Knowledge and Information Management Consultant – UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal (8 months – 15 days a month)

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For every child, a future

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

UNICEF is committed to promoting gender equality – across all sectors. By adopting its most progressive and forward-looking strategic plan, Gender Policy and Gender Action Plan (GAP) 2022-2025, UNICEF demonstrates the organization’s strengthened commitment to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls as its core mandate. The GAP III identifies four key areas to enhance adolescent girls’ leadership and: promoting adolescent girl’s nutrition, pregnancy care and prevention of HIV/AIDS and Human Papillomavirus; advancing girls’ education, learning and skills including science, technology, engineering mathematics and digital skills; eliminating child marriage and early unions; and promoting accessible and dignified menstrual health and hygiene services, including tacking taboos about menstruation.

At the regional level, the South Asia Regional Adolescent Girls Strategy is accelerating progress in 3 priority areas: Health, nutrition and MHM; quality education and skills for girls; and protection from violence and harmful practices, including child marriage. These plans recognize that to achieve success, gender equality must be integral to all UNICEF’s programmatic work, as the agency undertakes new, targeted, and transformative actions for adolescent girls and women in the region.

How can you make a difference? 

Scope of Work:

UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) requires an individual information and knowledge management consultant to provide technical assistance to the Gender section with gender-related information and knowledge management, including data analytics and visualization, infographics, PPT development, drafting of strategies, annual reports, concept notes, ToRs and other background documents among other supportive tasks. UNICEF aspires to base gender programming on the latest, most up-to-date data to inform strategy and deliver for adolescent girls and enhance its programmes by creating and learning from sector and programme-specific evidence.

To fine-tune gender interventions in the region, the information and knowledge management consultant will collect, aggregate, analyze and visualize gender thematic data and lead the section on evidence, learning and knowledge management activities, including the running of adolescent girls Community of Practice webinar series, and maintaining the internal Communications and Collaboration SharePoint sites with the lates developments and news. S/he will involve internal and external stakeholder where necessary while collaborating on reporting and documentation of gender results across multiple thematic areas and integrating sound data in strategies, concept notes, programme documents (internal and external facing).

Key tasks will include:

General knowledge and information management support:

• Providing technical assistance to the regional office and country offices in furnishing up-to-date, relevant data and evidence, and presenting and packaging it in a contextually appropriate way.
• Provide ongoing support with data analytics, visualization, infographics, simple designing of reports, concept notes, PPTs, strategies and frameworks produced by the gender section (both internal and external).
• Keeping an efficient filing system and organizing and maintaining the section’s knowledge repository, including SharePoint sites to ensure effective knowledge management.
• Assist gender section colleagues, including gender focal points in-country offices with documentation of best practices, case studies, human interest stories etc.

Organizing/supporting webinars and learning platforms:

• Continue running the quarterly community of practice knowledge-sharing sessions on adolescent girls programming and assist in organising various webinars and learning platforms (Gender and Health, HPV, harmful practices, care and support, gender in emergencies, etc.) throughout the consultancy period.

Reporting and Documentation support:

• Provide support for various gender portfolios (health and nutrition, immunization, including polio and HPV, Child marriage, gender in emergencies, GBV and digital programming) by developing and inputting in or taking the lead to develop result frameworks, strategies, background documents, PPTs, 2 pagers, monitoring tools, and reports.

Support capacity building and training activities:

• Assist colleagues from the sector to prepare for and participate in capacity building and training activities (online and offline) throughout the consultancy period.

Ad-Hoc requests:

• The consultant could be requested to perform other tasks as his/her line Manager may judge necessary within the scope of the consultancy objectives.

Key deliverables:

1. Adolescent Girls A4A flagship report published – by 31 December 2024

2. Gender in emergency training session completed – by 31 January 2025

3. DEI training session completed

1. GPECM webinar conducted with pre- and post-webinar engagement of audience – by 28 February 2025

4. Adolescent Girls CoP webinar conducted with pre- and post-webinar engagement of audience – by 31 March 2025

5. Regional Annual Gender Results Report published for 2024 – by 30 April 2025

6. General knowledge and information management and ad-hoc support (see above) – by 31 May 2025

7. Support gender section with mid-year review process and presentation

General knowledge and information management and ad-hoc support – by 30 June 2025

8. General knowledge and information management and ad-hoc support – by 31 July 2025

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

Education:

Master’s degree in knowledge management, Gender studies, international development, international affairs, or another relevant discipline.

Work Experience:

3 to 5 years of progressively responsible and relevant work experience and demonstrated understanding of knowledge management principles and a good understanding of gender issues in the region.

Experience:

• Demonstrated understanding of knowledge management principles and a good understanding of gender issues in the region.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and editing SharePoint sites, and PPTs, and presenting data in a clear, easily understandable way using either Excel, PowerBI, Tableau or other software.
• Demonstrated experience in documenting cases/experiences/lessons learned is required.
• Ability to link content development and engagement strategies that facilitate timely, useful delivery of information through knowledge platforms and activities.
• Experience working in South Asian contexts is desirable.
• Experience in developing and organizing online webinars/workshops would be an asset.
• Excellent facilitation, program/activity management, written and oral communication skills.
• Working experience within UNICEF or other UN entities would be an asset.

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 committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic background, and persons with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. To create a more inclusive workplace, UNICEF offers paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. Click here to learn more about flexible work arrangements, well-being, and benefits.

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UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). 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 based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

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. 

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