Retreat Facilitator, Individual Consultancy, Beirut, Lebanon, 12 Months

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The Lebanon Country Office (LCO) is organizing frequent team and all staff retreats throughout the year to strengthen team collaboration skills through interactive teambuilding exercises, focusing on UNICEF Values and competencies including creating psychological safety and trust with the aim of enhancing organizational culture. Team retreats may also include programme or operations strategy elements. Such retreats usually take 1-2 days or hourly (if remote) and vary from small teams (10 staff) to office wide retreats (200 staff). The institution is expected to conduct a pre-assessment, design, organize and manage and evaluate the event and offer optional follow up services, such as team-coaching etc.

The UNICEF Lebanon Country Office has gone through various major change exercises resulting in new team compositions and dynamics who must adapt and deliver in response to the evolving programme and operations strategies and shifts. Staff operate in a fast-paced environment meeting demands from external and internal stakeholders.

The office particularly seeks to strengthen skills in team collaboration, effective communication, emotional intelligence, creating psychological safety and building trust, enhancing speak up culture, and building awareness on UNICEF Global Priorities: UNICEF Core Values: Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, Sustainability (CRITAS) and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).

For every child, a Champion...

UNICEF Lebanon Country Office seeks to engage a professional corporate events organization with proven experience in facilitating teambuilding activities and events.

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF Lebanon Country Office seeks to engage a professional corporate events organization with proven experience in facilitating teambuilding activities and events.

Under the supervision of the Human Resources Manager and in consultation with management the institution will:

• Familiarize themselves with UNICEF LCO organizational culture and current context.
• Conduct a pre-assessment (e.g., survey) of expectations that would help design the activities and gage LCO culture.
• Conduct assessment on thinking preferences to support self-assessment and team-coaching (Optional)
• Based on the assessment, propose the content, design and delivery of the activities and built-in sessions, and prepare an agenda that reflects the proposed structure.
• Deliver one or two-day activities in the All staff retreat and/or smaller team retreats at a designated location or conduct hourly teambuilding exercises (online)
• Present a final report to highlight the areas worked on and what type of recommendations can the country office implement

Offer team and individual coaching to managers, Section Chiefs and Senior Management. Deliverables and Schedule

Description****Deliverables****Deliverables Time frame****Pre-Assessment & Agenda- Familiarize themselves with UNICEF LCO organizational culture and current programmes in Lebanon - Conduct a pre-assessment to identify key areas of focus. - Present an analysis on the pre-assessment findings. - In consultation with the HR Manager and Chief of Section/Head of Office, present an agenda to be tailored to meet the requirements of the theme and the expectations of staff taking into consideration UNICEF Lebanon organizational culture and current context.

*Within 15 days from starting date***Thinking Style Preferences Assessment (Optional)**- Conduct assessment on thinking style preferences to support self-assessment. - Debrief on pre-assessment and thinking style preferences assessment.

*Within 30 days from starting date***Delivery**Organize, prepare, manage, and facilitate an integrated and interactive programme of activities extending over 1-2 days or hourly online.*1-2 days in the designated location*

Or hourly online

Evaluation/ Recommendation- Present a draft report for discussion with feedback on the event highlighting findings and recommendations - Be available for any revisions, reviews, and questions on the final report. - Provide the final version of the report

Upon Receipt of the final report

*(Within 5 Days of the end of the retreat)***Team- and individual coaching**

(optional) - Offer team individual coaching sessions to senior management and their respective teams.

Up to 3 months following the retreat

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

• Degree in social sciences, Human Resources Management, Business Administration, Hospitality and Event Management or relevant areas.
• At least 5 years of proven experience in design, delivery and facilitation of corporate events and teambuilding activities at local, regional, and international level.
• Team members having minimum 3 years of proven experience in designing and implementing activities centered on diversity
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.
• Experience in team coaching and individual coaching; certification is an asset.
• Previous experience working with non-profit organizations and UN agencies is an asset.
• Provision of previous output evaluations or recommendation letter.

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.

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.

Please indicate your ability, availability and a detailed cost proposal (template attached) to undertake the terms of reference above (including travel and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable). Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered Annex 1 - Price Proposal.xlsx