Consultant (Operations), Education Outcomes Fund (EOF), Hosted Fund, 12 Months, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Req: 568243
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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, EDUCATION
There are few greater challenges faced by the global community than the twin crises of learning poverty and youth unemployment. In response, the Education Commission (chaired by Gordon Brown, former UK Prime Minister and UN Special Envoy for Global Education) and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen) came together to create EOF. We aim to improve the education and employment outcomes of 10 million children and youth by supporting governments to utilize a range of innovative finance instruments at scale, including outcomes funds and other results-based financing (RBF) instruments.
EOF supports improvements in the quality of education and skills programs, with a special focus on underserved populations, including the hardest to reach, rural populations, girls, children with disabilities, and refugees. It measures (and pays for) what matters – both core skills like literacy and numeracy, but also critical 21st Century skills such as socio-emotional skills, ICT skills, and other broader fundamentals of a quality education. It helps close the persistent gap between the skills needed by employers and those attained by today’s youth by paying for employment and retention outcomes.
For all the above, EOF pays primarily on the basis of the results achieved, ensuring that taxpayer-funded domestic resources, aid, and philanthropic funds are only used to pay for what works. This is a game-changing way to finance results in education. It is more than just a fund – it is a powerful new set of partnerships and way of working.
Together with our supporters, we believe this is the early stages of a much larger movement. Our approach is at the cutting edge of development finance, shifting risk to the private sector, crowding in private capital, and harnessing the capacity and capability of non-state actors, with huge potential to achieve better outcomes for children and youth around the world.
How can you make a difference?
PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
The Sierra Leone Education Innovation Challenge (SLEIC) programme is a partnership between the Government of Sierra Leone, outcome funders, education delivery partners and social investors. Five different delivery partners have been selected to support 325 schools across five implementation lots to improve learning outcomes for 136,000 children in partnership with school leadership and teachers in accordance with the Basic Education curriculum.
The program will run for nine school terms, starting September 2022 and ending in August 2025. The aim is to generate evidence to inform which interventions are the most effective in Sierra Leone context, which can then be scaled up by Government and donors. Using a result-based financing approach, service providers are expected to build sustainable capacity in schools, targeting interventions that improve learning beyond the life of the programme.
In addition to the SLEIC programme, the Education Outcomes Fund is working with the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) to set up an outcomes fund that will support the rapid expansion of early childhood education (ECE) provision through community early childhood development (ECD) centres while ensuring that the ECE services provided are high quality and support holistic child development.
As Consultant (Operations) you will support and advise EOF's Sierra Leone team on their programmatic and operational responsibilities. You will report directly to a member of the operations team and collaborate with all members of EOF’s Sierra Leone team and EOF’s central team.
DELIVERABLES
SLEIC Programme
Deliverable
Description
Estimated number of working days
Deadline/ timeline
Deliverable 1: Spot check expense verification for 5 grantees at least once during 2024 and write a report to be shared with Grantees, summarizing the spot check and areas for improvement.
Spot check expense verification conducted at least once per grantee during 2024, reviewing a sample of expenses incurred in this financial year and reviewing supporting documentation.
25
(5 days per grantee)
By the end of 2024
Report to be delivered to EOF within 3 weeks of each spot check.
Deliverable 2: Annual procurement plan and travel plan for EOF’s Sierra Leone country office (estimated 5 slide PowerPoint deck)
Provide technical advice and support to the program manager.
Input into the annual procurement and travel plan for the Sierra Leone country office, advising the program manager on which schools to visit and when, and supporting with developing timelines for different procurement required.
5
By the end of Q1 2024
Deliverable 3: Provide technical advice and support to the program manager in regard to risk management for EOF’s Sierra Leone country office (estimated 1 monthly monitoring meeting of 60 minutes)
Input into the risk management procedure for the Sierra Leone country office, advising the program manager on best practice and support in assessing risks and planning for mitigations and contingencies.
12
Monthly
Deliverable 4: Provide technical advice and support to the program manager in regard to asset management for EOF’s Sierra Leone country office (estimated 1 monthly review of 60 minutes)
Input into the asset management procedure for the Sierra Leone country office, advising the Program Lead on best practice and support in monitoring assets.
12
Monthly
Deliverable 5: Support with the preparation of pre-reading for 5 governance meetings prepared and shared with meeting attendees in advance (estimated 20 slide PowerPoint per meeting)
Prepare, in consultation with the Senior Program Lead, pre-reading for 5 governance meetings (3 Grantee Working Groups and 2 Programme Committees), and support with facilitation of the meetings (each c. 90 minutes).
Pre-reading to be available two weeks in advance of each governance meeting.
20
(4 days per meeting)
By the end of 2024
Deliverable 6: Support with monthly meetings with each of the 5 grantees to discuss any challenges to their implementation (5 meetings per month, each of approximately 60 minutes)
Prepare for, in consultation with the Senior Program Lead, and attend meetings with each of the 5 grantees. Provide a written summary of each meeting within 1 week of the meeting taking place to the Senior Program Lead and use these conversations to inform the pre-reading preparation for governance meetings (deliverable 1).
60
(5 days per month)
By the end of 2024
Total estimated working days - 134
ECE Programme
Deliverable
Description
Estimated number of working days
Deadline/ timeline
Deliverable 7: Pre-reading for 5 governance meetings prepared and shared with meeting attendees in advance (estimated 20 slide PowerPoint per meeting)
Prepare, in consultation with the Senior Program Lead, pre-reading for 5 governance meetings, and support with facilitation of the meetings (each c. 90 minutes).
Pre-reading to be available two weeks in advance of each governance meeting.
20
(4 days per meeting)
By the end of 2024
Total estimated working days - 20
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- A first University Degree in business, economics, political science, finance, education or a related field is required.
- A minimum of two years of relevant professional experience in within the following fields (or related): program delivery, operations, accounting, financial services, administration.
- Experience or an interest in international development, the global education sector, and international aid is desirable.
- Fluency in English and Krio is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
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.
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