Consultancy: Education Reporting Consultant 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.

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Consultancy Title: Education Reporting Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Education Team, Programme Group – New York HQ

Remote Position - matching time zones and maintaining core hours is critical to this work.

Duration: 40 working days; 6 March 2023 - 12 June 2023

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.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

The Management, Advocacy and Partnerships (MAP) team supports the education section in the overall management and smooth functioning of the section. The team leads the section’s work on all advocacy and partnerships work in close consultation with the Global Director of Education and Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP). It is responsible for ensuring all corporate requirements are met on time and with quality including the section’s planning and reporting requirements, budget management, resource mobilization, human resources, and global capacity development.

The consultant will work under the supervision of the Education Specialist (Planning and Reporting) in the MAP team housed in the UNICEF Headquarters Education and ADAP Section, and in close collaboration with the Education Officer (Internal Monitoring), as well as other team members to support the mapping of country examples and systematizing development of UNICEF’s Goal Area 2 (Education) Annual Results Report for year 2022, against the results framework of the UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025. The consultant will support the data verification, narrative writing, quality assurance, version control, as well as the publication production pipeline, including supplementary products.

Expected Results:

Scope of Work:

1. Systematize mapping of country examples on different thematic areas of education
   • Identify, collect, draft, edit and verify country examples demonstrating results at scale, including best practices, and case studies
   • Work with HQ, regional and country offices to quality assure, validate data and information, and package examples for use in UNICEF education’s reporting commitments, including ARR as well as senior management briefing notes and other use for partnerships growth and visibility with donors.
   • Establish a mapping tool to be used for identifying country examples for UNICEF Education and ADAP reporting, communications, advocacy and other purposes
2. Support the review, editing and re-writing the annual report during multiple iterations
   • Support version control of various iterations of the annual results report
   • Review rounds throughout the report development process and ensure diversity of country examples across the regions and from multiple stakeholders;
3. Support the production of supplementary material
   • Draft summaries, outlines and develop supplementary assets and products such as the report summary, presentation, etc.
   • Support development of key messages in close collaboration with the communications and advocacy consultant, to feed into the comms/advocacy and social media package for the publication and launch of the report
4. Manage the production pipeline process for the report
   • Coordinate with relevant sections and teams to meet the deadlines for copy editing, graphic design, and proofreading.
   • Manage the online publication production of the report and supplementary assets, including rounds of web content development and review

Terms of Reference / Deliverables

Work Assignment Overview

Milestones will consist of monthly status reports on the last working day of the month providing an overview of the status of agreed deliverables in line with outlined components and expected results and a final handover on the last day of the consultancy which includes an overview of the deliverables achieved during the four-month period.

Qualifications

• An advanced university degree (Master’s degree) in international relations or another related field, including but not limited to the following fields: political or social science, health, education, economics or international business, business administration or international development.
• A combined minimum of three (3) years of relevant professional experience, including experience of reporting at global, regional or country level is required.
• Good understanding of the overall global education and development context.
• Strong writing skills.
• English required; a good working knowledge of another UN language is an asset.

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
  • 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

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

To view our competency framework, please visit 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 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.

Remarks:

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.