JOB SUMMARY:
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.
For every child, EDUCATION
The Education Cannot Wait (ECW) website educationcannotwait.org was overhauled in 2022 to reflect the rapid growth of ECW – the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises in the UN, hosted by UNICEF. The new overhauled site was built to meet the needs of ECW’s growing audiences as a key institutional communications and advocacy digital platform, as well as a transparency and
accountability tool. The site’s Drupal content management system (CMS) has powerful functionalities to streamline external communication and increase the ease with which ECW communicates its messages and distinct brand, including key results and financial data dashboards, individual country profiles, as well as enhanced visibility for ECW’s wide range of partners.
As ECW enters its second strategic plan and a new cycle of data reporting, this is an opportune time to enhance the current website contents to further enhance access to more up-to-date data and information, ensure all pages are updated, strengthen digital integration across ECW’s digital channels, and improve the site’s overall performance and SEO to strengthen ECW’s brand digital presence.
How can you make a difference?
Purpose of the assignment will include a total content update of the ECW website undertaken within a period of 1 year to be delivered as per the schedule/timeline below.
Under direct Supervision of the Communication Manager the scope of work of the Web Consultant for the educationcannotwait.org website encompasses a broad array of tasks to enhance the performance of the platform as a crucial digital advocacy, communications, accountability and transparency tool for the ECW global fund. This work will be conducted in close collaboration with members of the ECW Advocacy and Communications team and working across the ECW secretariat teams to collect inputs. The Web Consultant will also engage externally with the ECW web vendor and relevant UNICEF colleagues.
Task and activities:
1. Enhance website contents and features
2. Data visualization and dashboards
3. User Experience (UX) Optimization:
4. Digital integration and strategy :
5. Security, safeguarding and accessibility compliance:
DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT
Deliverables
Description
Estimated number of days
Deadline/timeline
Deliverable 1:Develop new interactive automated data dashboards to feature ECW results and key financial data405 October 2024Deliverable 2:Review of site contents and functionalities and develop a timeline for site updates107 November 2024Deliverable 3:Develop a template for a deep dive analytics report210 May 2025Deliverable 4:Produce monthly analytics reports, including analysis and recommendations to implement improvements.1225 April 2025Deliverable 5:Update all data dashboards in collaboration with relevant teams, including developing new interacting dashboards1612 September 2024Deliverable 6:Updates of site map, menu and static pages910 October 2024Deliverable 7:Develop online reports/microsites for ECW publications2010 October 2024Deliverable 8:User Experience (UX) Optimization3010 October 2024Deliverable 9:Create new landing pages for ECW new publications, global campaigns and events1230 July 2025Deliverable 10:Updates of site dynamic pages, including news and updates section3230 July 2025Deliverable 11:Develop and implement digital integration and strategy recommendations based on analytics and best industry standards1030 July 2025Deliverable 12:Implement best practices standards to ensure compliance with applicable security, safeguarding and accessibility standards830 July 2025TOTAL ESTIMATED WORKING DAYS
201
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
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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 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.
Interested candidates are required to fully complete their application profile, upload a cover letter and their financial proposal (daily fee rate in USD).
Applications with incomplete profile and without a financial proposal will not be considered.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy 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.
ABSTRACT:
United Nations Children’s Fund Consultant (Website Management), Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Hosted Fund, New York, 12 months, REQ United States UNICEF Jobs 2024
United Nations Children’s Fund looking for “Consultant (Website Management), Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Hosted Fund, New York, 12 months, REQ”. Applicants with an Advanced degree may apply on or before 01-Aug-24.
The United Nations Children’s Fund has published a job vacancy announcement on 17-Jul-24 for qualified applicants to fill in the vacant post of Consultant (Website Management), Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Hosted Fund, New York, 12 months, REQ to be based in New York, United States. For more jobs, please visit https://unjoblink.org
Company Name: United Nations Children’s Fund
Job Title: Consultant (Website Management), Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Hosted Fund, New York, 12 months, REQ
Duty Station: New York, United States
Country: United States
Application Deadline: 01-Aug-24