International Consultant for WASH knowledge management - UNICEF South Asia

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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 future

How can you make a difference?

Rationale:

In the frame of UNICEF’s work in WASH, knowledge management (KM) activities represent one of the strategic tools to support the achievements of sectoral output results for children. KM underpins the effectiveness and efficacy of the WASH programme to maximize its impact with the available resources. KM should be used to generate, capture, use and share UNICEF’s organizational WASH knowledge to improve the quality, equity and sustainability of WASH services.

The UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) WASH section is supporting the country offices in the region to strengthen their KM activities, including the development and elaboration of high quality knowledge products and short publications, based on existing knowledge initiatives (studies, research, evaluation, reports, etc.) and ensure ongoing dissemination to relevant internal and external stakeholders. .

UNICEF country offices’ WASH sections produce several knowledge products yearly, standalone or in collaboration with partners (sector, academia, etc) potentially requiring support for various steps throughout the whole process, from conceptualization to dissemination. Tasks might also include the customization of knowledge products, including the development of summaries, regional highlights and snapshots, “repackaging”, formatting, transfer of national knowledge into global formats, etc.

Consequently, UNICEF ROSA is seeking the support of an experienced WASH expert with proven experience in Knowledge Management to support UNICEF country offices in the region in the elaboration of high quality knowledge products. (Technical Papers and Guidelines) extracting from knowledge initiatives (i.e. studies, research, evaluations, reports, etc.) and strengthen Country offices capacity, for their use and dissemination in the region and beyond.

Purpose:

The purpose of this consultancy is to support UNICEF country offices in South Asia and ROSA in their WASH knowledge management activities, particularly to strengthen the capacity for the elaboration of high-quality technical WASH knowledge products and their use for advocacy and other purposes.

The objective of this consultancy is to apply technical WASH and editorial expertise for the elaboration of high quality WASH knowledge products generally using available UNICEF WASH templates and extracting from existing knowledge initiatives developed in country and regional offices as well as generating knowledge on request of country and regional offices through secondary data collection. The knowledge products elaborated by the consultant will be ready for their subsequent dissemination and use by UNICEF and partners in the region and beyond.

While most KM products generated will fit in within the templated categories, those that do not readily fall within them shall be developed as distinct independent products as necessary.

Key Assisgnments and Tasks:

The elaboration of each WASH knowledge product will include the following detailed activities, estimated no. of working days, and final deliverables:

Activities

No. work days

Deliverables

Dates

• Review of existing content of assigned knowledge product (generated by country or regional office or through secondary data collection)
• Determination of type of knowledge product jointly with ROSA KM focal points
• Development of draft zero of the knowledge products, batch 1, type of product jointly determined with ROSA KM focal points
• After first review through country and regional office elaboration of draft 1, batch 1 (facilitate review if necessary)
• Incorporate feedback into draft 2, batch 1
• After second review through country and regional office elaboration of final draft, batch 1 (facilitate review if necessary)
• After final review through country and regional office as well as peer review (CO and HQ) elaboration of final knowledge product for dissemination

25

Final knowledge products, batch 1.

31/05/2021

• Review of existing content of assigned knowledge product (generated by country or regional office or through secondary data collection)
• Determination of type of knowledge product jointly with ROSA KM focal points
• Development of draft zero of the knowledge products, batch 2, type of product jointly determined with ROSA KM focal points
• After first review through country and regional office elaboration of draft 1, batch 2 (facilitate review if necessary)
• Incorporate feedback into draft 2, batch 2
• After second review through country and regional office elaboration of final draft, batch 1 (facilitate review if necessary)
• After final review through country and regional office as well as peer review (CO and HQ) elaboration of final knowledge product for dissemination

25

Final knowledge products, batch 2

31/08/2021

• Review of existing content of assigned knowledge product (generated by country or regional office or through secondary data collection)
• Determination of type of knowledge product jointly with ROSA KM focal points
• Development of draft zero of the knowledge products, batch 3, type of product jointly determined with ROSA KM focal points
• After first review through country and regional office elaboration of draft 1, batch 3 (facilitate review if necessary)
• Incorporate feedback into draft 2, batch 3
• After second review through country and regional office elaboration of final draft, batch 3 (facilitate review if necessary)
• After final review through country and regional office as well as peer review (CO and HQ) elaboration of final knowledge product for dissemination

25

Final knowledge products, batch 3

31/11/2021

• Review of existing content of assigned knowledge product (generated by country or regional office or through secondary data collection)
• Determination of type of knowledge product jointly with ROSA KM focal points
• Development of draft zero of the knowledge products, batch 1, type of product jointly determined with ROSA KM focal points
• After first review through country and regional office elaboration of draft 1, batch 4 (facilitate review if necessary)
• Incorporate feedback into draft 2, batch 4
• After second review through country and regional office elaboration of final draft, batch 4 (facilitate review if necessary)
• After final review through country and regional office as well as peer review (CO and HQ) elaboration of final knowledge product for dissemination

25

Final knowledge products, batch 4

15/02/2022

Note: each ‘batch’ consisting of various WASH technical knowledge products, will be defined and agreed at the beginning of the consultancy based on country offices need, availability of documentation, as well as on ROSA and country offices priorities.

Key Deliverables:

Deliverables

Estimated number of working days

Due date/latest date for completion of deliverable

(if unsure about specific calendar dates, put number of days after contract start and actual dates only in CIC)

Knowledge products Batch 1

25

31/05/2021

Knowledge products Batch 2

25

31/08/2021

Knowledge products Batch 3

25

31/11/2021

Knowledge products Batch 4

25

15/02/2022

Note: Consultant will work remotely. Please submit your applications with financial proposal. Applications without the financial proposal will not be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advanced to the next stage of the selection process.

Duration: 100 days from 15 March 2021 to end February 2022.

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

Education:

• Master University degree in WASH, public health, engineering, international development, or any related discipline.
• A University degree with additional two years of relevant work experience in lieu of a master’s degree is acceptable.

Experience:

• A minimum of 8 years’ experience in the WASH sector, related with management of WASH programmes in developing countries.

  Language Proficiency:

The consultant should be proficient in English, with proven ability to write high level papers for different type of audiences.

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.

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Experience in technical writing on different topics related to the WASH sector and social science.
• Excellent writing skills and demonstrated record of high-quality publications on WASH, social science and development issues.
• Knowledge and demonstrate experience of review, editing, report writing and proofreading.
• Previous experience editing and writing for UNICEF and familiarity with UNICEF’s style guidelines would be an asset.
• Excellent communication skills.

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

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 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:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

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.

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