Consultancy: Pillar Manager, Education Plus Initiative Young Women’s Leadership and Engagement Pillar Consultant, HIV - AIDS Team, Programme Group, HQ New York/Remote - Req

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Consultancy Title: Pillar Manager, Education Plus Initiative Young Women’s Leadership and Engagement Pillar Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: HIV/AIDS / Programme Group/ NYHQ

Duration: 60 Billable days – October 2022 to March 2023

Home-office Based: 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. 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:

In 2019, at the Nairobi ICPD+25 Summit, the UNAIDS Secretariat announced its intention to launch a new high-level initiative to accelerate HIV prevention among girls and young women. Convened by five women leaders of UN agencies – UNAIDS, UN Women, UNICEF, UNESCO and UNFPA – this effort is bringing together an exceptional network of African and global leaders from civil society, business, unions, faith groups, and media (refer to Annex 1 for details).

Within this initiative, UNICEF and UNFPA have laid out institutional commitments to co-lead the delivery of a young women’s leadership structure, to cultivate and empower a dedicated group of high-level advocates, drawn from the key networks, institutions, and movements across the six priority issues of the initiative. UNICEF also supports the domain on girls’ secondary education, coordinating joint action on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), school-related Gender Based Violence (GBV) with the designated agency leads.

The purpose of this assignment is to provide mid- to senior-level support to ensure a coordinated support across UNICEF NY-HQ Programmes Groups (Gender, Education, Health, and ADAP) and with the regional offices of the UN co-sponsors.

Scope of Work:

Under the guidance of the Senior HIV/AIDS Adviser, Adolescents, and working closely with UNHQ and Regional Advisors of the Co-Sponsors (UNFPA, UNESCO, UN Women, and UNAIDS) the consultant will be assigned a range of tasks:

• Overall, serve as the focal point within Programmes Division for the initiative. Manage coordination, outreach and engagement with partners, ensure buy-in and amplify reach and impact.
• Liaise across UNICEF HQ-NY Programmes Groups, other UN agencies, and with multiple UNAIDS units as needed.
• Interact with regional and country teams to coordinate their inter-agency commitments and engagements.
• Set out how UNICEF leadership will help enable the breakthroughs in political leadership, policy and practice that will fulfil the initiative’s advocacy goals, including identifying support needed.
• Convene, support and build the visibility of successive classes of high-profile young women leaders and champions in making the case, including mentorship, personal coaching, capacity building, networking support, and strategic advocacy engagements largely driven by the young women themselves, with the collaboration of other agencies

• Develop annual workplans, budgets, and resource mobilization plans to support UNICEF’s mandate

• Perform other communications-related duties, as required

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

• Consolidate documentation on the work and activities of young women’s pillar
• Formalize strategic partnerships and collaborations with institutions across the African Region
• Develop framework and plan for the Virtual Support Center
• Empanel Selection Committee for 2023 Cohort, and support transition and onboarding of new cohort of dynamic young women leaders
• Strategic activations (International Day of the Girl Child advocacy, 16 Days of Activism, World AIDS Day, CSW2023)
• New cohort recruitment completed
• Coordinate strategic planning processes, including budget and workplan development, annual retreat, and stocktaking process

Qualifications

Education:

Master's in Gender, Sociology, Education, Public Health, International Health, International Affairs, Public Administration or other related discipline.

Work experience:

• A seasoned mid-career professional with a minimum proven professional record of 7 years in Gender and Health at the International level
• Native fluency in English; excellent writing skills in English. French or Portuguese would be an asset

• Experience in engaging with decision-makers and Influential across Africa, and beyond

• Experience in supporting, coordinating, or managing complex multi-agency initiatives for strategic results.

• Able to operate in a complex environment and to work with much broader coalitions, including engaging women’s, youth and civil society movements

• A record of working on women’s and girls’ rights and gender equality
• Clear record of resourcefulness, flexibility and taking initiative. Able to manage complexity, risk and multiple stakeholders while delivering powerful work with a sizeable impact

Language Proficiency:

• Native Proficiency in ENGLISH required FRENCH or PORTUGUESE fluency a distinct advantage

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 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, race, sexual orientation, nationality, culture, appearance, socio-economic status, ability, age, religious, and ethnic backgrounds, 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.