Adult learning consultant for support to Gender in Humanitarian Action at UNICEF

Akwajobs   (Yaoundé, Centre, Cameroun)

Posted : 21 January, 2022

Category : Learning and Development   Location : Yaoundé, Centre, Cameroun

Job type : Full Time

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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 chance in life!

UNICEF has been working in Cameroon since 1975 in order to allow women and children to fully realize their rights to development without restriction, as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. UNICEF provides financials and technical support to Cameroon across seven areas in an effort to fully realize the rights of women and children. These areas include Health, HIV/AIDS, Water-sanitation-Hygiene, nutrition, education, child protection and social inclusion. UNICEF focuses mainly on children and the most vulnerable and excluded families. Cameroon 2020 population is estimated at 26,545,863 people according to UN data. The population is young and generates strong socioeconomic demand. In rural areas, limited access to basic social services and the effects of climate changes lead to household impoverishment and severe child deprivations. The task is immense but not insurmountable; it requires the energy of all stakeholders in Cameroon and out of Cameroon: also, women, men, youth and children, government, technical and financial partners, donors, civil society, the private sector, parliamentarians, communities. Everyone is invited to take part in the struggle to meet the challenges that lie ahead. It is together that we will act for Cameroon, a country that summarizes the challenges and hopes of Africa.

The Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) roadmap, endorsed by the Humanitarian Country Team in November 2020, articulates the collective results that the humanitarian leadership wishes to achieve in the next two years to enhance gender equality in humanitarian action. With support from UNICEF, the roadmap aims at reinforcing capacities on gender equality programming: Two Training of Trainers, to be held in French, will be organized in the Far North and East regions.

The proposed training of trainers will have for objectives to:

• Reinforce capacities of the sectors to mainstream gender in humanitarian action (GiHA).
• Create a pool of skilled humanitarian actors who can support others to multiply knowledge in GiHA.
• Revitalize the gender coordination mechanism in the Far North region and create a GiHA group in the East region, thanks to the availability of a pool of skilled professionals able to actively contribute to gender coordination groups. The function of the regional groups will be to provide ongoing mentoring to humanitarian actors and to collect and share local analysis on the most pressing gender issues.

The adult learning consultant will be involved in the preparation and co-facilitation of the two training of trainers in the regions, based on the gender in humanitarian action (GiHA) ToT developped by the GenCap project.

How can you make a difference?

Main Tasks Expected From The Adult Learning Specialist

Act as the lead facilitator for the training on Adult Learning and Community Building Methods:

• Familiarize themselves with the GiHA ToT package and the adult learning resources
• Adapt resources as necessary to fit the local context and prepare workshop materials
• Design and deliver adult learning training sessions: Expose participants to the range of methodologies and techniques that can help turn the delivery of humanitarian training into a participatory, high-impact and memorable learning experience. The emphasis will be placed on developing and applying active learning methodologies such as exercises and simulations to reinforce learning
• Provide guidance to the trainee groups on the preparation of their micro-training sessions
• Provide feedback to the trainee groups on their micro-training sessions
• Develop guidance on receiving peer-feedback on the trainee groups’ micro-training sessions
• Support participants during the session in which they will be asked to team up and identify next steps on mentoring and training their sectors.

Coordinate With The Lead And Co-trainer Before The Training

• Develop a session plan for the session on Adult Learning and Community Building Methods
• Share and discuss session plan with the lead facilitator before the training
• Share updated files with training team to be shared with participants

Coordinate With The Co-trainers After The Training

• Considering the training and mentoring plans which participants will define during the last part of the ToT, prepare a summary table highlighting what the different participants have committed to do. The document should include, for each participant:
• who the other participants are that they may team up with to deliver the training/mentoring,
• which sector(s) will be targeted,
• what the type and length of the intervention are, and
• where it will be delivered and by when.

Brainstorm with other key facilitators on how trainees’ replication of the training will be monitored and assessed. For instance, this could be done by asking participants to fill in a template summarizing their training activities. The document could then be sent to the newly established GiHA groups’ chairs, who will monitor and assess trainees’ satisfactory replication of the training, with support from GenCap

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have

An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Andragogy/training techniques, gender, humanitarian action. Trainers should be practitioners with strong training background (5+years), especially in adult learning methodologies and techniques

Fluency in French is required, and the ability to read documents developed in English (GenCap’s GiHA ToT package) is also requested.

Knowledge and Experience on gender

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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.

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