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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant

Consultancy Title: Reporting & Knowledge Management (PSEA) Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Child Protection Section – PG - NYHQ

Duration: 10 June 2024 – 10 Mar 2025

Home/ office Based: REMOTE

About UNICEF

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection, and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations, and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

UNICEF is committed to accelerating protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) across all humanitarian settings. PSEA is an organization-wide accountability, and UNICEF Child Protection plays a leading role and is a key contributor to this work. UNICEF’s Child Protection strategy prioritizes the prevention of violence, which includes prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse. The UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025 includes core commitments on PSEA, including within Goal Area 3: Every child is protected from all forms of violence, exploitation, abuse, and harmful practices. The Strategic Plan also includes a strategic enabler on the establishment and strengthening of PSEA systems at country-level, for which Child Protection holds a leading role. In addition, UNICEF’s Child Protection Programme Team serves as the designated lead for the roll-out of PSEA within the Core Commitments for Children and the Emergency Procedures.

As a leader in child protection globally and as an agency mandated to strengthen the protection of children and women, UNICEF is also committed to driving forward best practice and evidence-based approach to deliver on the shared IASC PSEA framework and priority areas and is scaling up its programming to prevent and respond to SEA. To deliver on UNICEF’s and the shared IASC commitments on PSEA, UNICEF actively leads and contributes to PSEA acceleration within the IASC and UN, including to support Humanitarian and UN Country Teams to deliver on their PSEA commitments. As outlined in in the IASC Strategy and Vision on the PSEA and Sexual Harassment (PSEAH) 2022−2026, adopting an evidence-based approach and strengthening results tracking is key to effectively deliver on IASC PSEA commitments to prevent and respond to SEA, and to advance a survivor-centered approach. Member States have called for the UN to adopt such an approach, and UNICEF is working closely with the IASC and the UN Office of the Special Coordinator on PSEA to support increased monitoring and reporting through the annual UNCT/HCT PSEA Action Plans and the global PSEA mapping exercise. UNICEF continues to advance the PSEA work as a key contributor to the IASC Acceleration Plan and the IASC PSEAH Strategy and Vision.

Linked to these commitments, the Child Protection Programme Team continually seeks to strengthen the evidence and data in all areas of Child Protection programming, including related to PSEA with a view to accelerating PSEA programming and is committed to monitoring, evaluation, and results-based management. While most evidence and data gathering activities are conducted at country and regional levels, the Child Protection specialist /PSEA global technical lead in CPHQ technically leads the overall evidence work on PSEA, under the overall guidance of the Senior Advisor for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, supports COs/ROs in results tracking for PSEA (i.e., in line with UNICEF’s PSEA Results Monitoring Framework and the Integrated Results and Resources Framework (IRRF) of the UNICEF Strategic Plan), and oversees the knowledge management and evidence building activities and products for the overall CP PSEA programming work. Over the past few years, evidence building function on PSEA has grown substantially linked to integrating PSEA in the Strategic Plan and in response to increased expectations from UNICEF senior management, Member States, donors, the IASC and other partners and stakeholders, who increasingly look to UNICEF as the leader on knowledge and evidence-based approaches for PSEA programming across the humanitarian response.

The purpose of this consultancy is to provide targeted technical support to the Child Protection on strengthening PSEA programming related knowledge management, evidence building, and results reporting, through targeted tasks listed below.

Scope of Work:

Under the supervision of the PSEA Specialist, the consultant will be responsible for completion of the following deliverables:

1. Update existing PSEA training materials and support the development of 3 short training videos.

2. Develop and disseminate at least four PSEA knowledge products.

3. Deliver specific technical capacity development sessions to support the regional and country offices on PSEA reporting for Core Standard Indicators.

4. Organize PSEA Community of Practice webinars.

5. Support the organization of a global PSEA meeting, including development of agenda and meeting report.

6. Support the development of PSEA and CPHA reports/inputs based on the 2024 CSI reporting

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

• PSEA training materials updated and finalized; - By 30 July 2024.
• 3 short videos developed. - By 30 August 2024
• At least 4 knowledge products finalized. - By 15 February 2025
• At least 3 capacity development initiatives implemented. – By 30 September 2024
• At least 5 COP webinars organized and related materials disseminated. - By 31 December 2024.
• PSEA Global meeting organized, agenda and materials finalized. - By 30 October 2024.
• Meeting report finalized. – By 30 November 2024.
• PSEA global report and regional analysis (PPT presentations) finalized. – By 30 June 2024.
• CPHA & PSEA narrative inputs for at least 3 annual reports finalized. – By 10 March 2025

Qualifications

Education:

A Master´s degree in public health, social work, political science, human rights and international law or other related degree, or equivalent programming experience.

experience:

• Minimum 3 years of proven experience on protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, including within UNICEF and at the inter-agency level.
• Demonstrated experience in data and evidence generation related to PSEA programming, as well as in knowledge management in related areas.
• Demonstrated experience developing and facilitating remote workshops.

Competencies/Knowledge:

• Demonstrated capacity to analyse data/statistics for humanitarian operations.
• Demonstrated understanding of issues related to confidentiality, data safety/security and other ethical concerns related to the sharing of sensitive data between humanitarian agencies.
• Excellent Computer skills, including MS Word, Excel, and database software, in-depth knowledge of pivot table/chart and data analysis. Knowledge of PowerBi and other data visualization software would be an asset.
• Ability to work with a team as well as independently in a multi-cultural environment.
• Creative, innovative thinker who can also translate ideas into practical applications.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal.
• Fluency in written and oral English is required. Another UN language is an asset for this role.

Requirements:

Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and

• Upload copy of academic credentials
• Financial proposal that will include/ reflect:
  • the costs per each deliverable and the total lump-sum for the whole assignment (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference.
  • travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR.
  • Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable.
  • Indicate your availability.
• Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.
• At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.
• Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

U.S. Visa information:

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. View our competency framework at: Here

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:

Individuals engaged under a consultancy 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. Consultants 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.