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For every child, Education

UNICEF Jayapura is looking for a national consultant to provide technical assistance to the Papua office for quality implementation of the Early Childhood Development (ECD) and foundational skills programme in Kota Jayapura and Kabupaten Jayapura, Papua Province.

To address the urgent development needs of vulnerable young children in Papua, quality ECD services accompanied by a strong foundational skills programme must be made available and expanded. The services must draw upon cross-sectoral assistance to meet the complex and intersecting needs of young children, including access to quality learning and development, as well as other essential services to support their holistic wellbeing, such as immunization.

To deliver such services, UNICEF will be partnering with district and provincial stakeholders, especially with local Holistic and Integrated ECD (HI ECD) taskforces and department of education offices. Additionally, it is becoming more apparent that students with special needs learning are less supported. Teachers and parents must be equipped with skills to detect, stimulate, and care for students with special needs, in collaboration with relevant experts, including professional health workers, psychologist and/or Organizations of People with Disabilities (OPDs).

In 2024, UNICEF’s ECD and foundational skills programme in Papua will be expanded in the district of Kota Jayapura and Kabupaten Jayapura, reaching an additional 80 ECD centres and 32 primary schools. In close coordination with Pokja Bunda PAUD of the Province of Papua and the district and provincial education office, UNICEF will deploy a dedicated consultant to help to ensure the ECD and foundational skills programme in Kota Jayapura and Kabupaten Jayapura is implemented in accordance with quality standards and is able to leverage resources from the district government to replicate and expand the programme

The consultant will help to adapt the national level teacher training module on HI-ECD and positive parenting to fit the local context in Kota and Kabupaten Jayapura. He/she will also assist to coordinate and facilitate training on foundational skills for primary school teachers, and lastly document behaviour change practices at target ECD centres and primary schools in Kota and Kabupaten Jayapura. The consultant is also expected to be actively engaged in advocating for the screening of immunization coverage both at target ECD centres and at target primary schools, as part of quality ECD and foundational skills programme replication in the Papua provinces.

How can you make a difference? 

To ensure quality implementation of ECD and foundational skills programming in Kota and Kabupaten Jayapura, the consultant is expected to undertake the following tasks:
1. Coordinate and facilitate training of teachers (together with master trainers) on quality ECD and foundational skills, including on creating healthy and safe learning environments in ECD centres for Kota and Kabupaten Jayapura in coordination with local governments and UNICEF.
Output: Training of teachers for targeted ECD centres and primary schools in Kota and Kabupaten Jayapura is coordinated and facilitated.
2. Coordinate and facilitate joint monitoring visits with district and provincial stakeholders to monitor the application of knowledge and skills by teachers on the delivery of quality ECD and foundational skills teaching and learning.
Output: Trained teachers are mentored and monitored by district and provincial stakeholders on the implementation of quality ECD and foundational skills.
3. Support the implementation and monitoring of parenting sessions of the ECD programme at target ECD centres and target primary schools, with a focus on discussion topics concerning quality ECD, immunization, and foundational skills, with sub national education stakeholders.
Output: A series of parenting session and monitoring activities are held at targeted ECD centres and targeted primary schools.
4. Advocacy with local government, including through the HI-ECD taskforce and sub national education as well as planning office, for the preparation of an updated 3-year replication and scale-up plan on HI-ECD and foundational skills with district resources.
Output: An updated 3-year HI ECD taskforce plan and foundational skill replication plan with budget estimates and commitments.
5. Provide a report on overall ECD and foundational skills programme implementation in Kota and Kabupaten Jayapura District. Output: Final programme implementation report is made available
Additionally, the consultant is also expected to be actively engaged with advocacy activities on quality ECD programme replication in the Papua province.

Please refer to the Term of Reference attached in the above link for the detailed breakdowns of tasks and deliverables/outputs.

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

- A University Degree in education, psychology, sociology, or other social science field
- A minimum of 3 years of professional experience in early childhood development, social development planning and management in education and related areas at the international and/or in a developing country is required
- Relevant experience in education and related areas, program/project development and management in Papua Provinces and in a UN system agency or organization is an asset
- Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia.

 TOR ECD and Foundational Skills Papua for TMS.pdf

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS) and core competencies: 

• Builds and Maintains Partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others

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 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. 

The screening of your application will be conducted based on the information in your profile. Before applying, we strongly suggest that you review your profile to ensure accuracy and completeness. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. This vacancy is open for Indonesians only.