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Consultancy Title: Child Rights in Business Consultant (National, Belarus)

Section/Division/Duty Station: Partnerships section, UNICEF Belarus CO

Duration: October 2024 – March 2025 (about 5 months)

Remote/Home-based (with visits to the office upon needs)

About UNICEF

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. Over 75 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children’s survival, protection and development. 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 abuse. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations, and governments.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/Assignment: 

With the business landscape in Belarus being increasingly proactive on sustainability and ESG-agenda, integrating children’s rights considerations into responsible business conduct provides a real opportunity to achieve change for children at scale. UNICEF’s child rights and business agenda encompasses work with regulators, legislators, investors, businesses, business platforms, public partners and other stakeholders to strengthen measures addressing business impact on children, building evidence and developing implementation tools and guidance. It supports UNICEF programme sectors, country offices and national committees to integrate change in business policy and practice into programming approaches.

Bearing in mind the purpose to sensitize businesses in Belarus through child rights agenda, raise awareness on child rights issues, develop responsible business networks, the CO is embarking on a journey to establish the first-ever CSR (CRB) Academy in Belarus. As a starting point and a cornerstone event, the Child Rights in Business Conference is planned to be organized in November 2024, which could become a powerful platform to bring together stakeholders from various sectors to discuss, share, and promote best practices for integrating child rights into business operations, especially in the course of development of the new Country Programme Document for Belarus. The Conference will be dedicated to 35th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (and World Children’s Day respectively), highlighting and promoting child rights agenda.

Scope of Work: 

The Child Rights in Business Consultant’s critical role is to support the Country Office in establishment of the CSR (CRB) Academy in Belarus with the launching event in November 2024 – Child Rights in Business Conference. The Consultancy role will also focus and assist the Partnerships section to tailor proposals to corporate partners with integration of child rights approach.

The Child Rights in Business Consultant will work closely and under the guidance of the Partnerships and Advocacy section.

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables / Delivery Deadline: 

Travel (if required as per TOR):

No travel is expected withing this TOR.

Qualifications 

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Communication, Marketing, Journalism, PR, International Relations, other related disciplines

Work experience/Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

• A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience in partnerships, fundraising, PR, marketing;
• Good understanding of donor landscape, partnerships building and child rights in business approach;
• Prior experience in designing, management, organization, monitoring and evaluation of activities related to networking and partnerships;
• Strong analytical and organization skills;
• Fluency in English;
• Experience of working in the UN system is an asset.

Competencies:

• Ability to multi-task and work to deadlines,
• Analytical and conceptual thinking,
• Attention to details,
• Able to work in a multicultural setting,
• Highest standards of integrity, discretion, and loyalty.

Requirements: 

Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and

• Interested applicants should provide a letter of interest (Cover Letter) describing how they can contribute to the interventions listed under roles and responsibilities and why they should be selected for this position. In addition, they should share their latest CV/Resume and financial proposal to undertake this job.
• Samples of the related job/tasks done/portfolio.
• Upload copy of academic credentials
• Financial proposal should be submitted using the financial offer template  Financial Offer template_Child Rights in Business.docx and must:
  • Reflect the costs per each deliverable and the total lump-sum for the whole assignment period (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference.
  • Include travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR. Consultants are responsible for arranging their own transportation arrangements. UNICEF can provide office vehicle for some duty travel missions with prior agreement as per monthly travel plan approved by the supervisor.
  • Include any other costs: health insurance, payment of an incidental expenditure (such as bank charges, insurances, etc.) and living costs as applicable.
• Indicate your availability.
• Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.
• At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.
• Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory 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.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

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: 

Individuals engaged under a consultancy 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. Consultants 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.