GESP Playbook Development Consultant, UNICEF Global Programme Division, Generation Unlimited, New York, USA (remote) 4 months #595212

Organizational Context

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. UNICEF Generation Unlimited (GenU) is a public-private-youth partnership dedicated to ensuring that every young person gains skills and livelihoods, with a focus on equity and innovation where girls and young women are a key strategic priority.

Job Purpose

The GESP Playbook Development Consultant will translate the Girls’ Education and Skills Partnership's (GESP) tacit knowledge, operational experience, lessons learned, and effective approaches into a practical global public good. This Playbook will provide future practitioners and donors with interactive tools, templates, and guidance for designing, implementing, and strengthening girl-centred learning-to-earning pathways. The consultant will ensure that GESP's implementation experience continues to inform and benefit future investments in adolescent girls' and young women's economic empowerment. The consultant will apply a human-centred design (HCD) and social and behaviour change (SBC) lens to the Playbook's content and structure, developing a web-based visualization using tools such as H5P for an interactive, practitioner-friendly resource.

Responsibilities

Translate GESP's tacit knowledge, operational experience, lessons learned, and effective approaches into a practical global public good (Playbook). Provide future practitioners and donors with interactive tools, templates, and guidance for designing, implementing, and strengthening girl-centred learning-to-earning pathways. Ensure GESP's implementation experience informs and benefits future investments in adolescent girls' and young women's economic empowerment. Apply a human-centred design (HCD) and social and behaviour change (SBC) lens to the Playbook's content and structure. Develop a web-based visualization of the Playbook using tools such as H5P, creating an interactive, practitioner-friendly resource that can be navigated and used independently by future users. Collaborate with the Programme Specialist (GESP coordinator), Senior Advisor for Global Programmes, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, GenU global team, Country Offices, and GESP implementing partners throughout the development process. Synthesize qualitative and quantitative information, assess programme models, identify practical implications, and translate analysis into clear recommendations for the Playbook's content and structure.

Work Experience

Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience designing and developing practitioner-facing tools, playbooks, toolkits, or guidance using human-centred design (HCD) and social and behaviour change (SBC) approaches for gender-responsive programming. Experience in youth livelihoods, youth employment, or skills-to-work transitions is desirable.

Skills

Human-centred design (HCD), Social and behaviour change (SBC) approaches, Programme design and development, Practitioner-facing tool development, Playbook/toolkit/guidance creation, Gender-responsive programming, Adolescent girls and youth programming, Analytical skills, Information synthesis (qualitative and quantitative), Programme model assessment, Writing high-quality reports, H5P or similar interactive authoring platforms (desirable)

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