Individual Consultancy for the development of the Palestine Education Cannot Wait/Multi-Year Resilience Programme advocacy and resource mobilization strategy

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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 fulfil 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, learning.

UNICEF in the State of Palestine works to uphold the rights of children to access services and protection, from early childhood through 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. We are working for every child and young person in the State of Palestine.

In Palestine, the ECW/MYRP focuses on systems strengthening for emergencies and improving quality student learning, as well as crucial access to education and protection through three programme outcomes of Safe Access to School, Quality Education, and Capacity Development. The Programme Management Unit (PMU), housed in the UNICEF Palestine Office, provides management and coordination support to the ECW/MYRP partners.

How can you make a difference?

Provide technical assistance to Palestine ECW/MYRP partners to advocate and mobilise more resources for the education needs of the most vulnerable and marginalized children in the country, through developing the Palestine ECW/MYRP advocacy and resource mobilization strategy and its corresponding implementation plan, the Palestine ‘financial investment / business case’ and the related fundraising and advocacy tools and products.

Major Tasks to be accomplished

1- Prepare and present a detailed inception plan on how to take the assignment and the production of the proposed deliverables forward, including a work schedule.

2- Conduct of a desk review, interviews/meetings with the key stakeholders and overall analysis of the available ECW/MYRP Palestine programme documents and reports. This work should include cost-benefit analysis and cost-of-inaction analysis to develop a solid case to donors for investment in the Palestine ECW/MYRP.

3- Based on the above desk review and analysis:

1. Develop an overall vision and advocacy and resource mobilization strategy for ECW/MYPR in Palestine, including a corresponding concrete and realistic fundraising implementation plan.
2. Develop a financial investment case or business case to advocate and sell the Palestine ECW/MYRP for resource mobilization and to be able to tell a convincing story to the interested donors.

4- Develop short and concrete resource mobilization and advocacy templates and tools (a marketing package) to the ECW/MYRP partners. All developed products should respect the global ECW branding guidelines and the Palestine ECW/MYRP communication guidelines, and other global ECW policies and guidelines.

All activities will be carried out in a participatory and consultative manner.

Deliverables and deadline(s) for submission:

Each deliverable will be reviewed and cleared by the ECW/MYRP Programme Management Unit and the partners, and hence time and flexibility need to be allocated for the review/revision processes for each deliverable. The below tentative deadlines have considered this, which should also be reflected in the inception plan (deliverable 1).

Activities

Deliverable

Estimated Number of days

Tentative Deadline

Phase 1

Develop an inception plan with detailed process, schedule and workplan for the development of the advocacy and resource mobilization deliverables, including indicative structures of key documents.

1. Inception plan

2

3 December 2020

Conduct desk review, meetings, interviews and analysis of programme documents to gather background information for preparation of the advocacy and resource mobilization strategy and the business case.

2. Desk review and analysis document

4

23 December 2020

Develop an advocacy and resource mobilisation strategy which includes an implementation/action plan suggesting how the strategy should be put into practice and proposing specific fundraising actions and activities.

3. Advocacy & resource mobilisation strategy

9

10 January 2021

Phase 2

Produce an annotated outline of the business/financial investment case, outlining key components, e.g. purpose of the case, its alignment to the analyzed information, targeted donors and champions.

4. Annotated outline of the financial investment case

1

20 January 2021

Complete the draft business/financial investment case document of not more than 20 pages, as per the outline and agreed details.

5. Draft financial investment case

6

31 January 2021

Solicit and integrate feedback in the draft business case from PMU, partners, ECW Secretariat, donors and other stakeholders.

Provide 1-2 pages outlining key points of the feedback received.

6. Improved financial investment case

3

10 February 2021

Prepare agreed resource mobilization and advocacy tools and templates (a marketing package) ahead of the final business case with external facing messaging, e.g. key donor proposal, short and attractive advocacy document, factsheet, brochure/e-pamphlet, human interest story/photo essay, guidance for external messaging / for Tweeting.

7. ‘Marketing package’ with resource mobilization and advocacy templates and tools

3

14 February 2021

Finalize the business/financial investment case for approval, based on the agreed deliverables 5-7.

Update the advocacy & resource mobilization strategy (deliverable 3) accordingly, as needed.

8. Final financial investment case

2

24 February 2021

Total days

30

Frequency of Reports: The consultant will have weekly online meetings with the supervisor/PMU for reporting progress. No separate written progress reports will be required as the assignment is focused on and paid against the specific deliverables

Recourse: UNICEF/PMU reserves the right to terminate the contract and/or withhold all or a portion of payment if performance is unsatisfactory, if work/outputs is incomplete, not delivered or for failure to meet deadlines, if the rules and the regulations regarding confidentiality, ethics and procedures of UNICEF/PMU and the partners are not followed.

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. The deliverables will remain the copyright of UNICEF/PMU.

Estimated duration of contract and Tentative Dates

30 working days within a 3-month period preferably from 30 November 2020 to 28 February 2021.

Cost and Terms of Payment

The consultancy will be for 30 working days within the period of late November 2020 - February 2021. The consultant will organize his/her time accordingly.

Candidates should submit a financial proposal for the assignment, outlining all-inclusive fees (including professional fees and other professional expenses, insurance etc.)

The agreed fee for 30 days will be paid to the consultant in 2 equal installments on receipt of the agreed deliverables above:

• Payment 1 for phase 1: Advocacy and resource mobilization strategy including implementation plan (deliverables 1-3).
• Payment 2 for phase 2: the drafts and final version of the Palestine financial investment case and the related advocacy and resource mobilization tools and templates (deliverables 4-8).

Duty Station:

The consultancy will be home-based and completed remotely. However, the consultant will be expected to participate in regular virtual calls/meetings with the ECW/MYRP Programme Management Unit in East Jerusalem and will be expected to provide and use his/her own ICT equipment. The consultant will also use his/her own ICT equipment to arrange or participate in other relevant online ECW/MYRP meetings, calls and interviews with the ECW/MYRP partners, donors, ECW Secretariat and key stakeholders to gather information and inputs

To qualify as an Advocate for every child you will have:

• Advanced university degree or equivalent in political/social sciences, economics, public policy, statistics, international development, or related fields.
• Specific training, knowledge or expertise in Education in Emergencies, resource mobilization and advocacy/communications beneficial.
• At least 7 years’ professional experience in one or some of the following: resource mobilization, advocacy, communications, economics, public policy, socio-economic development, market analysis and international development. Education in Emergencies professional experience is desirable.
• Experience in analysis of humanitarian and development programmes, reviewing and summarizing quantitative and qualitative information and report writing.
• Experience in resource mobilization and development of business cases and cases for investment in humanitarian and development settings.
• Experience in overseeing the development of infographics and visual representations to effectively explain strategy, processes and approaches.
• Experience in and understanding of how the humanitarian clusters function, especially for sectors related to education and protection in emergencies.
• Experience in and understanding of multi-year approach to programming in emergencies.
• Knowledge from engagement in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, G7 Declaration for Girls and Women Education, (United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI), Global Partnership for Education (GPE), Global Campaign for Education (GCE), Education Cannot Wait (ECW) or other major efforts to advocate and promote access to quality education for children and youth.
• Experience working with graphic designers.
• Familiarity with the context of Palestine.
• Highly proficient written and oral skills in English with the demonstrated ability to draft reports, strategies, business cases and advocacy materials in a clear and compelling manner; experience in copy-editing.
• Knowledge of Arabic is of advantage.

The terms of reference is attached for more information.

ToR MYRP RM consultant .docx.pdf

For every Child, you demonstrate:

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability.

Core competencies:

Communication, Working with people and Drive for result.

Other competencies:

• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and research skills.
• Ability to work independently, against tight deadlines.
• Able to share samples of previous work.

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization

Remarks:

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.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

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