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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, a champion

UNICEF works towards realization of the rights of children as prescribed in the Convention of the Rights of the Children. These rights pertain to child survival, protection, development, and participation.

There is an ongoing requirement for knowledge management support to provide regional and country teams with collaborative working spaces, data visualization products (including maps) to inform evidence-based decision making and support in documenting lessons learnt and good practices. All this support is needed to inform evidence-based programming and decision making at county and regional level.

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF would like to engage the services of consultants with the skillset needed to provide knowledge management support to ensure timely availability of quality data visualization products, support in creating collaborative working spaces, and documenting and disseminating good practices and lessons learnt.

Objectives

The overall objective is to set up a Long-Term Agreement (LTA) to facilitate and expedite the process by which UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office and the country offices in the region will be able to contract Information and Knowledge management consultants to meet their needs in these areas.

Responsibilities and Tasks of successful candidates: * Develop strategies and mechanisms to foster a culture of knowledge sharing and learning among project teams and partners.

• Support and coordinate the documentation best practices, success stories, lessons learnt from programme implementation.
• Design and organize knowledge-sharing sessions, workshops, and webinars to disseminate best practices, lessons learned, and innovative approaches.
• Build, maintain and manage online shared working spaces in existing internal platforms.
• Support project teams to identify knowledge gaps and design learning initiatives to address them.
• Build repositories to share knowledge and resources among different countries and teams.
• Produce and package knowledge products such as infographics, toolkits, etc. to disseminate learning materials and best practices.

Responsibilities of the Consultant: * The consultant will use their own equipment; laptops, microphones, software and other accessories that may be required for this task.

• The consultant will not give the content/material or any part thereof, to any third party without the written permission of UNICEF. All components will be the property of UNICEF, and the consultant will not share the same with anyone else.
• The consultant will not put their own name or logo/emblem on the content / final product. The only organization branding will be UNICEF, if required.

Responsibilities of UNICEF:

i. UNICEF will provide all details pertaining to the activity and the requirements

ii. UNICEF will orient the consultant on UNICEF\\\'s branding guidelines

Deliverable

Specific delivery date/deadline for completion of deliverable

Estimated travel required for completion of deliverable

• Develop strategies and mechanisms to foster a culture of knowledge sharing and learning among project teams and partners.
• Document best practices, success stories, lessons learnt from programme implementation.
• Design and organize knowledge-sharing sessions, workshops, and webinars to disseminate best practices, lessons learned, and innovative approaches.
• Build and manage online shared working spaces.
• Support project teams to identify knowledge gaps and design learning initiatives to address them.
• Build repositories to share knowledge and resources among different countries and teams.
• Produce and package knowledge products such as infographics, toolkits, etc. to disseminate learning materials and best practices.

As and when requested by

UNICEF

Nil

Duty Station

Anywhere in Europe or elsewhere as projects will be completed from home. Ideally in a time zone of Geneva, Switzerland or +/- 3 hours.

Travel

No travel envisaged for this consultancy; however, consultant might be required to travel outside their duty station for specific events (e.g. if in-person training or documentation missions or meetings are required by UNICEF, government or partners) in which case payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging, etc. should be agreed upon, between the supervisor and the consultant prior to travel and will be reimbursed on actuals.

Estimated Duration of LTA

The Long-Term Agreement will be for a duration of three years maximum. The services of the consultants selected under the LTA would also be made available to all the Country Offices and the Refugee Response Offices in the Europe and Central Asia region.

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• A minimum of bachelor\\\'s degree in social or Computer Science, Geospatial Information System, Social Sciences with 5 years of experience in Information Management, Knowledge Management, or Monitoring and Evaluation, or a Master\\\'s degree in the same area with at least 4 years of experience in the same field as listed above, is mandatory
• Experience in using Microsoft tools such as SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, PowerBI, etc is required
• An excellent track record, along with experience in producing KM products (coordinating documentation exercises, infographics, creating shared working space, etc.).
• Experience in collecting data and drafting report presenting findings and recommendation for different audiences.
• Ability to analyze, plan, communicate effectively orally and in writing draft reports
• Experience in working in KM capacity within the UN system or NGOs is desirable.
• Experience working on humanitarian response within the UN system and NGOs is an asset.

Language:

• Fluency in oral and written English is required
• Knowledge of at least another UN Official language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.
• Knowledge of any language spoken in the region will be considered an asset.

HOW TO APPLY

The application to be submitted through the online portal should contain 4 separate attachments:

I. A Cover letter explaining the motivation for applying and explaining how the qualifications and skillset of the candidate (to be uploaded online under \\xe2\\x80\\x9cCover letter\\xe2\\x80\\x9d Tab)

II. Curriculum Vitae (CV) (to be uploaded online under \\xe2\\x80\\x9cResume\\xe2\\x80\\x9d Tab)

III. Minimum of 3 work samples as a single file (to be uploaded under writing samples filed)

IV.

Important Note: Please do not indicate financials anywhere else in the online application form, please mark \"n/a or 00\", under the fee related questions in the online application form.

Without all the above 4 documents, your application will be considered incomplete and invalid and will not be considered further.

Payment Schedule

The LTA to be signed will have a fixed fee rate for three years. However, UNICEF does not warrant that any quantity of services will be purchased during the term of the LTA as this will depend on forthcoming needs.

CONTRACTS CREATED AGAINST THE LTA

Whenever writer services are required, details of the requirement/deliverables including quantities and deadlines will be presented to the top-ranking LTA holder. Should this consultant not be available for this assignment, UNICEF will contact the second ranked consultant and so on.

Upon receipt of confirmation of availability and interest in the assignment, a contract will be issued with the prices/fees agreed in the LTA. The consultant must sign the contract prior commencement of work.

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UNICEF\\\'s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit .

UNICEF is here to serve the world\\\'s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. , irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

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: Any attempt to unduly influence UNICEF\\\'s selection process will lead to automatic disqualification of the applicant.

• Joint applications of two or more individuals are not accepted.

• Please note, UNICEF does not charge any fee during any stage of the process.

• Female candidates meeting the requirements are strongly encouraged to apply.

• UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion and encourages qualified candidates from all backgrounds including persons living with disabilities to apply.

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 \\xe2\\x80\\x9cstaff members\\xe2\\x80\\x9d 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.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

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