National Consultant: Resilience

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Purpose of assignment:

The objective of this consultancy is to support the Resilience Services/Centers+ portfolio by providing technical and operational guidance to Oblasts, hromadas, UNICEF country office and field offices in the establishment of Resilience Services+. The role sits in the Child Protection Section’s MHPSS/Resilience team, but has close linkages to other parts of the section, in particular the team working on community-based social services, as well as other UNICEF sections involved in supporting resilience+, and UNICEF field offices implementing the model at sub-national level.

In particular, the consultant will support the following areas of work, under the management of the Child Protection Specialist (Resilience):

 

1. Provide technical guidance and operational support to relevant the field offices implementing Resilience Services+, with a focus on Kharkiv oblast:

1. Provide operational support to Kharkiv and other field offices, sub-national and local government counterparts and CSO partners for the successful roll-out of resilience services+.
2. Support regular monitoring of progress and quality assurance of resilience services+ roll-out at subnational level, in Kharkiv and beyond. Manage the documentation of lessons learnt and best practices based on the five pilot Resilience Centers+ in Kharkiv oblast.
3. Draft guidance notes, procedures, and other relevant support documents for field office implementation of resilience services+, both for the hard component (rehabilitation or repair work), and soft component (social services).

Support the pre-service and in-service capacity-building of resilience services+ staff in Kharkiv oblast and beyond, including development of standardized training packages, review of capacity-building efforts, compilation of best practices, coordination of NGO partners implementing trainings, etc

 

2. Provide technical guidance and operational support to the UNICEF Child Protection section and other sections (SBC, ADAP, Education, Health, WASH, Comms) on the operationalization of Resilience Services+:
   1. Provide guidance on relevant local laws and regulations at national, regional and local self-Government level for the implementation for Resilience Services+
   2. Provide technical support to the development of guidance notes, manuals, and standard operating procedures relevant for the nation-wide roll-out of Resilience Services+
   3. Review resilience-related content, documents and key messages, and provide technical backstopping and quality assurance.
   4. Draft briefs, reports, and inputs to other strategic programme materials for section and management use, information and/or consideration.
   5. Draft and compile lessons learned, best practices and human interest stories related to the roll-out of Resilience+.
3. Support collaboration with Resilience+ counterparts and stakeholders, in particular with MOSP, Regional Governments, hromadas, Maestral, and other stakeholders as appropriate
   1. Support effective internal collaboration with other sections involved in resilience+, in particular SBC, ADAP, Education, Health, WASH, Comms, for successful alignment and coordination.
   2. Support the convening of relevant stakeholders, including MOSP, regional/local Government, and NGO partners.
   3. Draft summary notes, presentations, and other relevant materials for regular coordination meetings with MOSP and other stakeholders
   4. Support the creation and maintaining of a resource data base with methodologies for resilience services+

 

Work assignment overview:

Deliverable	Deadline	# of w/days
1 Inception Report and workplan	31 March 2024	15
Report on delivery of technical guidance and operational support to Kharkiv Field Office specifically and potentially other offices implementing Resilience+, specifically: 5 guidance notes and other relevant support documents for hard and soft component operationalization at field level 3 monitoring reports indicating progress and quality assurance of roll-out at sub-national level. Hands-on, field-based support to at least 3 offices, and at least 6 missions to support offices implementing resilience+ 3 capacity-building / trainings provided for resilience+ staff (pre-service and in-service) of	31 December 2024	80
Report on delivery of technical guidance and operational support provided to UNICEF Country Office (Child Protection and other sections) on operationalization of Resilience Services+, specifically: 3 Guidance notes on relevant local laws and regulations relevant at national level 5 contextualized manuals, guidance notes, operating procedures for roll-out 6 briefs, reports, and inputs to other strategic program materials	31 December 2024	70
Reports on support provided to collaboration with resilience+ counterparts and stakeholders, specifically: 10 meetings held for convening of relevant stakeholders, including MOSP, and minutes captured and disseminated. 10 presentations, and other relevant materials produced for regular coordination meetings with MOSP and other stakeholders	15 February 2025	30
Report on establishment of Resilience+ knowledge management, specifically: Drafting and compilation of 5 lessons learned, best practices, human interest stories related to resilience+ Creation and maintaining of 1 common resource data base with all methodologies, tools, guidance notes etc. for resilience services+	15 February 2025	30
1 final recommendations and handover report	25 February 2025	15
Sub-total:		240

Travel plan: Upon request 6 round trips within Ukraine (30 days).

Please provide an all-inclusive financial proposal including travels to carry out the deliverables listed above.

Education: An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in one of the following fields: social sciences, psychology, human rights, sociology, international relations, international development, or other related disciplines.

Professional experience: 

• A minimum of 2 years of professional experience in social services at national or subnational level is required.

• Experience working in war-affected regions of Ukraine is an asset.

• Relevant experience in social services, Child Protection, Resilience or related areas, program/project development and management in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.

• Experience in both humanitarian and development contexts is an added advantage..

Languages: 

• Ukrainian: Advanced [C1] ;
• English: Upper-Intermediate [B2].

Skills and competencies:

• Good analytical skills;
• Good communication skills;
• Support to programme/project development and planning;
• Networking and partnership building;
• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building.

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

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 Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed 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.

 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.