Re- Advertisement: International Consultancy: Information and Knowledge Management Individual Consultant (8 months), 4 Months in Sana’a, Yemen, and 4 Months Home-Based)

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, Protection

In the 1970s UNICEF established presence in Yemen to respond to the urgent needs of children in the poorest country in the Middle East. In 1991, Yemen ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and it was enacted immediately.  Since then the country has been making steady progress for children until it plunged into a brutal conflict in 2015 but even before that, Yemen needed large amounts of humanitarian assistance.

In collaboration with local authorities, non-governmental organizations and community partners, UNICEF is working in all the governorates in Yemen to respond to the needs of children throughout the country with a continuum of services to help children survive and grow to their full potential through the following programmes: Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Basic Education, and Child protection.

For more on our work in Yemen, please visit our website: https://www.unicef.org/yemen/

How can you make a difference? 

The Office is looking for an international consultant whose main job is to support the Yemen WASH programmatic information and knowledge management needs to enhance evidence-based programming, reporting, and learning.

To ensure effective and efficient WASH programming informed by evidence and lessons learned from previous and current projects, UNICEF has robust and established information and knowledge management systems globally and has adopted them at the country office level. Yemen Country Office has an existing WASH database powered by Activity Info. This is complemented by online project tracking sheets managed by programme officers at country and field office levels. Working closely with the Advocacy and Communication team, the WASH team regularly generate packages, and shares WASH knowledge to improve the quality, equity, and sustainability of WASH services both internally and with sector partners and donors.

Moving forward, UNICEF YCO seeks to strengthen its position as a knowledge leader and advocate for children through continued investment in knowledge-sharing, information management and WASH sector capacity development. To achieve this ambition, UNICEF seeks the services of an Information and Knowledge Management Consultant to support the WASH team in enhancing the information and knowledge management system, which is one of UNICEF`s change strategies for accelerating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and realizing children’s rights. Knowledge management work will be guided by UNICEF’s Global WASH Knowledge Management Strategy 2022-2025, which defines KM as a management activity seeking to enhance the organization, integration, sharing and delivery of knowledge and learning across UNICEF and the WASH sector.

To view the full profile of this consultancy, hold Ctrl and double click in the following link:  Yemen WASH TORs for Information and Knowledge Management Consultant.docx

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

• Master’s degree in data management, information management, computer science, information technology and relevant social science fields relevant to information management.
• 5 years of relevant professional experience in IM and KM for WASH working for International NGOs or UN is required.
• Strong Proficiency in Excel, data visualization, and Activity Info is required.
• Power BI knowledge is an asset.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Ability to speak/understand Arabic will be an advantage.
• Emergency experience is strongly desirable.

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. 

(Those who have applied earlier, need not to apply again as we already have their profiles, and they will be included accordingly in the review later on).