multi-dimensional baby poverty

• Confirmed monitor document in all / among the following areas:
  • quantitative knowledge assortment (survey design together with survey questionnaires, directions, coaching and area monitoring, supervision, sampling, knowledge high quality test and knowledge processing).
  • quantitative knowledge evaluation (statistical evaluation, econometric evaluation).
  • knowledge dissemination and communication (evidence-based high-quality report writing, knowledge visualization, presentation abilities); and/or
  • coaching on poverty evaluation.
• Confirmed monitor document in analyzing giant scale family surveys/Together with MICS, DHS, HBS, expertise with high-frequency survey evaluation and different related knowledge. Expertise of working with Large Knowledge.
• Expertise in modeling the affect of various social advantages design (with concentrate on focused social help) on poverty discount.
• Confirmed expertise with capability growth of companions

Necessities relevant for Public Finance for Youngsters consultants

• Engagement within the planning and budgeting course of in the direction of programs strengthening. Enhancing mid-term fiscal and expenditure frameworks, aligning plans and budgets, insurance policies and price range legal guidelines, particularly with Ministries of Finance and/or social line Ministries; supporting nationwide stakeholders in establishing and operationalizing Built-in Nationwide Financing Frameworks (INFF); selling reforms in the direction of child-rights budgeting; roll-out of PFM reforms, together with Programme-Based mostly and/or Efficiency-Based mostly Budgeting, Monetary Administration Data Techniques (FMIS) strengthening, and different reforms that promote ser-vice supply and the conclusion of kid rights; capability constructing actions or plans for presidency and nationwide companions on PFM and PF4C, to higher affect child-focused public finance processes in any sector and stage; together with the capability constructing in price range evaluation oversight for the Parliament, its commissions and its Members (MPs). Strengthening the planning and budgeting course of making use of the information and proof out there, in any sector and stage, to strengthen child-focused planning and allocation selections; growth and implementation of evidence-based PFM strengthening plans, together with inside Sector-Vast Approaches (SWAp), for strengthening the monitoring, controls, the flow-of-funds, spending efficiency, and so forth. Enhance price range transparency and price range credibility below the management of nationwide establishments.
• Participatory processes, reminiscent of: assist neighborhood engagement and participation in planning and budgeting processes; empower/construct capacities of residents and native organizations, together with kids and adolescents, communities, and civil society organizations to take part in nationwide and native budgeting processes, together with by way of mechanisms reminiscent of social ac-countability and residents budgets; promote public entry to related knowledge and assist dialogue round open price range initiatives.
• Useful resource mobilization, reminiscent of: growth of financing methods, sector financing plans, financing choices and different initiatives to leveraging assets; promote home and worldwide useful resource mobilization for financing of child-related companies/applications; work on taxation to advertise social spending; interact or articulate financing to public service provision through the personal sector; blended finance-support schemes and modalities; social Impression bonds. Useful resource mobilization for native governments; and unfunded mandates; bettering the design of intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IGFT); strengthen native income assortment and allocation of native revenues to baby associated priorities.
• Knowledge, proof technology, and evidence-based advocacy, reminiscent of: PFM (Public Monetary Administration) knowledge and proof technology at nationwide and subnational stage, in any of the areas related for kids, with the target to establish and sort out public monetary challenges impacting the achievement of kid rights. This contains, although isn’t restricted to, the event of budgetary datasets, Funds Briefs, Public Expenditure Assessment, Public Expenditure and Institutional Critiques (PEIRs), Public Expenditure Monitoring Surveys (PETS), Baby-focused Public Expenditure Measurement (C-PEM), Fiscal and Profit Incidence Evaluation, Nationwide Accounts, Costing, Funding Circumstances, Price-Effectiveness Evaluation and Price-Profit Evaluation, Fiscal House Evaluation, Political Economic system Evaluation of the Funds Course of, Residents’ Funds, Neighborhood Rating Card; different PFM diagnostics, analysis, or evaluation. It needs to be talked about when knowledge and proof led to the event of evidence-based advocacy work for coverage dialogue at world, regional, nationwide, and native ranges; together with with key budgetary determination makers within the government, the legislative powers, to boost consciousness round baby rights, higher public finance for kids and the instances for investing in kids; and assist growth companions to make use of proof in sector reforms and price range to assist selections.

Necessities relevant for Native Governance together with city planning and decentralization consultants

• Knowledge, proof, and evidence-based advocacy on native governance, reminiscent of: subnational/native stage state of affairs evaluation; decentralization evaluation, together with political financial system evaluation, sectoral purposeful evaluation, and monetary decentralization evaluation; assortment of geographically disaggregated knowledge. On city programming, reminiscent of urbanization traits in international locations and areas and its implications on kids, households, and caregivers; intraurban/metropolis knowledge evaluation, together with city slums, surveying; multi-disciplinary approaches to grasp and analyze the interface and interplay of city surroundings/system and youngsters’s bodily, social and phycological growth and behavioral traits.
• Engagement within the planning and budgeting course of in the direction of programs strengthening, reminiscent of: conducting purposeful evaluation of decentralized capabilities for regional/native governments. Strengthening native knowledge and MIS programs; design, planning and budgeting of child-responsive native service companies; native participation; implementation of social companies on the native stage. Enhancing native governments’ capacities within the preparation of kid responsive native growth plans, and in price range oversight and execution. Help monitoring and customers’ satisfaction in service supply
• Participatory processes, reminiscent of: strengthening voice and company of youngsters and younger folks on the native stage; set up participatory and clear decision-making processes at native stage, allow systematic inclusion of youngsters, younger folks, and their caregivers.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have… 

Necessities relevant to all consultants

• Superior college diploma in public insurance policies, public finance, economics, econometrics, social insurance policies or associated area;
• Minimal 10 years’ expertise for tier one senior consultants; Minimal 8 years’ expertise for tier two mid-level consultants; minimal 5 years’ expertise for tier three junior consultants.
• Demonstrated monitor document of high-quality work with governments on all of the specialised areas of labor beneath.
• Demonstrated capacity to speak advanced matters on the areas listed beneath with specialised and generalist audiences;
• Analytical considering and strategic planning abilities, capacity to facilitate, seek the advice of and negotiate with a broad vary of presidency and non-government companions;
• Expertise engaged on social safety or any of the specialised areas in a number of international locations in Europe and Central Asia is a robust benefit.
• Familiarity with UN & EU agenda is a bonus.
• Good inter-personal and communication (oral and written) abilities – publication document on areas associated to social safety is a plus;
• Wonderful report writing and presentation abilities.
• Fluency in English is required.  Information of the official languages of nations within the area is an asset however not required. 

COMPETENCIES OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE

Any candidate to be included in UNICEF’s pre-qualified Consultants Roster needs to be:

Key abilities : 

• In a position to talk successfully with diversified audiences, together with by way of formal presentation and written communication
• In a position to work throughout completely different models and encourage collaboration; capacity to elucidate advanced ideas to completely different audiences; capacity to speak with all ranges of administration and workers
• In a position to synthesize advanced info for a number of audiences
• In a position to work successfully in a multi-cultural surroundings and show sensitivity for cultural variations
• In a position to work independently and remotely in addition to in numerous settings
• In a position to work successfully with stakeholders from authorities establishments, worldwide organizations, academia, and NGOs
• Undertake a versatile angle and flexibility to quickly altering circumstances
• In a position to work below strain and reply to deadlines with out sacrificing high quality
• In a position to deal with a number of assignments with competing deadlines

For each Baby, you show… 

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

To view our competency framework, please go to  here.  

HOW TO APPLY 

1. Candidates are invited to:
2. Duly full the web UNICEF utility kind
3. Obligatory Questionnaire kind  ROSA Social Policy Roster Questionnaire 2023_final.docx
4. Curriculum vitae (CV) and a canopy letter, together with a listing of related publications (with hyperlinks).
5. Monetary proposal with day by day charge in USD (purposes submitted with no day by day charge is not going to be thought-about) and for which stream (could be a number of) and tier you’re making use of
6. Proof of related works in any of the talked about areas.
7. Analysis of labor by UN if relevant (e.g., PER).
8. Names and contacts of three (3) referees (purposes with out referees is not going to be thought-about).

 

Please notice that solely candidates who’re below severe consideration might be contacted. As soon as pre-qualified, consultants might be eligible for direct recruitment by UNICEF workplaces within the area for a three-year interval. Within the choice of its workers and consultants, UNICEF is dedicated to gender stability, inclusion, and variety with out distinction as to race, intercourse, or faith, and with out discrimination of individuals with disabilities. Properly certified candidates are strongly inspired to use.

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 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 provides reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may occasionally embrace, 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 affordable lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your task. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict baby safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can subsequently endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply extra info to conduct a background test. 

Remarks:  

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

The appliance deadline has been prolonged to develop the pool of candidates subsequently, candidates who’ve utilized earlier than needn’t apply once more. 

UNICEF is dedicated to variety and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, spiritual and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to use to turn out to be part of the group.

UNICEF provides affordable lodging for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may occasionally embrace, 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 affordable lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your task.

People engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “workers members” below the Employees Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (reminiscent of depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service might be ruled by their contract and the Common Situations of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable 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 your entire 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 have to be met previous to taking on 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 at some stage in their consultancy contracts.