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Consultancy Title: Alliance Strategy Review consultant
Section/Division/Duty Station: Child Protection, Programme Group, UNICEF NYHQ
Duration: 15 January 2025 to 30 June 2025
Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote
About UNICEF
If you’re a dedicated, artistic skilled and are captivated with making a long-lasting difference for kids, the world’s main kids’s rights group want to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been engaged on the bottom in 190 nations and territories to advertise kids’s survival, safety and improvement. The world’s largest supplier of vaccines for growing nations, UNICEF helps child well being and vitamin, good water and sanitation, high quality primary training for all girls and boys, and the safety of kids from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded fully by the voluntary contributions of people, companies, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 workers in additional than 145 nations.
BACKGROUND
Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a world community of operational businesses, tutorial establishments, policymakers, donors and practitioners that facilitates inter-company technical collaboration on child safety in all humanitarian contexts. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) co-leads the Alliance with rotating NGOs, presently World Vision International and Hurras Network /Child Guardians.
The Alliance units requirements and produces technical steerage for use by varied stakeholders, notably area practitioners. Its mission is to help humanitarian actors to attain excessive-high quality and efficient child safety interventions in humanitarian contexts, in each refugee and non-refugee settings. In 2021, the Alliance launched a 5-12 months technique, Clarion Call, which outlined an overarching aim to make sure that the centrality of children and their protection is acknowledged and prioritized as important and lifesaving throughout the humanitarian system. Since then, all of the Alliance’s technical work, advocacy, collaboration, and partnerships contribute to attaining this aim via motion and progress on the seven core areas of the technique, together with the 4 strategic priorities: (1) Accountability to Children, (2) Localization, (3) Multi-sector and Integrated Programming and Collaboration, (4) Prevention and (5) Climate Change as a trying ahead space, (6) Goal of the technique, and (7) Learning and Development –as an elevated core perform. The Alliance has launched its Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework to trace the progress of the Alliance Strategy and initiated a mid-time period overview of technique implementation in October 2023, which included a piloting of the M&E Framework and conducting an consequence harvesting train.
The goal of the project is to help the Alliance in conducting a progress overview of its 2021-2025 technique to tell the refresh of the technique for 2026-2030. To this finish, the consultant will full three, complementary however distinct duties:
- Part A: study the method and all materials that has come out from the mid-time period overview that was launched in October 2023, in addition to the session that happened in October 2024 with Steering Committee members and the leads of technical teams (all materials shall be made obtainable in an organized style).
- Part B: Plan and conduct a overview to know the plans made, assets leveraged, and supposed and unintended outcomes of the actions taken to attain the aim and priorities of the Alliance technique (by April 2025). This consists of, the aim, 4 priorities, local weather disaster part, and studying and improvement (as an elevated core perform).
- Part C (parallel to part B): Solicit inputs concerning enhancements that may be made throughout the present core parts of the technique to make it match for goal for the subsequent strategic interval (2026-2030).
Scope of Work:
Working in shut collaboration with the Alliance secretariat, Strategy Refresh Task Team, and the Assessment, Measurement, and Evidence Working Group (AME WG), the consultant will conduct a overview of the Alliance’s 5-Year Strategy. The overarching aim is to seize the progress, achievements, and affect of the Alliance and to establish gaps and challenges to tell the replace/refresh of the technique for the subsequent strategic cycle (2026-2030).
- Task 1: Produce an inception report outlining the steps that shall be taken to gather and collate essential data on the three components talked about above.
- Task 2: Produce a technique progress report, together with particular sections on every of the seven core parts of the technique
- Task 3: Draft a set of suggestions for the replace/refresh of the Alliance technique, together with breakdown linked to the seven core parts of the technique.
Adequate time must be constructed-in to make sure time for session with Strategy Refresh Task Team, Alliance secretariat, steering committee and technical group leads between the drafts and remaining stories. For activity 1, solely the secretariat and the technique activity staff will overview the inception plan. For duties 2 and three, the steering committee and the leads of Alliance technical teams may also be consulted and given an opportunity to enter to the outputs.
Recommended strategies of inquiry:
- Desk primarily based overview, together with information from related web sites
- Conduct restricted key informant interviews and/or FGDs with key stakeholders on child safety in humanitarian motion
- A survey to obtain contributions from all key stakeholders, together with all members of the SC, WG/TF/Initiative leads, and a few key donors/companions.*
* The survey is supposed to make sure wider session with key stakeholders that weren’t included in the important thing informant interview or FGDs. It additionally permits for anonymity; in case it helps a few of the actors in offering candid reflections.
Note: The maturity of the progress differs throughout strategic priorities, due to this fact, the overview may need to tackle a differential method to the totally different parts of the technique. This differential method must be decided in session with these businesses co-main the advisory or advisory / working teams for every precedence / core perform to make sure that it’s match for goal, inside what is feasible throughout the scope of the consultancy.
Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:
Task 1. Produce an inception report outlining the steps that shall be taken to gather and collate essential data on the three components talked about above.
- 1 inception report submitted (14 Feb 2025)
Task 2. Produce a technique progress report, together with particular sections on every of the seven core parts of the Alliance Strategy.
- 1 draft technique progress report submitted (30 April 2025)
- 1 participatory reflection assembly organized (15 May 2025)
- 1final report submitted (16 June 2025)
Task 3. Draft a set of suggestions for the replace/refresh of the Alliance Strategy.
- 1 draft suggestions submitted (30 June 2025)
Qualifications
Education:
Advanced college diploma (Masters) within the space of social sciences, public coverage, statistics, human rights/humanitarian regulation, or in analysis strategies is required.
Work expertise:
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:
- At least 5 years of related expertise in monitoring and analysis
- Strong information and expertise in child safety and/or humanitarian motion or related area
- Experience of main evaluations of conduct change interventions required
- Demonstrable experience in designing and conducting qualitative and quantitative evaluations and affect assessments.
- Experience with consequence harvesting
- Excellent and demonstrable talent in participatory monitoring and analysis methodologies and approaches.
- Proficiency in a spread of PC/net purposes, together with however not restricted to: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Outlook
- Fluent in oral and written English.
- Excellent report writing talent in English
- Excellent crucial pondering and interpersonal communication abilities.
- Ability to resolve issues and adapt.
- A dedication to and aptitude for consideration to particulars
- Ability to work properly and punctually beneath strain
- Excellent interpersonal abilities, with the power to efficiently work together with a various group of individuals and construct consensus;
- Flexible work perspective, with the power to comply with path and work independently throughout a digital work setting;
- Excellent organizational abilities, with the power to independently observe and comply with-up on varied duties;
- Collaborative work fashion, with sturdy staff-participant perspective and talent to establish gaps and to take initiative to fill them;
- Ability to function remotely and throughout a number of time-zones.
Requirements:
Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and
– Upload copy of educational credentials
– Financial proposal that can embody/ mirror :
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- the prices per every deliverable and the entire lump-sum for the entire project (in US$) to undertake the phrases of reference.
- journey prices and every 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 obligation journey and associated bills shall 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 shall be primarily based on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withhold cost in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the 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 unique visa, the consultant and his/her family members are required to alter their visa standing to G4, and the 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 shall be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of
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UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals 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 shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can due to this fact bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further data to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Individuals engaged beneath a consultancy is not going to 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 supplied therein (comparable to go away 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. 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 the complete 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 have to be met previous to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and aren’t anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the period of their consultancy contracts.
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