Apply for Consultant: Programs -Tunisia, Education Outcomes Fund (EOF), Hosted Fund, 36 Months, Tunis, Tunisia, Req:579918 Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. 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, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means surrender. 

For each child, EDUCATION 

There are few larger challenges confronted by the worldwide neighborhood than the dual crises of studying poverty and youth unemployment. In response, the Education Commission and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment got here along with our founding CEO Amel Karboul to create the Education Outcomes Fund (EOF).

EOF is a UNICEF-hosted fund with a mandate to champion Outcomes-Based Financing (OBF) for training in any respect ranges. We goal to enhance the training and employment outcomes for youngsters and youth, by bringing collectively governments, private and non-private funders, implementing companions, and affect traders to realize tangible, verified outcomes. We are backed by a range of world leaders who help us to form our method and obtain our bold goals.

Since its inception in 2018, EOF has established itself as a number one world participant in OBF and the one devoted centre of experience for OBF in training and expertise. With profitable applications already underway in Basic Education in Ghana and Sierra Leone, EOF is now making ready to launch applications in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in Rwanda, South Africa, and Sierra Leone, and a Skills for Employment program in Tunisia.

Since our inception in 2018, EOF has:

• Become the primary outcomes fund hosted by the United Nations inside UNICEF, as a scalable platform to accomplice with governments world wide.
• Partnered with governments in Ghana and Sierra Leone to ascertain large-scale outcomes funds in Quality Basic Education, mobilising ~USD 50M for these programmes from companions comparable to FCDO, KOICA, Bank of America and Hempel Foundation.
• Established a USD 47 million partnership with the LEGO Foundation, to develop a portfolio of OBF programmes in early childhood care and training throughout a various vary of nations, in addition to to amplify the motion and ecosystem of companions round this method.
• In partnership with the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs and Bank of America, EOF is launching our first Skills for Employment programme in Tunisia, specializing in end-to-end youth help from coaching to job placement and retention.
• Championed a brand new manner for non-public affect traders to contribute to our programmes, assuming the monetary threat and supporting implementing companions to realize outcomes. Our first programmes attracted 2-3x of the required affect funding, suggesting that the mannequin is interesting to the non-public sector.
• Had our revolutionary method featured within the Stanford Social Innovation Review, FT, Economist, Brookings, and extra.
• Established a Learning & Engagement workforce which focuses on neighborhood constructing efforts, together with the launch of the Collective Learning Initiative, bringing collectively actors within the OBF and early childhood care and training areas to collectively floor learnings.
• Already began to alter minds: from governments altering their sectorial technique to embrace OBF and co-financing programme budgets, to worldwide NGOs turning into extra data-driven and targeted on affect.

How are you able to make a difference?

The Consultant (Programs, Tunisia) will present program and operational recommendation and help for the implementation of the talents for employment program. The advisor will report on to the Program Manager and work carefully with EOF’s complete workforce. An estimated twelve mission journeys are required all through the contract (estimated 4 per 12 months), within Tunisia to conduct monitoring visits for EOF’s implementing companions. Each journey can be for 1-2 days most.

DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT

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

• An superior diploma (grasp’s or above) in enterprise, economics, political science, finance, training, worldwide improvement, or associated discipline.
• A bachelor’s diploma can be thought of with a further two years of related skilled expertise above the minimal required.
• A minimal of 5 years‘ related skilled work expertise is required in operational or program supply roles.
• Experience working in Tunisia is required, ideally within the skills-for-employment, training or nonprofit sectors.
• Fluency in English and Arabic is required.
• Proficiency in French is required.

DESIRED REQUIREMENTS

• Experience within the expertise for employment sector in Tunisia is very fascinating.
• Experience with safeguarding is very fascinating.
• Experience with conducting monitoring actions is most popular.
• Experience working in collaboration with authorities entities, donors and implementing companions is most popular.
• Experience in revolutionary finance, significantly Outcomes Based Financing, is most popular.

For each Child, you show… 

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

To view our competency framework, please go to  here. 

 UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

UNICEF presents 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 reveal your incapacity throughout your application in case you want cheap lodging in the course of 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 rules. All chosen candidates can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can due to this fact 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 offer further data to conduct a background check. 

Remarks:  

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

Interested candidates are required to completely full their application profile, add a canopy letter and their monetary proposal that outlines the each day charge charge in USD and anticipated journey prices, because the consultancy project requires journey inside Tunisia.

Applications with incomplete profile and with out a monetary proposal won’t be thought of.

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 (comparable to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service can 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 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 in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and will not be 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.