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Across 190 nations and territories, we work for each child, in all places, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means hand over.
For each child, Education
Background on the Education Outcomes Fund
There are few larger challenges confronted by the worldwide group than the dual crises of studying poverty and youth unemployment. In response, the Education Commission (chaired by Gordon Brown, former UK Prime Minister and UN Special Envoy for Global Education) and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen) got here along with our founding CEO (Her Excellency Dr.) Amel Karboul to create EOF. We purpose to enhance the training and employment outcomes of 10 million kids and youth, by supporting governments to make the most of a variety of progressive finance devices at scale, together with outcomes funds and different results-based financing (RBF) devices.
EOF is backed by a range of world leaders who assist us to form our strategy and obtain our formidable goals, in addition to leaders in training and influence investing.
EOF helps enhancements within the high quality of training and abilities programmes, with a particular concentrate on ladies and underserved populations, together with these within the hardest to achieve rural areas. It measures (and pays for) what issues – each core abilities like literacy and numeracy, but in addition crucial twenty first Century abilities corresponding to socio-emotional abilities, ICT abilities, and different broader fundamentals of a top quality training. It helps shut the persistent hole between the talents wanted by employers and people attained by right this moment’s youth.
For all of the above, EOF pays totally on the idea of the outcomes achieved, making certain that taxpayer-funded home sources, assist, and philanthropic funds are solely used to pay for what works. This is a game-changing approach to finance ends in training, focusing consideration and realigning techniques on essentially the most difficult however most vital measure of a programme’s efficiency: whether or not it’s bettering lives.
Together with our supporters, we imagine that is the early levels of a a lot bigger motion, with enormous potential to extend studying outcomes for kids and youth all over the world, via improved assist effectiveness and authorities spending.
Since our inception in 2018, EOF has:
- Partnered with governments in Ghana and Sierra Leone to ascertain the 2 largest outcomes funds thus far in creating nations, mobilising ~$50M for these programmes.
- Established itself as a number one international participant in RBF, and the one devoted heart of experience for RBF in training and abilities.
- Become the primary outcomes fund hosted by the United Nations inside UNICEF, as a scalable platform to accomplice with governments all over the world.
- Established a serious partnership with the LEGO Foundation, to develop a scale portfolio of RBF programmes in early childhood throughout a various vary of nations, in addition to to amplify the motion and ecosystem of companions round this strategy.
- Had our progressive strategy featured within the Stanford Social Innovation Review, FT, Economist, Brookings, and extra.
- Built our institutional capability to contract and implement large-scale outcomes funds extra effectively and successfully than historic influence bonds.
- Established a powerful tradition of efficiency and an lively concentrate on ongoing skilled improvement for all our workforce.
Purpose of the project
EOF requires skilled facilitation assist to realize high-impact outcomes throughout key moments of reflection, technique, and organizational improvement. This consists of EOF’s Annual Results Review Meetings for its complete workforce, common Leadership Team workshops and different crucial classes.
This consultancy roster will set up a pool of facilitators who carry a mix of enterprise acumen, mastery of facilitation instruments, and deep experience in organizational dynamics, together with management challenges, change administration, and workforce improvement.
The actions could embrace the next:
- Pre-Session Design: Collaborate with EOF management to co-design session outlines, suggest buildings, design actions, and produce required supplies (e.g., slide decks, instruments). Sessions have to be personalized to EOF’s context, objectives, and group dynamics.
- Lead or co-facilitate classes with excessive power and engagement, making certain protected, inclusive, and productive environments.
- Post-Session Outputs: Provide actionable summaries or insights that assist EOF apply learnings successfully.
Qualification Requirements
- An superior diploma in political science, human sources, economics, finance, enterprise, training, worldwide improvement, or a associated subject, is required.
- A Bachelor’s diploma in a related topic might be thought-about with a further 2 years’ related expertise.
- Knowledgeable certification in designing or facilitating coaching is fascinating, however not required.
- A minimal of 10 years of related skilled expertise in technique consulting, administration consulting, organizational improvement or comparable sectors is required.
1. Business Acumen:
– Proven skill to know organizational fashions, enterprise challenges, and strategic objectives.
– Experience working with management groups and senior executives (e.g., C-Suite, ministers).
2. Facilitation Expertise:
– Mastery of various facilitation instruments and strategies, each on-line and in-person.
– Strong skill to design and execute classes that transcend surface-level actions.
– Expertise in managing time successfully with out compromising depth.
3. Depth in Organizational Dynamics:
– Deep understanding of group dynamics, workforce improvement, and management challenges.
– Experience with change administration and organizational improvement processes.
– High emotional intelligence and the flexibility to navigate delicate workforce dynamics.
4. Inclusion and Safety:
– Demonstrated skill to create inclusive environments the place individuals really feel protected to contribute.
5. Technology Proficiency:
– Expertise with instruments for on-line facilitation and hybrid engagement.
6. Engaging Presence:
– Dynamic {and professional} talking fashion, with the flexibility to energise and encourage individuals.
Fluency in English is required.
- Fluency in English is required.
DESIRED REQUIREMENTS
- Experience working within the international training sector and/or worldwide improvement.
- Experience designing and facilitating skilled improvement coaching. Professional teaching or mentoring expertise.
- Knowledge of progressive financing fashions.
- Knowledge of organizational tradition improvement.
To excel on this position, facilitators should mix:
- Strategic Insight: The skill to attach facilitation outcomes with EOF’s broader mission and objectives.
- Tailored Design: A dedication to understanding EOF’s distinctive context and designing classes which might be related, impactful, and memorable.
- Adaptive Expertise: The flexibility to regulate facilitation strategies in actual time to satisfy group wants and dynamics.
EOF values facilitators who suppose strategically, problem assumptions constructively, and assist our groups to achieve readability, alignment, and actionable outcomes.
Please submit your application, together with:
- A quick cowl letter highlighting your expertise within the areas outlined above.
- Two examples of facilitation work that showcase your skill to steadiness strategic perception, facilitation mastery, and group dynamics experience.
- References from previous purchasers or colleagues who can attest to your abilities in facilitation and management engagement.
- Financial proposal (i.e. each day consulting charge) in USD. Please make sure you embrace and add a monetary proposal (with each day consultancy charge in USD), in any other case your application won’t be thought-about.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS
Only shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. At the top of the choice course of, a guide roster might be created.
Once a guide roster is created, when the necessity for specific experience arises, EOF will strategy a number of guide candidates on the roster with particular Terms of Reference to debate availability and curiosity and additional assess experience and expertise vis-à-vis the particular phrases of reference. Successful candidates might be positioned on a pre-approved roster that can stay legitimate for36 months.
For each Child, you exhibit…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should mirror the range 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 some other private attribute.
UNICEF gives reasonable accommodation 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 application in case you want cheap lodging through the choice course of and afterwards in your project.
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 might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can subsequently 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 data to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
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 go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations 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 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 fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking over the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF for the period of their consultancy contracts.
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