Consultancy - UPSHIFT Integration into Education Systems report writing, Remote, Office of Innovation, 40 days over a period of 4 months

Consultant Programme & Policy Innovation

Overview

Document integration of UPSHIFT into education systems across countries.

You have:

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in education, social science, innovation, leadership, or other relevant fields.
• A minimum of eight (8) years of professional work experience in a relevant field, such as innovation, education or skills building.
• Experience in UPSHIFT delivery, research or documentation is essential.
• Experience in working with multiple countries and with multiple stakeholders.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Contract

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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, innovate....

The Office of Innovation (OoI) works to catalyze UNICEF and partners’ expertise and resources to solve key challenges facing children and young people, with a view to sourcing, accelerating, and scaling the most effective solutions to accelerate progress towards achieving the SDGs. To achieve this the Office of Innovation uses an innovation portfolio management approach and leverages support from a range of stakeholders including from intergovernmental, multilateral, private sector, young people, and non-governmental fora (think tank, academia).

UPSHIFT

UPSHIFT is a UNICEF global solution within the Youth Innovation portfolio. It combines some of the leading approaches to youth and adolescent development, social innovation, and entrepreneurship, to empower young people to become social innovators and entrepreneurs. Anchored in Human Centered Design, UPSHIFT is built on cutting-edge experiential learning approaches to help young people develop the transferable skills and entrepreneurial mindsets they need to shape their future in a fast-changing environment and be successful in a dynamic labor market.

The onset of the global pandemic has proven to be a tipping point for UPSHIFT scale with UNICEF Country Offices and Governments taking a strong interest to it as a tool to address the learning crisis. One the one hand this resulted in some 22 countries launching UPSHIFT during COVID and, on the other, in a strong interest to scale UPSHIFT in national systems.

UPSHIFT initially launched in 2014 and, as of December 2021, had reached 2.2 million young people across 43 countries. It is on track to reach over 3 million young people by the end of 2022 and a total of 15 million by 2025. The increase in reach will be driven primarily by integration of UPSHIFT delivery into national education systems which is being pioneered by five countries using different approaches.

With a further 30 countries indicating being in discussion for such integration or interested in exploring it, OoI is seeking to develop a report documenting the current experiences of integration of UPSHIFT delivery into education systems.

How can you make a difference?

This role will be responsible for the conceptualization, research and drafting of a report documenting the integration of UPSHIFT delivery within formal and non-formal education systems. The successful candidate will act as the main focal point for internal and external stakeholders in the preparation of the report and will ensure timely and quality delivery of all components.

Main deliverables:

Under the supervision of the UPSHIFT Global lead, the consultant will be responsible for the drafting two reports on UPSHIFT integration into education systems based on the experiences on 3 to 4 countries:

• An external facing report documenting the successes in integrating UPSHIFT delivery into education systems based on the ongoing work at the country level. The primary target of this report is national governments, policy makers and the donor community at large. The report will be 15-20 pages and cover experiences from three to five countries to be agreed upon.
• A UNICEF internal report documenting lessons learned to date in integrating UPSHIFT delivery into education systems and making recommendations to accelerate further such scaling in other country offices. The primary audience will the UNICEF staff. The report will be 15-20 pages and cover the experiences of the same countries as the first report.
• A series of summary case studies for each of the country offices covered in the research. The summaries will be a maximum of three pages each.
• Two PowerPoint decks, one for each report, summarizing the key points.
• Presentations of the reports in a webinar or workshop.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in education, social science, innovation, leadership, or other relevant fields. *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• A minimum of eight (8) years of professional work experience in a relevant field, such as innovation, education or skills building.
• Experience in UPSHIFT delivery, research or documentation is essential.
• Experience in working with multiple countries and with multiple stakeholders
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Payment details and further considerations

• Monthly payment, based on monthly tasks and progress reports, approved upon monthly review with supervisor.
• Consultant is responsible for his/her own health and travel insurance
• Consultant is eligible for standard DSA for all work-related travel

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA). To view our competency framework, please visit 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 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:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

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.

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