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And we never give up. 

For every child, Protection

Scope of the work:

U-Report welcomes members to join our steering group, bringing a new complement of 6 members. This term of reference covers a 12-month period commencing December 2024 and lasting until December 2025. The U-Report steering group serves to advance the achievement of the goals of U-Report, which is designed to empower youth to speak out on issues that impact their lives, encourage youth-led development, and create positive change.

The steering group is to be sub-divided into five sub-groups, each representing one of five UNICEF ECARO outpost in Italy programs/main topics of interest:

(i)        Protection

(ii)       Alternative care

(iii)      Intersectional Discrimination

(iv)      Quality Education (skills and job orientation)

(v)       Mental health and psychosocial wellbeing

The objective of the U-Report Steering Group is to advance the goals of U-Report, particularly in empowering youth to express their opinions on issues that affect their lives, promote youth-led development, and foster positive social change.

In more specific terms, the Steering Group aims to:

• Amplify youth voices on important issues through U-Report polls and digital engagement.
• Guide the development of U-Report by providing feedback and recommendations on polls and activities.
• Support UNICEF programs on key topics such as protection, mental health, education, and discrimination.
• Engage other youth and youth-based organizations to expand participation and partnerships in U-Report activities.

Overall, the group plays a role in shaping the platform’s activities to ensure it addresses youth priorities and fosters meaningful participation.

Against this backdrop, UNICEF ECARO o/p in Italy intends to hire Youth Consultants U-Report Steering Group who will be responsible to manage the “Youth Leadership Network”.   Also, since these consultants are expected to connect with young activists at the same level, ADAP is looking for young people possibly not older than 24 years.

How can you make a difference? 

Work location: Home-based in Italy.

To apply:

Applicants are invited to: 

1. Complete their UNICEF profile;
2. Submit a financial proposal with a daily fee in EUR. Applications without fees will not be considered.

- Payment schedule: The consultant will be paid based on satisfactory and timely submission of deliverables.

- Duration: ((36 working days during 12 months (av. 3 days per month)) February 2025– January 2026.

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

• Secondary school
• Active participation in UNICEF activities
• Strong interpersonal, teamwork and drive for results skills.
• Good writing skills.
• Fluency in Italian essential (verbal and written).
• Must own a mobile phone with reliable access to bandwidth sufficient to hold video calls.
• Between the age of 18-24.
• Must live in Italy.
• Contextual understanding of community issues specifically issues among youth with a migratory background.

Desirable skills & experience (not mandatory)

• Basic background of working/volunteering in the community.

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:  

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. 

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.