Localité : Suède / Stockholm Domaine : Assistance de direction Niveau : Non precise Entreprise recruteur : UNICEF
Recrutement de 01 Consultancy - Procurement Specialist for School Connectivity, Supply Division & Office of Innovation, 12 months, Remote , REQ#561400
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: Stockholm
Level: Consultancy
Location: Sweden
Categories: Supply Management, Innovation
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, innovate...
About Gig
Launched in 2019 as a joint initiative between UNICEF and ITU, Giga has set the ambitious goal to connect every school in the world to the internet.
Half of the world’s population has no regular access to the Internet. Millions of children leave school without any digital skills, making it much more difficult for them to thrive and contribute to local and global economies. This has created a digital divide between those who are connected and those who are not, a divide that has become even wider during the Covid-19 pandemic. UNICEF and ITU have therefore joined forces to create Giga, an initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet and address this new form of inequality.
Giga focuses on connecting schools so that children and young people have access to information, opportunity, and choice. It also uses schools as anchor points for their surrounding communities: if you connect the school, you can also connect local businesses and services. This creates opportunities for service providers to generate revenue from paying users, making connectivity more sustainable. A 2021 report by the Economist Intelligence Unit found that a 10% increase in school connectivity can increase effective years of schooling by 0.6% and increase GDP per capita by 1.1%.
You cannot fix a problem unless you can see it, so the first step is to map schools and their connectivity levels. Giga uses machine learning to scan satellite images and identify schools. These are then marked by coloured dots on an open-source map: green where there is good connectivity (over 5mb/s); amber where it is limited; and red where there is no connectivity at all.
Just as building railroads allowed previously isolated towns to flourish, providing good quality Internet access will allow communities to participate in the digital economy for the first time. But Giga’s work in laying the tracks for connectivity is only one part of a wider effort to bridge the digital divide. UNICEF’s Reimagine Education initiative brings all of this work together and has set the goal of connecting every child and young person – some 3.5 billion - to world-class digital learning solutions by 2030. In addition to Giga, it includes components focusing on the affordability of data and content, access to devices, teacher certification and the engagement of young people. Along with ITU’s digital skills programme and other initiatives, Reimagine Education aims to ensure that, once connected, young people are empowered with the tools they need to shape their own futures.
You can read more about Giga’s work at https://giga.global/ and by following us on twitter @Gigaglobal
Purpose of the consultancy
Under the general guidance of the Giga Contract Lead and in close coordination with the Senior Contracts Manager, Service Contracting Centre, the consultant is expected to develop, and maintain updated, a set of tools to provide procurement advice on large-scale school connectivity to UNICEF Country Offices. This includes development of procurement and market shaping strategies, guides, templates, advice on management of tenders, negotiations, contracts, service level agreements and advisory to country level procurement activities for schools’ connectivity contracting and any other equipment or services supporting the Giga initiative.
We seek a strong self-motivated Procurement Specialist who can maintain the quality of their work even under tight time constraints and who can work with a diverse interdisciplinary team of engineers, designers, data scientists, researchers, financiers, and policy specialists to lead the prototyping and development of supply strategies to advise UNICEF country offices and governments on the procurement of school connectivity.
Purpose of the appointment & key end results:
Working under the guidance of the Giga Contract Lead and in close collaboration with the Senior Contracts Manager, Service Contracting Centre, you will:
1. Support market research and intelligence gathering to identify shortcomings and bottlenecks in the provision of meaningful and affordable connectivity, through different technologies, to remote & rural schools. Identify demand and supply challenges for school connectivity at country and regional level, and work in collaboration with Giga and UNICEF Supply teams to develop strategies for market influencing.
2. Establishment of a market shaping strategy at a global level, with a particular offer to Giga countries, including global arrangements for procurement and supply of quality, affordable school connectivity based on standard specifications and functional requirements, leveraging demand aggregation and economies of scale.
3. Develop and maintain updated a school connectivity procurement toolkit that includes global guidelines, templates, and best practices for contracting processes for sustainable school connectivity integrating the use of Giga’s data on school & infrastructure location to identify the technologies, operating and business models that optimize network performance, capex investment and affordability.
4. Advise and guide UNICEF country offices on procurement strategy and contractual modality for government’s large-scale school connectivity processes.
Please click Download File TOR - Procurement Specialist for School Connectivity.pdf to access the full TOR and related information.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
An Advanced University Degree (Master’s Degree) in business administration, commerce or law or technical field required.
A minimum of five years of progressively responsible professional experience including at least two at the international level. Experience in commercial activities, preferably within the telecommunications sector, with the public or private sector in developing and industrialized countries. Experience with worldwide procurement, contract negotiations, combined with broader economic knowledge.
Knowledge of the telecommunications market structure, dynamics and drivers for product development and pricing for high-speed internet connectivity and related contracting processes.
Experience leading large-scale procurement processes for technology or telecommunications products in the public or private sectors, or in support of a UN organization.
Ability to conceptualize ideas and produce clear and comprehensive products to support UNICEF’s capacity to deliver school connectivity for young people and children.
Ability to work with a multidisciplinary team of designers, engineers, researchers, and policy makers, in a multicultural environment and to work independently.
Knowledge of project management tools like Jira, Asana, Trello.
Good verbal and communication skills.
Computer skills, including internet navigation and various office applications
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
Payment details and further considerations
• Payment of professional fees will be based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.
• Consultant is responsible for his/her own health and travel insurance
• Consultant is responsible to arrange his/her own travel, including visa
Travel : The consultant will be expected to travel to Barcelona, Spain once. The duration of that stay will be 5 business days.
Duty Station : Remote
Duration: 12 months
Insurance:
UNICEF will not be responsible for costs arising from accidents and/or illness incurred during the consultant’s service. Therefore, the selected candidate must provide proof of enrollment in a health/accident plan prior to starting his/her work.
How to apply:
• Interested applicant is required to submit a financial proposal with all-inclusive fee. Please complete your profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system.
• Financial proposal must include travel costs (economy class), daily subsistence allowance (limited to UN official rates), and other estimated costs such as visa and travel/health insurance. Please indicate your ability, availability and financial proposal (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above.
• Applications submitted without a financial proposal will not be considered.
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.
Advertised: 25 Apr 2023 W. Europe Daylight Time
Deadline: 09 May 2023 W. Europe Daylight Time
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