National Youth Engagement Assistant Consultant, UNICEF, Myanmar (Open to Myanmar 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, an Advocate

Purpose of the Activity/Assignment

As part of its Advocacy and Communication strategy 2018-22, UNICEF Myanmar seeks to bring the missing voices of adolescents and young people to the table, so that children themselves are agents of change, and so that their views are routinely contributing to Myanmar’s policy making process. To do this UNICEF Myanmar established U-Report in August 2016, an innovative social messaging tool. U-Report is a digital platform used to reach and engage the community. It is built on the open source software RapidPro and launched with the aim to leverage the increasing availability of mobile and digital technology by providing information, monitoring and influencing behaviour and integrating the voices of communities for social change in development and humanitarian contexts.

Since March 2020, U-Report Myanmar has faced a number of challenges, which need to be addresses. First on March 6th, Facebook announced a change in its messaging policy, which has a significant impact on the way U Report operates. U report pushes out its weekly poll surveys to adolescents enrolled on U Report, but under the new FB policy, this will no longer be possible. FB allowed the system-initiated messaging to continue for 4 months (April to July) to respond to awareness raising on COVID-19, but this support has now been discontinued. As a result, U Report must now expand the platforms it operates from – including Viber and SMS messaging.

Second, U Report has faced the challenge of social distancing messages put in place to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. This has impacted the ability of the U Report platform to recruit more U Reporters through face to face recruitment events at schools and universities. To counter this, U Report must explore more creative campaigns and content on its social media platforms – to recruit new U Reporters.

UNICEF Myanmar would like to hire a National Youth engagement Assistant, aged 20 to 26 years, to support the expansion of U Report to Viber, SMS, and other social media platforms; and to develop creative ways to recruit more U Reporters through social media, in place of face to face events.

Geographic Area: Yangon

Duration of the Consultancy: 11.5 months, Full Time, Regular Office Hours

How can you make a difference?

Description of Assignment:

• Strategy on online Recruitment and Engagement
• Support the implementation of UNICEF Advocacy Priorities and UNICEF Programme where youth engagement is needed
• Building and maintaining effective partnerships
• Support on UNICEF and U-Report global campaigns

Detail Job Description can be accessed here; Terms of Reference Youth Engagement GT Signed.docx

Please complete and include the "Expression of Interest" form in your application, provided here; 2. 2021-11-24-EOI Youth Engagement Assistant APC.doc

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

• Any Bachelor degree discipline supported by required years of experience in Youth Engagement
• The applicant must be aged between 20 and 26 years at the time of applying

Work Experience

• At least two years of relevant experience in working with young people
• Community mobilization, coordination, and facilitation experience
• Planning, organizing, facilitation of workshops and meetings
• Knowledge of U-Report, Youth Policy and youth networks and organizations

Language Proficiency

• Fluency in Myanmar is required (oral and written)
• Knowledge of English language(s) is required

Other Skills

• Familiarity with messaging software or experience in creating chat bot would be an asset
• Operational experience for Rapid Pro is an asset
• Communication tactics for virtual age (Facebook, Viber, Youtube, Tik Tok , Zoom meetings, etc ) is a must
• Skillful in Facebook marketing strategies and handling Facebook Developer application
• Focus group discussion moderation and note taking skills will be an asset.
• Microsoft Windows applications (Doc, Powerpoint, Excel, etc)
• Knowledge of email, internet, office applications (Scanner, Copier)

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

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.

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.