Home Based Consultancy: Reports Consultant, UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office ( 10 months)

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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, Hope

Purpose of Activity/Assignment: The consultant will provide part-time support to the Emergency Team in UNICEF in Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECARO) with a focus on supporting the monthly reporting requirements specific to the Ukraine crisis by developing high-quality situation reports and other specific arising reports related to the emergency response in Ukraine and refugee hosting countries. This includes coordinating and quality-assuring both regular and special informational reporting on the regional response in Ukraine (L3) and refugee hosting countries (L2).

Scope of Work:

One year into the war in Ukraine, fighting continues and has resulted in increased humanitarian needs and population displacement within and outside of the country. The situation is rapidly evolving with growing threat to the lives and well-being of the country’s 7.5 million children. By the end of 2022, a total of 17.7 million people were estimated to be in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, including 3.4 million children requiring protection interventions (OCHA, December 2022). There are currently 5.9 million people internally displaced inside Ukraine, and 7.9 million refugees were recorded across Europe, with nearly 4.9 million registered for national protection schemes (UNHCR, January 2023).

UNICEF continues to work closely with national, regional and local authorities to scale up its multi-sectoral response to the increasing humanitarian needs, ensuring the protection and well-being of women and children is central to UNICEF's response efforts inside Ukraine and refugee response countries.

Work Assignments Overview Deliverables/Outputs Delivery deadline

Coordinate inputs, draft 10 SitReps Monthly

and format monthly

SitReps for the Refugee

Response, covering 19 countries.

Edit monthly Sitreps for the 10 SitReps Monthly

response

inside Ukraine, in coordination with

the Country Office.

Support editing the 2022 Ukraine 1 CERs 24 March 2023

Crisis CER for the refugee response

and, if necessary, the regional 2022

Refugee and Migrant CER.

Estimated Duration of the Contract

10 months

Consultant’s Work Place and Official Travel

The Consultant will be home-based

Estimated Cost of the Consultancy & Payment Schedule

Payment will be made on submission of an invoice and satisfactory completion of the above-mentioned deliverables. Please indicate an all-inclusive lumpsum to undertake this TOR based on 10 months.

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

Minimum requirements:

• Advanced university degree in a relevant area required.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience with either the UN and/or NGO in Emergency and/or Early Reconstruction settings.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written). Good written and spoken skills in the language of the humanitarian operation and knowledge of another UN language an asset.
• UN and/or NGO in Emergency settings
• Excellent written and spoken skills in English
• Confidence working with basic statistical information
• Strong formatting and editing skills
• Good inter-personal and communication skills
• Previous experience writing UNICEF HAC/SitReps for emergencies an advantage

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

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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:

Please include a full CV and Financial Proposal in your application by indicating your availability and all-inclusive lumpsum (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above. Applications submitted without an all-inclusive lumpsum will not be considered. 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.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants 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.