Consultancy with EMOPS Global Cluster Coordination Unit “Capacity Building Project Manager” (Home-based, part-time; Duration 11,5 months)

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, hope

This is a part-time home-based consultancy “Capacity Building Project manager” the purpose of which is to provide strategic and operational oversight and management of the UNICEF’s Global Cluster Coordination Unit (GCCU) intercluster capacity building project.

How can you make a difference?

Background: The humanitarian Review has highlighted the importance of making coordination-related training available to UNICEF’s entire staff force. UNICEF staff should be able to step into coordination roles at the initial stages of a response, and the ability to train so massively can only be found through online training. In addition, online self-paced training will allow UNICEF to reach current cluster staff more widely, including staff in field offices, in a context where travel is increasingly restricted both due to COVID restrictions and to funding constraints for face to face training. Finally, a new competency framework was adopted by the UNICEF-led clusters in 2020, and the GCCU Learning Taskforce agreed that all new trainings would align with them.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Advanced university degree in social sciences, psychology, business management and administration, international development, engineering or any other relevant field.
• At least eight years progressively responsible experience in humanitarian action and capacity building.
• Prior experience in project management.
• Experience with training development and delivery.
• Experience with clusters and in emergencies, preferably with UNICEF or another UN agency.
• Knowledge of existing humanitarian self-learning programmes.
• Cluster IM expertise required.
• Hands on humanitarian field experience highly desirable.
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills.
• Fluency in English required.

To Apply: Interested candidates are invited to apply online. Please complete the online profile and provide the requested documents including CVs and/or Personal history forms (downloadable from http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/P11.doc
Please indicate your daily fee. Applications without a fee will not be considered. 

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.