Individual International Consultancy: Partnership Strategy and Donor Communications Specialist (Non-Nepalese Nationals)

Consultant Teaching & Training Programme & Policy

Overview

Support UNICEF's education section in partnership strategy development.

You have:

• Master's degree in International Development or a related field.
• A minimum of ten years of proven expertise in reporting, fundraising, donor relations, and best practice documentation.
• Thorough understanding of Nepal's context, UNICEF Nepal's program, and the education landscape in Nepal.
• Proficiency in UN and UNICEF partnership methods and reporting requirements.
• In-depth knowledge of global and regional trends in Official Development Assistance (ODA).
• Extensive experience in UNICEF, especially related to Education and its connections to gender, climate change, disaster risk reduction, and other vital cross-cutting components of UNICEF’s programming.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an open and collaborative approach to engaging with various stakeholders.
• Extensive familiarity with and network in UNICEF National Committees.
• Experience working with UNICEF's fundraising, branding, and regulatory framework for bilateral partnerships.
• A comprehensive understanding of and network within both UNICEF's Public Partnership Division and Private Fundraising and Partnership's Division.
• Knowledge of how to enhance reporting and donor relations through end-to-end planning of the monitoring process.

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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, education A highly decentralized institutional structure has emerged over the years following the ratification of the 2015 Nepal Constitution, which provisioned the establishment of federal, provincial, and local tiers of government. This decentralization presents opportunities in the long-term to enable all levels of government in responding to specific challenges and contexts of their areas of respective governance. The decentralized approach necessitates a long-term strategic education sector plan to convene the disparate actors across Nepal’s education sector under a collectively shared vision and roadmap. For this, the Nepal Government, supported by UNICEF, European Union EU), the Government of Finland (Finland) and other partners, developed the 10-year School Education Sector Plan (SESP), informed by a comprehensive education sector analysis. To implement the SESP in the federal context, a framework is required under which the federal-, provincial- and local governments can adequately execute their exclusive- and concurrent powers. In support of this, UNICEF, EU and Finland have entered into a co-financing partnership to support the Government in strengthening institutional capacity and coordination for the successful implementation of the SESP, with strategies and targets defined on enabling LGs to undertake key functions of education services.

Under the joint program, UNICEF, EU and Finland will support the Government in contextualizing the strategies and activities of the SESP into local level planning, budgeting, implementation processes. In addition, a selected number of the 753 local governments will be supported through the so called ‘common package’, which includes programmatic support across the UNICEF education program priority areas and cross-sectoral linkages.

For this, UNICEF is seeking to deploy technical assistance in supporting the communication and visibility requirements of the UNICEF, EU and Finland partnership, within the context of the Nepal Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) and the SESP and under the leadership of the Government.

Scope of Work The expert will be expected to undertake the following non exhaustive actions: • Identify and communicate global and regional donor intelligence and trends from national committees, bilateral donors and multilateral partnership opportunities. • Review and provide detailed feedback and critical analyse of donor proposals, reports and on UNICEF’s Education fundraising strategy and documentation. • Ensure a robust end-to-end monitoring framework is established in grant proposals that feeds into and compliments CPAP data needs and ensures reporting can take place seamlessly across all levels of the education programme. • Develop and supplement education sections donor communication packages and materials for increased visibility. • Identify and provide recommendations for opportunities to integrate cross-sectoral priorities into the fundraising strategy and documentation of the education programme. • Offer feedback, essential insights, and conduct reviews of UNICEF's education reports and fundraising proposals when required. • Draft documentation to present the education programme to partners and potential donors. • Draft documentation to highlight the importance of UNICEF’s education cross cutting components and how they relate to and link in with UNICEF’s overall education strategy and goals for current programme cycle. • Perform other related documentation and partnership tasks as determined by the section based on the exigent needs of the specific month to be determined on a rolling basis in the last week of the previous month. How can you make a difference? The purpose of the assignment is to support the UNICEF education section in developing a partnership engagement strategy with EU, Finland and other key partners on the communication and visibility of the EU-UNICEF program and the ‘Common Package’ within this, including a resource mobilization strategy to secure additional matching funds as required under the EU grant. • Development of 8 two pagers on key UNICEF interventions under the common package • Assignment report, defining the EU/UNICEF/Finland identity, key messages and activities to be included in the EU-UNICEF Communication and Visibility plan • Development of 8 two pagers on key UNICEF interventions under the common package • Assignment report, identifying additional donors and partners to support the implementation of the EU-UNICEF program (for the matching funding) and proposed ways to engage. • Grant proposal monitoring framework (GPMF) • Final assignment report, reflecting provided input on priorities and results in the EU-UNICEF initiation of the program and in EU/Finland/GPE reports and a UNICEF education resource mobilization strategy for matching funds First Deliverables • 8 two pagers • Assignment report Second Deliverable • 8 two pagers • Assignment report • GPMF Final Deliverable • Final Assignment Report Contract Duration: The consultancy will be for the period of 40 working days over the period of 2.5 months and tentatively starting from first week of December 2023

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… Minimum Qualification Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required: • Master's degree in International Development or a related field. • A minimum of ten years of proven expertise in reporting, fundraising, donor relations, and best practice documentation. • Thorough understanding of Nepal's context, UNICEF Nepal's program, and the education landscape in Nepal. • Proficiency in UN and UNICEF partnership methods and reporting requirements. • In-depth knowledge of global and regional trends in Official Development Assistance (ODA). • Extensive experience in UNICEF, especially related to Education and its connections to gender, climate change, disaster risk reduction, and other vital cross-cutting components of UNICEF’s programming. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an open and collaborative approach to engaging with various stakeholders, UNICEF Nepal's Education team, and UNICEF's global team concerning partnership development rules, regulations, and frameworks. • Extensive familiarity with and network in UNICEF National Committees. • Experience working with UNICEF's fundraising, branding, and regulatory framework for bilateral partnerships, as well as the legal frameworks that support them. • A comprehensive understanding of and network within both UNICEF's Public Partnership Division and Private Fundraising and Partnership's Division. • Knowledge of how to enhance reporting and donor relations through end-to-end planning of the monitoring process.

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 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: 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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