CONSULTANCY 12 MONTHS: MAPPING AND TECH PROGRAM COORDINATOR (GIGA), BARCELONA, SPAIN AT SPAIN

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...
nnovate UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children.
We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.
The Office of Innovation is a creative, interactive, and agile team in UNICEF.
We sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the start-up thinking, the technology, and the partners that turn this energy into scalable solutions.
About Giga Launched in 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 report by the Economist Intelligence Unit found that a 10% increase in school connectivity can increase effective years of schooling by 0.
% and increase GDP per capita by 1.
%.
You can read more about Giga’s work at https://giga.
lobal/ and by following us on twitter @Gigaglobal How can you make a difference?  We seek a strong self-motivated Mapping and Tech Program Coordinator 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 and researchers to support the planning, implementation and monitoring of different activities and tools for Giga.
In particular you will.
Support the Mapping and Tech Lead in day-to-day operations and strategic planning.
Conduct data analysis and progress reporting, in support of goals and key objectives.
Support the coordination of the work of vendors and other tech partners that are supporting us build different products.
Create tools and processes to enable seamless scale of the work and in country deployment of products.
Ensure adoption of best practices and guidelines, including open-source guidelines across tech stack.
Support product leads in analyzing the impact of different products and user adoption & satisfaction by defining and tracking key metrics.
Create relevant documents and communication materials and communicate quantifiable impact of the work to internal and external audiences.
Please access the full Term of Reference (ToRs) and read a more detailed description of the assignment in this file in order to prepare your financial proposal and know more about the role.
Mapping and Tech Program Coordinator ToRs.
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