Consultancy: Personal Attendant - 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: Personal Attendant

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

Duration: May 2, 2022 to January 3, 2023 (74 days - Work arrangement would be flexible- 2 full days or 4 half days, and include work on site and remotely )

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

Reasonable accommodation - Personal attendant to support UNV, GEI Team, Education Section.

Terms of Reference / Deliverables

Scope of Work:

• Provide support in the following areas to complete administrative, documentations and other tasks
• Orientation of the working environment, building, and the surrounding areas;
• Accessing and orientation with UNICEF’s E-Systems
• Collating comments and feedback on documents provided by internal and external partners.
• Formatting documents, including inserting comments, feedback, graphics and pictures.
• Reading documents and describing graphics and illustrations which are not accessible to screen reader software.
• Reviewing and completing forms related to agreements, contracts, etc.
• Providing mobility support as needed.
• Provide any ad hoc support as needed.

In close collaboration and working with GEI Team, the incumbent is responsible for providing support to the UNV as follows:

• Accessibility related support for completion of day-to-day tasks and deliverables, including documents, forms, charts, PowerPoint, Share Points which are not accessible through a screen-reading software.

Accessibility provided for completion of day-to-day tasks, including accessing documents, forms and charts, PowerPoints, Share Points. 37 days by 3 January 2023

• Support in editing, formatting and finalizing documents; and in responding to comments on documents; organizing meetings and workshops

Documents edited, formatted and finalized; meetings and workshops organized as required.

37 days by 3 January 2023

Qualifications

(1) Education

• University degree or High School equivalent
• Proficiency in spoken and written English language is required.

2) Work experience

• Experience working with people with disability, especially people with visual impairments, and fluency with IT are necessary.
• Knowledge and two years of experience in providing mobility and orientation support to visually impaired persons is required.

3) Competencies

• Strong skills and expertise in working with information technology MS Teams; Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint; SharePoint; Adobe is required.
• Fluency and strong writing skills in English are required.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English language is required.

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