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Purpose Of Activity/Assignment

Organize and deliver the Train the Trainers (TOT) training for youth leaders from AIESEC Viet Nam on the UPSHIFT Social Innovation Curriculum and provide content oversight for the official Bootcamp Training with AIESEC facilitators.

Background

UPSHIFT is a social innovation and social entrepreneurship programme, designed to build skills and opportunities for adolescents and youth, especially who are disadvantaged due to gender, poverty, disability, or ethnicity. Through human-centered design, the UPSHIFT curriculum equips adolescents and young people with essential 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, communication, problem-solving, among other essential transferable skills. Through hands-on activities and mentorship, UPSHIFT empowers young people to develop innovative solutions to social and environmental issues that they care about, fostering a sense of agency, social purpose, and leadership. The programme aims to reach more marginalized groups, including young girls and adolescents from disadvantaged backgrounds (from rural areas, ethnic minority communities, or girls with disabilities), ensuring that no one is left behind.

UNICEF Viet Nam is committed to build up on the legacy of UPSHIFT programme in the country and further enhance its impact through a new UPSHIFT cohort in 2025, with a special focus on adolescent and young girls aged 18-24 years old, especially the most disadvantaged. This effort aims to deepen the engagement of young people through a youth-led implementation model and foster stronger connections with the private sector. AIESEC Viet Nam has been chosen to host UPSHIFT 2025 through an open call for expression of interest. This ownership and operational leadership of a non-profit youth-led organization will be pivotal in mobilizing resources, co-designing programme activities, and fostering partnerships with private sector stakeholders to enhance UPSHIFT’s relevance and sustainability, especially in the learning to earning transition.

In order to ensure the successful implementation of UPSHIFT 2025, it is essential to build up a strong team of competent trainers and facilitators from AIESEC for the programme, and ensure their readiness to facilitate meaningful experience for adolescent and young girls, especially the most vulnerable ones. As such, UNICEF requests a consultant to plan and lead the trainings of AIESEC’s trainers and facilitators to ensure the high-quality delivery of UPSHIFT facilitation materials in this refreshed co-hort.

Specific Objectives Include

UNICEF Viet Nam seeks an individual consultant to coordinate and manage the TOT training for AIESEC Viet Nam’s core trainers and facilitators of the 2025 UPSHIFT programme. UNICEF will work closely with the selected consultant to ensure the technical assistance is well-delivered, with an aim to:

• Enhance knowledge and capacity for AIESEC’s young trainers and facilitators on UPSHIFT curriculum to effectively implement the programme;
• Ensure the quality of official UPSHIFT 2025 Bootcamp Training, including supervising and working closely with AIESEC’s young trainers and facilitators to design and deliver UPSHIFT curriculum and materials to programme participants.
  
  

Scope Of Work

Task 1: Develop training and organization plans for the TOT with AIESEC’s youth leaders to ensure its effective implementation, including logistical organization, training materials and other preparation tasks.

Task 2: Organize and deliver TOT trainings (hybrid) for 7-10 AIESEC’s youth leaders to increase their knowledge and develop their facilitation skills for the UPSHIFT curriculum (Vietnamese version).

Task 3: Work with AIESEC’s trained youth leaders and organizing committee to design/fine tune the UPSHIFT content and support its delivery during the UPSHIFT Bootcamp Training (planned to be organized for 4 days in Ho Chi Minh City) for adolescent and young girl participants.

Methodology

The consultancy will be undertaken in Ho Chi Minh City. The consultant will work in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders, including but not limited to UNICEF staff, AIESEC Viet Nam, and mentors/private sector engaged in the programme.

The consultancy will involve frequent communication through email exchange, telephone calls, offline meetings, and online discussions as appropriate.

Supervision And Management

The consultant will work under the direct supervision of UNICEF’s Adolescent and Youth Engagement Officer and the overall management of UNICEF’s Chief of the Social Policy and Governance Programme. He/she will ensure a participatory process that incorporates technical perspectives and guidance from UNICEF, AIESEC, and other relevant stakeholders.

For Full Work Assignments and Deliverables, please refer to the TOR as attached National Consultant for UPSHIFT trainings.pdf

(AIESEC: Association Internationale des Étudiants en Sciences Économiques et Commerciales).

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

• Advanced university degree in social innovation, entrepreneurship, social science, social work, and other related fields.
• At least 05 years of professional experience in training and development, education, social innovation, social entrepreneurship with a focus on adolescents and youth.
  
  

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills Required

• Demonstrated experience developing and delivering capacity building in face-to-face and synchronous virtual environments.
• Excellent knowledge and demonstrated experience working with UPSHIFT materials.
• Excellent research, report writing and presentation skills in Vietnamese and English.
• Excellent experience in adolescents/youth in and out of school participation and innovation.
• Strong work experience with UNICEF or the UN system is preferred.
  
  

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UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

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Evaluation Criteria

• Technical Evaluation (e.g. maximum 75 Points)
  
  

1.1 Educational background: 10 points

1.2 Relevant working experiences and skills: 65 points

• At least 05 years of professional experience in training and development, education, social innovation, social entrepreneurship with a focus on adolescents and youth. (10 points)
• Demonstrated experience developing and delivering capacity building in face-to-face and synchronous virtual environments. (10 points)
• Excellent knowledge and demonstrated experience working with UPSHIFT materials. (20 points)
• Excellent research, report writing and presentation skills in Vietnamese and English. (10 points)
• Excellent experience in adolescents/youth in and out of school participation and innovation. (10 points)
• Strong work experience with UNICEF or the UN system is preferred (5 points).
• Financial Proposal (e.g. maximum of 25 Points)
  
  

The maximum number of points shall be allotted to the lowest Financial Proposal that is opened /evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained a minimum 50 points score in the technical evaluation. Other Financial Proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.

The Contract shall be awarded to candidate obtaining the highest combined technical and financial scores, subject to the satisfactory result of the verification interview if needed.

Submission Of Applications

• Letter of interest/CV;
• Three references of relevant previous assignment(s);
• Technical proposal which clearly explains the outline on how to deliver the tasks and deliverables (not exceeding 15 pages);
• Financial proposal: All-inclusive lump-sum cost including consultancy fee, travel and any other relevant costs for this assignment.
  
  

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic background, and persons with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. To create a more inclusive workplace, UNICEF offers paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. Click here to learn more about flexible work arrangements, well-being, and benefits.

According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has committed to increase the number of employees with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we provide reasonable accommodation for work-related support requirements of candidates and employees with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen physical and digital accessibility. If you are an applicant with a disability who needs digital accessibility support in completing the online application, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). 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 based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

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.