National Consultant: Education Consultant - Inclusive Education, Kathmandu, Nepal (Only for Nepalese Nationals)

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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

As Nepal seeks to recover the learning losses experienced by children during the pandemic and address the broader learning crisis, it is incumbent on all tiers of government to identify appropriate learning recovery strategies in the short term. The Government in partnership with UNICEF and other education development partners has developed and initiated the School Education Sector Plan (SESP; 2022-2027), which includes the implementation of the Recovery and Accelerated Learning (ReAL) Plan to facilitate an inclusive recovery of learning loss through need-based and targeted accelerated and remedial learning programs.

Responding to the needs of these children, UNICEF continues to support inclusive education programs in Madhesh, Lumbini, Sudurpaschim and Karnali.

UNICEF collaborates with the federal, provincial and local governments to strengthen the Girls and Inclusive Education (GIE) networks for better planning and implementation of inclusive education programs. The focus of our initiatives will be around gender is to provide support to the Government to ensure equitable access to quality education for all children, including girls, with a focus on -

• Children from social and economically disadvantages groups

• Children with linguistic diversity

• Children with disabilities

This will include supporting

(i) the federal, provincial and local levels implementation of the Equality and Inclusion agenda of the school sector education plan (SESP)

(ii) schools to be more inclusive for children facing barriers based on their caste/ethnicity, gender, children that speak different languages at home and children with disabilities

How can you make a difference?

The consultant will provide administrative and technical support to

• develop the national level guidelines on multilingual education
• strengthen the local level Student Assessment Technical Committees (SATC)
• strengthen the federal, provincial and local level Girls and Inclusive Education Networks

Scope of Work:

The consultant will be expected to undertake the following activities -

• Liaise with the implementing partners and CEHRD to ensure timely development of the national guidelines on multilingual education
• Provide technical and administrative support to CEHRD to conduct workshops and brainstorming sessions at different levels to develop the guidelines
• Disseminate drafted/updated document within UNICEF team members. Ensure comments/feedback from other sectoral colleagues, field offices are received and prepare consolidated feedback from UNICEF.
• Work closely with field offices and implementing partners to ensure the local level SATCs are in place
• Provide technical inputs to, observe and monitor the SATC training sessions
• Follow up with local governments to ensure SATCs are formed within 2 months from receiving training
• Work closely with the girls and inclusive education (GIE) section of CEHRD to ensure timely dissemination of the GIE network strategic plan
• Monitor activities and document evidence that includes at least 3 human interest stories

Duration of Contract: The total duration of the contract is for11 months tentatively starting from 01 October 2023.

This consultancy assignment is home based.

Deliverables for this Assignment:

Tasks/Milestone****Deliverables/Outputs****Timeline****Proposed Fee ( In Nepalese Currency)- Develop an implementation plan on the development of the national guidelines on multilingual education - Mapping of organizations working in multilingual education who could support the development of the overall guidelines - Develop implementation plan on the effective strengthening of SATCs

• Implementation plan for national guidelines and SAT strengthening
• Database of organizations
• Monthly progress report

End December 2023 - Develop communication and dissemination plan for the GIEN strategic plan - Review of timelines for SATC capacity building training - Mapping of roster trainers for SATC capacity development - Conduct brainstorming sessions for the multilingual education guidelines

• Communication and dissemination plan for GIEN strategic plan
• Revised timelines for SATC strengthening
• Database of roster trainers

• Monthly progress report

  End March 2024 - Develop monitoring plan for SATC training

• Observe training sessions
• Facilitate GIEN strategic plan dissemination

• Work closely with CEHRD to develop guidelines

• Monitoring plan for SATC capacity development

• Training reports
• Draft guidelines
• Monthly progress report

end of June 2024 - Develop case studies and HIS - Support the finalizing of the guidelines

• Minimum 3 case studies/HIS
• Final draft of guidelines
• Final report

End August 2024 To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Advanced university degree in Education or social sciences or discipline relevant to equity and inclusion.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience working for inclusive education projects
• Familiar with the education context of Nepal including all federal structures
• Sound knowledge of foundational learning activities, acceleration of learning approach, learning continuation campaigns and disability inclusive education
• Excellent communication, coordination, and rapport building skills including the ability to facilitate diverse groups (Government, CSOs, Technical Expert)
• Strong working knowledge of Nepali and English

• Experience in the capacity building of partners at the national, regional, and district levels

  Skills required:

  Strategic thinking, analytical skill, high-level coordination, networking, and facilitation skill

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

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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/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:

Request to submit financial proposal as per deliverables in Nepalese currency.

Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Candidates from under-represented ethnic groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

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.