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 baby, all over the place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means surrender.
For each baby, hope
Below the steering and supervision of Humanitarian Coverage and Advocacy Specialist in UNICEF HQ, New York Humanitarian Coverage Part, Lead the inception, conceptualization, and growth of UNICEF centrality of safety pointers.
How are you going to make a distinction?
This consultancy will contribute to making sure a well timed, inclusive and high quality rollout of a core UNICEF humanitarian steering instrument that can search broad institutional consensus. The longer term UNICEF safety pointers will permit it to leverage safety as a strategic precedence and allow it to:
- Reinforce its mandate and long-standing dedication to guard kids’s rights and its function to advertise and assist the Conference on the Rights of the Little one – together with by making certain that affected communities, particularly kids most in danger, have a job in shaping and informing humanitarian and growth motion.
- Enhance the standard of its programmes and advocacy and to raised make sure the promotion and safety of youngsters’s rights, together with by constructing strategic hyperlinks throughout sectors.
- Ship programming and advocacy that’s delicate to safety considerations based mostly on a strong danger evaluation leading to preventive or responsive motion is healthier positioned to put the inspiration for a center to long-term general technique to attain long-term growth outcomes as outlined in the Sustainable Improvement Targets.
- Elevate the safety of youngsters and caregivers as central to UNICEF decision-making and response, together with engagement with states and non-state events to battle.
- Strengthen collective accountability for youngsters by UNICEF’s management and coordination roles.
- Higher function as a impartial, impartial, and neutral humanitarian actor and reduces the danger of destructive outcomes for folks, embodying the precept of “do no hurt”.
- Develop a more practical humanitarian and growth response predicated on acknowledging the function and participation of UNICEF beneficiaries.
- Be a extra agile operational humanitarian company that is ready to adapt its efforts in response to mitigating the safety considerations kids are uncovered to.
| Work Assignments Overview | Deliverables/Outputs | Supply deadline |
| Conduct preliminary desk evaluate and develop temporary inception report (20%) |
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30 November 2023 |
| Lead preliminary consultations and develop idea of change (20%) |
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29 December 2023 |
| Conduct in-depth consultations/pilot train with three UNICEF Nation Workplaces (30%) |
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28 February 2024 |
| Draft closing UNICEF safety pointers report (30%) |
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29 April 2024 |
Nature of ‘Penalty Clause’ to be stipulated in Contract:
Penalties for Unsatisfactory Efficiency or Incomplete Task: Last fee of charges for this task will solely be affected upon passable completion of companies to UNICEF’s satisfaction and certification to that impact by the Supervisor of this task.
Value Estimations
Please embrace the monetary proposal in USD (inclusive of all taxes).
The monetary proposal shall be submitted in USD and should embrace the consultancy price, the communication prices and all different particular person bills or relevant prices. The monetary proposal should be damaged down per deliverable.
To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…
- A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or increased) in Social Sciences, Public Administration, Worldwide Regulation, Worldwide Relations or different associated disciplines.
- Not less than eight years of progressively accountable skilled work expertise in humanitarian motion on the nationwide and worldwide ranges and in administration.
- Information and understanding of UN humanitarian coverage and operations required.
- Prior expertise or in-depth data on humanitarian coverage, safety, and operational points is required.
- Expertise with inter-agency humanitarian processes is fascinating.
- Fluency in English is required. Fluency in French is very desired.
For each Little one, 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 kids and our international workforce should replicate the range of these kids. 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 presents reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This may increasingly 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 cheap 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 ideas. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact bear 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 offer further info to conduct a background test.
Remarks:
Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought of “employees members” underneath the Workers Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (akin to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will likely 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 answerable 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 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 task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and aren’t anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places 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.
Marketed: 29 Sep 2023 Japanese Daylight Time
Deadline: 08 Oct 2023 Japanese Daylight Time
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