Consultant Communications & PR

Overview

Provide high-quality interpretation services for UNICEF meetings and events.

You have:

• Minimum five years of professional experience in English into Arabic interpretation and vice-versa.
• Demonstrated experience in professional interpretation assignments.
• Knowledge of UNICEF terminologies will be considered an advantage.
• Experience working with international development organizations is desirable.
• Demonstrate effective organizational skills and ability to handle work efficiently and on time.
• Previous experience with UNICEF would be an asset.
• Experience in working on children’s issues and families is an asset.

Contract

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Title: Long Term Arrangement for Interpretation Services.

Purpose: Selection of individual Interpreters

Reports to: Communication Specialist- UNICEF State of Palestine

Duration: 12 months

Location: Gaza

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, a Vision

UNICEF in the State of Palestine works to uphold the rights of children to access services and protection, from early childhood to adolescence. Our objective is to ensure that every child in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, irrespective of background or circumstance, has an equal chance to fulfil their potential.

Each year, UNICEF in the State of Palestine conducts meetings, field visits, workshops, training programmes, and special events.

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF State of Palestine’s Communication section is is seeking a service provider to provide quality, simultaneous/consecutive, and professional interpretation services from English to Arabic, and Arabic to English.

The main purpose of the assignment is to provide simultaneous/consecutive interpretation services during: Technical Working Group meetings; Conferences; Official missions; Workshops; Meetings with national counterparts. Online meetings/workshops, Other meetings as required. Provide whispering tools for workshops/meetings with 30PAX participants.

MAIN TASKS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED

High-Quality interpretation services:

• Under the guidance of the Communications Section and/ or Programme teams, the interpreter provides high-quality simultaneous/consecutive and professional interpretation services.
• Ensure that the interpretation is linguistically and grammatically correct from the source language to the target language and vice versa.
• Ensure time committing to the agreed assignments.
• Maintain confidentiality and refrain from divulging any information about the content of the conducted assignments.

DELIVERABLES:

Based on the agreed timeframe, the consultant will deliver a high-quality simultaneous/consecutive and professional interpretation services from English to Arabic and vice versa.

TERMS OF PAYMENT

Lump sum upon completion of each assignment and delivering satisfactory content as per the financial offer submitted.

STRUCTURE AND EVALUATION PROCESS OF THE PROPOSAL

Each proposal will be assessed first on its technical merits (including by reference to legal requirements) and subsequently on its price. In making the final decision, UNICEF considers both technical and financial aspects. The Evaluation Team first reviews the technical aspect of the offer followed by the review of the financial offer of the technically compliant vendors. The proposal obtaining the overall highest score after adding the scores for the technical and financial proposals is the proposal that offers best value for money and will be recommended for award of the LTA.

To be considered for evaluation, interpreters are requested to provide information on minimum of three assignments completed including number of participants, languages of interpretation and details of equipment provided.

Application Guidance (applications should contain the following):

1. Technical proposal:

• Technical proposal (cover letter, CV, portfolio/work samples, a list of clients, contact information of three references);
• Relevant references of the contractor in the past five years. UNICEF may contact reference persons for feedback on the services provided by the individual contractor/consultant

2. Financial Offer:

The offer should be an all-inclusive (lump-sum) fee for all deliverables and complete output of the assignment as described in the TOR.

Bidders are expected to submit their rate including rates for simultaneous/consecutive translation, translation equipment (whispering tools), and in country travel expenses if needed. Please make sure all expenses are factored in the daily rate as UNICEF expects to see one lump‐sum daily rate figure in the financial proposal.

Assessment Criteria (applications will be evaluated based on the following criteria):

Criteria

Weight

Points/amount

Qualifications

70%

Education qualification

10

Years of relevant experience

35

Interpretation experience with INGOs, UN agenesis

25

Financial Offer

30%

All-inclusive fee

30

TOTAL

100%

CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

Each contract will be managed and supervised by the Communications Sections.

RECOURSE:

UNICEF reserves the right to terminate the contract and/or withhold all or a portion of payment if the rules and the regulations regarding confidentiality, ethics and procedures of UNICEF and the partners are not followed, the performance is unsatisfactory, or work/deliverables are incomplete, not delivered or fail to meet the deadlines. The deliverables will remain the copyright of UNICEF.

The consultant must respect the confidentiality of the information handled during the assignment. Documents and information provided must be used only for the tasks related to these terms of reference

All persons engaged under a UNICEF service contract, either directly through an individual contract, or indirectly through an institutional contract, shall be subject to the UN Supplier Code of Conduct: https://www.ungm.org/Public/CodeOfConduct.

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

This LTA requires professionals in their respective fields whose experience and quality of work demonstrably meet the highest international standards. They must have an excellent track record along with experience working in the social development sector as well as the following:

• Minimum five years of professional experience in English into Arabic interpretation and vice-versa;
• Demonstrated experience in professional interpretation assignments;
• Knowledge of UNICEF terminologies will be considered an advantage;
• Experience working with international development organizations is desirable;
• Demonstrate effective organizational skills and ability to handle work efficiently and on time;
• Previous experience with UNICEF would be an asset;
• Experience in working on children’s issues and families is an asset;

NOTE:

• Individual consultants are encouraged to specify their specialized field of interpretation that is relevant to UNICEF work (Health and Nutrition, Education, WASH, MHPSS, Child Protection etc.)

The selected consultants are expected to uphold the UNICEF Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Core competencies of Communication, Working with people, Drive for results.

OFFICIAL TRAVEL INVOLVED

Not applicable.

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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