Digital Public Goods Stakeholder Manager Consultant, Office of Innovation, Stockholm, Sweden, 12 months (Remote)

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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...

UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships, and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.

The Office of Innovation is a creative, interactive, and agile team in UNICEF. We sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the startup thinking, the technology, and the partners that turn this energy into scalable solutions.

UNICEF's Office of Innovation creates opportunities for the world's children by focusing on where new markets can meet their vital needs. We do this by:

• Connecting youth communities (or more broadly -- anyone disconnected or under-served) to decision-makers, and to each other, to deliver informed, relevant, and sustained programmes that build better, stronger futures for children.
• Provoking change for children through an entrepreneurial approach -- in a traditionally risk-averse field -- to harness rapidly moving innovations and apply them to serve the needs of all children.
• Creating new models of partnership that leverage core business values across the public, private and academic sectors in order to deliver fast, and lasting results for children.

The Office of Innovation specifically looks to form partnerships around frontier technologies (like drones and UAVs, blockchain, 21st century skills, urban technologies, new banking tools, wearables and sensors, or 3D-Printing) that exist at the intersection of $100 billion business markets and 1 billion person needs – and to identify how they can grow and scale profitably and inclusively.

Our team

We're an interdisciplinary team around the world tasked with identifying, prototyping, and scaling new technologies and practices. With our partners, we focus on convening and collaborating on new and different solutions, low- and high-tech, by:

• Looking at the 2 – year horizon to evaluate emerging and trending technologies and to see how UNICEF can work with the private sector on doing better business while improving essential services for children.
• Investing in early-stage solutions that show great potential to positively impact children in the 02 year future including the Venture Fund that invests in open source technology solutions from start-ups based in UNICEF’s programme countries;
• Identifying proven solutions that can be implemented at national scale in multiple countries – taking the ideas that help thousands in one country, bringing them to dozens of countries across multiple sectors, and impacting the lives of millions of children.”

How can you make a difference?

You will play a strategically critical role within the DPGA Secretariat. As a multi-stakeholder Alliance the DPGA is only as strong as our relationships with our members and broader stakeholder communities. In this role you will manage and onboard new member organizations, track pledges and activities, design, and coordinate member-events, and have overall responsibility for the experience of DPGA members & stakeholders. The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator and relationship-builder, with a keen attention to detail, who is skilled at noticing and creating connections across organizations. You should be comfortable liaising with stakeholders at all levels of seniority and be able to create and manage efficient systems and processes for tracking and managing community engagements.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Building relationships with current and potential DPG community stakeholders
• Onboarding new members & stakeholders
• Oversee and manage DPGA membership process by responding to membership inquiries, creating, and maintaining membership documentation and soliciting membership updates
• Maintaining excellent documentation and create new efficient systems and processes for tracking and managing community engagements (CRM)
• Oversee, evolve, and manage the DPGA 5-year strategy results framework and the annual roadmap that corresponds to it.
• Oversee and manage processes for capturing and maintaining up to date documentation on DPGA member and stakeholders’ activities in the annual roadmap.
• Building and running meetings for members, product owners and other stakeholders
• Coordinating and supporting events

Please access the full ToR and related information here DPG_Stakeholder_Manager_TOR_Final_08.18.docx

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

• An advanced university degree (master’s or higher) in international relations/development, computer science, business, non-profit management, or another relevant field. *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 5 years of relevant professional experience managing projects and coordinating communities/members/stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Demonstrated experiences maintaining community/partnership/donor processes that organize and coordinate organizations and individuals.
• Demonstrated experience working with stakeholders at a variety of levels within organization including directors, program managers and volunteers, preferably across several of the stakeholder types that are most relevant for the DPGA (governments, bilateral and philanthropic donors, NGOs, research communities, private sector companies)
• Knowledge and understanding of open source and/or digital for development
• Experience working in or with low- and middle-income country settings is an asset
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic,

Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

Travel

Consultant will need to travel internationally six times during this contract:

• Two DPG Secretariat Team meetings (2024). Each trip will require 2 days of physical attendance per in addition to travel time.
• One Annual Meeting (2024) – requires 4 days of physical attendance.
• Three Stakeholder meetings (2024) requires 2 days of physical attendance.

The consultant is responsible to arrange his/her own travel, including visa and travel insurance.

Payment details and further considerations

• Payment of professional fees will be based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant
• Interested applicants are requested to submit a financial proposal with all-inclusive fee

How to apply:

• Interested applicants are required to submit a financial proposal with an all-inclusive fee.
• Financial proposal must include travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if travel is required as per TOR and any other estimated costs: visa, travel/health insurance
• Applications without a financial proposal will not be considered.

Please find attached the financial proposal template Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx

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.