GESP Playbook Development Consultant, UNICEF Global Programme Division, Generation Unlimited, New York, USA (remote) 4 months

Contract Duration: 4 months

Working arrangement: remote

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TERMS OF REFERENCE

UNICEF Generation Unlimited (GenU) is a public-private-youth partnership (PPYP) launched in 2018, dedicated to ensuring that every young person gains skills and livelihoods. It supports country-level initiatives and drives global solutions to improve skills development and youth employability for livelihood opportunities with a focus on equity and innovation where girls and young women is one of the key strategic priorities.

Girls’ Education and Skills Partnership (GESP) aims to provide quality market-relevant skills to 1 million young women, promoting equality of choice and access to opportunities in learning, skilling, and livelihoods. Adopting a girl-centered approach, GESP addresses the skills deficit among young women through several pathways including enhancing the quality and relevance of curriculum and enhance teachers and trainer capacity, offering access to high-quality, market-relevant skills training, strengthening pathways to learning and earning, and collaborating with communities and institutions to foster an inclusive and supportive environment for young women.

Under the direct supervision of Programme Specialist (GESP coordinator), in close collaboration with Senior Advisor for Global Programmes, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, and the GenU global team, Country Offices and GESP implementing partners, the GESP Playbook Development Consultant will translate GESP's tacit knowledge, operational experience, lessons learned and effective approaches into a practical global public good. The Playbook will provide future practitioners and donors with interactive tools, templates and guidance for designing, implementing and strengthening girl-centred learning-to-earning pathways, ensuring that GESP's implementation experience continues to inform and benefit future investments in adolescent girls' and young women's economic empowerment.

The consultant will apply a human-centred design (HCD) and social and behaviour change (SBC) lens to the Playbook's content and structure, and will develop a web-based visualization of the Playbook including the use of tools such as H5P, as an interactive, practitioner-friendly resource that can be navigated and used independently by future users.

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Minimum requirements:

• Education: Advanced university degree in international development, education, gender studies, social and behaviour change, human-centred design, public policy, youth livelihoods, or a related field.
• Work Experience:
  • Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience designing and developing practitioner-facing tools, playbooks, toolkits or guidance using human-centred design (HCD) and social and behaviour change (SBC) approaches for gender-responsive programming.
  • Experience in youth livelihoods, youth employment, skills-to-work transitions, or related fields is desireable.
• Language requirement:
  • Fluency in English is required.
  • Knowledge of another official UN language or a local language is an asset.

•     Skills:

•     Demonstrated experience applying human-centred design (HCD) and/or social and behaviour change (SBC) approaches to the design of programmes or practitioner resources. Experience developing practitioner's guides, toolkits or playbooks for gender-responsive programming for adolescent girls and young people is required.

•     Strong analytical skills, including the ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative information, assess programme models, identify practical implications and translate analysis into clear recommendations.

•     Experience using H5P or similar interactive digital authoring platforms to visualize guidance, toolkits or learning resources for practitioners is desirable.

•     Experience supporting multi-country or large-scale programmes in international development contexts is desirable.

•     Strong writing skills, including experience producing high-quality analytical reports, guidance notes, frameworks, tools, presentations and recommendations.

Desirables:

• Familiarity with instructional design or e-learning best practices for interactive, self-directed practitioner resources.
• Strong understanding of the social, financial and policy barriers adolescent girls and young women face in moving from learning to earning, particularly in low- and middle-income country contexts.
• Demonstrated ability to work across diverse teams and stakeholders, including global teams, country teams, implementing partners, private sector actors and youth-serving organizations.
• Experience engaging adolescent girls and young women as partners in programme design and implementation, and knowledge of girl-centred learning-to-earning approaches.

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Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate financial proposal  TMC0005267 Financial Proposal Template.xlsx

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