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Purpose of Activity/Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to support the Global Education Cluster reinforce communications and advocacy capacities of Country Education clusters to profiling their priorities, needs and results at both country and global levels. This includes ensuring country clusters and working groups have exchange and learning opportunities, including technical support, to develop and disseminate evidence-based and data-driven products. This work advances the GEC’s goal of grounding decision making and advocacy in the operational realities of education clusters and their partners.
Scope of work
Established by the Inter-agency Standing Committee as part of the cluster approach, the Global Education Cluster (GEC), co-led by UNICEF and Save the Children, works towards a predictable, equitable and well-coordinated response addressing education concerns of crisis affected populations by reinforcing capacities of cluster staff and partners, providing timely remote and direct field support, strengthening robust assessment and analysis, and advocating on their behalf.
Effectively communicating the progress, priorities, and results of this work is critical to ensure education in emergencies coordination is at the forefront of humanitarian response. The Consultant will ensure country clusters and working groups have exchange and learning opportunities, including technical support, to develop and disseminate evidence-based and data-driven products.
Deliverables:
Deliverable 1: Advocacy message bank for resource mobilization (55 days)
As a chronically underfunded sector in humanitarian response, ensuring country clusters and working groups have fit-for-purpose tools, guidance, and knowledge to advocate for the prioritization of education in emergencies response in their context is a key priority.
Deliverable 2: Strengthen knowledge and learning around influencing decision-making for effective communications and advocacy (45 days)
Ensuring cluster teams have the requested knowledge, skills and guidance to influence agenda-setting and decision making with the aim or strengthening the prioritization and resourcing of education in emergencies response.
Deliverable 3: Develop Workshop for country clusters and working groups to deliver on core cluster function around advocacy, including dissemination of new guidance on advocacy and influencing developed (45 days)
The Consultant will develop a flagship Communications and Advocacy Workshop for country clusters and working groups to support dissemination, uptake and cross-country exchange on best practices for effectively mobilizing support for the prioritization of education in humanitarian response.
Deliverable 4: Develop global campaigns with evidence-based and data-driven products to elevate priorities and challenges of country clusters and working groups (50 days)
The Consultant will support develop key campaign assets for the GEC to elevate priorities and needs of cluster teams across key global platforms, fora, and events, to be defined based on mapping of opportunities and ranking of country priorities.
Deliverable 5: Develop communications assets to highlight country level results, including technical support to Country Clusters and Working Groups (55 days)
The Consultant will provide technical support to country clusters and working groups to develop communication products, for both country and global-level channels. Products to be developed will be based on needs and priorities of selected country education clusters/working groups.
Deliverable 6: Develop visibility assets on country support and achievements (30 days)
Effectively showcasing the impact of coordination through education clusters and working groups, and the GEC’s support in this, is critical to demonstrate the added-value of investing in coordination.
Work Assignment Overview
Tasks / Milestone | Deliverables / Outputs | Timeline / Deadline |
Deliverable 1: Advocacy message bank for resource mobilization (55 days) As a chronically underfunded sector in humanitarian response, ensuring country clusters and working groups have fit-for-purpose tools, guidance, and knowledge to advocate for the prioritization of education in emergencies response in their context is a key priority. | Sub-deliverable: Preliminary advocacy bank and guidance to support resource mobilization and advocacy efforts of country clusters and working groups | 30 working days; By July 2024 |
Sub-deliverable: Advocacy messages based on new guidance for selected country clusters/working groups | 20 working days; By August 2024 | |
Sub-deliverable: Final advocacy bank and guidance, applying learning from piloting | 5 working days; By September 2024 | |
Deliverable 2: Guidance on influencing decision-making for effective communications and advocacy (45 days) Ensuring cluster teams have the request knowledge, skills and guidance to influence agenda-setting and decision making with the aim or strengthening the prioritization and resourcing of education in emergencies response. This is a current gap in GEC resource. | Sub-deliverable: Draft guidance for country clusters and working groups on influencing decision-making for the prioritization of education in emergencies response | 20 working days; By October 2024 |
Sub-deliverable: Guidance contextualized for selected country clusters/working groups | 20 working days; By January 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Finalize guidance, applying lessons learned | 5 working days; By February 2025 | |
Deliverable 3: Workshop for country clusters and working groups to deliver on core cluster function around advocacy, including dissemination of new guidance on advocacy and influencing developed (45 days) The Consultant will develop a flagship Communications and Advocacy Workshop for country clusters and working groups to support dissemination, uptake and cross-country exchange on best practices for effectively mobilizing support for the prioritization of education in humanitarian response. | Sub-deliverable: Inception phase to take stock of key skills gaps and needs among country clusters and working groups | 5 working days; By March 2025 |
Sub-deliverable: workshop package | 25 working days; By April 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Workshop package with country clusters and working groups implemented | 5 working days; By May 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Final package based on pilot | 5 working days; By May 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Training of trainer on the Workshop package with the GEC Rapid Response Team | 5 working days; By June 2025 | |
Deliverable 4: Develop global campaigns with evidence-based and data-driven products to elevate priorities and challenges of country clusters and working groups (50 days) The Consultant will support develop key campaign assets for the GEC to elevate priorities and needs of cluster teams across key global platforms, fora, and events, to be defined based on mapping of opportunities and ranking of country priorities. | Sub-deliverable: Communications package developed for selected campaigns #1 | 10 working days; September 2024 |
Sub-deliverable: Communications package developed for selected campaigns #2 | 10 working days; By November 2024 | |
Sub-deliverable: Communications package developed for selected campaigns #3 | 10 working days; By January 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Communications package developed for selected campaigns #4 | 10 working days; By June 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Communications package developed for selected campaigns #5 | 10 working days; By July 2025 | |
Deliverable 5: communications assets to highlight country level results, including technical support to Country Clusters and Working Groups (55 days) The Consultant will provide technical support to country clusters and working groups to develop communication products, for both country and global-level channels. | Sub-deliverable: Country communications and advocacy product #1 | 5 working days; By February 2025 |
Sub-deliverable: Country communications and advocacy product #2 | 5 working days; By December 2024 | |
Sub-deliverable: Country communications and advocacy product #3 | 5 working days; By January 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Country communications and advocacy product #4 | 5 working days; By March 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Country communications and advocacy product #5 | 5 working days; By April 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Country communications and advocacy product #6 | 5 working days; By May 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Country communications and advocacy product #7 | 5 working days; By June 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Country communications and advocacy product #8 | 5 working days; By July 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Country communications and advocacy product #9 | 5 working days; By July 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Country communications and advocacy product #10 | 5 working days; By August 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: Country communications and advocacy product #11 | 5 working days; By August 2025 | |
Deliverable 6:Visibility assets on country support and achievements (30 days) Effectively showcasing the impact of coordination through education clusters and working groups, and the GEC’s support in this, is critical to demonstrate the added-value of investing in coordination. | Sub-deliverable: visibility asset developed #1 | 10 working days; By February 2025 |
Sub-deliverable: visibility asset developed #2 | 10 working days; By May 2025 | |
Sub-deliverable: visibility asset developed #3 | 10 working days; By August 2025 |
Estimated Duration of the Contract
280 working days between June 2024 and August 2025.
Consultant’s Work Place and Official Travel
The Consultant will be remote/home-based.
As part of this assignment, some international travels are foreseen. The consultant will arrange her/his travel as and when they take place, and related costs will be reimbursed per UNICEF travel policy.
Travel Clause
Estimated Cost of the Consultancy & Payment Schedule
Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of an invoice and satisfactory completion of the above-mentioned 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.
Please submit a professional fee (in USD) based on 280 working days to undertake this assignment, without travel fees as this will be reimbursed as and when they take place.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS), and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
View our competency framework at http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf
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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.
Remarks:
Please include a full CV, a Cover Letter, and sample of previous work in your application. Additionally, indicate your availability and professional fee (in USD) to undertake the terms of reference above. Applications submitted without a professional fee will not be considered. 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 offers reasonable accommodation for consultants 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.
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