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Consultancy Title: Technical Consultant for EOF Leadership Team Support

Division/Duty Station: Education Outcomes Fund, UNITED HOSTED FUNDS/London/UK/remote

Duration: 20 April 2025 – 20 April 2026

Home/ Office Based: Remote

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BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

There are few greater challenges faced by the global community than the twin crises of learning poverty and youth unemployment. In response, the Education Commission (chaired by Gordon Brown, former UK Prime Minister and UN Special Envoy for Global Education) and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen) came together to create EOF. We aim to improve the education and employment outcomes of 10 million children and youth by supporting governments to utilize a range of innovative finance instruments at scale, including outcomes funds and other results-based financing (RBF) instruments.   

EOF supports improvements in the quality of education and skills programs, with a special focus on underserved populations, including the hardest to reach, rural populations, girls, children with disabilities, and refugees. It measures (and pays for) what matters – both core skills like literacy and numeracy, but also critical 21st Century skills such as socio-emotional skills, ICT skills, and other broader fundamentals of a quality education. It helps close the persistent gap between the skills needed by employers and those attained by today’s youth by paying for employment and retention outcomes.    

For all the above, EOF pays primarily on the basis of the results achieved, ensuring that taxpayer-funded domestic resources, aid, and philanthropic funds are only used to pay for what works. This is a game-changing way to finance results in education. It is more than just a fund – it is a powerful new set of partnerships and way of working.    

Together with our supporters, we believe this is the early stages of a much larger movement. Our approach is at the cutting edge of development finance, shifting risk to the private sector, crowding in private capital, and harnessing the capacity and capability of non-state actors, with huge potential to achieve better outcomes for children and youth around the world

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

EOF recently finalized its medium-term strategy to cover 2025-2030. We require a consultant to provide technical support to EOF’s leadership team to support with the successful implementation of EOF’s strategy in 2025

Scope of Work:

EOF requires a Consultant to provide technical guidance to its leadership team in order to support the implementation of EOF’s strategic plan in 2025. This includes:

• Supporting leadership attendance at high-profile events, such as the UN General Assembly.
• Providing technical guidance for EOF’s governance meetings.
• Providing technical guidance for leadership mission travel that is of strategic importance to EOF.
• Coordinating leadership attendance at strategically significant meetings with partners or potential partners.

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

Work Assignment Overview/Deliverables and Outputs/Delivery deadline

1. Leadership attendance at high-profile events, such as the UN General Assembly

Deliverable 1: guidance document (estimated 15-20 pages) for EOF’s leadership team ahead of their attendance at the UN General Assembly in September 2025 (in collaboration with the wider CEO Office), containing:

• Logistical information: flights, accommodation, visa, vaccination requirements)
• Strategic information: overview of key stakeholders, an overview of their schedule, key meetings and key messages.

31 August 2025

Deliverable 2: 4 guidance documents (estimated 15-20 pages) for at least four high-profile events attended by the EOF leadership that are significant for the implementation of EOF’s 2025 strategy, containing:

• Logistical information: flights, accommodation, visa, vaccination requirements)
• Strategic information: an overview of key stakeholders, schedule, key meetings and messages

31 March 2026

2.  Technical guidance for EOF’s governance meetings

Deliverable 3:  prepare a pre-reading pack (of approximately 40 slides); organizing the logistics, sending invites, coordinating calendar invites, and organizing the technology for online calls) for two EOF High Level Steering Groups meetings in close consultation with EOF’s Director

15 August 2025

15 December 2026

Deliverable 4: a pre-reading pack (of approximately 40 slides), and organizing the logistics: sending invites, coordinating calendar invites, and organizing the technology for online calls) for three Executive Committee meetings in close consultation with EOF’s Director

30 April 2025

15 November 2025

15 February 2026

3. Technical guidance for leadership mission travel is of strategic importance to EOF

Deliverable 5: - 4 guidance documents (estimated 10-15 pages) for EOF’s leadership team’s 4 mission travels of strategic importance; in collaboration with the wider CEO Office, containing:

• logistical information: flights, accommodation, visa, vaccination requirements
• strategic information: overview of key stakeholders, schedule, key meetings and messages

15 June 2025

15 September 2025

15 December 2025

15 March 2026

Deliverable 6: Organize at least one strategic offsite with EOF’s leadership team, in-person, for a duration of approximately 4-5 working days, including logistics:  organizing travel, accommodation and meals, as well as supporting EOF’s director with the content, liaising with a professional facilitator, and preparing session content.

• A 10–15-page guidance document for the leadership team summarizing the logistical information required by the leadership team for the offsite.
• A slide deck (estimated 40-slides) with content for each working day

30 November 2025

4. Leadership attendance at strategically significant meetings with EOF’s partners or potential partners

Deliverable 7: 20 briefing documents (2-3 pages in length) ahead of leadership attendance at an estimated 20 strategically significant meetings with EOF’s partners or potential partners; containing research on key information about the partner, including: their professional history and strategic alignment with EOF – in collaboration with EOF’s leadership team

31 March 2026

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in  Business Management, Communications, Education, International Development, Politics, Economics, or a similar subject

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience is required. This includes event management, production, project management, management consultancy and executive assistant experience.
• Experience organizing events and business travel is required.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment is required.
• Fluency in English is required
• Experience organizing international and complex travel or events is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of the international development sector is preferred.
• Knowledge of the global education sector is preferred.
• A good working knowledge of another UN language is an asset

Requirements:

Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and

- Upload copy of academic credentials

- Financial proposal that will include/ reflect :

• • the costs per each deliverable and the total lump-sum for the whole assignment (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference.
  • travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR.
  • Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, 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 core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. View our competency framework at: Here

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.