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Türkiye, with a population of nearly 85 million, hosts the world’s largest refugee population, including approximately 3.6 million Syrians. The February 2023 earthquakes further affected over 9 million people, putting additional strain on an already vulnerable education system. Children and teachers in the impacted areas continue to face challenges related to safe, sustainable, and pandemic-ready learning spaces.

While progress has been made in integrating children into the education system and strengthening early learning environments, significant gaps remain in ensuring hygiene, sanitation, and resilience of learning spaces. Teachers and administrators often lack access to practical tools, structured training, and adaptable learning materials to support safe and sustainable education delivery.

There is need for the development of teacher-focused resources that combine hygiene and sanitation practices with approaches to sustain education delivery to be prepared for emergencies and pandemics. This includes training modules for teachers and administrators, hygiene & sanitation cards, and practical activity guides that can be easily adapted across different early learning environments.

For every child, inclusivity

Background: 

The purpose of this assignment is to develop and pilot a set of ECE teacher and local manager focused materials to improve hygiene and sanitation practices and to support the establishment of sustainable and pandemic-ready early learning spaces. The consultant will design resources to strengthen ECE teachers’ capacity and resilience in ensuring safe and continuous education delivery.

How can you make a difference? 

The following table provides a tentative plan summarizing task, deliverables, timeline, and estimated person-days. The contracted consultant/expert is expected to carry out the tasks under the supervision of the UNICEF Early Childhood Education Officer.

*Delivery dates are tentative and can be negotiated based on the project calendar.

*Colored tasks are supposed to be conducted in cooperation with another consultant.

Duty Station: In general consultant/expert will work home based. The selected long-term individual consultant/expert is expected to travel for face-to-face trainings, validation workshops, and other in-person meetings as required.

Supervisor: The consultant will work under the direct supervision of the Early Childhood Education Officer, UNICEF Türkiye, and in close coordination with relevant programme staff.

Estimated Duration and Cost of Consultancy:

Duration: The contract will be effective from the date of signing until the successful submission of the deliverables, which are estimated to require a total of 140 working days which will be planned during the initial working days. The consultancy is spread within 36 months from November 2025-November 2028.

Estimated Cost of Consultancy: Applications shall include a detailed financial proposal that elaborates on daily costs based on the completion of above-mentioned deliverables, including a total sum demanded. All costs, including travel, accommodation, administrative costs, etc. shall be covered by the contractor and should be included in the financial proposal as a separate heading and broken down into details of accommodation and travel costs in line with UN DSA rates. The candidate is required to specify their daily rates and the total amount as per the number of anticipated working days for each deliverable in the financial proposal and provide the breakdown of the lump sum amount as well as incidentals of each deliverable in TRY.

Payment: UNICEF will issue a contract in TRY. The payment will be made in installments upon submission of the deliverables listed above and will be executed in TRY.

Payment Schedule: Payment will be made in instalments, linked to satisfactory completion and approval of deliverables. UNICEF will issue the contract in TRY.

Reservations:  UNICEF reserves the right to terminate the contract without a prior notice and/or withhold all or a portion of payment if performance is unsatisfactory, if the rules and the regulations regarding confidentiality, ethics and procedures of UNICEF and the project partners are not followed, if work/outputs are incomplete, not delivered or for failure to meet deadlines.

Travel Requirements: The consultant may be required to travel up to 40 days. All costs, including travel, accommodation, administrative costs, etc. shall be covered by the contractor and should be included in the financial proposal as a separate heading and broken down into details of accommodation and travel costs in line with UN DSA rates.

Ankara (10 days) and Southeast (30 days) provinces.

Price proposals in TRY should be valid for 36 months and consultant should not demand price increase after the signature of the contract.

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

Qualifications:

• PHD degree in Early Childhood Education, Public Health, Nursing, Social Sciences, or related fields.
• At least 7 years of professional experience in education, hygiene/sanitation (WASH), or health-related programming with children, teachers, and families. Samples of the relevant work should be submitted as supporting documents.
• Proven experience in developing training modules, educational resources for teachers and administrators.
• Proven experience in delivering trainings.
• Demonstrated knowledge of child rights, gender equality, and inclusive education.
• Previous experience with UNICEF, UN agencies, ministries or NGOs in humanitarian or development settings is an asset.
• Excellent written and spoken Turkish.

Skills and personal traits: 

• Excellent communication, drafting and facilitation skills in Turkish.
• Ability to work with municipalities, CSOs and educators.
• Creative, organized, and able to meet deadlines.
• Culturally sensitive with commitment to child rights and inclusivity.

*After the selection process the consultant will be expected to complete the mandatory UNICEF AGORA Trainings.  

Application and Selection Criteria

Applicants are expected to submit to UNICEF the following documents:

1. Financial proposal  Financial Offer_ToR Consultancy for Development of Teacher-Focused Learning Materials.docx
2. CV
3. Technical proposal. The minimum content for the technical proposal is:
• A sample of relevant previous works, including developed materials in the past

 Financial proposals should be submitted in separate folders from the remaining documentation. After the technical evaluation, the financial proposals of qualified candidates will be evaluated. The technical evaluation will be completed based on the attached technical evaluation criteria. The applications will be evaluated from the technical and financial point of view. Technical aspects will be evaluated using the criteria outlined in the matrix below:

The financial proposals will be opened only for the candidates that reach or exceed forty-nine (49) points out of maximum seventy (70) points. Thirty (30) points will be awarded to the candidate that presented the lowest fee for the services requested. The remaining financial offers will receive proportional points ([lowest bid/bid] x 30 points).

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.