Content Specialist Consultant for Passport to Earning Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda, 11 months (Rwandan Nationals Only)

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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, development

To learn more about UNICEF work in Rwanda, please visit the country website https://unicef.sharepoint.com/sites/RWA/ or watch this video about UNICEF work in Rwanda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7B91m5Yzoc

How can you make a difference?

Background

Passport to Earning (P2E) is a digital platform that was created to provide young people aged 15-24 with free, world-class & job-relevant skills’ training and position them for employment opportunities. The platform was launched at the Rewired Summit in December 2021 as a YuWaah (GenU India) initiative where it was piloted in partnership with the Central Board of Secondary Education.

The Ministry of Youth and Culture of Rwanda, UNICEF, and Rwanda Development Board are launching P2E Rwanda to bridge the skills and opportunities gap for youth by providing them with access to interactive and applicable learning material, career guidance support as well as connecting them to professional opportunities.

Scope of Work:

Under the direct supervision of the Education Specialist at UNICEF and RDB, the Content Specialist will conduct the following activities: -

• Conduct need assessment to support content development for the P2E portal, including consultations with young people on their skill development needs, and with public and private entities on job market needs, Identify key topics for P2E content on a need basis
• Explore and identify the best content providers and existing content in the public, private and non-profit sectors, and achieve agreement in partnership of publicizing the content.
• Liaise with content providers to curate quality content, including possible needs for digitalization of the content.
• Provide technical guidance on content development standards and quality control. Follow up with all partners to ensure content development deadlines are met.
• Upload content to the P2E Rwanda platform in adherence to platform content standards.
• Develop a monitoring framework and tools to assess the access and effectiveness of the training by contents. Collect feedback and prepare monthly reports with analytical summaries.
• Identify and document good practices and lessons learned from the P2E project. Develop Human Interest Story to demonstrate the good results of the project.
• Develop a P2E consultant sustainable strategy

Work assignment overview

Tasks/milestones

1. Research and design of inclusive content mapping and development strategy
2. Coordinate content mapping and development activities for ten (10) courses
3. Coordinate content authentication, publishing, and promotional activities for the identified courses
4. Scope complementary tools and strategies for the learning platform

Deliverables:

• Draft work plan
• Design progress report template
• Conduct research for collection, analysis and sharing of data and information on implementation of related digital learning initiatives; synthesize and share lessons learned for knowledge development and capacity development of stakeholders
• Draft content mapping strategy (Human-centered design, inclusive of teen mothers and young PwDs)
• Draft Content curation SOPs (Including criteria, ToR, and approach for content provider selection)
• Design content authentication framework
• Support ongoing content development activities.
• Conduct surveys to identify 10 key courses for young people
• Explore and identify available content and best content providers
• Oversee content conversion into interactive video format
• Follow up with all partners to ensure content development deadlines are met
• Design content promotion strategy
• Conduct authentication activities for developed content
• Publish authenticated content to the platform
• Lead the implementation of the content promotion strategy
• Monitor project targets and report progress to stakeholders
• Conduct research on monitoring tools and exercises for internal and external stakeholders and partners of the P2E platform and share results
• Conduct brand health analysis to collect feedback on project impact from beneficiaries and stakeholders

Selection Criteria

Applications shall be assessed based on their technical and financial proposals. Maximum scores for technical and financial applications will be 75% and 25%, respectively.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in education technology, marketing, communication, or relevant social sciences fields.
• At least five years’ experience in development, adaptation, and deployment of digital learning content as well as monitoring and evaluation of projects with multi-partner engagement.
• Proven training and capacity building skills for a range of stakeholders
• Experience working with government partners is an asset.
• Professional experience in the field of research and innovation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent written and oral communication skills; effective organizational skills; high drive for results; high commitment; teamwork, and strong interpersonal and intercultural skills.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written) is required. Professional proficiency in French and Kinyarwanda

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.