Individual Contractor - Strengthening UNICEF’s Gender capacities to respond to emergencies and migration contexts in LAC (Part-time)

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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, a champion

Humanitarian and migration crises impact women, men, girls, boys, adolescents and LGBTIQ + people differently. Recognizing this is key to ensuring a more effective and relevant human-centered and gender-responsive humanitarian and migration response. Gender norms and pre-existing inequalities disproportionately affect women, adolescent girls and girls in emergencies, including health emergencies. Gender, along with other factors such as age, sexual orientation and gender identity, ethnicity, disability, education, employment, and geographic location, can intersect to further exacerbate individual experiences. On the other hand, humanitarian and migration crises also present opportunities for the transformation of gender roles, due to the breakdown of some social dynamics, such as the participation of women and girls in the decision-making space.

Refugee and migrant situations and other humanitarian settings also exacerbate incidents of sexual violence and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV) that children, adolescents and women are exposed to in times of stability within their countries, such as domestic violence.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, given the multiple crises it faces and the increasingly serious social, economic and gender inequalities in the region, it is a priority to strengthen the commitment of the UNICEF staff and partners in order to guarantee gender equality and rights as well as ensuring that coordination and response efforts integrate the gender perspective and promote the participation and leadership of women, girls and LGBTIQ + people. Although the region has progress and experiences in this regard, it is necessary to join forces to increase the capacities to face crises with a gender perspective.

UNICEF is in the four year of implementing the new Strategic Plan (2018-2021) in which gender equality and humanitarian action are two cross-cutting mandates, and the second implementation cycle of the Gender Action Plan (GAP) 2018-2021. In 2020, UNICEF renewed its Core Commitments for Children that includes three measurable areas around gender equality (referred to as the Gender Equality CCC): An end to Gender Based Violence (GBV); Engagement with and for women and girls; Gender-responsive programming, including a lens on adolescent girls. LACRO aims to support LAC CO and partners to fulfil the Gender Equality CCC and meet IASC Standards on Gender in Humanitarian Response.

Since 2019, UNICEF LAC has been working on strength gender responsive comprehensive mechanisms and protocols of with special attention to refugee and migrant girls and adolescent girls and different guides and training materials has been created. In the next months, a report on the main challenges will be shared, including forms of violence, faced by girls and adolescents in situations of human mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean and there will be a focus on enhance the capacities of UNICEF staff, partners and service providers on working with adolescent girls GBV survivors on the move.

The UNICEF Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office is based in in Panama, operating in 36 territories, including 24 country offices.

UNICEF works to put the rights and well-being of the most disadvantaged children at the heart of the social, political, and economic agenda, in line with our equity focus, working across our organization and with our partners in government, civil society and the private sector to support shifts in public policy, fuel social engagement, and increase investment for children.

For more information about UNICEF and its work. (www.unicef.org/lac).

How can you make a difference?

Under the overall guidance of the UNICEF Gender & Migration Specialist in the UNICEF Gender Section in Latin America and the Caribbean, the individual contractor will strengthen UNICEF staff and partners technical capacities on Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) and GBV in migration contexts, through the delivery of technical tools and content based on the UNICEF training resources and the IASC guidelines.

Specific Tasks:

Under the direct supervision of the UNICEF Gender & Migration Specialist the individual contractor will engage in the following key activities:

1. Consolidate and adapt existing training materials directed to UNICEF staff and partners to produce a comprehensive, sector-wide gender in humanitarian action response.

2. Develop, implement and monitor 8-month capacity building workplan to respond to emergencies and migration contexts in LAC, including a M&E framework on GiHA capacity development.

3. Develop and disseminate knowledge management products related to migration, health, and climate change.

Expected Results (measurable) at the end of the contract the contractor will have achieved the following results:

  • 8-month workplan
  • 5 UNICEF and partners trainings
  • 4 Knowledge management products (webinars, technical notes, …)
  • Consolidation and adaptation of Training tools

Description

Duration [in days]

Part-time

Monthly progress report 1

10

Monthly progress report 2

10

Monthly progress report 3

10

Monthly progress report 4

10

Monthly progress report 5

10

Monthly progress report 6

10

Monthly progress report 7

10

Monthly progress report 8

10

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

  • Education: An university degree in social sciences (i.e. sociology, gender and development, social work, anthropology, etc.) or international development or directly related technical fields, in combination with an academic background/ research experience in Gender, including GBV, in emergencies and migratory context is required.
  • Work Experience: Significant experience (15+ years) in Gender, including GBV, in emergencies and migration contexts. Familiar with the development and/or implementation of guidelines for GBV prevention and response. Experience in conducting Gender and GBV trainings in emergencies.
  • Languages: Fluency in Spanish and English is required. Knowledge of French or Portuguese will be considered an asset.
  • Technical Knowledge: Technical knowledge on Gender on humanitarian and migration contexts and specifically on: GBVIE, Migration, Health and GBV, Resilience, Climate Justice, Inequality-Capacity building techniques of adult and participatory learning.
  • ****Other skills and attributes (optional):**** Programmatic experience of field level implementation an asset; Experience within the UN System or a national Disaster Response Plan an asset; Excellent organization and coordination skills; Highly self-motivated individual with strong initiative; organizational time management and multi-tasking abilities; Strong diplomatic and relationship management skills, and ability bring disparate interests together; Excellent communication skills.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

UNICEF...Core values of care, respect, integrity, trust, and accountability. UNICEF competencies: building and maintains partnerships, demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness, drive to achieve results for impact, innovates and embraces change, manages ambiguity and complexity, thinks and acts strategically, works collaboratively with others and nurtures, and, leads and manages people.

Supervision: The individual contractor will work under the direct supervision of the UNICEF Gender & Migration Specialist.

Workplace: Home based (travel not involved),using their own personal premises, materials, resources and equipment. The individual contractor will be required to have access to Skype/Zoom to facilitate the communication required during this assignment.

How to Apply: Application should be submitted online and should include: Resume, Cover Letter and Financial proposal. Qualified candidates are requested to submit daily and monthly fees in their financial proposal.

Payment of professional fees will be based on 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.

Duration of contract: Estimated start date of this consultancy is the first/second week of May for a period of 8 months.

Vacancy Announcement Remarks

Please note only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

UNICEF reserves the right to make additional assessment of the pre-selected candidates, if needed 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.

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.

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.

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