Consultant (home-based, 60 days): Instructional Design and Content Writer Consultant (Child Rights for Business Training Programme), Division of Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP)

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, a chance

The purpose of this assignment is to strategically redesign and tailor the existing Child Rights for Business (CRB) training content to resonate with philanthropists, ensuring it reflects their motivations and insights. This will involve engaging with past participants from similar audiences to incorporate their inspirations into the training design. The content will not only undergo a visual overhaul but will also be contextualized to align with the current global landscape and UNICEF’s mission, emphasizing the urgent need to address child rights. Additionally, the training will be condensed from a 3-day format into a 1-day session, including 3-5 actionable calls to engage participants effectively.

How can you make a difference? 

• Maintain the existing CRB training content while tailoring and redesigning it to appeal to Philanthropists.
• Engage with former training participant(s) (via teams or zoom) from that same type of audience, asking what inspired them, and reflect that in the design of the training (details and engagement to be facilitated by UNICEF).
• Ensure that the training programme considers audience insights and motivations – through not only a visual redesign but also a strategic pivot to make the content more relevant to an audience (who probably has never thought/heard of it before).
• Ensure that this training is contextualized based on the current state of the world and UNICEF’s unique position to shape the future for children, while creating a sense of urgency of why child rights cannot wait to be addressed.
• Adapt and rewrite the 3-day training content into a 1-day format based on the information listed in the background section.
• Prepare and include into the training programme 3-5 clear calls for action to be demanded from the audience who attended the training.

Work Assignments Overview & Deliverables

Redesign the CRB training to resonate with philanthropists by incorporating their motivations and insights, gathered from past participants. The content will be visually refreshed and aligned with current global issues and UNICEF’s mission, emphasizing child rights. The training will be condensed from three days to one, featuring 3-5 actionable steps to engage participants effectively.

• 1 PPT deck showcasing the strategy the vendor is willing to adopt in the training design and approach.
• Comprehensive redesigned CRB training materials based on the phased scope above – digital (x1) and print (x30) using an engaging method, format and flow that appeals to the target audience.
• Trainer’s guide and supporting documents. (x1 set)
• Finalized training programme ready for deployment. (x1)

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

Educational Background:

• A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree or higher) in education, communication, social sciences, or a related field is required.

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. 

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. 

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.