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Consultancy Title: Consultant – Preparation of DAPM Office Management Plan (OMP) 2026 – 2029
Section/Division/Duty Station: Division of Analysis, Planning & Monitor, Programme Group, UNICEF NYHQ
Duration: 15 January 2025 to 30 June 2025
Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote
About UNICEF
If you’re a dedicated, inventive skilled and are obsessed with making an enduring difference for youngsters, the world’s main youngsters’s rights group wish to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been engaged on the bottom in 190 nations and territories to advertise youngsters’s survival, safety and growth. The world’s largest supplier of vaccines for creating nations, UNICEF helps child well being and vitamin, good water and sanitation, high quality fundamental training for all girls and boys, and the safety of youngsters from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded completely by the voluntary contributions of people, companies, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 employees in additional than 145 nations.
BACKGROUND
Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:
The Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM) was established in 2019 to drive choice making and organizational studying, enhance effectiveness and achievement of outcomes of UNICEF and its companions to understand the rights and enhance the life of each child. DAPM promotes the use of information, analytics, planning and monitoring, and associated elements of strategic nation programme administration, to realize transformative impression for youngsters.
The Division is accountable for driving, shaping and guiding UNICEF’s proof-knowledgeable evaluation, company and nation planning, programme implementation and associated threat administration, monitoring, information administration and organizational efficiency. As such, DAPM permits the group to ship on ends in a extra coherent method, based mostly on agile and contextualized programming processes, and on information, proof, and analytics, in addition to the application of human-rights based mostly and outcomes-based mostly approaches.
In its Office Management Plan (OMP) 2022 – 2025 and additional refined throughout the Mid-Term Review in 2024, DAPM made a dedication to ship on 4 overarching divisional priorities which can be supporting the achievement of outcomes of the Strategic plan, as follows:
- Strengthening the information and analytics perform to tell UNICEF choice-making and contribute to positioning UNICEF as a world information chief to realize outcomes for youngsters at scale and with pace.
- Transforming monitoring, bettering threat administration, and safeguarding, and strengthening partnership in programming throughout all contexts.
- Enhancing UNICEF’s programme effectiveness and effectivity by means of bettering the standard of programming, together with by leveraging information, expertise, and digital transformation to ship outcomes for youngsters at scale.
- Reinforcing organizational change administration, information administration, studying and adaptation to boost efficiency and outcomes.
A brand new Strategic Plan is within the making for the interval 2026 – 2029 and the path of steer is on accelerating outcomes at scale in direction of the achievement of SDG targets in 2030. The Strategic Plan, 2026-2029 will proceed the end result orientation of the present Strategic Plan with formidable and life like targets owned by nations.
Five excessive-stage areas are being thought-about the place UNICEF can strategically leverage its comparative benefit to make a measurable contribution to the belief of youngsters’s rights:
- Averting child deaths,
- Supporting youngsters to be taught and acquire expertise,
- Pulling youngsters out from multidimensional poverty,
- Protecting youngsters from violence
- Protecting youngsters from the impacts of local weather change
Proposed Programmatic Shifts for the following Strategic Plan embody:
- Focus: Transition from a broad menu of outcomes to an organizational prioritization of key outcomes, with a dedication to their achievement.
- Scale and Impact: Move from programme outputs to leveraging scale with a purpose to attain total populations of youngsters, together with nationwide, subnational, group-based mostly, transboundary, and final-mile contexts. We intention at reaching out scale by means of nation techniques and leveraging home and exterior financing.
- Differentiation: Shift from uniformity in programmes to a extra intentional refinement of programmatic choices and methods.
To assist the DAPM in making ready a brand new Office Management Plan (OMP) 2026 – 2029, the division organised a Strategic Moment of Review and Reflection (SMRR) on 11-12 December 2024 to assist unpack achievements made within the 2022 – 2025 OMP and construct consensus on what and the way DAPM’s OMP 2026 – 2029 will contribute to the brand new Strategic Plan.
Other on-going initiatives which can inform the 2026 – 2029 OMP embody:
- Implementation of the PMDA Transformation (confer with PMDA imaginative and prescient and worth proposition)
- Data Transformation initiative
- Strengthening DAPM work on Climate Change Data. A cautious thought is required on the present coupling with WASH.
- Optimisation of the latest integration of partnership implementation threat administration, Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS) and Safeguarding
- Build additional and deepen the company financing mechanisms for core information techniques and companies
- Completing the coverage and technique setting to encourage protected use of all types of information, together with by means of use of AI
- Establishing instruments and processes for situational information on youngsters to be accessible and processed in Open Access in addition to Open Data ideas.
- Data as a Program; Africa Strategy Data supply; Minium Data Package for Children.
- As part of Head Quarters Efficiency Initiative (HQEI), DAPM will full the relocation of Data Teams from New York to Florence to be co-situated with UNICEF Office of Research and Foresight. Analysis on areas of enhancement of collaboration between Data and Research is underway.
Scope of Work:
Facilitation of the OMP Process
DAPM Senior Management will Guide the OMP growth consistent with the organizational necessities and shifts emanating from UNICEF Executive Management Fora, SP Governance Mechanisms, the GMT, the Executive Board, donor engagements, and so forth.
The marketing consultant will work carefully with the OMP secretariat below the management of the Chief, Planning and Operations
The consultancy work would require sturdy competency in Strategic Planning with Rights based mostly Planning and RBM experience, world stage expertise with planning for UN or UNICEF , needing minimal supervision, capable of coordinate and work properly with folks and groups, good author.
Background Documents
- SP 2026 – 2029 Background Papers
- PMDA Vision and Roadmap paper
- DAPM SMRR Report
- OMP tips
The goals of the OMP consultancy will likely be to consolidate DAPM OMP together with the next:
- DAPM’s OMP 2026 – 2029 contribution to the brand new Strategic Plan.
- Incorporate actions to operationalise the PMDA Vision in HQ and ROs/COs.
- Key strategic collaborations with the opposite UNICEF proof features, programme group and EMOPs.
- DAPM Budget, Results Framework and Staffing construction
Methodology
The Review ought to embody a strategy appropriate to the scope of work, together with, however not restricted to, the next:
- A Desk Review of current paperwork together with SP background paperwork, PMDA Vision and Roadmap, Outcome paper on DAPM SMRR, inputs from items within the workplace of Chief Data Officer, Data and Analytics and Programme Effectiveness Team
- Interviews and surveys with inner (DAPM) and exterior stakeholders akin to different HQ Divisions (PG, EMOPS, GORAF, Evaluation, DFAM, ROs/Cos – PMDA groups as related.
- Analysis resulting in acceptable framing of DAPM priorities and OMP 2026 – 2029
- Framing of an acceptable Results Framework 2026 – 2029
Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:
Prepare a conceptual method and methodology for preparation of the brand new OMP
- An inception report describing the evaluate the conceptual method and methodology with detailed timeline for every part of the Review (24 January 2025)
Desk Review of current paperwork together with SP background paperwork, PMDA Vision and Roadmap, Outcome paper on DAPM SMRR. Conduct interviews and surveys with inner (DAPM) and exterior stakeholders akin to different HQ Divisions (PG, EMOPS, GORAF, Evaluation, DFAM, ROs/COs – PMDA groups as related. Includes a minimum of two participatory discussions are to be organized (in the beginning and on the finish)
- An analytical report specializing in the outlook of the Division together with a transparent hyperlink on the Division’s contribution to the SP 2026 – 2029, a sensible street map for implementing PMDA imaginative and prescient in HQ and ROs/Cos and key DAPM priorities for the interval 2026 – 2029 (27 February 2025 )
Draft DAPM Office Management Plan 2026 – 2029
- An in depth draft OMP doc for evaluate by the divisional administration (21 March 2025)
- An in depth outcomes Framework and Budget for evaluate by the divisional administration (21 March 2025)
Follow-up discussions and extra work, if required
- Additional exit conferences/ presentation of suggestions, and so forth. (30 June 2025)
Qualifications
Education:
Advanced college diploma (Masters) within the space of Strategic Management or different associated group growth fields. A bachelor’s diploma complemented 7 years of skilled expertise will likely be thought-about.
Work expertise:
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:
At least 5 years of expertise in Strategic Planning with Rights based mostly Planning and RBM experience. Global stage expertise with planning for UN or UNICEF, capable of coordinate and work properly with folks and groups, good author.
Requirements:
Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and
– Upload copy of tutorial credentials
– Financial proposal that may embody/ mirror :
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- the prices per every deliverable and the overall lump-sum for the entire project (in US$) to undertake the phrases of reference.
- journey prices and day by day subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or journey is required as per TOR.
- Any different estimated prices: visa, medical health insurance, and residing prices as relevant.
- Indicate your availability
– Any emergent / unexpected obligation journey and associated bills will likely be coated by UNICEF.
– At the time the contract is awarded, the chosen candidate will need to have in place present medical health insurance protection.
– Payment of skilled charges will likely be based mostly on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the correct to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required normal or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the marketing consultant.
U.S. Visa info:
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 below a unique visa, the marketing consultant and his/her family members are required to vary their visa standing to G4, and the marketing consultant’s family members (partner) would require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to have the ability to work, even when he/she was approved to work below the visa held previous to switching to G4.
Only shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of
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Remarks:
Individuals engaged below a consultancy 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 won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (akin to go away 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. Consultants 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 to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health 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 absolutely-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and are usually 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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