UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, EDUCATION
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 with our founding CEO (Her Excellency Dr.) Amel Karboul 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 is backed by a range of world leaders who support us to shape our approach and achieve our ambitious aims, as well as leaders in education and impact investing.
EOF supports improvements in the quality of education and skills programs, with a special focus on girls and underserved populations, including those in the hardest to reach rural areas. 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.
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, focusing attention and realigning systems on the most challenging but most important measure of a program's performance: whether it is improving lives.
Together with our supporters, we believe this is the early stages of a much larger movement, with huge potential to increase learning outcomes for children and youth around the world, though improved aid effectiveness and government spending.
Since our inception in 2018, EOF has:
How can you make a difference?
PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
We are seeking to recruit a Consultant (Governance) to support EOF with its governance boards. This will involve:
The successful candidate will report directly to EOF’s Chief of Operations, and work in close partnership with the CEO and EOF’s leadership team.
DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT
Deliverable | Description | Estimated number of working days | Deadline/ timeline |
Deliverable 1: Lead the preparation for a meeting of EOF’s Executive Committee in late November / early December 2024. | a) Develop the agenda in consultation with EOF’s leadership. b) In consultation with EOF’s full team, collect information from across the organization and use this to create an estimated 30-page slide deck, in a consistent and high-quality format, as pre-reading for board members (comprised of private and public sector CEOs / senior leaders). c) Support EOF’s leadership team to develop a plan for delivering the meeting. | 7 | The agenda should be agreed at least 3 weeks ahead of the meeting. Pre-reading should be finalized 10 working days ahead of the meeting date, which will be in late November or early December 2024. |
Deliverable 2: Lead the preparation for a meeting of EOF’s High Level Steering Group in April / May 2025. | a) Develop the agenda in consultation with EOF’s leadership. b) In consultation with EOF’s full team, collect information from across the organization and use this to create an estimated 30-page slide deck in a consistent and high-quality format as pre-reading for board members (comprised of private and public sector CEOs / senior leaders). c) Support EOF’s leadership team to develop a plan for delivering the meeting. | 7 | The agenda should be agreed at least 3 weeks ahead of the meeting. Pre-reading should be finalized 10 working days ahead of the meeting date, which will be in April or May 2025. |
Deliverable 3: Lead the preparation for a meeting of EOF’s Executive Committee in March/April 2025. | a) Develop the agenda in consultation with EOF’s leadership. b) In consultation with EOF’s full team, collect information from across the organization and use this to create an estimated 30-page slide deck, in a consistent and high-quality format, as pre-reading for board members (comprised of private and public sector CEOs / senior leaders). c) Support EOF’s leadership team to develop a plan for delivering the meeting. | 7 | The agenda should be agreed at least 3 weeks ahead of the meeting. Pre-reading should be finalized 10 working days ahead of the meeting date, which will be in April or May 2025. |
Deliverable 4: Technical guidance to EOF’s leadership team on the refining of EOF’s governing boards. | a) In close consultation with EOF’s leadership team, and building on work completed by the leadership team, update EOF’s charter with an estimated 10-15 changes to reflect changes made to EOF’s governing boards. b) Produce a final version of the Terms of Reference for EOF’s board members. c) Develop at least 2 additional tools and processes, in coordination with EOF’s CEO, related to improving EOF’s governance structure. This could include a communications plan, onboarding materials for new board members, or developing KPIs and success metrics for EOF’s ongoing review. | 11 | Updated charter and finalized TORs by the end of November 2024 The remaining tools and processes by the end of the contract |
TOTAL ESTIMATED WORKING DAYS | 32 |
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
DESIRED REQUIREMENTS
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.
Interested candidates are required to fully complete their application profile, upload a cover letter and their financial proposal (daily fee rate in USD).
Applications with incomplete profile and without a financial proposal will not be considered.
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.