Writer-Editor - authorship work - GEM REPORT

OVERVIEW

Parent Sector : Education Sector (ED)

Duty Station: Multiple

 

Classification of duty station: [[filter12]]

Standard Duration of Assignement : [[filter13]]

Job Family: Education

Type of contract : Non Staff

Duration of contract : From 7 to 11 months

Recruitment open to : External candidates

Application Deadline (Midnight Paris Time) : 26-FEB-2024

 

UNESCO Core Values: Commitment to the Organization, Integrity, Respect for Diversity, Professionalism

 

OVERVIEW OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE POST

IMPORTANT: APPLICATION PROCEDURES
 

In place of the Employment History Form, please upload required documents. The whole package needs to be uploaded as a single PDF document (CV, Technical and financial proposal):

1. an updated curriculum vitae
2. a technical proposal including an approach and methodology for the assignment (maximum 3 pages)
3. a financial proposal: The amount to be charged for the assignment, which should be quoted in US dollars, GBP or Euros only for the period: 1st March 2024 – 31 December 2024 as a monthly fee.

The position will be carried out remotely.
 

Please explain how your profile and experience meet our mandatory requirements.
 

Please submit your supporting documents in English.
 

UNESCO places great emphasis on ensuring that the objectives of the work assignment, as described in the Terms of Reference, are met. Accordingly, in evaluating the proposals for the assignment, attention will focus first and foremost on the technical elements. From those proposals deemed suitable in relation to the criteria set forth in the Terms of Reference, UNESCO shall select the proposal that offers the Organization best value for money.
 

Only complete applications will be considered.
 

UNESCO is inviting written proposals from Individuals for the work assignment described in Annex A.
 

ANNEX A

 

1. BACKGROUND

The Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report is an editorially independent, evidence-based annual report hosted and published by UNESCO. Established in 2002, its current mandate derives from the 2015 World Education Forum and focuses on monitoring education in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the implementation of the strategies outlined in the Education 2030 Framework for Action. Accordingly, each report has two parts: 
 

•    a monitoring part reviews the SDG 4 targets, education in the other SDGs and education finance.
•    a thematic part focuses on a relevant theme in the international education agenda, which is selected by the GEM Report’s Advisory Board; the last six themes in the GEM Report series have been: education and the other SDGs (2016), accountability (2017/8), migration and displacement (2019), inclusion (2020), non-state actors (2021/2) and technology (2023).
 

Alongside the annual report, the GEM Report team publishes summary, youth, gender and regional editions, policy papers, background papers, and three online resources on inequality in education, monitoring of SDG 4 progress, and descriptions of national education systems.

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2. OBJECTIVES

The draft text of the Reports is authored by the research team and is occasionally overly technical. The consultant will need to revise and rewrite parts of the report accordingly in order to make it more accessible to its readers, which include decision-makers: ministers, policy- makers, parliamentarians and planners.
 

The work of the consultant has two main objectives with respect to the GEM Report Team publications and related outputs:
 

•    Adapt and rewrite the draft text of GEM Report publications and related outputs to ensure that their key messages are drawn and made clear for its wide, diverse and often non-technical readership.

•    Carry out standard editorial tasks in the English versions of the Reports and related outputs.
 

This work will involve close collaboration with the researchers and the communications specialist during the drafting process. During the final editing of the Report, the consultant will work closely with the Director of the GEM Report, in close liaison with the publications manager and the copy-editor.

3. TASKS

The Consultant’s tasks consist of editing the reports and rewriting sections of the reports and all other material produced by the team as detailed below. The estimated word counts below are based on the 2024/5 cycle and are to be considered as a rough estimate. These are provided as an indication of the workload, and to enable applicants to provide an accurate monthly cost proposal over a 10-month period.
 

•    The GEM Report (550 pages) approximately 1