Position: Individual Consultant: For Training Multimedia Material Production, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (Remote Based)

Job Description

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.

Purpose Of Activity/Assignment

Complement the work currently being done by APSE and PMDA on the creation of training material for Participatory

Action Research and Evaluation (PARE) training for young people. The consultant will review the training material that

has been designed, complement it based on previous training experience, and finally create relevant multimedia training

material.

Currently, the training material is composed of one session on general research methods, one session on best practices

on literature review, and five sessions on participatory research methods (interview, focus group, survey, ethnography,

and social cartography). As it is detailed later, each session is expected to last two hours, ergo the training material

produced out of this consultancy is estimated for a 14-hour training.

Scope Of Work

The required work has three steps:

• Review the current material suggesting at least two more learning activities for each of the six-training sessions
  
  

(literature review, interview, focus group, survey, ethnography, and social cartography).

• Design a user-friendly manual that synthesises the training content and material into a product that can be
  
  

delivered to training participants.

• Design PowerPoint slides that complement the training material (approximately 14 hours). Slides needed to
  
  

match two hours per session.

Duration of the Contract: The consultant will be engaged remotely for approx. 10 days within a period of one month.

Tasks And Deliverables For The Assignment

Tasks/Milestone Deliverables/Output Target Delivery Date Review of the existing training content and design two alternative activities per session A report that includes 12 original training activities 20 September 2024 Production of training manual for delivery. A manual with UNICEF standards for delivery 05 October 2024 Production of training slides A deck of slides that complement the training manual 20 September 2024

Remarks: Please submit your application with a financial proposal. Application without the financial proposal will not be considered.

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

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Social Science, STEM, Communications or any other relevant areas.
  
  

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills Required

• Experience teaching (can be in formal education or training done by development partners). At least 3 years.
• Evidence of Multimedia production of training material.
• Experience working with vulnerable communities on training and educational skills.
• Experience on inquiry-based learning approaches is an asset.
• Proficiency in English is required. Knowledge of Urdu is an asset.
  
  

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

To view our competency framework, please visit  here.

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

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation 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

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.

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.