New Job Opportunity United Nations (UN) at UNICEF Tanzania – National Consultant to Manage IoGT platform
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Job no: 544654
Contract type: Consultancy
Level: Consultancy
Location: United Republic of Tanzania
Categories: Communication for Development (C4D)
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.
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For every child, Care
For every child, a voice.
The national response plan and
supporting COVID-19 Communication strategy, plan has a strong community
engagement component, including social listening and community feedback
mechanism and evidence-based communication approaches. The communication
plan seeks to promote public understanding of the prioritization of
target populations with communication interventions targeting primary
recipients of the Covid-19 vaccine and the general population.
There
is growing evidence of vaccine hesitancy due to a lack of trust in the
importance, safety, or effectiveness of vaccines. Community trust is key
to ensure vaccine uptake and buy-in. To build trust, it is important to
understand how communities perceive the disease and what their main
questions, doubts, and fears around vaccines, generally, and towards
COVID-19 vaccine are.
How can you make a difference?
This
consultancy is to support the activation and implementation of the
initiative aiming to reinforce the use of the Internet of Good Things
(IoGT). IoGT is a platform that hosts mobile-packaged content designed
to make lifesaving and life-improving information available for free,
even on low-end devices.
In the context of the COVID-19
response, the platform is extensively used in to provide access to
essential and life-saving information, distance learning and skills
building in particular to women and girls, as well as access to
protection, sexual and reproductive health (SRH), HIV and mental health
counselling. Furthermore, the IoGT platform is used to engage frontline
workers through training and polls, and around vaccine acceptance and
preventive behaviors.
MAIN OBJECTIVES, DELIVERABLES AND TIME FRAME
Main objectives:
Under the direct supervision of the C4D Specialist, Office of the Deputy Representative, the contractor will:
1. Support development maintenance and regular update of the content of IoGT in Tanzania
2.
Develop and recommend innovative approaches of how IoGT can be
scaled-up as a resource for UNICEF programmes, national and implementing
partners to continuously maintain a two-way communication with various
stakeholders and community members.
3. Contribute to further strengthening regular evidence generation on behavioral drivers in support of various programme areas
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Specific Tasks of the consultant:
The consultant is expected to accomplish the following tasks:
i. Adaptation of IoGT to Tanzania context
•
Liaise with country programme teams and Regional Office to share best
practices and to ensure IoGT’s purpose and application is embedded
within programme objectives.
• o Adapt the IoGT monitoring and evaluation plan to local objectives and Country Operational Plan.
• Negotiate and facilitate ongoing resources for annual IoGT subscription fees, content development, translation, and promotion.
•
Work with CO Communication Officer and Programme Staff to ensure
relevance of IoGT for programme implementation, knowledge transfer and
skills acquisition.
• Work closely with in-country ICT, T4D & Innovation team to ensure technical set-up of IoGT in-country platform.
•
Work closely with IoGT Global Team to localize content/coordinate the
localization of content (language/translation) and user interface
towards creating a Minimum Viable IoGT platform.
• Work closely with
IoGT Global Team to coordinate the user experience/acceptance
testing-refinement cycles of the IoGT platform before launch.
• Adopt Principles of Digital Design and Human-Centered Design whenever possible.
ii. Implementation and Maintenance of IoGT
•
Work in close collaboration with IoGT Global Team and TCO Communication
Officer to develop and implement IoGT Promotion Strategy and Launch
Plan ensuring that it meets IoGT guidelines.
• Develop a one-year
IoGT work-plan to maintain and scale-up IoGT among various stakeholders
with clear key performance indicators proposed.
• In collaboration
with TCO programme sections run regular promotional campaigns, regular
engagement activities with IoGT national Ambassadors and regularly
update IoGT/TCO social media in alignment with IoGT CO Promotion Plan.
• Report regularly to key TCO sections ESAR (and any local partners?) using regular bi-weekly technical reports
•
Establish and maintain clear documentation on IoGT implementation and
operations in the country using corporate KM tools including leading on
the documentation of IoGT achievements through blogs and articles on
UNICEF/partners/national/international press websites.
• Monitor and
evaluate usage of IoGT and understand drivers and constraints involved
between high-level users and low-level users.
• Establish system to ensure that information collected via IoGT is available to program staff.
• Report regularly to Head of SBCC on the IoGT progress.
•
Monitor and evaluate usage of IoGT and understand incentives and
constraints involved between high-level users and low-level users.
PAYMENT SCHEDULE.
Payments
will be made upon submission and acceptance of the specified
deliverables in the table above under section TASKS, DELIVERABLE AND
TIME FRAME. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold all or portion of
payment if performance is unsatisfactory, if work/output is incomplete,
not delivered or for failure to meet deadlines.
SUPERVISION.
The
consultant will directly report to the C4D Specialist. The reports and
deliverables will be jointly reviewed by UNICEF, Innovation program and
CAP Programmes.
EVALUATION PROCESS AND METHODOLOGY.
Proposals
will be both technically and financially evaluated. The technical part
will carry a weight of 75%, in which the consultant will put clear
his/her technical approach to ensure quality attainment of each
deliverable and the consultancy in totality. The financial part will
carry 25% showing proposed budget breakdown of consultancy cost for each
deliverable and eventual total consultancy cost. This will make a total
of 100%.
LOGISTIC AND LOCATION.
This project will be
managed by the C4D Technical Working Group. The consultant will be
responsible for his/her travel costs while implementing the project.
The consultant will execute the tasks in his/her own town and in Dar es Salaam or Dodoma when needed.
MEDICAL EVACUATION COVERAGE.
The consultant will be required to submit the proof of medical/Health Insurance with medical evacuation coverage.
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To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
I.
A University degree in a relevant field such as communications,
journalism, media related studies, design, international relations,
sociology, or a similar field.
ii. At least two years’ experience in the areas of social media, web design, content creation
iii. Proven ability to conceptualize, plan and execute ideas as well as to transfer knowledge and skills.
iv. Previous experience of managing organizational social media accounts is a strong asset.
v. Experience with a high-level communications campaign across multiple mediums, with national brand recognition
vi. Experience gathering and giving end-user feedback to the development of software applications
vii.Understanding
of community-based channels of influence, community-based communication
and development, human-centered design methods
viii.Fluency in written and spoken English and Swahili.
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For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s
values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA)
and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive
for Results.
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
Builds
and maintains partnerships, demonstrate self-awareness and ethical
awareness, innovates, and embrace change. drive to achieve results for
impact, manages ambiguity and complexity, thinks and acts strategically,
work Collaboratively with others.
Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.
UNICEF
is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and
encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality,
religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with
disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
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.
Advertised: 17 Sep 2021 E. Africa Standard Time
Deadline: 01 Oct 2021 E. Africa Standard Time
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