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:
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):
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
To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have…
Training:
Expertise, Expertise and Language:
For each Baby, you show…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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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:
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.
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