Consultancy: Consultant, Spotlight Initiative in Africa and Latin America - Gender Section, PD, NYHQ - Req

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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.***

Consultancy Title: Consultant - Spotlight Initiative in Africa and Latin America

Section/Division/Duty Station: Gender/PD/NYHQ

Duration: 7 months (up to 50 working days between 15 October 2020 – 31 May 2021)

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. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, 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. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

Purpose

The Spotlight Initiative is a joint UN-EU initiative to end violence against women and girls (VAWG).

UNICEF has implemented the programmes with other UN partner agencies in 11 countries in Africa and Latin America since 2019. The country programmes are implemented over the span of two phases: phase 1 between 2019 and 2020 and phase 2 between 2021 and 2022. As countries complete nearly two years of implementation, there is need for consolidation of learning and emerging results.

As a complementary exercise to the mid-term review for the entire Initiative across agencies, UNICEF plans to gather emerging results, assess progress and lessons learned at the activity level across its country offices. The documentation exercise ultimately aims to improve the effectiveness of the existing programme implementation, to advocate for more global effort to tackle VAWG and to contribute to the growing evidence body on VAWG. The primary focus areas are for the documentation will be on activities undertaken to Pillars 3 and 4 of the Theory of Change, relating to prevention of violence and provision of essential services to women and girls’ survivors, areas where UNICEF has invested most resources.

The documentation of impacts, progress and lessons learned from UNICEF’s activities on prevention and service is undertaken in the following phases.

1) Design phase (Q3 2020): The first phase will focus on selecting countries and specific activities for the documentation process. This phase will include defining what count as “results” and “progress” in consultation with country and regional offices. Standards in measurement methodologies will be established. Given there are three regions (West and Central Africa, East and Southern Africa and Latin America) and two pillars to cover, this exercise will investigate six activities.

2) Documentation Phase (Q4 2020 and Q1 2021): The on-site measurement will be conducted in coordination with country and regional offices.

3) Report-writing phase (Q2 2021): The collected evidence, lessons learned, and stories will be compiled as the mid-term review of UNICEF’s engagement in the Spotlight Initiative.

Terms of Reference / Deliverables

Start date: 15-October-2020 End date: 31-May-2021 Total: 50 working days

• Develop an inception report and work plan; workplan with timeline (with 2-3 introductory calls with HQ/regional offices). Required working days: 5 Days; Due date: 15-November-2020

• Documentation and data collection;

i) Review of programme documents. Required working days: 10 Days; Due date: 31-December-2020

ii) Ongoing consultations with COs, ROs & HQ. Required working days: 10 Days; Due date: 28- February-2021

• Report drafting;

i) Repository/compendium of stories, case studies and findings from countries; Required working days: 10 Days, Due date: 31-March-2021

ii) Daft report; Required working days: 10 Days, Due date: 31-March-2021

iii) Final report; Required working days: 5 Days, Due date: 30-April-2021

TOTAL: 50 working days; Contract end Date: 31 May 2021

Qualifications and Experience

• Advanced university degree in a discipline relevant to the position such as Gender Studies, Public Health, International Development, etc.

• Eight years of progressively responsible professional work experience; especially with a minimum of 5 years of experience in the area of international development, gender equality, with a demonstrated track record in accountability and reporting for gender equality results

• Must demonstrate excellent writing skills. Work experience with UNICEF and knowledge about violence against women and girls will be considered as highly desirable.

• Experience writing reports is required; writing UN reports desirable.

• Experience in work environment of an international agency, UN, or international institutions is desirable; prior experience in UNICEF is an asset.

• Experience in developing country contexts and an understanding of development challenges from the field perspective is desirable;

• Required computer skills (MS Windows, MS Office applications, Infographics).

• Fluency and excellent analytical writing skills in English.

• Knowledge of French and/or Spanish for report reading highly desirable.

• Ability to communicate sensitively to different audiences.

• Familiar with Do No Harm principle and ethics

• Ability to work within tight deadlines.

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:

- your daily/monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference (can be downloaded here: https://www.unicef.org/about/employ/index_consultancy_assignments.html

o travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR.

o Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable.

o 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

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. View our competency framework at: Here

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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, culture, appearance, socio-economic status, ability, age, religious and ethnic backgrounds to apply to become a part of the organization.