UNICEF works in some of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 international locations and territories, we work for each child, in all places, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means hand over.
For each child… innovate
UNICEF has a 70-yr historical past of innovating for kids. We consider that new approaches, partnerships and applied sciences that help realizing kids’s rights are important to bettering their lives. The Office of Innovation is a artistic, interactive, and agile group in UNICEF. We sit at a singular intersection, the place a corporation that works on big world points meets the beginning-up considering, the expertise, and the companions that flip this vitality into scalable options. As the custodian of the UPSHIFT the Office of Innovation (OoI) continues to have interaction day by day with nation places of work implementing UPSHIFT and is growing subsequent instruments, data merchandise and classes realized to additional help the UPSHIFT group of apply speed up the supply of outcomes for kids and younger folks globally.
UPSHIFT is a UNICEF world abilities growth resolution. It attracts from greatest practices from non-formal schooling, experiential studying, and enterprise schooling to create a studying journey that consists of workshops, mentorship, and an entrepreneurial problem.
Participants discover ways to determine and analyze issues that they care deeply about and the way to create services or products that handle them. At the tip of the 25 hours course (part I), all of the options are evaluated, and essentially the most promising ones obtain seed funding and additional mentoring and studying help for their implementation (Phase II). This encourages younger folks to maintain developing with large concepts as they’ll see the chosen ones change into actuality. UPSHIFT is presently working in 55 international locations with 5 million younger folks having accomplished over 120 million studying hours since UPSHIFT began in 2014 with a million younger folks having completed a full UPSHIFT studying journey in 2023 alone.
Integration of UPSHIFT supply into schooling methods and the use of digital platforms to United Nations Children’s Fund ship blended studying journeys are central to UPSHIFT transition to scale. Blended supply fashions have confirmed to be efficient in scaling UPSHIFT supply out and in of schooling methods and doing so at lowered prices. There presently is a robust curiosity from nation places of work and Governments alike to deploy such fashions however the excessive degree of funding in phrases of time, experience and funding required is a core bottleneck. The growth of a world UPSHIFT digital technique in 2025 will goal to cut back the investments and time required by international locations to deploy blended.
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) inside UPSHIFT supply is of robust curiosity to a rising quantity of nation places of work with the principle focus so far being round three goals (i) elevated studying outcomes (UPSHIFTers and instructor /mentors), (ii) cut back
supply prices and (iii) develop AI literacy (UPSHIFTers and instructor /mentors). As AI will be built-in inside UPSHIFT supply in each head to head and blended supply fashions it’s anticipated that the digital technique will embody parts of AI integration.
How are you able to make a difference?
To this finish, UNICEF is recruiting a guide to steer the event of a Digital Strategy to strengthen the acceleration to scale of UPSHIFT. The guide will even help the identification of approaches to combine AI throughout the UPSHIFT studying journey. The total
goal of the technique is decreasing the monetary and human prices in transitioning to digital blended deliveries on the county degree. Knowledge administration might be an vital part of the work to make sure easy accessibility to current expertise and experience.
Your most important tasks might be:
- In shut collaboration with the UPSHIFT Global Lead, Regional Offices and Programme Group counterparts, map out present wants and plans of nation places of work as they relate to digital deployment and leveraging AI for UPSHIFT supply.
- In shut collaboration with the Learning Passport Team, Regional Office and respective Country Offices, doc the prices of UPSHIFT supply via the Learning Passport and Unisolve together with arrange and operational prices for use as a baseline within the growth of the UPSHIFT digital technique.
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Develop and preserve updated a consumer-pleasant database cataloging the prevailing use of digital instruments and belongings for UPSHIFT supply together with, however not restricted to:
- (i) checklist of international locations utilizing digital instruments / platforms for UPSHIFT supply with related use case description,
- (ii) checklist of digital platformed used to ship UPSHIFT, (iii) checklist of current digital belongings used for UPSHIFT supply.
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Develop UPSHIFT digital technique focusing supporting UPSHIFT transition to scale together with, however not restricted to:
- (i) help value efficient scaling of blended UPSHIFT deliveries via Learning Passport / Passport to Earning in addition to Unisolve together with roles of totally different UNICEF stakeholders.
- (ii) define of content material manufacturing specs to maximise platform compatibility.
- (iii) course of and related belongings to help porting studying journeys throughout platforms
- (iv) identification of digital belongings (i.e. media, curriculum, …) wanted to speed up the deployment of UPSHIFT blended incomes globally and (v) costed workplan to implement the technique.
- For world belongings recognized to speed up the deployment of UPSHIFT blended studying develop estimated prices and technical specs / phrases of reference for their manufacturing.
- Develop toolkits, presentation decks, SharePoint content material or different content material to tell nation places of work contemplating utilizing digital blended supply fashions.
- In collaboration with the Artificial Intelligence specialists on the Ventures group, help UPSHIFT Global lead in growing imaginative and prescient for integration of AI within the UPSHIFT studying journey, lead technical discussions with related stakeholders and help the event of testing and rollout plans to pilot and scale the use. Serve as focus for the Learning Passport, Passport to Earning and Google groups inside UNICEF in addition to ICT and T4D colleagues.
- Provide orientation and/or technical help to nation places of work, Regional Offices and different counterparts as applicable.
- Provide inputs to displays, proposals, briefing notes or different UPSHIFT supplies being developed or up to date.
- Represent UPSHIFT in related conferences and function UPSHIFT focus for ICTD colleagues and regional T4D officers.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
- An superior college diploma (grasp’s or increased) in schooling, data expertise, or one other related subject.
- A primary University Degree in a related subject mixed with 2 further years of skilled expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
- A minimal of 5 years of confirmed skilled expertise in data methods growth and studying administration methods.
- A robust, confirmed observe report on technique formulation, undertaking growth and implementation.
- Experience in working with studying administration methods deployment.
- Knowledge of Government schooling methods atmosphere and use of digital curriculum.
- Knowledge of the UPSHIFT methodology or design considering / human centered design approaches.
- Knowledge of United Nations programming atmosphere.
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.
- Experience in UNICEF ICTD buildings, UPSHIFT adaptation or supply and UPSHIFT blended studying conception, supply or implementation could be thought-about an asset
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.
For extra data, please assessment the Terms of Reference: 
Travel:
- The guide is anticipated to journey to Stockholm, Sweden for 5 nights.
- The guide is accountable for arranging his/her personal journey, together with visa and journey insurance coverage.
Payment particulars and additional concerns
Payment of skilled charges might be based mostly on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the appropriate to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required customary or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the guide.
How to apply:
- Interest applicant is required to submit a monetary proposal with all-inclusive price. Please see the monetary proposal template. Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
- Financial proposal should embody journey prices (financial system class) and day by day subsistence allowance, if journey is required as per TOR and every other estimated prices: visa, journey/medical health insurance
- Applications with out a monetary proposal won’t be thought-about.
General Terms and Conditions:
Please assessment UNICEF’s General Terms and Conditions for Consultants right here for vital data concerning contract obligations, together with medical insurance coverage, SARS-CoV-2 (Covid19) vaccination, and revenue tax necessities.
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 here.
UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to change into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF provides paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of versatile working preparations. Click here to study extra about versatile work preparations, nicely-being, and advantages.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embody those that have lengthy-time period bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with numerous obstacles, might hinder their full and efficient participation in society on an equal foundation with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has dedicated to extend the quantity of staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-associated help necessities of candidates and staff with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you’re an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility help in finishing the net application, please submit your request via the accessibility e-mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals below 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based mostly on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
Individuals engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract won’t 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 supplied therein (corresponding to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service might 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 to make sure 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 areas or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the period of their consultancy contracts.
In case of any questions, please contact swe-ooi-recruitment@unicef.org
Consultancy: UPSHIFT Digital Strategy Consultant, Office of Innovation, Stockholm, Sweden – 12 months (Remote)
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