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Considering the need to UNICEF remain relevant, impactful, agile and effective in a changing policy environment, including but not limited to an accelerated process of EU accession, complex social/political/economic/policy space, new donor environment, UNICEF Albania Country Office needs to further strengthen its positioning with increased support in policy discussions and analysis, relevant evidence-building, data collection, reporting, monitoring of trends, assessing interventions and sharing experiences on child rights and child development programmes.
How can you make a difference?
UNICEF Albania wishes to engage high-calibre candidates to support strategic positioning, foresight, structuring high level evidence and context-based policy discussions, production of regularly analysis on policy changes and support to the flagship programs of the government and UNICEF Albania. The modality of the engagement will be a Long-Term Arrangement (LTA) to facilitate and expedite the process by which the UNICEF Office Management will engage these advisors/consultants to deliver on the below area of expertise:
The Advisor/consultant will also use his or her considerable analytical skills and network/membership of high-level policy bodies and think tanks to raise issues relating to children and to advocate lessons of best practice at these fora.
MAJOR TASKS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED
Responsibilities of the consultant:
Responsibilities of UNICEF:
Main Deliverables and Deadlines
S. No. | Major Task | Deliverable | Comment |
1 | Monitor developments in technical areas, as well as political and social developments, at the national and sub-national levels and Contribute to knowledge generation by trend analysis in outcome areas, capturing determinants of the trends and their implications for country programming.
Develop recommendations, position papers and reports on macro-environment, including foresights for use by the Representative and Deputy Representative in the development of UNICEF policy agenda and strategy, as and when requested and required by Representative/Senior Management Team. |
Briefs, presentations delivered, and internal discussion steered, potential workshop facilitation | Regular exchanges with office (at least one meeting per week) |
2 | Continue to support the Human capital agenda and provide continuous inputs on how to transform the HC agenda and paper into an implementable instrument for programming and further advocacy | Briefs, presentations delivered, and internal discussion steered, potential workshop facilitation, | |
3 | Develop partnership papers for IFIs by identifying entry points for increased cooperation, including positioning UNICEF in WB Growth Plan /Reform Agenda | Roadmap defined, mechanism reviewed, meetings facilitated | |
4 | Develop knowledge products for Program reviews of UNICEF Albania, including identify trends in recently approved CPDs | At least one Learning paper developed and internal discussion facilitated | |
5. | Support scoping activities and the development of “bankable” projects, programmes, or approaches, including multi-country or sub-regional initiatives with a technically sound design and a clear potential to leverage resources (public and private, including innovative finance and PPPs) to support implementation | Develop guidance and provide support to senior specialists in developing proposals |
The Senior Policy Consultant(s) would be responsible for providing technical support to UNICEF in Albania. The Supervisor of the consultant that will be chosen to undertake assignment as part of the LTA will be the Deputy Representative of UNICEF Albania CO.
ESTIMATED DURATION OF the LTA
The Long-Term Arrangements (LTA) are expected to have a duration of 3 years. This initial LTA would be for two years with an option for renewal for a subsequent year subject to satisfactory performance evaluation and continuing need for the service. The fee rates will be fixed for the first two years.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:
CONTRACTS CREATED AGAINST THE LTA:
Whenever services of the expert 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 to the commencement of work. Payment will be made after completion of deliverables and submission of invoices for the actual work completed, subject to satisfactory performance.
How to Apply
The application to be submitted through the online portal should contain the separate attachments as below:
Please make sure to include both documents indicated above. Otherwise, your application will be considered incomplete and invalid and will not be considered further.
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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.