Consultancy (6 weeks, full-time, home-based): Support the design and development of Child Rights and Business Atlas Platform, Child Rights and Business Unit, Division of Private Fundraising

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, hope

UNICEF aims to promote the integration of a child-centred approach to human rights due diligence among business actors. National, regional and global developments have created new obligations and momentum for business actors to respect human rights (and remedy violations) across their operations and in all territories. Developing tools and metrics that enable in-depth analysis and integration of children’s rights indicators into the due diligence systems that companies employ (voluntarily and in response to increasing legal obligations) is hence essential.

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the Children’s Rights and Business principles identify actions that all business should take to prevent and address risks to children’s rights in the workplace, marketplace and the community.

The Children’s Rights and Business (CRB) Atlas is an online due diligence platform, launched globally in November 2018 following a significant project determining indicators, indices and platform design. In 2020, the Atlas was fully revised and updated, aiming at making it a relevant and user-friendly tool for the business audience and UNICEF colleagues working across the private sector.

UNICEF is seeking to upgrade the Child Right Atlas to facilitate deeper data mining by business stakeholders, including by developing a tool that enables users to identify child rights challenges in national situations most likely to be specifically relevant to them, paving the way for deeper due diligence.

How can you make a difference?

The consultant will help to develop the analytical approach to identify priority child rights’ issues on the basis of three sets of self-reported data: country-level risks, industry-level risks, and self-reported policies and practices. The consultant will support the design of the tool by building on existing Child Rights Atlas indicators, as well as other Child Rights and Business materials.

MAIN TASKS

The consultant is expected to perform the following tasks:

  1. Design a top-level industry or activity classification scheme and match each category with a set of priority issues already contained in the Child Rights Atlas
  2. Design the questionnaire on policies and practices and assign risk scores to answers
  3. Select existing CRB materials in relation to resulting risk areas
  4. Create a model output (e.g. a PDF or spreadsheet with links), including heatmap and suggested materials.
DELIVERABLES

The consultant is expected to produce and submit following deliverables:

  • Spreadsheet with 3-step tool to be embedded in the Atlas platform
  • Model PDF output/report that a user could get

All submissions should be electronic. All materials submitted to UNICEF should be delivered in English.

ESTIMATED DURATION OF THE CONTRACT AND PROPOSAL

6 weeks, full time, tentatively starting on 24 May 2021.

REPORTING TO

The consultant will report to the PFP CRB Specialist.

The consultant will also work in close collaboration with the ICT Specialist in PFP Operations and Finance, who will be leading the technical integration of the tool in the Child Rights Atlas’ platform.

WORKPLACE

The work will be done remotely. The consultant should be available for calls with staff members based in Geneva and occasionally in New York.

No travel is required.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

  • An advanced degree in a relevant field such as human rights, political science, international relations or related disciplines is required.
  • Fluency in English is required.
  • It is required that the consultant has at least 5 years’ experience with demonstrated results in the majority of the following areas:
    • Expert knowledge of the Human Rights’ due diligence field
    • Experience developing practical tools for business actors to assess Human Rights’ issues
    • Good knowledge of Child Rights’ frameworks
    • Experience working with complex datasets, including qualitative and quantitative indicators
    • Knowledge and experience using the Child Rights Atlas is an advantage

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

Remarks: Please indicate your ability, availability and gross daily/monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above (including travel and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable). Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered. Also, please mention the earliest date you can start.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein. Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

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