National Consultant (Education in Emergency), Kathmandu Nepal, 11 months

Consultant Teaching & Training Programme & Policy

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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.

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For every child, education

How can you make a difference?

Background: Each year Nepal faces substantial disturbance and damage in the education sector due to diverse kinds of hazards impacting children’s rights to access to education and continuation of quality learning achievements. Nepal continues to face frequent disasters such as floods, landslides, fires, earthquakes, and disease outbreaks like cholera, dengue, and now, the COVID-19. The education sector is vulnerable to natural disasters, as they can result in damage or destruction of learning facilities and materials, closures and the prolonged disruption of education, increased barriers to education, limited access to schooling, and decrease in the quality of education. The COVID-19 pandemic led school closures have posed challenges in children’s learning continuity. The Covid-19 pandemic forced the closure of all 35,000 schools in Nepal, for 8 months impacting learning loss of 8.3 million children in the first wave.

The Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MoEST) has developed a master plan for Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) in 2017, to mainstream school safety and risk reduction and resilience in the education sector and support the School Sector Development Plan (SSDP). The plan focuses on improving both the hardware (school buildings and location safety) and software (awareness, knowledge, and systems) of schools and student safety. It thus addresses the three global pillars of school safety: 1) safe infrastructure, 2) disaster risk management in schools, and 3) resilience education for students, teachers, school managements and communities.

In 2019, MoEST has introduced the Comprehensive School Safety Minimum Package (CSSMP), its implementation guidelines and communication and dissemination strategy to ensure holistic school safety intervention is implanted at the local levels to ensure safety of children, school family and to promote resilience of education sectors and safeguard schools. These guidelines have incorporated activities based on the roles of school and local governments. The second pillar of the comprehensive school safety framework focuses on school disaster management plan aiming schools and local government to focus interventions for emergency preparedness and response so that continuity of

education can be ensured aftermath of any kind disaster. With the implementation of the Federal system, Nepal’s new Constitution (2015) devolved the power and authority related to basic and secondary school education to the local governments. Hence, the responsibility of improving access and quality education - basic and secondary- rests with the local governments.

Under the UNICEF Education outcome, Safe schools output supports government, partners, and key stakeholders to promote and implement government endorsed Comprehensive Safe School (CSS) Minimum Package, Cluster coordination and operationalisations for emergency preparedness and coordinated response.

With the implementation of the Federal system, Nepal’s new Constitution (2015) devolved the power and authority related to basic and secondary school education to the local governments. Hence, the responsibility of improving access and quality education - basic and secondary- rests with the local governments, including emergency preparedness and response. In this light, European Union and UNICEF have collaborated to support the government for COVID19 education response, focusing on cluster capacity strengthening to equip education stakeholder responsible for preparedness and response to combat all kinds of emergencies to enhance the resilience of school education.

With this background, UNICEF is establishing partnership with the standby emergency Civil Society Organizations to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Education and Science (MoEST) and Central for Education Human Resource Development (CEHRD) to implement the cluster strengthening activities at different levels addressing emerging needs including Education Covid Response. These partnerships envision capacity strengthening activities of Federal and cluster partners of all seven provinces, updating, and developing the Cluster and Comprehensive School Safety guidance and other corresponding guidance and tools and training packages and disseminate it to all three tiers of the governments and clusters partners. The tools and techniques will be further disseminated in 80 municipalities of Madesh, Karnali and Sudur Pashchim provinces. This intervention envisioned to support collective/collaborative actions for the preparedness and response to ensure learning continuity of children in a safe and enabling environment to mitigate further learning loss that emerges due to any disturbance, natural hazard, and pandemics aligning with the national disaster laws and guidelines. Education Section requires a technical expert to support the partner and field offices to ensure timely implementation of the programme interventions.

Work Assignment Overview

Tasks/Milestone:

Deliverables/Outputs:

Timeline

1st deliverable

Upon submission of monthly update including:

• Workplan to support the project outcome

End April 2022

2nd deliverable

Upon submission of monthly update including

• ToR of LTA arrangements of Resource Persons
• Outline presentation of joint review meetings

End May 2022

3rd deliverable

Upon submission of monthly update including:

• Mapping of CSS Programme by UNICEF
• Inputs for cluster related documents (Contingency Plan)

End June 2022

4th deliverable

Upon submission of monthly update including:

• UNICEF consolidated feedback on guidance tools

End July 2022

5th deliverable

Upon submission of monthly update including:

• Costing of CSS training

End Aug 2022

6th deliverable

Upon submission of monthly update including:

• Joint coordination meeting report
• Key synopsis of the capacity building activities

End Sep 2022

7th deliverable

Upon submission of monthly update including:

• Progress tracking of project interventions

End Oct 2022

8th deliverable

Upon submission of monthly update including:

• Documentation of project result achievements with a case study

End Nov 2022

9th deliverable

Upon submission of monthly update including:

• Standard module of School Disaster Management Plan

End Dec 2022

10th deliverable

Upon submission of monthly update including:

• Presentation of joint review meeting

End Jan 2023

11th deliverable

Upon submission of monthly update including:

• Donor draft report,
• Human interest Story

End Feb 2023

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

• Advanced university degree in Education or social sciences or discipline relevant to resilience and disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation;
• At least five years’ experience in areas related to disaster risk reduction, school Safety, climate change adaptation/mitigation, emergency preparedness, emergency response of post disaster recovery.
• Experience in the capacity building of partners at national, regional and district level on School Safety, Emergency Preparedness and Response.
• Good understanding of Comprehensive School Safety Framework and emergency preparedness and response.
• Aware of National/ Global policy and strategy on Disaster Risk Management and Comprehensive School Safety and its linkages with education interventions.
• Familiar with the cluster mechanism and humanitarian architectures in Nepal’s context

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

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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:

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.

Female candidates and candidates from the under-represented ethnic groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

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