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Consultancy Title: Adolescent Kit Training Consultant
Section/Division/Duty Station: Education Section, Programme Group, UNICEF NYHQ
Duration: 1 February 2025 to 31 July 2026
Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote
About UNICEF
If you’re a dedicated, artistic skilled and are keen about making an enduring difference for kids, the world’s main kids’s rights group want to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been engaged on the bottom in 190 international locations and territories to advertise kids’s survival, safety and growth. The world’s largest supplier of vaccines for creating international locations, UNICEF helps child well being and diet, good water and sanitation, high quality primary schooling for all girls and boys, and the safety of youngsters from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded fully by the voluntary contributions of people, companies, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 employees in additional than 145 international locations.
BACKGROUND
Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:
This consultancy is to assist ADAP’s work in humanitarian contexts by constructing UNICEF’s international capability to make use of the Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation (Adolescent Kit) as a programmatic useful resource to successfully attain, assist and interact adolescents ages 10-18, and by enhancing and increasing the steering, actions, coaching supplies, digital assets and provides that compose the Kit. This consultancy shall be managed by UNICEF’s Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP) staff.
The Adolescent Kit, a toolkit of adaptable provides, programme and curriculum steering supplies is a worldwide good/product that has been developed by the ADAP Section and applied throughout all areas in additional than 45 international locations reaching greater than 1.5 million adolescents since its launch in 2016. Through the ADAP Section’s ongoing advocacy and assist, the Adolescent Kit has change into a flagship useful resource promoted and utilized by UNICEF’s international, regional and nation-stage schooling, child safety and ADAP groups worldwide, with adolescents in humanitarian and susceptible growth contexts, by interventions that assist their safety, psychological and psychosocial well being, studying and talent growth, and lively engagement of their communities and societies. Within the PROSPECTS Partnership, a key donor partnership funded by the Netherlands to assist younger folks’s schooling, skilling, safety and transition to first rate work in pressured displacement contexts, the ADAP staff has supported nation-stage use of the Adolescent Kit to catalyze and construct related, efficient, scalable and institutionalized academic programmes and interventions. ADAP has additionally promoted and supported use of the Adolescent Kit to construct and strengthen programmes in international locations going through new onset emergencies on the L-2 and L-3 by approaches that operationalize and uphold practices and requirements established within the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Youth Guidelines. As just a few examples, ADAP has supported nation places of work in utilizing the Kit present psychosocial assist and peer schooling for battle-affected adolescents and youth in Sudan and Gaza, to have interaction youth in ongoing publish-earthquake restoration efforts Türkiye, and to assist youth on the transfer in Panama and Italy. UNICEF has additionally built-in the Kit into each Venezuela’s and Uganda’s nationwide secondary curricula to advertise kids’s and adolescents’ growth and use of transferable socioemotional and cognitive expertise for civic engagement and social and financial entrepreneurship.
This consultancy helps three interconnected areas of ADAP’s upcoming work. The guide will assist the ADAP staff in responding on to the rising calls for from PROSPECTS Country Offices and people in different L-2 and L-3 emergencies for technical assist in adapting and using the Adolescent Kit in new initiatives or ongoing programmes. This consultancy can even allow the ADAP staff to reinforce and increase the Adolescent Kit as a related, efficient, international useful resource that displays evolving wants and prospects for youth, whereas incorporating new and rising international data, methodologies and applied sciences. Third, this consultancy will allow ADAP to establish alternatives and leverage funds to combine the Adolescent Kit into UNICEF’s wider initiatives and rising priorities to assist, interact and collaborate with youth in forcible displacement, humanitarian and different susceptible contexts.
As presently ADAP HQ doesn’t have adequate funding to cowl all deliberate actions, some deliverables are deliberate to be accomplished provided that extra assets will change into out there particularly in gentle of assist to acute and protracted emergencies/susceptible contexts.
Scope of Work:
The Programme Group/Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP) staff in UNICEF NYHQ seeks to rent a guide, to assist international use of Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation to succeed in and assist the talent-based mostly studying and significant social and civic engagement of adolescents by the PROSPECTS Partnership and in rising humanitarian contexts, and to reinforce and increase the Kit itself.
The guide will assist the ADAP HQ staff within the following:
1. Building UNICEF’s and companions’ capability to make use of the Adolescent Kit as a useful resource to advance younger folks’s studying and engagement in PROSPECTS Partnership schooling and empowerment programmes by:
- Planning and facilitating international and regional trainings and studying exchanges on use of the Adolescent Kit as a programme useful resource for youth talent-constructing and empowerment, together with centered trainings on current and new assets and rising greatest practices; and
- Responding to direct requests for coaching and technical assist in using the Adolescent Kit from UNICEF Regional and Country-level employees throughout the PROSPECTS Partnership by facilitating planning workshops, supporting the variation of current Adolescent Kit supplies for particular contexts and programmes, and creating or co-creating new supplies corresponding to curriculum modules, coaching plans, workplans and Terms of Reference.
2. Upgrading and increasing Adolescent Kit supplies as efficient assets for PROSPECTS and different programmes to advertise talent-oriented schooling, MPHSS, transition-to-work and social/civic engagement programmes for adolescents and youth by:
- Revising and updating the prevailing Adolescent Kit programme steering, instruments, exercise guides, coaching movies, web site and provides, and creating new supplies, together with written supplies, movies, and interactive digital supplies, consistent with the evolving calls for and wishes of UNICEF nation groups; and,
- Updating and enhancing the Adolescent Kit web site as a worldwide useful resource for sharing and disseminating schooling programme instruments, programme examples and efficient programming methods for talent-constructing empowerment for adolescents and youth.
3. Supporting ADAP’s useful resource mobilization and advocacy efforts to proceed to reinforce the Adolescent Kit as a worldwide good, and to combine and put it to use inside UNICEF’s wider initiatives and rising priorities by:
- Developing idea notes, proposals and advocacy paperwork for new partnerships, funding alternatives and different international initiatives utilizing the Adolescent Kit; and,
- Supporting the ADAP staff to evaluation, contribute to and consolidate information and experiences gathered from international use of the Adolescent Kit inside program paperwork and experiences for PROSPECTS and different partnerships and funds.
4. Contributing to ADAP’s broader initiatives to assist UNICEF nation places of work responding to in L2 and L3 emergencies with related, efficient, programmes that enact the IASC Youth Guidelines by:
- Facilitating planning, adapting Adolescent Kit supplies and facilitating trainings for UNICEF employees, authorities and NGO companions using the Adolescent Kit to catalyze or strengthen humanitarian programmes; and,
- Providing direct assist to documentation and assessments of programmes utilizing the Adolescent Kit, together with by creating and adapting monitoring and evaluation instruments, coaching UNICEF and companions in using M&E instruments, analyzing information gathered and writing experiences.
Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:
Build UNICEF’s and companions’ capability to make use of the Adolescent Kit as a useful resource to advance younger folks’s studying and engagement in PROSPECTS Partnership schooling and empowerment programmes:
- Organize and facilitate 8 studying trade conferences, for UNICEF nation places of work inquisitive about and/or utilizing the Adolescent Kit curate and disseminate movies and supplies from these conferences: 8 studying trade conferences organized and facilitated; 9 video recordings produced and edited (31 July 2026)
- Organize and conduct 8 coaching and planning periods for international and/or regional UNICEF audiences on new Adolescent Kit assets and/or rising greatest practices: 8 coaching periods facilitated and documented; 8 video recordings produced (31 July 2026)
- Conduct 20 planning and coaching periods straight with PROSPECT Partnership nation places of work getting ready to make use of the Adolescent Kit in new initiatives or ongoing initiatives. Produce tailored Adolescent Kit supplies and/or planning paperwork in line with workshop discussions and outcomes: 20 planning and coaching periods carried out straight with Country Offices, 20 planning paperwork and/or tailored Adolescent Kit supplies produced for use at nation stage (31 July 2026)
Upgrading and increasing Adolescent Kit supplies as efficient assets for PROSPECTS Partnership and different programmes to advertise talent-oriented schooling, MPHSS, transition-to-work and social/civic engagement programmes for adolescents and youth.
- Revise or create a minimum of 25 Adolescent Kit guides, instruments and actions (PDFs) and/or movies and associated pages of the Adolescent Kit web site: 25 Adolescent Kit guides, instruments or exercise guides or movies revised or created and added to the Adolescent Kit web site pages (31 July 2026)
- Develop new M&E instruments for inclusion with the Adolescent Kit programme supplies, together with evaluation devices, steering for participatory evaluation course of and guides and instruments for analyzing and reporting findings: M&E Toolkit together with 4 evaluation devices; 4 guides for facilitation/administration of evaluation actions; 1 information for findings evaluation and reporting; 15-20 pages complete (40/22000) (31 July 2026)
- Using photographs and narrative gathered by interviews with UNICEF nation workplace employees utilizing the Adolescent Kit, create 5 video case research of progressive and efficient makes use of of the Adolescent Kit for use in coaching and cross-nation studying: Five video case research of progressive and efficient makes use of of the Adolescent Kit for use in coaching and cross-nation studying created (31 July 2026)
- Revise and replace a minimum of 30 pages of the Adolescent Kit web site using Drupal platform; new pages will embrace up to date Country Profiles and pages to current new or up to date AdolKit guides, instruments and actions: 30 Adolescent Kit web site pages written/revised (31 July 2026)
Identify and develop related planning supplies combine the Adolescent Kit into UNICEF’s wider initiatives and rising priorities, and mobilize assets to construct international capability and promote implementation of the Adolescent Kit by:
- Attending PROSPECTS Partnership and different programme conferences; reviewing planning paperwork for UNICEF international and different initiatives to establish alternatives to make the most of the Adolescent Kit to handle programmatic objectives; creating idea notes and/or proposals to combine the Adolescent Kit: 3 proposals, pitches or brochures written and designed for funds mobilization (30 May 2026)
- Report sections (5 pages every) drafted for donor and partnership experiences, incorporating and synthesizing inputs and information on use of and developments in relation to the Adolescent Kit on the nation, regional and international ranges: 3 experiences or report sections drafted (5 pages every) (30 June 2026)
Contributing to MENARO ADAP’s efforts on L2 and L3 emergencies (corresponding to SoP, Lebanon, Sudan and so on)
- 1 M&E Framework with a complete package deal of instruments developed with MENARO and Lebanon CO for Ado Kit deployment in emergencies (30 September 2025)
- 2 Dissemination periods/coaching workshops (webinars) organized with MENA RO for UNICEF employees, authorities and NGO companions using the Adolescent Kit (30 September 2025)
- 1 Written Report documenting the Lebanon expertise, together with shows and social media comms supplies for dissemination (30 September 2025)
Support UNICEF nation places of work responding to in L2 and L3 emergencies or in protracted conditions/susceptible contexts with related, efficient, programmes on the Adolescent Kit
- 10 merchandise/studying periods developed for nation places of work on the Adolescent Kit (31 July 2026)
Qualifications
Education:
Advanced college diploma (Masters) International relations, Human Rights, Refugee Protection, Child Rights, Community Development, Youth Participation and Engagement or different associated diploma.
Work expertise:
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:
- At least 12-15 years of related skilled work expertise in youth schooling and engagement/participation applications and worldwide humanitarian and growth contexts.
- Demonstrated expertise designing efficient programmatic supplies together with curricula and monitoring and analysis (M&E) instruments for use by educators and different practitioners, professionals and volunteers in humanitarian and growth contexts;
- Demonstrated expertise coaching and facilitating planning workshops utilizing participatory practices with humanitarian actors from UN companies, NGOs and youth-led organizations.
- Demonstrated expertise designing academic and different programmatic instruments in a number of media, together with audio, video, net-based mostly and different digital media, and coaching educators and/or humanitarian programme groups utilizing in-particular person, hybrid and distant (videoconference) modalities.
- Technical data of and direct expertise using international greatest practices and present and rising analysis within the following academic and youth-growth fields: talent-based mostly studying; psychological well being, psychosocial assist and socioemotional studying; social and civic engagement, participation and peacebuilding; participatory and lively studying methodologies;
- Knowledgeable on UNICEF and different UN companies foundational humanitarian structure, requirements, frameworks, approaches and toolkits for schooling in emergencies, adolescent and youth engagement and humanitarian response, together with the UNICEF CCCs, and IASC Guidelines on Working with and for Youth, GBV, MHPSS. Knowledge of UNICEF’s different provide kits and toolkits for schooling in emergencies corresponding to School in a Box, and Recreation Kit, and so on. an asset.
- Experience in working with UNICEF at international, regional or nation stage, an asset.
- Excellent interpersonal communication expertise; out there to work versatile hours with UNICEF groups and companions throughout international time zones;
- Experience in creating funding proposals, briefs and experiences.
- Master’s or different superior levels in related fields as schooling, youth growth, and/or worldwide humanitarian.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of a second language is an asset.
Requirements:
Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and
– Upload copy of educational credentials
– Financial proposal that may embrace/ replicate :
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- 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 shall be lined by UNICEF.
– At the time the contract is awarded, the chosen candidate will need to have in place present medical insurance protection.
– Payment {of professional} charges shall be based mostly on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the precise to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the guide.
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 special visa, the guide and his/her family members are required to vary their visa standing to G4, and the guide’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 shall be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of
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Remarks:
Individuals engaged below a consultancy won’t 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 (corresponding to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service shall 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.
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