UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is offering a Consultancy contract within the Education Section of the Division of Resilience and Solutions.
UNHCR is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. Every year, millions of men, women and children are forced to flee their homes to escape conflict and persecution. We are in over 125 countries, using our expertise to protect and care for millions.
Title: Tertiary Education Communications Consultant
Duty Station: Home-based with mission travels as feasible
Duration: two months
Contract Type: Consultancy contract
Start date: 01 November 2020
Organisational context
In recent years, UNHCR scaled up its tertiary education programmes for refugees, in particular the DAFI scholarship programme, connected learning programmes implemented by partners and refugee participation in technical and vocational education and training (TVET). In line with UNHCR’s education strategy, substantial scaling of tertiary education opportunities for refugees in the coming years remains a high priority.
Building on communications work conducted in 2019 relating to those programmes, there is a continued need for UNHCR to document and showcase outcomes of investment in tertiary education for refugees, including impacts on and evidence of international responsibility sharing and refugee self-reliance. In order to continue expanding higher education opportunities or young refugee women and men, and in order to achieve the target of 15% enrolment in tertiary education by the year 2030, joint advocacy, a broadened partner base and better presentation of data and evidence must be prioritised.
Recent high-level events have shown positive results in generating interest and investment in higher education for refugees. Many of these included a core visual and communications aspect: “The Other One Percent-Higher Education in Forced Displacement” photo exhibition, which profiles a number of students, challenges perceptions of refugees and highlights the importance of higher education for refugees, was displayed at events in Berlin, Paris, Geneva, Amman, Copenhagen and Islamabad since 2017. A selection of images was also displayed at the Global Refugee Forum.
The position
This consultancy will develop new content, materials and profiles for use in public exhibitions, increased outreach through social media, donor advocacy and other avenues, and inclusion in the annual education report, the annual DAFI programme report and other advocacy and informational materials as relevant.
Duties and responsibilities
Specific areas of focus of this consultancy:
· Contribute to the communications and visibility aspect of the 15by30 strategy by developing approaches to visualising and highlighting the five pillars of higher education for refugees, separately and how they relate to each other.
· Produce – and oversee the production of – media content in the form of student photos, personal stories, video profiles and compilations, social media content. Content will be generated during field missions to locations not recently or adequately highlighted in prior refugee higher education materials and in coordination with country and regional teams.
· Partial focus on the impacts of COVID 19 on secondary and higher education for refugees and the contributions refugee students made during the pandemic response.
Deliverable
# of days
Notes
Due
Communication Roadmap
15 days
Includes: research, consultation with UNHCR staff, partners, etc + joint planning meeting in CPH
15th November 2020
Photographs of students with accompanying text profiles based on interviews; short videos to supplement
25 days
2 missions (5-7 days each), or remote coordination of content development. Home-based (15 days) – editing and transcribing. Locations to be confirmed based on travel feasibility.
31 December 2020
Tertiary education advocacy and informational video
10 days
Coordination of production of a tertiary education video for use in all UNHCR higher education visibility.
31 December 2020
Coordination of photographs and interviews in additional field locations as needed
5 days
Work with PI and local Education Focal point colleagues to photograph and interview additional 20 brief student profiles in additional locations
31 December 2020
Monitoring and Progress Controls (report requirements, periodicity, format, deadlines):
a. The final product (e.g., survey completed, data collected, workshop conducted, research documents produced specify):
1) Communication and visualisation approach underpinning the 15by30 Roadmap (period 2021-2025), in the form of an action-oriented roadmap.
2) 15 stories of refuge students in tertiary and secondary education, specifically DAFI, connected learning, secondary and TVET students and DAFI alumni, developed on mission or coordinated remotely, and uploaded to refugees media (edited texts + photos and/or videos), with a focus on Covid impacts, contribution by students and/or underreported angles.
3) 20 additional stories of refugee students coordinated through country education focal points and PI colleagues to supplement above student profiles.
4) Coordination of production of a targeted information and advocacy-oriented video on the importance of higher education for refugees, examples of successes and ways to address challenges for use in online and public presentation platforms.
b. Delivery Periodicity, as applicable:
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Communications and visualisation approach to be delivered by 15th November 2020
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Photographs and other products to be delivered by 31 December 2020. (see also table above)
Essential minimum qualifications and professional experience required
Six years of professional experience required, demonstrated experience working with refugee youth required;
Undergraduate degree required, masters or professional qualification preferred.
Location
The successful candidate will be working home-based with mission travels as feasible.
How to apply
Interested applicants should submit their letter of motivation, Personal History Form (PHF) and CV to [email protected] indicating DRS/2020/022; First name/Last name, and Tertiary Education Communications Consultancy in the subject of the email.
Personal History Forms are available at PHF Form / Supplementary Sheet.
The UNHCR workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures, languages and opinions. UNHCR seeks to sustain and strengthen this diversity to ensure equal opportunities as well as an inclusive working environment for its entire workforce. Applications are encouraged from all qualified candidates without distinction on grounds of race, colour, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.
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