Apply for Consultant – Data Management and Monitoring (YOMA), Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

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Across 190 nations and territories, we work for each child, in every single place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

Background and Justification

UNICEF goals to make sure that each child and adolescent, learns and acquires expertise for their future. It focuses on addressing the worldwide studying disaster, shifting to elevated expertise acquisition and various studying pathways to higher attain probably the most marginalized. In line with the worldwide prioritization of youth, UNICEF’s Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa’s (ESARO) priorities are targeted on secondary-age schooling and transitions into work to advocate for and guarantee fairness in that extra youth within the area, together with probably the most susceptible, are outfitted with expertise to achieve life, college, work, and livelihoods.

Whether younger persons are educated, educated, or employed has vital implications for their general nicely-being and means to advertise future financial development, growth, and socio-political stability. Since 1999, there was a concurrent international lower in younger people’ labor pressure participation while the proportion of youth elevated. In 2020, younger people have been 3 times extra seemingly than adults to be unemployed (ILO 2020). Many should not solely going through a difficult current but additionally, a most unsure future. To meet the altering calls for of the labor market, younger individuals will should be outfitted with a set of expertise and competencies to compete each regionally and globally. The idea of Yoma (Youth Agency Marketplace) was developed by younger Africans as a holistic method to deal with these challenges and improve youth company throughout the globe.

UNICEF’s Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa (ESARO) has partnered with the Botnar Foundation to create a platform referred to as the Youth Agency Marketplace (yoma.world) to help youth and digital innovation throughout Africa. This platform facilities on younger individuals, giving them management over their information and development journey. It facilitates interactions with friends, communities, service suppliers, and employers based mostly on shared values, and affords tailor-made expertise acquisition alternatives.

Key options embrace:

• Autonomy: Young individuals management their information and development.
• Relatedness: Facilitates interactions based mostly on shared values.
• Competence: Provides tailor-made expertise acquisition by means of impression duties.

YOMA makes use of superior applied sciences like blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and psychometric matching. Its first giant-scale MVP launched in May 2020, with over 90,000 younger contributors. Since then, it has engaged over 457,000 youth by means of numerous challenges. The platform collects and consolidates information to observe key efficiency indicators and guarantee transparency and success.

Aligned with UNICEF’s Africa Strategy, YOMA is a world resolution of Generation Unlimited (GenU) and helps the Youth Force agenda and implementation in a number of nations. YOMA’s present technique includes of) Youth Force, b) Youth Identity (YoID), and c) the Impact Marketplace. The Youth Force initiative goals to empower 100 million younger Africans (50% feminine) by 2030 with expertise and experiences in sectors like digital, inexperienced, agribusiness, inventive, care, and schooling. This initiative will assist youth contribute to the UN SDGs, AU’s Agenda 2063, and different key growth plans. By investing in youth expertise, it addresses social service gaps, and an growing older workforce, and opens alternatives in each formal and casual employment and entrepreneurship.

The contractor will handle information, current findings, and monitor KPIs throughout all YOMA workstreams.

Scope of Work

1. Goal and Objective:  Under the supervision of the Programme Manager for YOMA, the marketing consultant will assist create a complete dashboard with vital metrics to show the idea of YOMA to potential/present companions and permit for exterior and inner transparency and success monitoring. In this course of, the marketing consultant will clear and consolidate information and implement methods to repeatedly replace information from YOMA companions in addition to outline key efficiency indicators with the totally different YOMA workstream results in be offered on the dashboard. He/she is going to create numerous dashboards for totally different audiences (e.g. companions, externals, inner core crew).

Provide particulars/reference to AWP areas coated: Oversee general coordination and present TA to COs on revolutionary platforms for youth engagement, expertise constructing, and employability (ie YOMA, Atingi), in addition to the African Data and Drone Academy (ADDA)

Activities and Tasks:  

1. Familiarization with information: There are a number of information sources used inside YOMA similar to Google Analytics, information from challenges organized by companions, and the database from the platform. The contractor is predicted to familiarize him/herself with the info.
2. Familiarization with PowerBI: If the contractor doesn’t have earlier in-depth expertise, he/she is predicted to familiarize himself/herself with PowerBI to construct a dashboard for Yoma.
3. Identify key metrics for the general dashboard together with key efficiency indicators for every workstream: Together with the YOMA crew and particularly the workstream leads, the contractor is predicted to determine key metrics to be offered on the dashboard. In a second step, the contractor will help in figuring out information that might should be collected moreover to observe the recognized key efficiency indicators.
4. Develop a functioning YOMA monitoring software together with a dashboard that responds to key stakeholders’ wants (UNICEF, GenU, Fondation Botnar, SAP,…), therefore, construct totally different dashboards for inner and exterior use with PowerBI
5. Desktop analysis and growth of integrating exterior information, which updates itself robotically frequently: The contractor is predicted to construct a dashboard that integrates information from companions and updates the info repeatedly and robotically.
6. Regular check-ups to determine and eradicate bugs
7. Manual information updating for accomplice information the place automated information funnel can’t be developed but resulting from information privateness
8. Support the YOMA tech crew with any information-associated duties

2. Work relationships:  The contractor will work below the supervision of the YOMA supervisor in shut collaboration with the Senior Programme Manager. He/she is going to deal with the info administration and monitoring of YOMA.

3. Outputs/Deliverables:   As an energetic UNICEF crew member, environment friendly, well timed, responsive, shopper-pleasant, and excessive-high quality help rendered to YOMA and its ecosystem companions within the accomplishment of her/his capabilities, together with:

• Updated and simple-to-use YOMA dashboard for an array of customers utilizing PowerBI or an analogous software
• Regular monitoring stories (weekly/month-to-month/quarterly) to be shared with companions
• Quality efficiency-associated information for YOMA reporting

Deliverables	Duration (Estimated # of days or months)	Timeline/Deadline
Update the YOMA M&E Framework and develop key metrics and success indicators to trace progress in the direction of YOMA strategic objectives	1 month	15 February 2025
Develop a YOMA ecosystem information assortment plan	1 month	15 March 2025
Partner information alignment and Integration	1 month	15 April 2025
Quarterly analytical stories on youth engagement	1 month	15 May 2026
Update YOMA’s general dashboard	1 month	15 June 2026
Conduct person suggestions classes to refine and enhance the dashboard expertise for all stakeholders.	1 month	15 July 2026
Support nations and companions on information and monitoring	1 month	15 August 2026
Quarterly analytical stories on youth engagement, classes realized, and ideas for future growth	1 month	15 September 2026
Work carefully with the tech crew to enhance information integrations between YOMA and ecosystem companions	1 month	15 October 2026
Advanced dashboard customization for companions and nation places of work	1 month	15 November 2026
Develop an extended-time period information technique that aligns with YOMA’s strategic targets	1 month	15 December 2026
Final report on task	1 month	15 January 2026

 

Desired competencies, technical background, and expertise 

1. Education 
   •  Postgraduate diploma in a tutorial subject associated to information science.
2. Work expertise and expertise
   • Experience in cleansing and working with giant datasets.
   • At least six months of expertise working with information and monitoring publish-commencement
   • Strong analytical expertise
   • Good drafting expertise
3. Language
   • Fluency in English, Knowledge of French an asset

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

To view our competency framework, please go to  here. 

Administrative Issues

• The marketing consultant will work below the supervision of the Program Manager.
• This is a distant place. As a lot of the Yoma crew is working remotely most conferences will likely be on-line with occasional in-individual conferences. The marketing consultant will should be accessible for calls between 10 am to 4 pm Nairobi time
• All journey (in case of any) will likely be by probably the most economical fare and reimbursement will likely be as per UNICEF coverage.
• The marketing consultant will likely be based mostly in UNICEF Regional Office with extra journey relying on COVID-19 journey restrictions for which the UNICEF workplace would cowl subsistence allowances and journey prices. If the marketing consultant is required to quarantine whereas touring, UNICEF can pay for the quarantine if not organized by the host nation.
• 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 over the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.
• The chosen candidate is solely accountable for guaranteeing that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your complete interval of the contract.

Conditions

• The marketing consultant will work from his/her personal premises as per the UNICEF Flexible Working Policy and use his/her personal laptop and associated infrastructure.
• As this may be a junior marketing consultant position, we’re ideally trying for gifted younger candidates
• As per UNICEF DFAM coverage, fee will likely be made in opposition to authorised deliverables. No advance fee is allowed except in distinctive circumstances in opposition to financial institution assure, topic to a most of 30 % of the full contract worth in instances the place advance purchases, for instance for provides or journey, could also be essential.
• Individuals engaged below a consultancy contract is not going to be thought-about ‘staff members’ below the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and will likely be entitled to advantages supplied therein (similar to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will likely 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 fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.

Risks

This is a distant position that doesn’t foresee any direct contact with youngsters. There are not any affordable dangers related to this consultancy, all deliverables will likely be cleared by the supervisor earlier than they’re shared with exterior companions.

 

How to apply

Qualified candidates are requested to submit a canopy letter, CV, and their technical proposals to the web recruitment portal (Talent Management System) 

Interested candidates are to point their means, availability, and price (day by day) expressed in US$ to undertake the phrases of reference. 

Applications submitted with out a price/ price is not going to be thought-about.

 

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Remarks:  

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

Individuals engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “staff members” below the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and is not going to be entitled to advantages supplied therein (similar to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will likely 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 fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable for guaranteeing that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your 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 should be met previous to taking over the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.