International Consultancy- Technical support for the simulation and costing of Education scenarios

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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, an advocate

UNICEF ROSA needs an expert in costing, education simulation models and public finance, to provide support in meeting multiple technical assistance requests from country offices and governments to develop country-specific costed scenarios for education or some sub-sectors of education.

The Consultant is expected based on the needs on ground, to produce solid evidence-based advocacy around the Early Childhood Education sub-sector to protect and expand education investments in young learners, as well as produce investment cases for the roll-out of interventions specifically targeting children with disabilities, who are often the most excluded group of children in South Asia.

How can you make a difference?

• Develop a costing model for inclusive education, that can be applied in South Asia to generate case studies. The ultimate objective is to covert this model into a global good for application in all regions with an interest to cost inclusive education policies and programmes.
• Develop additional case study applications of the COVID-19 Shock and Response Model.
• Integrate the COVID-19 Shock and Response Model with the Reimagine Education workstream.
• Train officials and/or UNICEF specialists on the use of the COVID-19 Shock and Response Model.
• Provide technical inputs to the ROSA Education Team and contribute to and participate in important country-level, regional-level and global-level dissemination and advocacy events, linked to costing or budget estimates for the response and recovery, for Reimagine Education and the digitization of education, for ECE or inclusive education.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Statistics, Economics or Social Science field. Additional qualification related to economics and public finance are an advantage, PhD preferred. *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• A minimum of 8 years of working experience in international development projects, especially related to costing, education finance and budgets.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

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 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.

ToR for Education Finance.pdf