Home-based: Consultant to support the IASC Task Force on Localization – documenting good practices (71 working days between Dec 2023 and June 2024) – Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS)

• Country: Switzerland
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• Education: Master’s degree
• Experience: 8 years
  
• Gender: Both

Scope of work

The mandate of the IASC Task Force on localization has been extended until June 2024 with a stronger focus on documenting good practices at country level, with a view to identifying progress as well as remaining bottlenecks regarding the operationalization of collective localization commitments. The Task Force Co-Chairs have also committed to ensuring that remaining gaps and challenges are shared with IASC members to inform the future engagement of the IASC with the localization agenda.

The consultant will support the following areas:

1. Support the set-up of a series of webinars and the documentation of good practices emerging from those and other events to pull out key lessons.
2. Contribute to the work on capacity sharing (workstream 2 of the Task Force) with the addition of good practices examples and relevant initiatives from different country examples and support the dissemination plan.
3. Identify synergies in relation to localization, AAP and the nexus based on practical country examples and develop a theory of change which brings elements of these commitments together as well as some recommendations on practical steps to strengthen the links between these issues.
4. Based on the above, contribute with relevant documentation and papers which will inform the work of the localization task force as well as reflections within the IASC at the end of the Task Force.
5. Support the task force in its engagement with donors on localisation by contributing to drafting key messages based on the TF input and in collaboration with other task forces.

Work Assignment Overview

Estimated Duration of the Contract

71 working days between December 2023 and June 2024.

Consultant’s Work Place and Official Travel

The Consultant will be home-based.

As part of this assignment, two (2) travels to Geneva, Switzerland is foreseen. The consultant will arrange her/his travel as and when they take place, and related costs will be reimbursed per UNICEF travel policy.

Travel Clause

• All UNICEF rules and regulations related to travel of Consultants apply.
• All travels shall be undertaken only upon the prior written approval by UNICEF.
• The consultant must be fit to travel, be in a possession of the valid UN BSAFE certificate, obligatory inoculation(s) and have a valid own travel/medical insurance and an immunization/vaccination card.

Estimated Cost of the Consultancy & Payment Schedule

Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of an invoice and satisfactory completion of the above-mentioned deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

Please propose a lumpsum professional fee (in USD) based on 71 working days to undertake this assignment. Please do not include travel fees as this will be reimbursed as and when they take place.

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

• Master’s degree in public health, data and analytics, humanitarian field or another relevant field, with at least 8 years of professional experience in development and humanitarian response and/or international development.
• Familiarity with the localization agenda and how it connects with other humanitarian priorities such as AAP and the nexus.
• Strong experience with leading research in humanitarian action, with particular experience with localization as well as AAP and the nexus.
• Experience with managing and conducting multi-stakeholder consultations at different levels, UN/UNICEF experience is considered an asset.
• Excellent analytical skills with strong drive for results and capacity to work independently.
• Proficiency in written and verbal English language.

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