Consultancy: Development of Sustainable Child Friendly Governorate (SCFG), Zahle, Lebanon, 63 days

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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 started to work in Lebanon in 1948 and established its office in 1950. For more than 70 years we’ve been working closely with the Government of Lebanon, other UN agencies, international and local NGOs, universities, and more than 100 partners to meet the needs of disadvantaged children in Lebanon. Responding to life-saving needs and ensuring equal access to quality public services, the impact of our work is felt in every aspect and every sphere of society. To learn more about our work, please refer to: https://www.unicef.org/lebanon/what-we-do

How can you make a difference?

The socio-economic crisis, hitting hardly Lebanon since 2019, is still creating new needs and causing different new types of vulnerabilities that are affecting all Lebanese and other populations living in Lebanon. To respond to these needs, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is enhancing its situational monitoring for the Lebanese population, covering all the thematic areas that are part of its mandate. As per the current strategy of UNICEF to work with and strengthen local level institutions, the field offices are focusing on working with governors’ offices. As a part of that engagement, and due to the need for better data about children for UNICEF programming as a whole, it was agreed to conduct a Sustainable Child Friendly Governorate (SCFG) assessment and road map of the governorate of Bekaa that will help guiding UNICEF and partners’ field interventions and also support the governorate to guide its own support plan to populations.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

In collaboration with the programme specialist, UNICEF team and relevant stakeholders, the independent consultant will:

• After making a literature review, rolling out a survey through the conduction of in person key informant interviews with representatives from key municipalities and different stakeholders of the governorate of Bekaa including Zahle, Rachaya and West Bekaa districts with support of UNICEF staff, while other municipalities will be surveyed over the phone. 6 weeks are suggested as a timeline for this task. The revised questionnaire will contextualize the needs of Bekaa governorate. The opinions of representatives from each municipality will be assessed based on the seven categories of questions:
  • Play and Leisure
  • Participation and Citizenship
  • Safety and Protection
  • Health and Social Services
  • Educational Resources
  • Home Environment
  • Resilience
• Analyse the findings and represent the data at municipalities and Union of Municipalities level. 2 weeks are suggested as a timeline for this task
• Draft the assessment SCFG report. 2 weeks are suggested as a timeline for this task
• Prepare and organize 2 days’ workshop in collaboration with the UNICEF local governance team to ideate for the envisaged roadmap. 2 weeks are suggested as a timeline for this task including the above 2 days
• Development of the road map to be disseminated to local public institutions. 2 weeks are suggested as a timeline for this task

For further information on the JD please click here Terms of References.pdf

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

Education: Holds a bachelor’s degree in social sciences, public admin, or another related field.

Experience: A minimum of five years of professional experience as below:

• Own strong knowledge related to child rights, public and local governance.
• Working in complex political and humanitarian contexts.
• Experience analyzing data and information, consultation about context and affected populations.
• Working with and understanding of the international humanitarian and development systems, including the UN system.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including substantive analysis and report writing skills.

Language Requirements: Fluency in English and Arabic is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability (CRITA) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

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 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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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.

Remarks

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates are encouraged to apply.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

UNICEF does not charge any fee during any stage of the recruitment process.