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Consultancy Title: Consultant to support to Human Rights Framework for Action implementation

Section/Division/Duty Station: Human Rights, Programme Group, UNICEF NYHQ

Duration: 3 March 2025 to 31 August 2025

Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote

 

About UNICEF

If you’re a dedicated, inventive skilled and are keen about making an enduring difference for kids, the world’s main kids’s rights group would love to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been engaged on the bottom in 190 nations and territories to promote kids’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 primary training for all girls and boys, and the safety of kids 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 function of the project is to support the acceleration of the implementation of a number of work streams of the Framework for Action  – Child Rights at UNICEF’s Core – developed following the Global Leadership Meeting resolution to reinvigorate UNICEF’s child rights management and to make child rights the core of all UNICEF actions. Specifically, the marketing consultant will support the next parts of the Framework by:

1. Building the information and capability on child rights throughout the group, in any respect ranges and throughout roles;
2. Strengthening of programmatic entry factors, together with the event of programme sources on kids’s civil and political rights;
3. Supporting the Committee on the Rights of the Child in creating a General Comment on kids’s entry to justice and proper to treatment;
4. Nurturing UNICEF’s associate-of-alternative relationship with the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

 

Scope of Work:

1.      Support the event of the 2 following instruments:

1.1.   Online useful resource on civil and political rights: The chosen candidate will compile and analyze suggestions from worldwide and regional human rights mechanisms; establish and compile present steering and instruments; counsel and support the preparation of extra property equivalent to video messages from kids and specialists; establish and gather examples of related UNICEF interventions, in addition to good apply from different actors; support the event of case research; support the importing and visible formatting of the fabric on-line, as vital.

1.2.   Child rights studying venture: The chosen candidate will support the gathering of case research and good apply examples from UNICEF nation workplaces; support different duties as related, in cooperation with the academic designer. 

2.      Support the preparation of the 2 following conferences:

2.1.   A session assembly to inform General Comment 27 from the Committee on the Rights of the Child (April 2025): The chosen candidate will help with the preparation of supporting paperwork, together with the participant listing; put together correspondence with members; support logistical preparations; take notes throughout the assembly.

2.2.   The Biennial assembly between the Committee on the Rights of the Child and UNICEF senior administration (May 2025):   The chosen candidate will help with  the preparation of supporting paperwork; completion of the  logistical preparations; and take notes throughout the assembly. This exercise will embrace journey to Geneva for the Biennial assembly and a preparatory inner assembly.

3. Support the event of UNICEF sources in relation to LGBTIQ+ kids

 

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

GC27 session assembly. GC27 Consultation assembly is ready and performed by helping with:

• The preparation of the supporting paperwork, together with the participant listing;
• Preparing correspondents with the members;
• The logistical preparations for the assembly;
• Taking the minutes of the assembly (30 April 2025)

CRC/UNICEF Biennial assembly. The CRC/UNICEF Biennial Meeting is ready and performed by helping with:

• The preparation of supporting paperwork;
• The logistical preparations for the assembly;
• Taking the minutes of the assembly (31 May 2025)

Online useful resource on civil and political rights. Produce a doc after compiling and analyzing the suggestions by human rights mechanisms;

• Create an inventory of present sources;
• Create an inventory of examples of UNICEF interventions;
• Develop no less than 5 case research (30 June 2025)

Child rights studying venture

• Collection of no less than 5 case research and documentation of no less than 5 UNICEF good apply examples from UNICEF nation workplaces (31 July 2025)

LGBTIQ+ useful resource

• Develop 5 programme sectors tip sheets (31 August 2025)

 

Qualifications

Education: 

Advanced college diploma (Masters) within the space of human rights, worldwide affairs or associated subject.

 

Work expertise:

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *: 

• A minimal of two years of expertise within the subject of human rights.
• Experience with worldwide human rights mechanisms.
• Experience in working with the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 
• Experience in working with UNICEF.
• Field expertise can be an asset.
• Excellent written and spoken communication and analytical expertise.
• Fluency in English and French.
• Available for the desired period interval.

 

Requirements:

Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and

– Upload copy of educational credentials

– Financial proposal that may embrace/ replicate :

• • the prices per every deliverable and the whole lump-sum for the entire project (in US$) to undertake the phrases of reference.
  • journey prices and each 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 will probably 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 will probably be based mostly on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the correct to withhold cost in case the deliverables submitted should not up to the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the marketing 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 below a distinct visa, the marketing consultant and his/her family members are required to change their visa standing to G4, and the marketing consultant’s family members (partner) would require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to have the option to work, even when he/she was licensed to work below the visa held prior to switching to G4.  

Only shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of

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UNICEF affords reasonable accommodation 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 disclose your incapacity throughout your application in case you want cheap 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 aims 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 will probably be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and ideas 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 present extra data to conduct a background check. 

Remarks:  

Individuals engaged below a consultancy is not going to be thought of “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 (equivalent to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will probably 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 be sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the whole interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of absolutely-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met prior to taking on 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 places 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.