UN Partnership on the Rights of the Person with Disability (UNPRPD) Project Technical Consultant, Palau

UN Partnership on the Rights of the Person with Disability (UNPRPD) Project Technical Consultant, 6 Months, Palau

Job no: 575743

Position kind: Consultant

Location: Fiji/Pacific Island Countries

Division/Equivalent: Bangkok (EAPRO), Thailand

School/Unit: Fiji (Pacific Islands) – MCP

Department/Office: Pacific Office, Suva, Fiji

Categories: Social Policy

UNICEF works in some of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, in all places, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each little one, entry.

In the Pacific UNICEF works in Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu: These 14 Pacific Island nations are home to 2.3 million individuals. This 12 months, UNICEF, on behalf of three Resident Coordinator Offices in the area, will lead the inception part of a ten-country initiative to advertise the rights of individuals with disabilities in line with the UNCRPD. Countries embrace the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

Of these ten nations six have ratified the UN Convention on the Right of Persons with Disability, the place 4 haven’t. The overarching imaginative and prescient of the initiative is for the rights of individuals with disabilities to be revered, protected, and fulfilled and for all individuals with disabilities to take part in society absolutely and actively on an equal foundation with others. The mission is to help nations to speed up the implementation of the CRPD and incapacity inclusive SDGs for all individuals with disabilities with the full involvement of the Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs). The principal end result is for nations to develop and implement insurance policies, plans, budgets, applications and companies with the significant participation of OPDs in line with the CRPD obligations and dedication to the SDGs.

How are you able to make a distinction?

Scope of work:

Engage in Induction Workshop

• Develop coaching supplies for a 6-day coaching based mostly on UNPRPD Fund’s standardized coaching supplies in session with Pacific Disability Fund (PDF)who will ship the coaching:
• • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and disability-inclusive SDGs
  • UNPRPD’s cross-cutting approaches
  • Preconditions for incapacity inclusion
  • Elements of situational evaluation
• Support the PDF in delivering the coaching for key stakeholders, together with UN Organizations, authorities actors, Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs), and different civil society actors.
• Ensure lively participation of individuals with disabilities in the coaching.
• Document the coaching together with pre- and post-assessment.

2. Conduct Situational Analysis

• Follow the UNPRPD Fund’s template to develop a complete evaluation of the nationwide context.
• Organize and facilitate consultative conferences with nationwide implementation companions and stakeholders.
• Develop knowledge assortment protocols, undertake knowledge assortment, carry out knowledge evaluation, and write the ultimate report.
• Analyze contextual elements affecting UNCRPD and SDG implementation, in addition to preconditions for incapacity inclusion.
• Identify gaps in incapacity inclusion inside ongoing nationwide processes and applications.
• Provide suggestions for additional in-depth evaluation the place wanted.
• Establish a basis for mutual understanding and dealing relationships amongst UN entities, authorities, OPDs, and different stakeholders.
• Ensure the evaluation can function an advocacy device and inform coverage planning.

Please seek advice from the ToR ( TOR_UNPRPD Project Technical Consultant (batch Samoa and Palau).pdf) for additional info on the deliverables and the timelines.

GUIDANCE FOR APPLICANTS:

This Consultancy is open to particular person specialists solely. Candidates are requested to supply an achievement oriented CV and canopy letter.

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• Candidates are requested to submit a separate monetary provide alongside with their software. The monetary proposal ought to embrace a lump sum quantity for all the deliverables and will point out a transparent break down for the following:
• Monthly / Daily fees- based mostly on the deliverables in the Terms of Reference above
• Miscellaneous: to cowl communications, and different prices.

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have…

Education:

• The lead marketing consultant will need to have a college Degree in social sciences subject, together with group improvement and human rights legislation; with 3 years of expertise in incapacity work

or

• Technical Certificate in group improvement, incapacity inclusion; with 5 years of expertise in the incapacity work.

Experience & Skills:

• Demonstrated expertise in working in the space of incapacity inclusive improvement and in UNCRPD implementation and/or monitoring.
• Demonstrated expertise in producing and/or delivering coaching to all kinds of individuals and organisations in the Pacific. Audiences can embrace youth, OPDs, CSOs, authorities and technical working teams.
• Demonstrated capacity to develop analysis evaluation instruments, reviews, and programme proposals inside deadlines.
• Demonstrated capacity to ship high quality outcomes inside deadlines.
• Fully proficient laptop expertise together with use of related graphic software program and different functions.
• At least three years of expertise in analysis and delivering high quality programme proposals to donors inside deadlines.
• Knowledge and expertise of a couple of 12 months of working with individuals with disabilities and their OPDs shall be a bonus.
• High degree interpersonal and relationship-building expertise
• Ability to speak successfully with individuals of varied cultures and disciplines
• Ability to establish dangers and to develop methods to mitigate them
• Ability to find out and evaluation priorities and meet deadlines
• Management & management expertise together with teaching and mentoring
• Diplomatic expertise to liaise with counterparts and totally different stakeholders
• Good analytical, negotiating, and advocacy expertise

Language:

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.

For each Child, you reveal…

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

To view our competency framework, please go to right here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF household is dedicated to incorporate everybody, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute.

UNICEF affords affordable lodging for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This could embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your software in case you want affordable lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your project.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict little one safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background test.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.

Individuals engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “staff members” beneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (corresponding to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service shall be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are answerable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the whole interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and will not be anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.

Advertised: Nov 18 2024 Fiji Standard Time

Application shut: Nov 24 2024 Fiji Standard Time