National Consultancy - CRVS Service Delivery Standards - Req, 42 working days (For Pakistan Nationals Only)

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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 safe home!

Pakistan was the sixth country in the world to sign and ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child, less than one year after it was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989. However, children and adolescents living in Pakistan still face acute challenges.

In particular, UNICEF will work so that:

• Every child survives and thrives -- being in good health, immunized, protected from polio and accessing nutritious food.
• Every child learns.
• Every child is protected from violence and exploitation and registered at birth.
• Every child lives in a safe and clean environment, with access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.

To learn more about UNICEF’s work in Pakistan, please visit the country website www.unicef.org/pakistan and videos on YouTube and Vimeo

In particular, UNICEF will work so that:

• Every child survives and thrives -- being in good health, immunized, protected from polio and accessing nutritious food.
• Every child learns.
• Every child is protected from violence and exploitation and registered at birth.
• Every child lives in a safe and clean environment, with access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.

To learn more about UNICEF’s work in Pakistan, please visit the country website www.unicef.org/pakistan and videos on YouTube and Vimeo

How can you make a difference?

Scope of work and expected outputs / deliverables:

1. Conduct desk review and analyze all the necessary documents, policies, and assessment reports to understand the existing practices of civil registration in union councils in Pakistan especially in Punjab.
2. Undertake field visits and consultation meetings with key stakeholders such as Local Government Department, NADRA, UNICEF, parents/ caregivers etc..
3. Drafting the Minimum Services Delivery Standards based on the findings from the field visits and consultations with partners (LG, NADRA, UNFPA, WHO)
4. Facilitate the provincial level workshop to validate the Minimum Services Delivery Standards for the registration of the vital events specially birth registration.
5. Finalization of the Minimum Services Delivery Standards after the incorporation of all the feedback received from the stakeholders during the validation workshop.
6. Presentation of the Minimum Services Delivery Standards to the steering committee for approval and notification.
7. Development of the training materials and agenda for the TOT.
8. Conduction of the TOT for Assistant Directors (LG)/administrators of UCs and submission of the final report.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in a public administration.
• A minimum of 6 of relevant professional experience in the field of CRVS, public administration, with a particular focus in public service delivery and standards, at national or international level.
• *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.
• In-depth understanding of how local government department work and how public service delivery systems are designed and operated. Proven significant achievements/publications in the field of public administration or in related fields, with a particular focus in public service delivery and standards
• Ability to develop comprehensive and evidence-based policies and guidelines
• Experience in user-centric design work. Demonstrated experiences and skills in facilitating stakeholder/working group consultations and training.
• Proven significant achievements/publications in the field of public administration or in related fields, with a particular focus in public service delivery and standards
• Experience in user-centric design work.
• Demonstrated experiences and skills in facilitating stakeholder/working group consultations and training.
• Relevant national, regional and international experience will be an added advantage. Excellent writing, editing, and oral communication skills in English and Urdu
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset. Demonstrated experiences and skills in facilitating stakeholder/working group consultations and training.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

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 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.

NOTE:

• Estimated Duration: 42 days, estimate starting date: 1st September, 2022
• The consultant will be based in Lahore
• The consultancy is at a senior level.
• Applicants are requested to submit a financial quotation indicating daily fee or a lump sum amount for the whole assignment as part of the application against each deliverable.
• HEC Attested and verified degrees are a pre-requisite for employment at UNICEF. Candidates will be required to present attested and verified degrees.
• At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.

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.