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Disability Inclusion National Consultant, 12 months, Kyiv, Ukraine (workplace based mostly)

Job no: 578200

Position sort: Consultant

Location: Ukraine

Division/Equivalent: CEE/CIS

School/Unit: Ukraine

Department/Office: Kyiv, Ukraine

Categories: Child Protection

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Background:

Over the previous couple of years, inclusion of youngsters with disabilities has change into one of many essential coverage priorities in Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities implements a lot of nationwide reforms to make sure safety of rights of all youngsters, particularly probably the most disadvantaged who are sometimes the kids with disabilities. The National Better Care Reform for guaranteeing the correct of each child for household surroundings, is particularly emphasises on incapacity inclusive applications and providers for all youngsters, together with these with disabilities and developmental delays. In collaboration with UNICEF and different important companions, the Government of Ukraine launched “Better Care”, supported by the National Strategy for the Right of Every Child to Grow up in a Family Environment (henceforth referred to as the “National Strategy”), and related National Action Plan 2024 – 2028. UNICEF was chosen as a strategic accomplice for the Better Care Reform implementation. The project will contribute to technical help, constructing the capability and selling a powerful incapacity lens in modelling the promising practices on incapacity inclusive applications and providers inside Better Care Reform in Ukraine with equally essential help to governmental and non-governmental counterparts at nationwide and subnational ranges.

For Child Protection to realize its deliverables in its Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) on incapacity inclusion and child-focused mine motion according to the Child Protection Core Commitments for Children and alongside the early restoration nexus, a technical specialist (advisor) with nationwide expertise is required. This experience at the moment doesn’t exist throughout the Country Office or Field Offices, however is required to help on vital workstreams, together with as part of the incapacity responsive humanitarian program, in addition to the Better Care agenda. The advisor is predicted to develop the capability and supply technical steerage to UNICEF employees and related nationwide and implementing companions in points associated to incapacity inclusion, disability-sensitive programming, and participation of youngsters with disabilities all through the programming processes. This can even embrace help in direction of sub-national stage help for сhild safety applications and companions working in discipline workplace areas.

Purpose of project:

The advisor will help the Country Office within the following areas of labor and duties according to Better Care and Child Protection Humanitarian response: 1. Provide technical steerage and operational help to the Child Protection part and related discipline places of work:

• Provide technical steerage on incapacity inclusion and incapacity delicate programming to related companions and programmes.
• Provide technical assessment and inputs associated to incapacity inclusion of programmes throughout Country Office and Field Offices.
• Develop the capability of related employees throughout the Country Office and Field Offices on approaches to incapacity inclusion and incapacity delicate programming, in accordance with worldwide requirements.

2. Provide technical help to each Humanitarian and Better Care groups, companions, and Government counterparts to realize the next elements:

• Better Care: Provide technical help to UNICEF, authorities and implementing companions of the Ukraine Child Protection with regard to:
• Reviewing and adjusting mapping of obtainable inclusive providers and figuring out the gaps within the general system of service provision.
• Designing of inclusive social providers which embrace case-management with concentrate on youngsters with disabilities; early intervention; optimistic parenting; supported unbiased residing; integration and reintegration of care leavers; respite day care; help youngsters with disabilities in different care system.
• Strengthening advocacy potential of oldsters of youngsters with disabilities in promotion of youngsters’s rights.
• Promotion of inclusive providers for youngsters with disabilities by data messages and work with communities leaders.
• Creating and strengthening participation, engagement and employability alternatives for younger folks with disabilities.
• Building the implementing companions’ incapacity inclusion point of interest group.
• Humanitarian/HAC: Provide technical help to UNICEF, Government and implementing companions of the Ukraine Child Protection humanitarian response with regard to:
• Disability inclusion and sensitivity in humanitarian case administration and MHPSS.
• Focused care and help for dad and mom/caregivers of youngsters with incapacity, for instance by optimistic and incapacity delicate parenting help.
• Provision of standard, structured, and accessible psychosocial help actions for youngsters with disabilities.
• Peer-to-peer help teams for youngsters and adolescents, youth golf equipment, and group cultural and leisure actions.
• Community engagement and consciousness elevating amongst youngsters, caregivers, households and communities, for instance stigma discount campaigns for youngsters and adolescents with disabilities and the promotion of optimistic attitudes to deal with stigma and discrimination. eiFabPf DXq49V
• Dedicated community-based interventions selling and facilitating incapacity, social and financial inclusion of affected youngsters and households.
• Support to community-led processes to deal with dangers and response to explosive ordnance dangers in addition to help to significant participation of youngsters, adolescents and marginalised teams of their communities in such processes.

3. Strengthen information administration and reporting:

• Continue to take care of the out there information administration database associated to incapacity inclusion and disability-sensitive Child Protection programming for UNICEF Ukraine Office.
• Contribute to reporting and knowledge assortment, evaluation and visualization associated to above workstreams.
• Provide technical help for case research and human-interest tales, in addition to ‘classes discovered’ on incapacity associated programming.

4. Provide help with different incapacity inclusion strengthening actions, in session with the Supervisor and employees engaged within the implementation from completely different sectors.

5. Recommend mechanisms for monitoring and monitoring the academic participation and progress of youngsters with disabilities throughout the case administration system, guaranteeing their studying wants are addressed alongside social and safety providers.

Work project overview:

Deliverable

Deadline

# of w/days

Inception Report and workplan

15 February 2025

10

Report on supply of technical steerage and capacity-building actions, together with capacity-building of UNICEF Country Office (not less than 5 workshops/webinars) and Field Office employees (all 5 Field Offices)

30 April 2025

60

Report on supply of technical steerage and capacity-building actions, together with capacity-building of particular companions, together with NGOs and native Government (not less than 15 companions, at nationwide and discipline workplace ranges)

30 July 2025

75

Report on technical inputs and contribution to reporting, together with: 4 KFW donor report, inputs to 10 PD drafts, contribution to 12 Sitreps.

30 September 2025

40

Report on information administration, together with: developed 6 human curiosity tales, created repository of 10 technical steerage supplies.

15 November 2025

30

Final report with suggestions

15 January 2026

5

• Before any discipline mission, Safe and Secure Approaches in Field Environments (SSAFE) and Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK) trainings have to be accomplished. The 4-day coaching schedule have to be agreed upon with the safety group (Lviv/Kyiv)

4

Sub-total:

220

Travel plan inside Ukraine: Number of journey days: 50 days (15 journeys)

The journey plan shall be developed collectively with UNICEF when a advisor is on board.

Please present an all-inclusive monetary proposal together with travels to hold out the deliverables listed above.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…

Education: Master’s diploma or greater in one of many following fields is required: social work, psychology or one other related discipline.

Professional expertise:

• A minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise in social growth with concentrate on youngsters and households.
• Experience working in incapacity programming is extremely advantageous.
• Relevant expertise in programme growth in incapacity inside a UN company or worldwide support group is taken into account as an asset.
• Experience in humanitarian contexts is taken into account as an added benefit.

Languages:

• English: Intermediate [B1];
• Ukrainian: Advanced [C1].

Skills and competencies:

• Good analytical abilities
• Good communication abilities
• Support to programme/challenge growth and planning
• Networking and partnership constructing
• Innovation, information administration and capability constructing
• Impact of Results

For each Child, you exhibit…

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

To view our competency framework, please go to right here.

Payment {of professional} charges shall be based mostly on submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the correct to withhold cost in case the deliverables submitted are lower than the required normal or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the advisor.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF household is dedicated to incorporate everybody, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

UNICEF presents affordable lodging for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This might 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 affordable lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your project.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets 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 ideas. All chosen candidates shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact endure 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 extra data to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.

Individuals engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “employees members” below 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 (akin to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service shall 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 health 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 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 aren’t 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.

Advertised: Dec 26 2024 FLE Standard Time

Application shut: Jan 24 2025 FLE Standard Time