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Consultancy Title: L3/L2 Outlook – Scenario Development Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Office of Emergency Operations, UNICEF NYHQ

Duration: 1 January 2025 to 30 June 2025

Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote

 

About UNICEF

If you’re a dedicated, inventive skilled and are keen about making an enduring distinction for kids, the world’s main kids’s rights group wish to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been engaged on the bottom in 190 international locations and territories to advertise kids’s survival, safety and improvement. The world’s largest supplier of vaccines for growing international locations, UNICEF helps little one well being and vitamin, good water and sanitation, high quality fundamental schooling for all girls and boys, and the safety of youngsters from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded fully by the voluntary contributions of people, companies, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 employees in additional than 145 international locations.

 

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

The EMOPS Risk Assessment and Analysis Section (RAPS) has a mandate to enhance and conduct danger evaluation and forecasting associated to contextual dangers, at HQ, RO and CO ranges.

Under the supervision of the Emergency Specialist (Risk Analysis), the L3/L2 Outlook – Scenario Development Consultant will help UNICEF’s world contextual danger monitoring and evaluation, together with its hyperlinks to preparedness. 

 

Scope of Work:

The Contextual Risk Analyst (CRA) will draft analytical briefs together with situations and probabilistic forecasts for a variety of contextual hazards, with a robust give attention to battle with humanitarian impacts.

The Consultant will work with the EMOPS Risk Analysis and Preparedness Section. This is a distant / home-based consultancy.

 

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

L3/L2 Outlook #10    

• 4-6 per situations together with associated inputs to briefing notes, displays, and so forth. for one CO (30 January 2025)

L3/L2 Outlook #11    

• 4-6 per situations together with associated inputs to briefing notes, displays, and so forth. for one further CO (28 February 2025)

L3/L2 Outlook #12    

• 4-6 per situations together with associated inputs to briefing notes, displays, and so forth. for one further CO (30 March 2025)

L3/L2 Outlook #13    

• 4-6 per situations together with associated inputs to briefing notes, displays, and so forth. for one further CO (30 April 2025)

L3/L2 Outlook #14    

• 4-6 per situations together with associated inputs to briefing notes, displays, and so forth. for one further CO (30 May 2025)

L3/L2 Outlook #15

• 4-6 per situations together with associated inputs to briefing notes, displays, and so forth. for one further CO (30 June 2025)

In-country CO/RO/HQ state of affairs consultations, evaluation help to L3/L2 

• 2 CO help missions are accomplished together with facilitating danger evaluation discussions, consultations with exterior stakeholders and CO employees, drafting one complete danger evaluation and state of affairs outlook, to help contingency planning (30 June 2025)

 

Qualifications

Education: 

Advanced college diploma (Masters) within the space of Political Science, Peace/Conflict Studies, International Relations, Economics, Law, History, or different associated area is required.

 

Work expertise:

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *: 

• At least 5 years’ expertise in contextual danger evaluation, together with a robust give attention to battle evaluation (obligatory)
• Experience in assessing danger when it comes to probability/likelihood, influence and vulnerability
• Experience in humanitarian state of affairs improvement
• Knowledge of UNICEF humanitarian operations at L3/L2 degree
• Experience in writing experiences for senior audiences
• Spoken and written fluency in English (obligatory); one other UN language, particularly Arabic or French, is an asset.

 

Requirements:

Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and

– Upload copy of educational credentials

– Financial proposal that may embody/ replicate :

• • the prices per every deliverable and the overall lump-sum for the entire project (in US$) to undertake the phrases of reference.
  • journey prices and day by day subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or journey is required as per TOR.
  • Any different estimated prices: visa, medical insurance, and residing prices as relevant.
  • Indicate your availability

– Any emergent / unexpected responsibility journey and associated bills will likely be lined by UNICEF.

– At the time the contract is awarded, the chosen candidate should have in place present medical insurance protection.

– Payment {of professional} charges will likely be based mostly on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withhold cost in case the deliverables submitted are lower than the required customary or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the marketing consultant.

U.S. Visa data:

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, ought to the chosen candidate and his/her family members reside within the United States beneath a distinct visa, the marketing consultant and his/her family members are required to alter their visa standing to G4, and the marketing consultant’s family members (partner) would require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to have the ability to work, even when he/she was licensed to work beneath the visa held previous to switching to G4.  

Only shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of

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Remarks:  

Individuals engaged beneath a consultancy won’t be thought of “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 supplied therein (comparable to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will likely be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants. Consultants are accountable 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 insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for all the interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of totally-vaccinated standing in opposition to 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 usually are not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.