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Consultancy Title: Consultant for  Advocacy Capacity Building for Safe Online Portfolio of Grantees

Section/Division/Duty Station: End Violence Against Children- Safe Online 

Duration: May 1, 2025 to April 1, 2026

Home/ Office Based: Remote

If you’re a dedicated, artistic skilled and are obsessed with making an enduring difference for kids, the world’s main kids’s rights group want to hear from you. For over 70 years, UNICEF has been engaged on the bottom in 190 nations and territories to advertise kids’s survival, safety and improvement. The world’s largest supplier of vaccines for growing nations, UNICEF helps child well being and diet, good water and sanitation, high quality primary schooling for all girls and boys, and the safety of kids from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded solely by the voluntary contributions of people, companies, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 employees in additional than 145 nations.

BACKGROUND

Since 2016, Safe Online has led efforts to fight on-line Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA), investing overUS$100 million invested in +100 tasks throughout +100 nations. It’s the one international funding automobile devoted to child on-line security by proof-based mostly options, slicing-edge applied sciences, and cross-sectoral programs. Advocacy and Collective Action is one of Safe Online strategic objectives together with Investing for Impact, Evidence and Knowledge and Measuring Change. Building on the profitable mobilisation on the Global Ministerial Conference on Violence in opposition to Children in Colombia in November 2024, Safe Online is participating with strategic companions in a brand new Advocacy for Financing effort to drive a worldwide motion and safe consideration and funding in direction of tackling on-line CSEA and guaranteeing kids’s digital security globally. 

A key exercise is strengthening grantees’ advocacy capability and fostering a tradition of studying and joint motion. Based on a current capability wants evaluation, Safe Online seeks to have interaction a advisor to help with the design and supply of actions aiming at strengthening grantees’ capability on advocacy, empowering them to collectively drive the worldwide motion for digital security and the nicely-being of kids. Through a sensible, final result-pushed strategy, grantees will achieve entry to tailor-made instruments, assets, and engagement alternatives that amplify their advocacy impression. This effort will empower grantees to drive systemic, ahead-trying options and safe monetary commitments that advance digital security and shield kids from on-line CSEA.

The goal is to strengthen grantees’ capability to advocate successfully for:

• Policy change, systemic options, and satisfactory monetary commitments to handle on-line CSEA within the context of different digital harms. 

• Greater visibility of on-line CSEA and child on-line security throughout international, regional, and nationwide platforms and associated agendas, together with the monetary and personal sectors. 

• Responsible language and knowledge use, and elevated consideration to financing and innovation to handle evolving digital dangers with adaptive, price-efficient options.

• Strategic partnerships and collective motion to drive advocacy impression.

The scope of work contains, however isn’t restricted to, the next key outputs:

Advocacy capability constructing framework and plan 

• Develop a complete Advocacy Capacity Building Framework and Plan knowledgeable by the most recent approaches and finest practices contemplating grantees’ wants and Safe Online’s mission. 

• Identify key advocacy priorities, stakeholders, and engagement methods to reinforce grantees’ advocacy effectiveness and impression. 

• As related to the plan implementation, help with facilitating engagement of programmatic consultants, key advocates, policymakers, personal sector. 

Tailored capability constructing and abilities improvement 

• Assist to arrange and facilitate workshops, webinars, and peer-studying periods for chosen teams of grantees (e.g. new, skilled advocates) to help with figuring out boundaries, develop ways and options, and design or enhance advocacy methods.  

• Provide tailor-made technical help to a particular group of grantees, together with strategies to establish goal stakeholders, advocacy messages, and entry factors for influencing selections.

• Compile an proof-based mostly advocacy toolkit that includes sensible pointers, devices, and customizable assets, tailor-made to the various wants of Safe Online grantees. This would come with sensible assets to equip grantees with focused methods to advocate for monetary commitments from precedence funding streams. Explore choices for a consumer-pleasant, interactive, and sustainable format to reinforce accessibility, engagement, and lengthy-time period usability.

Advocacy for financing

• Support the event and implementation of the Safe Online Advocacy for Financing plan and associated convenings and occasions as relevant – e.g. G20 South Africa Nov 2025.  

• Assist to combine advocacy for financing ideas throughout the grantees’ advocacy capability constructing actions and assets – together with the brand new advocacy narrative and different assets produced as part of the advocacy for financing plan.

Strengthening collective motion and partnerships

• Support to create areas for studying, data sharing and common engagement throughout the portfolio of grantees, and strategic companions as related, to facilitate collaboration and a unified advocacy voice.

• Support the institution of data, collaborative networks round key advocacy areas of curiosity to the grantees together with a dynamic, consumer-pleasant data-sharing device to facilitate actual-time engagement, insights trade, and lively coordination on advocacy alternatives.

• Identify, map and facilitate advocacy connections and alternatives for grantees (nicely-established or new advocates) to attach with key actors and align advocacy efforts.  

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

• Establish key indicators to measure the impression of advocacy capability-constructing efforts.

• Gather suggestions from grantees and adapt methods accordingly.

Work Assignment Overview

Deliverables/ Outputs Delivery deadline

Review documentation and seek the advice of with Safe Online staff, and key informants as related, to assemble data and develop complete and detailed advocacy capability constructing framework and plan outlining key priorities, methods and instruments to ship on the important thing outputs, together with manufacturing timeline, technical wants and associated price estimates, if any. 

One complete advocacy portfolio capability constructing framework and workplan, outlining teams of chosen grantees, tailor-made engagement actions, detailed timeline and, technical wants and estimated prices if any

20 days/

4 weeks

30 May 2025

Organise and facilitate at the least three digital periods (workshops, webinars, peer-studying periods) for chosen teams of grantees. 

At least 3 digital periods are delivered to excessive requirements, with nice engagement from grantees and throughout the agreed timeline.

40 days/

8 weeks

30 March 2026

Provide technical help to grantees as related.

Technical help to 

Provide technical help to chose teams of grantees by at the least _1 2 3 4 5… on-line periods and evaluate a minimal of 1 2 3 4 5… documentation packages . Support will concentrate on growing advocacy methods, together with figuring out goal stakeholders, crafting advocacy messages, and figuring out key entry factors for influencing selections. Assistance have to be delivered promptly and meet excessive-high quality requirements as outlined by UNICEF pointers 20 days/

4 weeks

30 March 2026

Compile advocacy toolkit that includes sensible pointers, devices, and customizable assets, tailor-made to the various wants of grantees. Explore choices for a consumer-pleasant, interactive, and sustainable format to reinforce accessibility, engagement, and lengthy-time period usability.

Customized 1 toolkit delivered inside agreed timeline and to excessive-high quality requirements.

20 days/

4 weeks

30 March 2025

Support improvement and implementation of the Safe Online Advocacy for Financing plan, primarily coordination and occasion planning and administration on the G20 in Nov 2025, and its integration in grantees’ capability constructing plan, actions.

High-quality and immediate help by organising to arrange one Safe Online G20-associated occasion in Nov 2025,  together with the event of a documentation bundle on advocacy for financing ideas, narrative, key messages, and funding asks meaningfully built-in in capability constructing actions, plan.

30 days/

6 weeks 

30 March 2026 

Support the institution of data, collaborative networks round key advocacy areas of curiosity to the grantees, and a dynamic, consumer-pleasant data-sharing device to facilitate actual-time engagement, insights trade, and lively coordination on advocacy alternatives.

Knowledge networks and sharing device developed and delivered as per agreed timeline, to excessive-high quality requirements and with nice engagement from grantees. 

30 days/

6 weeks

30 March 2026 

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning temporary to stipulate progress and impression of capability-constructing actions. 

1 Brief define delivered inside timeline and excessive-high quality requirements. 15 days/

3 weeks

30 March 2026 

Education:

Bachelor’s diploma in Social Science, Development Studies, International Affairs, Finance, Communication, or a associated area.

Work expertise: 

Essential Skills and Competences: 

• A minimal of 5 years’ expertise and experience in advocacy, capability constructing, coverage, group engagement, data administration and different related fields together with financing, innovation and technique. 

• Demonstrable expertise of growing and delivering proof-based mostly, revolutionary and impactful capability constructing and advocacy initiatives, and skill to tailor them for a worldwide and different viewers. 

• Excellent observe report of producing prime quality merchandise appropriate for worldwide and cross-sector audiences. 

• Solid IT and media abilities, together with organising and operating digital conferences and data sharing instruments.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement abilities.

• Ability to work on demand, adapt to altering circumstances, multi-process and ship forward of tight deadlines. 

Desirable Skills and Competences: 

• Experience in advocacy for financing is extremely fascinating. 

• Expertise on digital security and/or different thematic areas of digital rights and security is extremely fascinating.

• Expertise in violence in opposition to kids or different types of violence is fascinating.

• Relevant expertise throughout the UN system, different multilateral organisations or Public-Private Partnerships.

• Experience working with civil society organizations, policymakers, and worldwide establishments.

• Working data of different UN languages akin to French, Spanish, Arabic is fascinating. 

Requirements: 

Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and 

– Upload copy of educational credentials 

– Financial proposal that may embrace/ replicate :

o the prices per every deliverable and the full lump-sum for the entire project (in US$) to undertake the phrases of reference.

o journey prices and each day subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or journey is required as per TOR. 

o Any different estimated prices: visa, medical health insurance, and dwelling prices as relevant.

o Any emergent / unexpected obligation journey and associated bills will probably be coated by UNICEF.

o Indicate your availability 

– Any emergent / unexpected obligation journey and associated bills will probably 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 probably be based mostly on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the best to withhold cost in case the deliverables submitted are lower than the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the advisor. 

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 underneath a distinct visa, the advisor and his/her family members are required to alter their visa standing to G4, and the advisor’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 underneath the visa held previous to switching to G4.  

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

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UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals underneath 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, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply extra info to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.

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

Individuals engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought of “staff members” underneath 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 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 and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors 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 totally-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 over 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 straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.