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The Latin America and Caribbean regional office seek to support UNICEF country office teams with their engagement and partnerships brokering with business. Currently the country offices face the challenge of lacking clarity or specificity when presenting the opportunity space and pitch to their business counterparts. This consultancy seeks to address this gap/ need with the development of brochures that feature the value proposition in key areas.

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF seeks a consultant to develop 7 brochures on the main strategies / interventions that UNICEF promotes towards the private sector in humanitarian action in the Latin America and Caribbean region.

The development of these brochures will be based on:

• Previous successful experiences and examples of participation of business in emergency preparedness and response, with UNICEF or with the humanitarian sector in general.
• The prioritization of the most relevant ones to engage with business in their context and economic activity.
• The spaces where UNICEF Emergency, Climate Environment, Disaster Recovery and Risk Reduction (CEED), Development Programmes, Operations, Comms and Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) specialists see the clearest opportunities and relevance for children, adolescents and families in LAC
• The strategies which, according to UNICEF’s Regional and Local partnerships teams, would be best accepted by the private sector

In order to produce these brochures, the consultant will consult the previously mentioned stakeholders, and then identify the most relevant strategies for the private sector and develop a solid, inspiring and engaging “commercial” pitch for each.

These brochures will clearly refer to the benchmarks of the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs) and reinforce the message of “do no harm”, ensuring to protect children rights in any intervention proposed, and support families of workers of these same companies. They will invite companies and sector to include children rights and needs of families in their Business Continuity Plans, thus also ensuring a stronger community and children resilience. They will also invite companies and chambers to participate to their national humanitarian coordination mechanisms and invite them to make their expert staff available when this expertise can be useful to prepare or respond to an emergency.

Ideally, we will test these strategies with private sector partners in the LAC to make final adjustments depending on the reception of each brochure and learning from this exercise.

Key Activities/Tasks:

• In coordination with the Emergency Unit and the Knowledge Management (KM) focal point, interview at least 10 key colleagues of UNICEF from Emergency, CEED, but also BCR focal points in country offices and specific sectors (Supply, Monitoring, Private partnerships, etc.) in the regional office and globally when relevant.
• Gather relevant data, examples, and identify UNICEF’s unique action along the emergency / humanitarian cycle, and those here business should be engaged and can provide a unique value.
• Propose an impactful format for the brochures in terms of commercial narrative and content (very executive – 2 to 3 pages each).
• Develop the brochures, together with expert colleagues.
• Validate the brochure with the steering committee and with few selected business stakeholders (current UNICEF partners at regional and local level, from the sectors prioritized in the brochures)

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

• University degree in business, humanitarian action, communications or similar.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in corporate or government affairs, partnerships, risk management or business consultancy
• Experience in humanitarian work is an asset.
• Experience in marketing, sales or similar is an asset.
• Fluency in Spanish and English is required.

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/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.