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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant

Consultancy Title: Community Coordinator Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Education Team / United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI) - Programme Group, New York - HQ

Duration: 15 July, 2023 to 15 December 2024 - REMOTE

About UNICEF

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) is a global partnership for gender equality in and through education. Our mandate is to catalyse and galvanize action locally, nationally, regionally, and global for girls’ education and gender equality in education. The UNGEI Secretariat is governed by UNICEF policies for consultancies. We strive to uphold feminist and anti-racist principles in how we work and offer flexible work arrangements.

UNGEI is the only UN entity dedicated to girls’ education and gender equality in and through education. Through its 23-year history UNGEI has been a strong global, regional, and local advocate for this mandate, leading with partners or influencing global commitments and dialogue (e.g., joint UN messaging on girls’ education through COVID-19, inclusion of gender equality in the 2022 Transforming Education Summit).

The Community Coordinator is crucial to the delivery of one of UNGEI’s flagship initiatives, the Global Feminist Network for Gender Transformative Education (FemNet4GTE). FemNet4GTE will bring together local and global organizations and activists who seek to achieve gender equality in and through education. The UN Girls’ Education Initiative's (UNGEI) goal in developing, curating, and convening this network is to create a strong movement of actors that demand commitment by education leaders to this area of work and provide support to them to fulfil their commitments. In addition to creating a connected group of actors, UNGEI will also execute global in-person gatherings. The first event of its kind was delivered in 2022, and UNGEI is looking to build on the success of the event in 2023 and 2024 by scaling and growing the network and the event in line with our objectives and principles.

Scope of Work:

Under the supervision of the Communications & Advocacy Manager, and in close collaboration with UNGEI team, the Community Coordinator will support UNGEI by leading on community management and communications with participants of the FemNet4GTE in the run up to, delivery of and wrap-up of the events in 2023 and 2024.

This is a deliverable-based contract over 2023 and 2024.

The Community Coordinator is responsible for:

1. Continuous and engaged community liaison ensured with the participants of the Feminist Network for Gender Transformative Education

2. Ensuring FemNet4GTE is convened with quality, feminist, and inclusive content

3. Ensuring knowledge and expertise gained from the FemNet4GTE is consolidated and amplified

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Terms of Reference / Deliverables

1. Continuous and engaged community liaison ensured with the participants of the Feminist Network for Gender Transformative Education

• Produce and disseminate timeline for pre-convening meetings
• Develop participant list in line with agreed weightings, ensuring appropriate mix of CSOs, NGOs, INGOs, academia, government, and individual activists
• Convene & lead four participant meetings, including liaison before and after the meeting
• Write and disseminate all pre-event communications with participants, including slides, agendas, meeting minutes
• Create and manage a secure online database of participants’ details
• Develop, disseminate, and support participant and facilitator travel plans
• Write and disseminate information pack for participants and speakers including all pertinent information on the event

2. Ensuring FemNet4GTE is convened with quality, feminist, and inclusive content

• Manage all translation and interpretation requirements for the event through agreed vendors
• Deliver and manage event inclusion, safeguarding and accessibility strategy in line with UNICEF policies and UNGEI principles
• Liaise with event management to support smooth running of event on the ground to ensure participants wellbeing, safeguarding and enjoyment
• Provide written and verbal consultancy on event planning in line with participants’ needs
• Undertake 2 international travels with tentative 4 days for each trip will be required for this deliverable. 1 to Turkey (Istanbul) and other to be confirm

3. Ensuring knowledge and expertise gained from the FemNet4GTE is consolidated and amplified

• Create, disseminate, and manage post-event communications including evaluations, digital communication toolkits
• Participate in internal or external debriefing meetings related to the events, sharing relevant insights and reflections
• Develop a post-event report reflecting the proceedings and outcomes of each of the two convenings in 2023 and 2024, including analysis of feedback & evaluation from the participants

International Travel: Two (2) international missions (for events) - Four (4) days each mission

Qualifications

1) Education

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field desirable

Public and/or private sector partnerships,

education, communications, marketing, public relations, business administration and management, technology, or social sciences. Knowledge and experience in gender and/or education is a plus.

• Fluency in English mandatory.

2) Work experience

• 3-5 years of experience in working with international organizations, NGOs, CSOs or in development areas, including at least 2 years of experience managing community-level, local or regional partnerships

• Experience in managing international communities/partnerships is desirable

• At least 3 years of experience in supporting the planning and organization of campaigns, events, workshops, and meetings at national or international level

• Excellent communications skills, in particular with partners including CSOs, NGOs and activists

• An understanding of issues related to feminism, gender equality in education and girls’ education is a must

3) Competencies

• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal
• Strong relationship management skills, including convening and hosting meetings with partners
• Highly organized, with strong administrative skills including in Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook

Requirements:

• Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and provide Personal History Form (P11) Upload copy of academic credentials
• Financial proposal that will include:
• Cost per deliverable or lumpsum for the whole deliverables as indicated in the terms of reference
  • travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR.
  • Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable.
  • Indicate your availability
• Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.
• At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.
• Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

U.S. Visa information:

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process

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UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

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UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

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.

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 (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). 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.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.