Consultancy Jobs at United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Organisation: Consultancy Service
Organisation:
United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Duty
Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Consultancy
Details:
The Job requires
technical support to MoES and MGLSD regarding the activities of the Inter
Sectoral Committee for Violence against Children in Schools (VACiS).

Job
Summary
: The Consultant
will seek support from both MoES and MGLSD through the Child Protection
Specialist and the Basic Education Specialist in UNICEF’s Safe/Child Protection
and Learning Sections to develop Strategic Plan on VACiS as well as National
Action Plan (NAP) on VACiS which will be part of the Strategic Plan working
closely with the members of the Inter-Sectoral Committee on VACiS

Key
Duties and Responsibilities:
·        
Produce
desk review report on existing policy, initiatives, activities, actors and
studies related to VACiS including best practices and critical unmet gaps for
prevention of and response to VACiS;
·        
Prepare
road map for developing strategic plan and national action plan on VACis with
clear time frame, role and responsibilities of different stakeholders mandated
of the sectors and ministries with specific outputs at each level;
·        
Develop
terms of reference and work-plan of ISC on VACiS;
·        
Organize
various stakeholder meetings and produce minutes of all consultative and
taskforce meetings;
·        
Prepare
draft Strategic Plan on VACiS incorporating all the feedback at national level.
·        
Produce
summery report of the review exercise including the recommendation on how to
make the Reporting, Tracking, Referral and Response (RTRR) guidelines more
practical.
·        
Develop
and pretest the monitoring and evaluation plan, develop logical framework;
Formulate the budget;
·        
Prepare
consolidated report of the work done by the Inter Sectoral Committee (ISC) and
VACiS and prepare planning for the next year.

Qualifications,
Skills and Experience:
·        
The
job holder should hold and advanced degree in Education, Development Studies,
Social Sciences, Public Health, Social Work or any related fields.
·        
Proficiency
in research, Strategic Planning, program development and management and Monitoring
and Evaluation (M&E).
·        
At
minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible professional experience
at the national level in managing and implementing programs for vulnerable
children.
·        
Good
understanding of child vulnerability issues (e.g., VAC, Education, HIV/AIDS,
child protection and M&E Systems).
·        
Demonstrated
experience of similar work (developing national plans and M&E plans).
·        
Ability
to engage and work with children.
·        
Interpersonal
skills and ability to work with multi-disciplinary and multicultural team of
experts Proficiency in word processing, spreadsheets and presentation software.
·        
Ability
to undertake multi task and meet deadlines.
·        
Ability
to organize, implement and support consultative meetings at various levels.
·        
Fluency
in spoken and written English language a requirement.

How
to apply:

All suitably qualified consultants should send their applications which should
consist of: an Updated CV  and P11 Form  and at least two PDF soft copies of similar
work conducted and send soft copies using in the subject title: “Strategic Plan
and National Action Plan on Violence Against Children in and around School” via
e-mail to ugderecruit@unicef.org
Please use this order to name your fi le attachments: Firstname_Lastname
followed by document e.g. Gold_MukasaP11 or Gold_MukasaCV or Gold_
MukasaApplication Shortlisting and recruitment will be conducted by MoES,
MoLGSD and UNICEF .Only short-listed candidates will be approached.

Please send your application to:
Human Resource Specialist, UNICEF Kampala,
Uganda, Plot 9, George Street, P.O. Box 7047, Kampala, Uganda
Via email to: ugderecruit@unicef.org

Deadline:
12th July, 2013
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