UNICEF Roster for Gender and Technology Consultancy Services, ICTD Digital Centre of Excellence Jobs in Kenya

UNICEF Roster for Gender and Technology Consultancy Services, ICTD Digital Centre of Excellence Jobs in Kenya

Job no: 556692

Contract type: Consultant

Duty Station: Nairobi

Level: Consultancy

Location: Kenya

Categories: Gender Development, Information Communication Technology

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, a connected world.

The UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-2025 highlights gender-transformative programming and fostering innovation and digital transformation as main change strategies to achieve UNICEF’s objectives and contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals.

UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan 2022-2025 specifies how UNICEF will promote gender equality across the organization’s work and specifies five targeted gender priorities focused on empowering adolescent girls. Digital transformation and innovation are widely recognized as a catalyst and accelerator of desired development outcomes.

Coupled with gender equality, technology and innovation can accelerate the elimination of pervasive gender gaps and inequalities, be socially transformative, unlock markets, and have huge, positive economic implications.

UNICEF is now seeking Gender and Technology consultant services to support the development, management and expansion of UNICEF Gender and Technology work around the world, including Oky.

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF's ICTD Digital Centre of Excellence Gender and Technology team is seeking services of individual Gender and Technology consultants to provide a range of support services and technical assistance to enhance the ability of UNICEF Offices at global, regional, and field level to lead and deliver high quality digital programmatic results that promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, as specified within the UNICEF Strategic Plan and the Gender Action Plan 2022-25.

Applicants will be considered for current and upcoming Gender and Technology consultancy opportunities, and for placement on the ICTD Gender and Technology Consultant Roster 2023-2025.

Key Responsibilities:

Gender and Technology categories for this roster include, but are not limited to:

Product and Partnerships Management: Perform product and partnership management services for girl-centred digital solutions and initiatives; provide coordination and project planning services, implementation and reporting support, including guidance to country offices and partners on strategic and operational aspects of the products localization, deployment and roll-out;

Technology Advisory: Provide technology related advisory services to Oky and other open source gender-related products; quality assure technology related digital gender work; liaise with tech vendors and ensure both technology and gender related aspects and quality;

Full-stack Development: Write open-source code on both the front and back end of gender-related digital products (including apps, websites, etc); write database queries; upgrade master codes periodically to the latest stack; provide support and maintenance for technology products (including bug fixes, responses to security issues, ensuring compatibility with new operating systems, adding new features and designs, etc).

Human-centred design: Provide Human-centred Design (HCD) advisory services to UNICEF teams and partners developing girl-intentional digital solutions; design and facilitate design and user testing processes with girls and women; advise on HCD approaches in different markets; map girl-centred HCD providers in different markets.

UX / UI: Provide UX / UI services to Oky and other GenderTech products; create, map out and test user flows/user journey maps for Oky and other GenderTech products; design graphic interface elements; developing wireframes (high and low fidelity) and prototypes; evaluate user feedback and requirements and iterate product UI and features based on user inputs etc (Applies to Senior roles)

Open-source Advisory: Provide technical assistance on open-source community building and open-source governance structures for GenderTech products, including project charter development (vision, mission, community statements); explore options for GenderTech governance models that put women and girls at the forefront; support open-source steering committees establishment and Standard Operating Procedure development.

Gender Digital Divide: Provide research advisory and expertise on what works for closing the gender digital divide; technical assistance for UNICEF countries and partners on high impact interventions that help bridge the gender digital divide for girls; feed into UNICEF and partners research and interventions that aim to close the digital gender gaps.

Digital Literacy: Provide advisory on what works in digital literacy for women and girls; develop gender-specific digital literacy standardised frameworks; feed into digital literacy strategies and policy documents, advise on intervention strategies and activity implementation; develop curricula and materials that advance women and girls’ digital literacy, etc (Applies to Senior roles)

Digital Content: Create new and evidence-based content in girl-friendly, girl-centred and compelling language in English (or other languages where GenderTech products are deployed); design chatbot conversations and scripts; develop gamified content for multiple platforms such as chatbot, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and SMS; advise on editorial processes for content at global and/or country level.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) and Research: Refine GenderTech Theory of Change and indicators, including analytics and business intelligence systems; build out digital monitoring and reporting frameworks; lead the setting up of MEL data collection and reporting mechanisms, particularly using lean data approaches; data analysis, insights generation and sharing (writing snapshots, briefs, reports).

Duration and Location:

This is an expression of interest to be placed on the ICTD Digital Centre of Excellence Gender and Technology roster.

For each work assignment, a Terms of Reference with work scope and tasks, schedules, deliverables, timelines and final outputs will be developed. Work assignments might require full-time or part-time commitments, at Senior or Junior level expertise.


To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• University degree (Bachelor’s Degree or higher) in Social Sciences, Gender Studies, International Development, ICT, or in an area relevant to UNICEF’s Gender and Technology work (Sexual and Reproductive Health, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Health, Education, Child Protection, WASH, etc.) is required.

• Specific work experience on digital projects, products and services, or innovation, in emerging markets; experience with GenderTech products and working with women and girls, preferred.

• At least 8 years (applies to Senior level) or 3 years (applies to Junior level) of progressively responsible professional experience and demonstrated track record in the area of gender, digital or innovation, or in the specific area of support that candidate is applying for.

• Strong, substantive, experience and skills related to the specific roles and areas of support that candidate is applying for.

• Creative, innovative thinker who can also translate ideas into practical applications; “Get things done” mindset.

• Self-starter who is happy to hit the ground running; independently motivated who doesn’t require extensive set-up processes, training, orientation, or strategy development (Applies to Senior level)

• Proven skills in communication, networking, strategic thinking, advocacy, negotiation, and ability to relate this to innovation and young people. (Applies to Senior level)

• Proven ability to conceptualize, plan and execute ideas. (Applies to Senior level)

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.


How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; UNICEF Roster for Gender and Technology Consultancy Services, ICTD Digital Centre of Excellence Jobs in Kenya

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