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Advertisement: native consultant (Maldivian National) to develop the entrepreneurship component of ImaGen Ventures (social innovation) initiative – 2025.
For each child, a champion!
With the objective of co-creating options for the issues affecting youth and their society, UNICEF launched the Generation Unlimited Imagen Ventures Youth Challenge in 2022. The Generation Unlimited Youth Challenge is a worldwide initiative that goals to encourage younger individuals between 16-24 years with sensible concepts, however with out the sources to convey them to life, to flip their concepts into options that can deal with the society’s most urgent points.
The key targets of the imaGen Ventures are to:
- Engage youth, together with women and younger ladies, from extra deprived/marginalized backgrounds as drawback solvers (quite than simply as beneficiaries)
- Generate youth-led options and enterprises at the native stage that contribute to the SDGs.
- Encourage options which have the capability and potential to deal with inequalities and different kinds of discrimination.
- Build citizenship, employability, and entrepreneurship abilities, expertise, and networks for younger individuals, particularly the most deprived.
- Foster youth-led advocacy on points affecting them.
In 2024, UNICEF Maldives Country Office is implementing the 3rd version of imaGen Ventures in the Maldives. Based on the expertise of earlier editions, this 12 months’s version could have a big component on social entrepreneurship. To facilitate this, the nation workplace is searching for the companies of an area consultant to design and ship a complete coaching program on social entrepreneurship.
How are you able to make a difference?
To equip contributors with the information, abilities, sensible instruments, and entrepreneurial mindsets to develop and implement social enterprises for creating sustainable social influence.
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To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
- Proven expertise in growing instructional modules or coaching packages.
- Strong understanding of social entrepreneurship.
- Experience working with younger individuals, notably in the age group of 16-24 years shall be an asset.
- Excellent communication and facilitation abilities.
- Ability to incorporate interactive and interesting instructing strategies.
- Experience in conducting coaching wants assessments and growing coaching curricula.
- Excellent facilitation and communication abilities, with the capability to have interaction various teams and foster participatory studying.
For each Child, you display…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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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 turn into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF affords 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, well-being, and advantages.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embody those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with varied 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 enhance the quantity of staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related help necessities of candidates and staff with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you might be an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility help in finishing the on-line application, please submit your request via the accessibility electronic 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 targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to promote the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of tutorial credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to present extra 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 shall 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 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 supplied therein (equivalent 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 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 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 fully-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 are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.
Local consultant (Maldivian National) to develop the entrepreneurship component of ImaGen Ventures (social innovation) initiative- 2025.
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