Syria Partnership Compact Working Group Consultant, MENARO, Education, 4.5 months (Remote/Work from home).

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, education. 

Ensuring the prioritization of the development of a Whole of Syria (WOS) Compact, with GPE support, will provide an opportunity to sustain the coordination efforts between humanitarian, development and stabilization actors and be endorsed by the full EDF membership. The EDF was founded by the WoS Education Cluster and the Donor Partners Group (DPG), and through facilitation of the Education Cannot Wait (ECW) and GPE Secretariats. The purpose of the EDF was to bring together all international efforts to strengthen education inside Syria, ensuring improved collaboration, coherence, and effectiveness across the humanitarian, stabilization, and development responses (continuum) and addressing strategic policy and technical education issues. 

How can you make a difference? 

Provide technical support in the completion of the Initial Requirement Screening Template against GPE required questions. This will include technical advice and leadership through remote participation in meetings and technical discussion along with desk-review analysis of available documents.

Provide technical leadership and coordination in the development of the Compact Document working closely with the GPE Partnership Compact Working Group. This includes the drafting of the Compact document with inputs provided by relevant counterparts along with the preparation of necessary support documents, PowerPoint presentations and analysis of education data including financial analysis.

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

• Masters or PhD  in social sciences, public policy, education policy and/or international development policy or any other related field. 
• At least 10 years of relevant experience in education sector planning and policy formulation.
• Sufficient consultancy experience in undertaking education sector related research and development of compacts, preferably in developing countries including in the area of education in crisis and conflict.
• Experience in development of policy level documents, including related to financial analysis and costing.
• Experience in organizing and conducting national consultations and policy dialogue.
• Prior UNICEF and GPE compact development experience will be considered as an asset.
• Good understanding of the Syria education context.      
• Excellent writing, communication, and presentation skills with stakeholders.
• Ability to work under pressure and commitment to work to tight timeframe.
• Fluency in English is required. Fluency in Arabic will be considered as an asset. 

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.