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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant

Consultancy Title: P2E Global Coordination Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Generation Unlimited, Programme Group – NYHQ

Duration: 8 January 2024 – 31 December 2024

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:

Under the direct supervision of the Senior Adviser, Global Solutions, and under the overall guidance of the Deputy Director, Programmes, and in collaboration with UNICEF and GenU partners the consultant will support on conceptualising, planning, activating and reporting on  GenU’s flagship skilling platform – Passport to Earning (P2E). The P2E platform aims to provide young people aged 15-24 with free, job-relevant skills, and position them for job opportunities for at least 5 million young people (at least 50% adolescent girls and young women) across several countries by 2024.

Scope of Work:

• Support the development and implementation of the global Passport to Earning strategy. The strategy will articulate a long-term vision for expanding and enhancing P2E globally. The strategy may include elements such as expansion plans (within existing and to new countries), focus niches for skilling, monitoring and learning plans, cost-effectiveness models, etc
• Contribute to the successful official launch of Passport to Earning in new countries/markets though coordination with partners, developing material/information and more.
• Provide day-to-day support, pro-active engagement and troubleshooting to country teams developing and/or implementing Passport to Earning. In doing so ensure adequate planning and tools to enable effective deployment and upkeep of P2E instances. This will include supporting on elements including instance deployment, content curation, blended and self-paced streams, demand creation, M&E, partnerships and advocacy.
• Maintain the global instance of P2E, including supporting demand creation, monitoring course registrations and completions, supporting resolution of system errors, monitoring user feedback, etc.
• Support all Passport to Earning governance activities such as preparing for quarterly Steering Committee meetings, providing reporting updates to the GenU CEO and partners on implementation progress, convening weekly meetings with implementing countries, and acquitting ad-hoc management and reporting requests.
• Develop approaches to specifically respond to the needs of adolescent girls and young women and mechanisms to support them to engage in skilling via the P2E platform.
• Work with stakeholders (UNICEF, private sector, CSOs/NGOs, etc.) to support youth to transition from learning on the P2E platform to employment, entrepreneurship and social impact opportunities.
• Work with key team members to develop a rigorous approach to measuring the access and completion of courses on the P2E platform, as well as transitions into employment, entrepreneurship and social impact opportunities.
• Support the implementation of the P2E research approach, including convening communities of practice with implementing countries, leading grant action learning workshops, and contributing to monitoring and learning reports (for both internal and external publication).
• Update or develop concept notes and proposals for resource mobilization purpose for both Public and Private Sector donors. Support the pursual and development of new partners to Passport to Earning.
• Support donor/partner report coordination and development.
• Support other GenU skilling and opportunity platforms upon request of the supervisor and senior management
• Undertake other duties and regional/country support upon request of the supervisor and senior management

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

• A Grant Action Learning workshop is administered and reported on. –  By 31 March 2024
• A Global P2E Strategy is developed. – By 30 April 2024
• A Global P2E Strategy action plan is developed and implemented. – By 30 April 2024
• 2 P2E knowledge products developed. – By 30 June 2024
• 11 P2E COP resources developed  – By 31 November 2024
• The Global P2E strategy action plan is executed. – By 31 December 2024
• 12 updates on P2E implementation are developed and delivered. – By 31 December 2024

Qualifications

Education:

• Master’s degree from a recognized university in any of the following: Economics, Business Administration, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, or similar

Work experience:

• At least 5 years of work experience in education technology, education or project management or relevant areas
• Experience in working with organizations focused on engaging and empowering adolescents and youth, especially the most marginalized
• Experience rolling out global EdTech programs that provide skilling opportunities for youth and provide pathways to livelihoods.

Competencies/Knowledge:

• Strong understanding of Learning Management Systems such as Microsoft Community Training an asset
• Fluency in English is required, strong written and verbal competency is necessary
• Working knowledge of another UN language an asset

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.