UNICEF works in some of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 nations and territories, we work for each child, in every single place, day by 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 imagine that new approaches, partnerships and applied sciences that help realizing kids’s rights are crucial to enhancing their lives.
The Office of Innovation is a inventive, interactive, and agile group in UNICEF. We sit at a singular intersection, the place a corporation that works on enormous world points meets the beginning-up considering, the know-how, and the companions that flip this vitality into scalable options.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation creates alternatives for the world’s kids by specializing in the place new markets can meet their very important wants. We do that by:
- Connecting youth communities (or extra broadly — anybody disconnected or beneath-served) to determination-makers, and to one another, to ship knowledgeable, related and sustained programmes that construct higher, stronger futures for kids.
- Provoking change for kids via an entrepreneurial strategy — in a historically threat averse subject — to harness quickly transferring improvements and apply them to serve the wants of all kids.
- Creating new fashions of partnership that leverage core enterprise values throughout the general public, personal and educational sectors to be able to ship quick, and lasting outcomes for kids.
Our group
We’re an interdisciplinary group world wide tasked with figuring out, prototyping, and scaling new applied sciences and practices. With our companions, we deal with convening and collaborating on new and completely different options, low- and excessive-tech, by:
- Looking on the 2–5-yr horizon to guage rising and trending applied sciences and to see how UNICEF can work with the personal sector on doing higher enterprise whereas enhancing important providers for kids.
- Investing in early-stage options that present nice potential to positively influence kids within the 2-yr future together with the Venture Fund that invests in open-supply know-how options from begin-ups primarily based in UNICEF’s programme nations.
- Identifying confirmed options that may be applied at nationwide scale in a number of nations – taking the concepts that assist hundreds in a single nation, bringing them to dozens of nations throughout a number of sectors, and impacting the lives of tens of millions of kids.”
How are you able to make a difference?
The Knowledge Management and CO Support Consultant is predicted to help a number of capability-constructing initiatives, together with the Spark Accelerator and COMPASS.
Your fundamental duties will likely be:
Detailed duties / deliverables.
Main duties:
- Innovation information seize & curation – Coordinate and set up processes to systematically establish, doc, and synthesize greatest practices, classes discovered, and rising insights associated to Spark improvements, Compass and capability constructing initiatives, supporting the preparation of case research, studying briefs, suppose items, articles or different person-pleasant merchandise and selling joined-up information era addressing information gaps
- Facilitate cross studying on innovation – Design, develop, and keep accessible information-sharing platforms and tailor capability constructing initiatives to tell determination-making and scale influence, guaranteeing UNICEF nation workplaces and companions can simply entry related innovation assets, instruments, and case research.
- Package and disseminate innovation choices – Define, refine, and talk innovation providers to nation workplaces, guaranteeing readability on accessible help, assets, and engagement alternatives.
- Resource mobilization – Identify and pursue funding alternatives to maintain and scale innovation initiatives throughout UNICEF, together with supporting pipeline improvement and donor engagement. Lead the creation of compelling proposals, idea notes, and funding pitches, aligning UNICEF’s innovation priorities with donor pursuits, and help donor mission reporting necessities and knowledge administration between donors, inside stakeholders and mission leads.
- Innovation group engagement and Innovation Awards – Foster lively participation in information-sharing networks, dialogue boards, and inside/exterior innovation communities to strengthen collaboration and studying, therefore selling information sharing channels and an innovation studying group. Recognize excellent contributions to innovation practices.
- Event help and thought management – Identify tales and main communication moments that showcase the influence of the OOI’s work and contribute to innovation occasions and workshops, guaranteeing efficient dissemination of insights and fostering strategic dialogues with companions.
For extra particulars, preview assessment the Terms of Reference: 
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
- A college diploma in Social Sciences, Humanities, Business, Design or different related subject.
- A minimal of seven years of related skilled expertise in areas comparable to information administration, innovation, partnerships, communications, reporting and/or useful resource mobilization-associated positions.
- Five years of expertise on the nationwide and worldwide ranges in programme administration and information administration is desired.
- Experience working within the worldwide improvement/humanitarian sectors and expertise working in growing nations is required.
- Experience in working with a number of nations and with a number of stakeholders. High capability for group and coordination, in addition to a capability to ascertain efficient working relations and work with a excessive diploma of collaboration with numerous kind of groups.
- Experience influencing and driving company change initiatives.
- Strong written and verbal communication expertise.
- Previous work expertise with UN companies is a plus.
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.
- Fluency in English is required; sturdy written and verbal competency is critical.
Travel:
- Trips could also be required primarily based on the 2025-2026 work plans. For these journeys, the Consultant doesn’t want to incorporate an estimated responsibility-associated journey funds as part of the all-inclusive price. UNICEF will present the estimated funds for responsibility-associated when the contract is signed and can reimburse the precise prices incurred upon submission of receipts.
- The guide is accountable for arranging his/her personal journey, together with visa and journey insurance coverage.
Payment particulars and additional issues
- Payment of skilled charges will likely be primarily based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the proper to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are lower than the required customary or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the guide.
How to apply:
- Interested candidates are required to submit a monetary proposal with an all-inclusive price. Please see the monetary proposal template.
- Financial proposal should embody journey prices (financial system class) and day by day subsistence allowance associated with the project journey and every other estimated prices: visa, journey/medical insurance.
- Applications with out a monetary proposal is not going to be thought-about.
Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
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 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 gives paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of versatile working preparations. Click here to study extra about versatile work preparations, effectively-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 limitations, could 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 beneath 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 advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply 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 will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
Individuals engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “staff members” beneath 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 (comparable to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will likely 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 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 totally vaccinated standing towards 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 places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.
In case of any questions, please contact swe-ooi-recruitments@unicef.org
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