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UNICEF

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Schweiz

vor 3 Wochen

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Lena Schneider

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Beschreibung

Job no: 571041

Contract type:
Consultant

Duty Station:
Geneva

Level:
Consultancy

Location:
Switzerland

Categories:
Partnerships, Emergency, Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

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, _dedication._**
Purpose of Activity/Assignment

UNICEF's Standby Arrangements encompasses the deployment of standby partner personnel to UNICEF country, regional and headquarter emergency operations in support of programme, cluster, operational and strategic functions.

In 2023, UNICEF's standby partners supported 203 deployments to 52 offices, representing an in-kind value of USD13.4 million.

Standby Arrangements forms UNICEF's external surge pillar, with internal missions and fast track hire.

Each year, Standby Arrangements forms roughly one third of all the deployment days delivered through surge to humanitarian crisis, evidence of the critical and central role of the program in UNICEF's ability to scale up, and to provide much needed technical expertise in protracted crisis.

Standby Arrangements, through its broader mandate and long established partnerships, can also provide support to preparedness, capacity building, support government and cluster partners, and strategic expansion areas such as Cash, Accountability to Affected Populations and Gender Based Violence.

Since 2005, UNICEF has signed the current form of the Standby Agreement with 32 organisations. These encompass Non Governmental Organisations, Government partners, private sector organisations and inter-governmental organisations.

Partners engage with UNICEF Standby Arrangements through three modalities - supporting single, one-off standby deployments, supporting 1-2 members of the cluster Rapid Response (also called Field Support) Teams, and providing Service Packages, or a combination of all three.

In addition to the current partners, UNICEF often holds partnership discussions with 3-5 new potential partners each year.

EMOPS Geneva is regularly approached by colleagues from particular programmes or clusters, or through Country Offices, as well as directly by NGOs and private companies, to sign with suggested partners.

In particular, UNICEF has invested in mapping increased private sector engagement and sees a strong possibility for the development of Shared Value Partnerships with the private sector.

These partnerships would involve both the donation of financial resources and the in-kind deployment of expertise or services.

Secondly, EMOPS wishes to expand the diversity of partnerships and provide opportunities for national NGOs and partners from the Global South to deploy in support of emergency responses in their own country, regionally, or globally.

Finally, there is an opportunity to further enhance strategic relationships with international NGOs (INGOs), who are significant existing partners, to develop more local chapters and country offices capable of offering international deployments.

EMOPS Geneva requires a more robust approach to assessing and forming Standby Partnerships to meet future needs.

In 2023, UNICEF began implementing the Surge Strategy. Implementing this new key element has been crucial to the performance of the SBP mechanism. It is essential to define and prioritize the available options, along with clearly defining the decision-making process.

In addition, the consultant will need to be familiarised with the concepts following policies and documents:

Humanitarian Review
Surge Strategy
Talent Cluster Strategy
GOARN
Core Commitments for Children and other strategic framework documents related to Humanitarian Action.

Since June 2013, potential new partnerships have been assessed against these criteria, alongside a mapping of the current and emerging needs to target new partnerships at critical gaps.

Developments in UNICEF's overall partnership process such as due diligence processes and the 2015 Simplified CSO Procedures, 2018 Partner Portal and PSEA requirements have been added to new standby partner assessments.

Scope of work
In order to effectively support the current and changing needs of UNICEF's external surge needs, and increase the impact of UNICEF's Standby Arrangements, it has been identified that a more formalized Partnership Strategy is required

This would incorporate: