Country: Switzerland
Closing date: 12 Aug 2018
Purpose of Project and Background
The Global Road Safety Partnership (www.grsproadsafety.org) is a hosted programme of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and is a voluntary association of governments, businesses and civil society organisations. Both the IFRC and Global Road Safety Partnership are headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The aim of the Global Road Safety Partnership’s work is to reduce death and serious injuries as a result of road crashes in low- and middle-income countries. Globally, road crashes are estimated to cause some 1.3 million deaths and 50 million serious injuries annually and represent a silent humanitarian crisis. 85% of the casualties in this global man-made crisis are in low and middle-income countries. In addition to the incalculable pain and suffering, there is an economic cost in these countries of some $65 billion per annum.
Under the Botnar Children Road Safety Challenge (BCRSC), the Global Road Safety Partnership is supported by Fondation Botnar. The foundation acts as a catalyst, connecting diverse partners and investing in scalable AI and digital innovation to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people in growing secondary cities around the world. BCRSC is designed to address locally relevant road safety problems that affect children in small- and mid-sized cities in six priority countries (South Africa, Mexico, Tunisia, Romania, India and Vietnam) with practical, innovative and evidence-based interventions.
The project’s aim is to reduce road crash deaths and serious injuries among children in urbanised, small cities that have a population of between 200K to 1 million inhabitants. GRSP has secured funding from the donor and have twelve projects approved and being delivered over the next two years.
The Botnar team at GRSP consists of the programme manager (Botnar Programme Manager) and two senior staff members (Country Leads), supported by consultants in Geneva and abroad.
Project objectives
1. To contribute to a reduction in road crash death and injury in municipal locations across countries within the BCRSC portfolio (South Africa, Mexico, Tunisia, Romania, India and Vietnam);
2. To support the delivery of a capacity building plan for grantees in various road safety technical fields and organisational development requirements;
3. Provide on-going technical, policy, research and operational support to the Botnar team and grantees to successfully deliver their projects;
4. To support the implementation and continual improvement of knowledge sharing and community of practice platforms being utilised by the BCRSC.
5. To support the Programme Manager with project delivery, social media activities, communication and general operations of the BCRSC.
6. Conducting other road safety related tasks, projects, meetings and workshops as directed by the GRSP Programme Manager in Geneva.
Desired outcomes This consultancy contract is to enable GRSP work to be conducted, including implementing and supporting the delivery of the capacity building plan and supporting the grantees, under the guidance of the Programme Manager and Country Leads, as part of the BCRSC. The consultant will also give support to the Programme Manager and other GRSP Managers with other GRSP work as required
Consultancy outputs
In coordination with the Botnar Programme Manager, assist with procurement, event management and administrative tasks related to the Botnar capacity building workplan during implementation;
Deliver an analysis report of how the capacity building plan is tracking at the six month point of implementation and provide recommendations for improvement;
Administrate and build awareness for the community of practice and cross-project learning platform to share knowledge and skill-building opportunities;
In liaison with internal and external stakeholders, update and improve the capacity building plan, grantee assessment results and community of practice platforms;
Working with the Botnar Programme Manager and the Communication Manager, develop a recommendation paper for improved social media engagement for GRSP and the BCRSC.
Under supervision of the Botnar Programme Manager, assist with ad-hoc GRSP member projects, programme development and business improvement initiatives for GRSP.
Assist Botnar Country Leads in fostering and encouraging relationship building, and linking project teams with existing in-country resources, the GRSP team and other road safety stakeholders.
Education
Master’s Degree in Public Policy, Business, Engineering or a related field
Bachelor’s Degree in Public Policy, Business, Engineering or a related field
Advanced training in key areas related to road safety
Experience
A minimum of five years’ work experience in research and communication
Experience working with road safety in the low to middle income countries context
Experience in developing an online community of practice platform
Experience in working with development of capacity building plans and facilitation of international training
Expert understanding of evidence based approach and data collection tools for monitoring and evaluation
Expert understanding of the safe system approach to road safety
High degree of demonstrated competence working collaboratively in networks or coalitions to create shared vision and set complementary work objectives to reduce death and serious injury on the roads
Ability to travel internationally
Capacity to support and provide research for road safety professionals
Knowledge and Skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Strong policy research skills
Strong strategic and analytical thinking skills
Strong I.T and web development skills
Strong organizational skills
High emotional intelligence and appreciation for diversity, cultural nuances and complex working environments
Languages
Fluent spoken and written English
Fluent spoken and written French
Good command of another IFRC official language (Arabic or Spanish)
How to apply:
If you are interested, please apply before the 12 August on our website.