Roster of Individual Consultants: Pacific Education Programme Design, 8 months, Pacific Multi-Country Office

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. 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, all over the place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each youngster, training.

We function within the Pacific, particularly within the Cook dinner Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. These 14 Pacific island nations are dwelling to 2.3 million individuals, together with 1.2 million kids and youth. They inhabit greater than 660 islands and atolls that stretch throughout 17.2 million sq. kilometers of the Pacific Ocean. This space is similar to the mixed dimension of the USA of America and Canada. Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu are categorized as Fragile States in response to World Financial institution/OECD standards.

All 14 Pacific Island nations and territories have ratified the UN Conference on the Rights of the Baby. Nevertheless, solely a 3rd are on observe with reporting obligations. You’ll be able to discover the completely different areas of our work on the hyperlink supplied right here: www.unicef.org/pacificislands .

Background of Task: 

Whereas the cycle of training programme visioning, planning, implementation, monitoring/ assessment and studying is all the time ongoing, Pacific training techniques have in recent times undergone a lot of processes via which they’ve challenged themselves to make an particularly essential assessment and visioning for the transformation of the system. This consists of the Remodeling Training Summit course of, an growth of Training Sector Evaluation and Planning processes, assessment/ of sector programmes supported by main companions, Enabling Issue Analyses, Training Partnership Compacts, and many others. As well as, there was a stronger emphasis on programme assessment and analysis with participatory processes that contain numerous stakeholders.

Beneath a wide range of circumstances, UNICEF is able to help Pacific training techniques to design strategic training programmes to make a change throughout the system over the long-term and requires devoted technical help to help the detailed design, costing and documentation of the identical below the management of the respective Ministry of Training (or equal) and with engagement of related companions and stakeholders.

These Phrases of Reference are for a roster of training programme design consultants for Pacific Island nations. Candidates shall be thought-about for various alternatives and are inspired to point if they’re excited by all alternatives or alternately for under particular nations or thematic areas.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

The target of the consultancy is to help the strategic imaginative and prescient developed by Ministries of Training with companions and stakeholders to rework training in Pacific Island nations.

The marketing consultant will present high-quality, related and responsive technical help to the detailed design and costing of an training programme reform as a part of a funded programme or proposal together with however not restricted to International Partnership for Training (GPE) grants throughout a number of Island nations.  The imaginative and prescient or reform would have been outlined via a earlier session and planning course of led by the precise Ministry of Training and would require devoted technical help for the detailed design, costing and implementation, and documentation.

Beneath the management of Ministry of Training group, and with their full possession of the method and outputs with engagement of related training companions and stakeholders, the marketing consultant will present extra technical help to finish programme design and finances given different programme commitments, inner capability and tight exterior timeframes. The marketing consultant is contracted by UNICEF and can be accountable for working intently with UNICEF group to make sure adherence to operational techniques in order to ease planning and funding, and maximize UNICEF’s comparative benefit technically, in addition to efficient coordination with companions to make sure essentially the most complete, cohesive and coordinated programme for every nation.

The main target of every programme shall be depending on the reform/precedence recognized by every nation, however frequent areas of technical experience required are:  

1. Academics and instructing together with however not restricted to pre-service and in-service programme design, workforce planning and workforce situations, skilled requirements, advocacy for the career, trainer administration techniques, coordination with TTIs, and many others. 
2. Literacy, numeracy and foundational abilities together with however not restricted to studying programmes, confirmed pedagogies for constructing foundational abilities, language of instruction, resourcing, trainer skilled improvement, evaluation, literacy and numeracy throughout the curriculum. 
3. Fairness and inclusion together with however not restricted to school-based gender-responsive and inclusive practices, transferring past parity, addressing stereotypes, trainer skilled improvement. 
4. Studying pathways together with however not restricted to TVET in primary training programmes, resilience via foundations in indigenous data, trainer skilled improvement (wellbeing/steering),  
5. Curriculum together with however not restricted to curriculum relevance and alignment, evaluation, instructing and studying assets.
6. Expertise in training together with however not restricted to digital and distant studying techniques, content material improvement and curation, improvement of trainer capacities to make use of digital studying successfully and responsibly, equity-focused approaches to advancing digital studying, knowledge administration techniques.
7. Faculty management and administration together with however not restricted to requirements and competency frameworks for varsity management and enchancment, tutorial management, faculty administration committees, neighborhood and mother or father engagement.
8. Early childhood training together with however not restricted to curriculum, trainer improvement and administration, coverage and laws, planning.
9. Indigenous Data and apply together with however not restricted to the mainstreaming of indigenous and conventional data as legitimate outcomes in curricula, localized studying assets and vernacular language, trainer skilled improvement and engagement with communities.

Given the interconnectedness of sub-sectors throughout the training system, the marketing consultant ought to have sufficient data and familiarity of training techniques to outline coordinated and synergistic approaches as required to attain the related reform.

The marketing consultant is anticipated to elaborate a strategic and costed programme design to operationalize the precedence reform areas recognized in a means that’s technically-sound, culturally acceptable, related to context and aware of wants and priorities, designed to work via and strengthen present training techniques whereas leveraging and/or participating the strengths of related companions and stakeholders, gender-responsive and equity-focused, and concurrently transformative/visionary and sensible. The programme is anticipated to have a long-term and transformative view to alter, with system developments and enhancements not anticipated to stop with the tip of the funding however designed for sustained momentum thereafter. Concrete milestones and outcomes (together with in school, classroom- and system-levels) must be achievable at some scale from early on. From a system strengthening and transformation strategy, this may increasingly imply early shifts and testing of latest approaches with monitoring and studying to tell improved approaches at scale. Monitoring, studying and communication actions are to be included to offer clear suggestions on progress and achievements to construct engagement within the reform agenda, whereas additionally nurturing a studying agenda to maximise the relevance of the approaches.

Noting the above, a consultancy will cowl the next deliverables, with an indicative course of outlined beneath (to be elaborated additional throughout the consultancy):

1. Inception Report
   1. Conduct desk assessment of related knowledge and paperwork, together with evaluation/planning/coverage paperwork and full a quick preliminary literature assessment of the paperwork sources. The place related to programme design this also needs to embody any Partnership Compact or equal of the proposed reform/precedence
   2. Perform preliminary consultations to co-construct the methodology with proposed strategy, meant consultations and indicative timelines together with durations of time anticipated to be in nation.
   3. Conduct subject visits as related to construct or replace an understanding of the day-to-day realities in training as relate to the reform.
   4. The inception report will be damaged up right into a preliminary (pre-travel) planning and sharing of preliminary ideas and timelines, and a later model that displays a extra full view of background, context, timelines, outcomes and conclusions of discussions held, and many others. The inception report is anticipated to be concise and an efficient instrument for all stakeholders to shortly achieve an understanding of the marketing consultant’s evaluation of background, imaginative and prescient for reform, and proposed strategy to concretizing the identical via the consultancy.
2.  Growth of Programme Define
   1. Seek the advice of with focal factors within the MoE and different stakeholders to know the parts of the programme and desired outcomes, in addition to sensible choices and modalities for operationalizing the identical.
   2. Draft a programme doc define with a programme rationale and principle of change that’s cohesive, coherent and clearly demonstrates how the specified outcomes shall be achieved. This could embody an “elevator pitch” model that Ministry and different stakeholders can use to obviously clarify the reform, its rationale, and the anticipated change.
   3. The programme define ought to show hyperlinks to knowledge and proof and the way it’s aligned to unblocking the bottlenecks recognized via any evaluation or session (this would come with the Enabling Issue Evaluation and Partnership Compact for STG programme design the place related). The programme define is anticipated to incorporate programme targets, proposed parts and key interventions (Excessive degree), a Concept of Change that demonstrates reform/transformation (linked to the Partnership Compact), key outcomes and indicators, and an outline of implementation preparations.
3. Growth of software package deal
   1. Primarily based on the suggestions supplied to the programme define, and in ongoing collaboration with the training company and session with companions and stakeholders,  develop the total software package deal together with Programme Doc, Price range and Software kind. The programme doc ought to lengthen the programme define to incorporate: a full rationale and targets, descriptions of parts and interventions and the way they hyperlink to the specified reform and long-term nationwide improvement methods, a principle of change, proposed methods and programme of labor, monitoring and analysis framework, implementation preparations and readiness, danger identification and mitigation in addition to statements on making certain sustainability and help effectiveness.  The programme doc and finances ought to each be reviewed by the related ministry/partnership group eg the LEG or equal.
   2. The event of methods and interventions would require an iterative and energetic course of with Ministry, stakeholders and companions to make sure the relevance, feasibility and “transformative potential” of proposed modalities and approaches, together with these led and or managed by the Ministry and different authorities our bodies, companions, neighborhood organizations, and UNICEF. Produce shows and different easy communication instruments to allow the total engagement of all related stakeholders in contributing to the plan.
   3. Draft a M&E framework with related indicators and the place doable established baseline and milestones (with technique of verification/deliberate actions) for monitoring of implementation and evaluation of progress in the direction of the outlined transformation and concrete modifications for faculties and kids.
   4. Totally price the programme and produce different inputs as required for the related necessities of every proposal/software/plan.
   5. Different notes: Notice that programme outlines should show how gender shall be mainstreamed via the programme and the way college students with a incapacity and different lenses of inclusion are additionally proven consideration. Notice that the doc shall be absolutely reviewed by training companions and stakeholders for suggestions previous to additional improvement.
4. Help to endorsement, submission and finalisation
   1. Primarily based on suggestions acquired on the programme doc, combine modifications and produce the applying package deal for endorsement by Ministry/Partnership Group
   2. Help the company in presentation to the stakeholders (together with LEG the place related) by creating appropriate shows. Help preparation of ultimate submission of software/proposal for endorsement and help the Ministry to reply to any subsequent queries at the moment.

The marketing consultant shall be supervised on a day-to-day foundation by the UNICEF Pacific Chief of Training, with day-to-day supervision by the related Training Specialist for the actual nation, in coordination with the nominated official in every nationwide training division. The UNICEF Pacific Chief of Training will approve remaining deliverables for fee based mostly on recommendation from the respective training specialists in coordination and coordination with respective ministries of training.  

The marketing consultant is anticipated to journey to the nation for in-person work (estimated 50 days per nation), together with in-person engagement in key conferences and consultations, and may go remotely the rest of the time. When working remotely, the marketing consultant is anticipated to be obtainable for discussions as required throughout working hours of the nation. All prices related to the journey are to be included within the whole contract worth.   

Please seek advice from the ToR  VA TOR_Education Programme Design_STG.pdf for additional info on the deliverables and the timelines.

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

Training:  

• A grasp’s diploma could be indicative of the extent of qualification required for this work, nevertheless a primary diploma with a mix of related different publish graduate certificates/diplomas may be thought-about.
• Ideally candidates could be graduates within the space of training with some degree of specialization in one of many areas recognized and/or coverage and planning.

Expertise, Expertise and Language:  

• Minimal of 10 years skilled work expertise in instructional planning, costing, implementation, monitoring and analysis, with some related ranges of specialization 
• Expertise in analysis and evaluation 
• Confirmed potential to be modern, suppose otherwise and have interaction others in transformation 
• Expertise working with Ministries of Training and improvement companions
• Confirmed potential to provide prime quality and strategically-oriented programme designs and documentation 
• Data and expertise with GPE processes a bonus (significantly related the place GPE funding is concerned) 
• Familiarity with Pacific cultures is very fascinating
• Excessive degree interpersonal and relationship-building abilities 
• Capability to speak successfully with individuals of assorted cultures and disciplines. 
• Capability to find out and assessment priorities and meet deadlines
• Diplomatic abilities to liaise with counterparts and completely different stakeholders
• Good analytical, negotiating, and advocacy abilities

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.

GUIDANCE FOR APPLICANTS:

This roster is for particular person consultants solely. Candidates are requested to submit a transient technical proposal and CV. Moreover, candidates are requested to submit a separate monetary proposal as a part of the applying. The monetary proposal must be a lump sum quantity for the deliverables and may present a break down for the next:

• Month-to-month/Every day consultancy charges – based mostly on the deliverables within the Phrases of Reference
• Journey: financial system air ticket the place relevant to take up task and subject mission journey
• Dwelling allowance: the place journey is required.
• Miscellaneous: to cowl visa, medical insurance (together with medical evacuation for worldwide consultants), communications, and different prices.

These Phrases of Reference are for a roster of training programme design consultants for a number of Pacific Island nations. Candidates shall be thought-about for various alternatives and are inspired to point if they’re excited by all alternatives or alternately for under particular nations or thematic areas.

Remarks:  

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

UNICEF provides 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 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 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 shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas 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 extra info to conduct a background test. 

People engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “workers members” below the Workers Laws and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (corresponding to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service shall 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 have to be met previous to taking on the task. 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 features for UNICEF at some stage in their consultancy contracts. 

Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of for a consultancy.