Consultant Teaching & Training Programme & Policy Innovation

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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, Safety...

About Giga:

UNICEF and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) launched Giga in 2019, an initiative to connect every school to the internet. Giga is anchored in the Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation’s finding 1A which states that by "2030 every adult should have affordable access to digital networks". According to the ITU, nearly 3.6 billion people worldwide remain unconnected from the internet, and by extension, unconnected to digital products and services that could dramatically improve their lives. Approximately 29% of 18–24-year-olds globally, do not have digital access (~360m people) and thereby lack access to the same information, opportunity, and choice as their more-connected peers. Unless things change, a big part of this rapidly growing group of young people is in danger of being left behind, excluded from the modern digital world.

Giga enables universal school connectivity and provides support in three broad areas: (1) High level engagement and governance around school connectivity; (2) Technical assistance to map schools’ location and connectivity status, as well as open-source technology tools in support of connectivity; and connectivity infrastructure; (3) Procurement and market access interventions.

Giga has been engaged in discussions with the Malawi Government on universal school connectivity since 2020. The Ministry of Education has signed the letter of interest and expressed its willingness to move forward with implementation. Giga has completed school location mapping and is helping the government gather school connectivity information. Further, Giga recently completed a market assessment study that focuses on the market structure, market actors, market dynamics and conditions, as well as understanding of all the available technologies and connectivity solutions for schools in Malawi.

For more information about Giga, please visit the website: https://giga.global/

How can you make a difference?

Objectives

1. Stakeholder engagement and coordination to facilitate school connectivity assessment and to prepare for scaling up school connectivity nationwide through the organization of meetings, consultations, and workshops.
2. Development and implementation of a school connectivity assessment strategy including school connectivity data collection, analysis, visualization and creating the mechanisms to enable real-time connectivity mapping sustainably, using Giga real-time monitoring application.
3. Creation of Malawi school connectivity landscape analysis and presentation of key findings to the key stakeholders, including the Ministry of Education, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), UNICEF staff, and other relevant stakeholders.

Scope of Work

1. Stakeholder Coordination.
2. Survey Development.
3. Finalize data collection strategy.
4. Data Collection.
5. Data Review and Cleaning.
6. Giga Real-Time Monitoring app deployment.

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

Academic qualification:

• An advanced University degree in a relevant field such as Information Technology, Geographical Information Systems, data science, technology for development, economics, statistics, Computer Science and Management Information Systems.

Work experience:

• Ten years of progressively responsible professional work experience in information communication technology (ICT) industry, Telecommunications industry, tech startups, business, management consulting or a relevant field, some of which should be in an international setting.
• Experience in working with both quantitative and qualitative data, as well as geospatial data, and familiarity with government data sources (e.g., censuses, EMIS) is required.
• Familiarity with education sector and connectivity infrastructure preferred.

Technical skills and knowledge:

• Knowledge and experience in survey design, data collection, and analysis using statistical software (e.g., SPSS, STATA, R, GIS, ArcGIS, QGIS) and data collection platforms (e.g., InForm, KoboToolbox, ODK) is desired.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners.
• Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment; ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel.
• Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines.
• Affinity with or interest in internet connectivity, technology for development, and the UN System preferred.

Languages:

• Fluency in spoken and written English is required, understanding of Chichewa desired.

Please refer to the attached full Terms of Reference Terms of Reference_GIGA Consultant.pdf for more details on the consultancy and requirements.

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 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.

HOW TO APPLY...

Interested Individual Consultant should provide the following:

1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Academic certificates
3. Brief technical proposal (no longer than five pages) demonstrating the Individual Consultant's understanding of the assignment and approach/methodology to the assignment
4. Financial proposal including a breakdown of their all-inclusive fees (including professional fees, stationery, communication, and other miscellaneous costs). Financial Proposal for Consultancy.xlsx Complete the attached form.
5. References details from three most recent supervisors.

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.

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