Country: Uganda
Closing date: 16 Dec 2016
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Purpose of the Assignment
The objective of this consultancy is to provide support to the Learning Labs Initiative and the Education Specialist by engaging in various content, coordination, and partnership-related activities. Specifically:
Assignment Tasks andExpected Deliverables
Tasks
End Products/ Deliverables
Engage in various coordination-related tasks, as directed by the Education Specialist.
All tasks documented via emails and Google docs.
Liaise with the MoES, as directed by the Education Specialist.
All meeting notes and outcomes aggregated and shared via Google docs.
Manage all partnerships related to content, and provide support on other LL partnership activities as needed.
Weekly check-ins with partners required. All meeting notes and outcomes aggregated and shared via Google docs.
Add content to the content-base, inline with existing Foundation for Learning Equality (FLE)/Global Innovation Center (GIC) content standardization guidelines, the Ugandan curriculum, and priorities established by the Keep Children Learning team.
Submit a working plan for content to be added (including descriptions, etc.) for sign-off by the Education Specialist. Ensure all targets are met.
Ensure that adolescent feedback informs all aspects of the Learning Labs Initiatives; conduct periodic user-testing, interviews, focus groups, surveys, or other activities with young people and/or provide support to related partner activities.
Submit a working plan for how feedback from young people will inform the LL initiative; collect, synthesize and share all data via Google Docs.
In consultation with the Keep Children Learning team, and the MoES, determine key learning outcomes and focus of the content base. This should include consultations with students to assess knowledge gaps, priorities, and areas of interest.
Notes from student consultations collected and stored via Google Docs. Content strategy created, submitted and signed-off on by the Education Specialist.
Engage is a series of meetings with potential content partners; draft, release and determine content partners based on a PCA or RFP process.
RFP or PCAs drafted and submitted.
Create individualized plans with each partner as regards content; liaise with the LL training specialist and partners to ensure alignment with proposed trainings.
Plans created and submitted to the Education Specialist and other members of the LL team; content hiring process completed.
Engage in mapping relevant, open educational resources with the lower-secondary curriculum, adding them to the content-base.
Design a content inventory, and contribute to it throughout the content aggregation process.
Work with the M&E specialist to develop content-focused indicators; engage with the training specialist to ensure content timeline aligns with the deployment schedule.
Indicators created and added to the M&E plan.
Work with partners to add content to Kolibri; ensure content meets all guidelines, as established by GIC, FLE and the LL team.
Content partner has been added to Kolibri and conforms to established guidelines and content plans; a summary of this is submitted to the Education Specialist.
Provide support to deployment activities
Submit and overview of the deployment process to the Education specialist, incorporating feedback from other members of the LL team.
Gather feedback on content from teachers and students; identify content gaps for future content updates.
Submit the content assessment to the Education Specialist, with recommendations for future content updates.
Aggregate and organize all pictures, interviews and information gained during the deployment from LL members.
Draft an overview of work conducted to date, to support donor reporting efforts.
Areas to be Considered
The consultant is expected to work closely with the Learning Labs team, as well as pilot schools, the larger Keep Children Learning team, and other relevant partners.
The deliverables are specified, but may include additional tasks related to project coordination, as assigned by the supervisor (within the existing days). While the deliverables are in roughly chronological order, the consultant may work on any deliverable at any time, contingent on supervisorial approval.
The assignment will be desk-based work at UNICEF's Kampala office but include some travel to the field. The consultant will be supervised by NOC Education Specialist in charge of adolescent development.
Qualifications of Successful Candidate
Education: University degree in a relevant discipline, ideally in education, communications or information sciences.
Work experience: At least 5 years of experience creating and editing content; experience creating content for web, for young people, or for use by secondary-level students is highly desired.
At least 5 years of experience in partnership creation and management, ideally at the local and regional levels.
At least 2 years of experience engaging in administrative and coordination-related tasks.
To view our competency framework, please click here.
Please indicate your ability, availability and daily/monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above (including travel and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable). Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.
How to apply:
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization. To apply, click on the following link http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=501554
