UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships, and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.
The Office of Innovation is a creative, interactive, and agile team in UNICEF. We sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the start-up thinking, the technology, and the partners that turn this energy into scalable solutions.
UNICEF's Office of Innovation creates opportunities for the world's children by focusing on where new markets can meet their vital needs. We do this by:
Connecting youth communities (or more broadly -- anyone disconnected or under-served) to decision-makers, and to each other, to deliver informed, relevant and sustained programmes that build better, stronger futures for children. Provoking change for children through an entrepreneurial approach -- in a traditionally risk averse field -- to harness rapidly moving innovations and apply them to serve the needs of all children. Creating new models of partnership that leverage core business values across the public, private and academic sectors in order to deliver fast, and lasting results for children.Our team
We're an interdisciplinary team around the world tasked with identifying, prototyping, and scaling new technologies and practices. With our partners, we focus on convening and collaborating on new and different solutions, low- and high-tech, by:
The OOI Sustainable WASH Hub is a global home for building, accelerating, and scaling transformational climate resilient solutions for a WASH secure future. It does so by identifying targeted, strategic solutions that have significant potential for impact and capacity to scale.
Capacity: Building the capacity of UNICEF to innovate and to adapt and adopt innovation, then building this capacity into our country partners.How can you make a difference?
Based on in-country observation and stakeholder engagement the consultant will provide advice and insight to UNICEF (both UNICEF Mongolia and the OOI) on optimizing these existing designs.While the consultant does not necessarily need to be based in Mongolia, they will need to be in Mongolia for key milestones in the installation process, with a minimum of two visits planned. The consultant may also choose to visit the contractor, or a similar supplier of containerized sanitation technologies. The consultant will also visit two other cold climate COs. This travel should be included in the consultant’s bid (details below).
Your main responsibilities will be:
Inception phase
With OOI and based on the methodology proposed in the bid, the consultant will prepare a detailed Inception Report (Deliverable A) that outlines a finalized methodology, evaluation protocols for different phases of work and the timetable for visits to Mongolia (expected in the first half of 2024).In-country installation observation and support
The consultant will observe the installation process against an agreed protocol devised as part of the Inception report (at as many facilities as desirable over two visits) and document the process for learning and to be used to develop replication toolkits for other interested country offices.Report on the applicability of the design across different cold climate contexts.
Based on the review, the consultant will prepare a draft report – Deliverable E: Draft report – on the applicability of the adapted containerized design across different cold climate contexts, taking into account other climate conditions (i.e. How cold/hot? How dry/wet?), community context, supply chains and any other relevant factor.Relevant technical support to other UNICEF cold-climate COs
Based on the earlier findings and on the final report (Deliverable F) with UNICEF OoI, the consultant will prepare a consultation schedule (Deliverable H), identifying potential follow up countries.Description of assignment
Please find attached the full ToR (Terms of Reference) with related information. ToR_Sanitation in Extreme Cold_Assessment_Final (002).pdf
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
An advanced university degree (master’s or higher) in a field relevant to sanitation technology (e.g. public health, civil, mechanical or chemical engineering) or another relevant field.Travel:
The consultant is expected to travel as per below:
Two separate visits of one working week to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
One working week trip to Astana, Kazakhstan One working week trip to Harbin, China Two working weeks in Copenhagen, DenmarkNote: Actual locations and duration may change.
These travels should be included in the consultant’s bid (details on financial and technical proposals further below).
Payment details and further considerations
Payment of professional fees will be based on the submission of agreed 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.How to apply:
Interested applicant is required to submit a financial proposal with all-inclusive fee. Please see the financial proposal template. Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx Financial proposal must include travel costs (economy class) and daily subsistence allowance, if travel is required as per TOR and any other estimated costs: visa, travel/health insurance. Interested applicant is required to submit a technical proposal. Please see instructions below: (mentioned in the ToR) Applications without a financial and technical proposal will not be considered.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.
Contact: For any queries, please contact: swe-ooi-recruitments@unicef.org
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