Consultant (International) to facilitate the UNICEF Maldives Staff Retreat

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Consultancy to facilitate the UNICEF Maldives Staff Retreat - 2023

Background

The Maldives Country office has identified the following areas of further development as per the action plan drawn up for the office following the General Staff Survey 2022 along with internal assessments: Work-Life Harmony, Career and professional development, and Office efficiency. The retreat should be designed to allow for team building in a way to ensures space and opportunities for participation, team building, and transparent communication in a collegial environment. Moreover, there are new staff on board and the management along with the staff association reached an agreement that the retreat will be an opportunity to get to know the members better and to rebuild the team. Considering the above and in order to respond to staff needs UNICEF Maldives is looking for an international consultant to facilitate a staff retreat.

Objectives:

To facilitate a three-day Staff Retreat from 14th to 16th November 2023, including components of staff development of a way forward for improving team efficiency while promoting an inclusive and collaborative culture where all staff feels empowered to contribute to results for children.

Scope of Work and Methodology:

The facilitator will carry out the following tasks:

• Conduct consultations with the management, staff association, and staff after reviewing the global staff survey Action Plan drawn up for the office.
• Prepare engaging and interactive sessions for the staff retreat, with attention to gender and age diversity to ensure an inclusive environment, geared towards team building, development of skills for improving efficiency, promoting positive interaction and bonding among the team members, and improving personal empowerment within an inclusive and collaborative workplace.
• Prepare the agenda for the three-day staff retreat in consultation with the management, staff association, and any input from staff.
• Share with the Staff Association and Management for review and feedback
• Finalize the documents and submit them to the office, with a plan and methodology for delivering the sessions.
• Deliver the sessions as agreed into the 3-day staff retreat, which promotes positive interaction and bonding among the team members.
• Submit the final report from the retreat including observations and recommendations that will in turn contribute to the GSS Action Plan.

Deliverables

Days

• Consultations and review of documents, prepare facilitation Methodology and plan geared towards achieving the objectives of the retreat.

• Workshop facilitation/delivery of sessions

• Final report of the consultancy (editable soft and hard copies to be submitted to UNICEF)

3 days

3 days

1 day

Supervisor/reporting line: Chair of Staff Association in consultation with Representative and Senior management

Section/Programme: Operations & Staff Association Contract type: Individual Consultancy

Duty station: Male’ / Maldives

Duration of the contract: The total consultancy is estimated to be around 7 days including the travel to the staff retreat location.

Travel: 5 days in Maldives Including 1 day for preparation before the retreat and 1 day post-retreat for debriefing.

Qualifications or specialized knowledge and/or experience required:

Academic qualifications:

• Advance university degree

Knowledge, skills and experience:

• Minimum 5 years of work experience in facilitation and team building with good experience in creating fun and creative activities for engaging with staff coming from diverse backgrounds.

• Experience in working with the UN or UNICEF teams in similar assignments is an asset

• Experience in organizing trainings and workshops for different level stakeholders.

• Past record of successful team building retreats leading to improved work environments.

• Demonstrated experience in gender-sensitive approaches to facilitation

Personal competencies:

• Ability to work in intensive work environments. Ability to keep to planned timelines.

• An action-oriented approach and strong drive for results.

• Excellent facilitation skills

• Highly skilled at working with teams of diverse backgrounds and capacities

Requested documents to be uploaded with the application:

1. CV

2. Financial proposal

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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.

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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.