Forcibly Displaced Young People’s Engagement Consultant - Ref#576724

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Consultancy Title: Forcibly Displaced Young People’s Engagement Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Programme Group, Education Section, UNICEF NYHQ.

Duration: November 18, 2024, to June 30, 2026

Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote

 

About UNICEF

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

 

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

This 18-month consultancy is to engage and partner with young people in forcibly displaced contexts and support their meaningful participation. This consultancy will be managed by UNICEF’s Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP) team.

The first area of work is advancing young people’s engagement and meaningful participation across the PROSPECTS Partnership, a key partnership funded by the Netherlands to support young people’s education, skilling, protection, the transition to decent work, and self-reliance in forced displacement contexts with engagement and meaningful participation of young people as a cross-cutting program component. The PROSPECTS Partnership is currently in its second phase (2024 – 2027), and the ADAP team has led an inter-agency Youth Workstream with UNICEF, UNHCR, ILO and the Netherlands Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) to advance young people’s engagement and meaningful participation, by providing support to regional and country teams in the 8 priority countries in MENA and ESA regions.

The second area of work is supporting the ADAP team’s global Partnership Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with the Global Refugee Youth Network (GRYN) and the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC).  The Global Refugee Youth Network is led by a group of young refugees who network and advocate globally and support/resource local refugee youth led organizations (RYLOs) to advance youth-led action in their communities.  GRYN works in close partnership with WRC, a US based international NGO that provides fiduciary support. Supporting ADAP with the implementation of the current program agreement under the PCA, includes ongoing capacity building, mentoring, and monitoring for the GRYN Leadership Team, as well as facilitating opportunities for GRYN’s exposure, global and regional advocacy and collaboration with Youth Compact partners. 

The third area of work is contributing to ADAP’s resource mobilization and advocacy efforts to address the needs of adolescents and youth from forced displacement backgrounds and to engage these young people in a meaningful way. This includes resource mobilization related to young people in or from forced displacement backgrounds, coordination with other teams within UNICEF as well external agencies and involving young people from forced displacement backgrounds in the design and production of webinars, learning sessions, trainings, briefings and global policy advocacy events.

As currently ADAP HQ doesn’t have sufficient funding to cover all planned activities, some deliverables are planned to be completed only if additional resources will become available.

Scope of Work:

The Programme Group/Adolescent Development and Participation (ADAP) team in UNICEF NYHQ seeks to hire a consultant on Forcibly Displaced Young People’s Engagement.

The Consultant will support to advance young people’s engagement and meaningful participation across the PROSPECTS partnership through: support to UNICEF teams working on PROSPECTS at the country, regional and global level; and

Collaboration with adolescent and youth engagement focal points at UNHCR, ILO, youth networks and the Netherlands MFA via the Youth Workstream. 

This will include:

1) Particip