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Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
The nationwide guide will assist the UNICEF Country Office in Viet Nam in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of humanitarian money switch (HCT) applications in response to Typhoon Yagi and subsequent floods in Northen Mountain Provinces of Viet Nam. This function entails coordinating with varied stakeholders, together with native authorities, native communities, NGOs, and governmental businesses, money working group, service suppliers and UNICEF programme sections to guarantee efficient supply of UNICEF supported humanitarian money help that meets the wants of affected populations in a well timed and efficient method, to be in line with UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children (CCC) in Emergency.
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Scope of Work:
In response to Typhoon Yagi and subsequent floods and storms, and upon the requests from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to assist affected provinces, UNICEF has been offering vital and life-saving assist to the federal government of Viet Nam to put together for, take early motion, and reply to the emergency. Against this backdrop, and with the growing request from the federal government about money assist in response to Typhoon Yagi and subsequent floods, UNICEF Viet Nam has been working with VDDMA/MARD to roll out the UNICEF supported humanitarian money switch in affected provinces of Viet Nam.
Worldwide, money transfers in humanitarian settings are more and more seen as an environment friendly, cost-effective and well timed means of strengthening resilience of affected communities going through a shock. Through money assist, the affected communities coping mechanisms might be supported in the direction of eliminating the necessity to resort to adverse coping methods with usually have long-term adverse affect on the well-being of households and kids.
UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children (CCC), the core UNICEF coverage and framework for humanitarian motion, upholds the use of unconditional and unrestricted humanitarian money transfers (HCTs) to be sure that kids and their households can have entry to monetary help to assist them meet their primary wants in a dignified method and in accordance to their very own priorities. Where markets are purposeful, the availability of humanitarian money transfers has been demonstrated to be an efficient mechanism to promote well-being of households, stimulate the native financial system and velocity up restoration and reconstruction efforts.
Due to the necessity to guarantee a well timed and efficient response to the present emergency, it’s obligatory to recruit an HCT guide to improve UNICEF’s capability to reply successfully and well timed to key commitments in delivering money assist to affected communities.
The Consultant might be required for 75 working days over the interval of 5 months from 3 January to 30 June 2025.
Purpose and Objectives:
The Consultant will assist UNICEF to successfully perform deliberate humanitarian money switch programmes by means of main the data, coordination, implementation, monitoring at native ranges in Northen Mountains provinces together with however not restricted to Lao Cai, Yen Bai, and Cao Bang. Technical assist consists of beneficiary information assortment, coordination with native authorities, CWG, NGOs, native communities and UNICEF service suppliers akin to monetary service supplier, third celebration monitoring on the native ranges of affected provinces, monitoring and follow-up of grievances.
Summary of Key Functions/Accountabilities:
1. Provide technical assist to UNICEF in planning, implementation and monitoring of HCT as per cost plans.
2. Coordinate UNICEF HCT response on the nationwide and native degree, together with strengthen UNICEF accountability to affected populations (AAP).
3. Reporting and documentation of venture implementation and good practices.
Location:
The guide is predicted to work from home, have conferences just about and/or at UNICEF and associate places of work, and conduct common area journeys to the venture provinces, together with the northern mountain provinces together with however not restricted to Yen Bai, Lao Cai, and Cao Bang. The guide ought to be versatile in staying lengthy period in completely different venture location as per requirement.
Tasks:
Task 1: Provide technical assist to UNICEF in planning, implementation and monitoring of HCT as per cost plans;
– Keep up to date on HCT response to Typhoon Yagi being applied by authorities, UN businesses, INGOs and native NGOs
– Participating in the Cash Working Group co-ordination conferences and UNICEF Emergency Management Team conferences as required;
Task 2: Coordinate UNICEF HCT response on the nationwide and native degree, together with strengthen UNICEF accountability to affected populations (AAP)
– Coordinate with UNICEF, monetary service supplier, native authorities, and associated stakeholders to guarantee well timed distribution of HCT,
– Support the coordination for the baseline survey, cost verification and post-distribution monitoring to be carried out by the third celebration service supplier contracted by UNICEF.
– Work carefully with native authorities and companions on concentrating on, information assortment and registration processes, distribution plan, communication, and monitoring.
– Undertake area visits to monitor programme implementation and present technical help to focused provinces as requested and gather and report disaggregated information on beneficiaries (if obligatory).
– Liaise with related native authorities and group leaders to guarantee group participation and consciousness on HCT assist programme by UNICEF.
– Provide technical assist in accumulating and dealing with grievance and grievance on the area in accordance with UNICEF SOP and procedures.
Task 3: Reporting and documentation of venture implementation and good practices
– Prepare and submit well timed stories on program progress, challenges, and suggestions to senior administration and donor businesses.
– Collect information and present inputs to stories per the UNICEF Response Plan and UN Joint Response Plan.
– Document greatest practices and classes discovered for future programming.
Methodology:
The Consultant might be supervised by Social Policy and Governance Officer, UNICEF Viet Nam. The Consultant will nonetheless work regularly with related UNICEF Sections, Government companions, UN Agencies, CWG, service suppliers as effectively native authorities and communities.
Travel:
The guide is predicted to journey to northern provinces together with however not restricted to Lao Cai, Yen Bai, and Cao Bang (tentatively 6 journeys, every journey about 3 days). The guide will want to arrange personal journey, together with lodging and transportation. UNICEF can pay the day by day subsistence allowance as per UN-approved fee. The guide should be match to journey, be in a possession of the legitimate UN DSS Basic and Advanced Security certificates, compulsory inoculation(s) and have a sound personal journey/medical insurance coverage with hospitalization and repatriation protection. The dates for the journey might be decided in session with the Social Policy Officer and the Country Office.
Management:
The consultancy is to be supervised by UNICEF Social Policy Officer beneath the general steering of Chief of Social Policy and Governance Section. The guide will work in shut collaboration with the colleagues from SPG and programme sections of UNICEF.
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Minimum Qualifications required:
Disciplines: Bachelor in worldwide growth, social safety, social science, rural growth, emergency administration or different related areas.
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:
– University diploma in worldwide affairs, worldwide growth, social sciences, public coverage, or having DRM/DRR profile and good information of money transfers and/or social safety.
– A minimal of 2 yr working expertise in catastrophe danger discount and/or catastrophe danger administration, cash-based programming in emergencies, humanitarian money transfers (HCT) programme implementation, adaptive social safety, shock-responsive social safety.
– Familiarity with the idea and practices of social safety in emergencies.
– Field expertise relating to social growth applications in Northern Mountain Provinces particularly in ethnic minority communities is an asset.
– Experience in multi-stakeholder co-ordination and facilitation.
– Good pc abilities (MS Word, Powerpoint, Excel);
– Fluency in written and spoken Vietnamese and English is required.
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Assessment standards:
For analysis and choice methodology, the Cumulative Analysis Method (weight mixed rating methodology) shall be used for this recruitment:
a) Technical Qualification weight 70 factors:
1.1 Educational background: 20 factors
– University diploma in worldwide affairs, worldwide growth, social sciences, public coverage, or having DRM/DRR profile and good information of money transfers and/or social safety.
1.2 Relevant working experiences: 50 factors
– A minimal of 2 yr working expertise in catastrophe danger discount and/or catastrophe danger administration, cash-based programming in emergencies, humanitarian money transfers (HCT) programme implementation, adaptive social safety, shock-responsive social safety.(20)
– Familiarity with the idea and practices of social safety in emergencies .(10)
– Field expertise relating to social growth applications in Northern Mountain Provinces particularly in ethnic minority communities is an asset.(10)
– Experience in multi-stakeholder co-ordination and facilitation . (10)
b) Financial Proposal (Maximum 30 Points)
All costs/charges quoted should be unique of all taxes as UNICEF is a tax-exempt group.
Financial proposal ought to be all-inclusive lump-sum price together with consultancy price, journey and any associated prices for the project.
The most quantity of factors shall be allotted to the bottom Financial Proposal that’s opened/evaluated and in contrast amongst these technical certified candidates
who’ve attained a minimal 50-point rating in the technical analysis. Other Financial Proposals will obtain factors in inverse proportion to the bottom value.
The contract might be awarded to the candidate with the very best whole rating, based mostly on these standards, making certain that the chosen guide possesses the mandatory academic background, related expertise, and technical abilities.
Submission of functions:
a. Letter of curiosity/CV;
b. Three references of related earlier project(s);
d. Financial proposal: All-inclusive lump-sum price together with consultancy price, journey and another related prices for this project.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute.
UNICEF presents reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This might embody, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to disclose your incapacity throughout your application in case you want cheap lodging in the course of 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 child safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates might be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and rules and will subsequently endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of tutorial credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to present further info to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following 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 (akin to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service might 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 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 be sure that the visa (relevant) and medical 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 in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met prior 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 period of their consultancy contracts.
Individual National Consultant for Field Coordination of Humanitarian Cash Transfer in Response to Typhoon Yagi and Subsequent Floods in Northen Mountain Provinces of Viet Nam
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