Consultancy - UPSHIFT Train the Trainer Delivery, Office of Innovation, Home-based, 58 days, 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, 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. This has resulted in some 25 countries launching UPSHIFT since the onset of the pandemic and a continued strong interest globally. UPSHIFT is operational in 46 countries is on track to reach 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 into both formal and non-formal education systems and will require a substantial scale on in country UPSHIFT facilitator and mentor training. To meet this challenge the Office of Innovation is seeking a consultant to help develop global UPSHIFT training assets and knowledge management products as well as to deliver UPSHIFT train the trainer workshop trainings in two separate countries.

How can you make a difference?

This role will be responsible for the conceptualization, research and development of a series of training assets and knowledge management for UPSHIFT delivery supporting UNICEF continued efforts to scale UPSHIFT and accelerate the delivery of results for adolescents and young people. The role will also entail delivery of train the trainers workshops in two country offices as well as provision of individualized post training support. The successful candidate will act as the main focal point for internal and external stakeholders in the preparation of the assets 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 following deliverables

• Train the Trainer package, including:
  • Train the Trainer Curriculum composed of agenda, associated deck and note detailing target audience, learning objectives and key logistical recommendations for the ToT delivery.
  • UPSHIFT 101 video course. The course will be approximatively two hours long a broken down into modules not exceeding 20 minutes. The final course will be delivered in the format of a self-recorded PPT presentation unless another format is agreed upon between the consultant and UNICEF. The course will be designed to be provided to prospective participants of the ToT with the introductory module providing a high-level overview of UPSHIFT.
  • UPSHIFT mentoring and facilitation course. The course will be approximatively two hours long a broken down into modules not exceeding 20 minutes. The final course will be delivered in the format of a self-recorded PPT presentation unless another format is agreed upon between the consultant and UNICEF. The course will be developed for prospective UPSHIFT practitioners or current ones seeking to extend their skillset.
• UPSHIFT Curriculum guide: A document designed for UNICEF Country Office and UPSHIFT partners outlining the existing UPSHIFT curriculum options available (Bootcamp, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship), their intended use cases, their core strength and differences as well as how to combine them. This document is intended to complement a UPSHIFT deployment tool kit and should be between 3 and five pages including a summary table.

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 8 years of professional work experience in a relevant field, such as innovation, education, or skills building.
• Experience in training and train the trainers approaches is essential.
• Experience in UPSHIFT delivery, research or documentation is essential.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Duty Station

Stockholm, Sweden or Remote (Home-based). Candidate is expected to be available during working hours in the Europe time zones.

Duration 58 days.

Proposed Payment Schedule

Payments will be made monthly. The proposed rate should inclusive of all professional fees, daily allowances, living allowances, and other administrative costs and should assume a full-time commitment. A consultant is eligible for standard DSA for all work-related travel.

Insurance: Consultants and individual contractors are fully responsible for arranging, at their own expense, all insurance, such as life, health and other forms of insurance, covering the period of their services as they consider appropriate. They are required to certify that they are covered by medical/health insurance.

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:

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.