RfP for emerging technology exhibition at UNICEF Jordan
Location Remote work but should be based in Amman, and must be willing to go to field locations in Jordan as required. UNICEF will ensure providing transportation to camps where necessary. Duration 7 months
Start date 30 November
End date 30 June
Reporting to Direct technical supervision will be by the Innovation Specialist.
Design and field test a travelling interactive emerging technology exhibition Innovations; Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME), UNICEF, Jordan Country Office
Background Jordan is a stable middle income country in a region that has experienced great instability over the past several years. Currently, it is estimated that 1/5 people in Jordan is a Syrian refugee. UNICEF Jordan provides humanitarian support to refugees living in Jordan, while ensuring that the country’s overall development progress is strengthened as well. The complex situation in Jordan has led many to seek new approaches to being more effective; more responsive to needs; and to achieve more with less.
One of UNICEF Jordan’s flagship programmes is the network of 240 Makani Centres located across Jordan. Thirty-one of these Centres are in refugee camps; 140 are located throughout Jordan; and the remainder deliver services to mobile populations (informal tented settlements). Makani Centres offer integrated support to children and youth, including remedial education, psycho social support, and lifeskills training. Currently, UNICEF Jordan is working to provide access to innovation lab facilities to all Makani Centres via mobile labs which will deliver lab curriculum at all Makani Centres, while increasing the capacity for each Centre to incorporate ongoing lab activities. The lab programme has several elements: 1. Outreach: emerging technology exhibition to drive engagement, spark imagination, and teach kids about technology. 2. Lab Activities: in addition to a hang-out space, labs provide a social innovation curriculum that leads adolescents through a process of identifying, understanding, and attempting to solve challenges in their communities.
1 3. Post- programme opportunities: the lab infrastructure should support adolescents to discover their talents and come up with good ideas. Post-programme opportunities, including competitions, further training, scholarships, etc. should allow adolescents to go further with their talents, interests and ideas.
To date, several activities have been undertaken in support of the lab scale up design: - Two pilot lab programmes in different Makani Centres - A multi-stakeholder workshop to design the lab activities - A UNICEF workshop to explore social innovation and how it can support our work.
Currently the labs are being operationalized, including the following activities: - Developing an activity to be delivered through the mobile innovation labs for kids who are not participating in the formal social innovation curriculum - Adapting and Arabizing social innovation curriculum for roll-out in the labs. - Development of multi-stakeholder board including innovation leaders from the private, public, and non-profit sectors in Jordan to guide lab development - Outreach via multimedia platforms and a network of inspiring “social innovation ambassadors” - Strengthening and developing “post programme opportunities,” including outreach to potential partners.
Purpose of the Position:
The purpose of this position is to develop an emerging technology exhibition that can travel with a vehicle. When the lab system is up and running, the mobile innovation labs will visit Makani Centres once per week for several months to engage 14-18 year olds in a social innovation curriculum. During the pilot phase of this approach, we learned that, as kids are quite interested in the social innovation curriculum, they tend to bring their friends from one week to the next. While in one sense it is wonderful that the kids themselves are spreading the word, in another sense it was quite disruptive to the programme. Not only were there far too many kids in the class who had missed the instructions/ content from the prior weeks, many kids were turned away and remained outside the centre with nothing to do. It became clear that some activities should be designed that can engage children who are not formally part of the social innovation curriculum.
The goal of the exhibition is to ensure that kids who only visit the innovation lab once get something out of it. In addition, the exhibition should: Outreach: Attract kids to the Innovation Labs, serve as an “introduction” to what happens at the labs Inspire imagination: Kids should be excited and in awe of what is possible, and further they should feel that they can be drivers of technology creation and use. Educate: Kids should learn something technical, e.g. how the internet works or simple coding. Opportunities to interact/ create: Kids should be enabled to actually create something —for example a virtual reality film or even a solar panel. Activities should also encourage kids to interact with each other
Major duties and responsibilities:
(1) Working with UNICEF Innovation Specialist, and potentially in consultation with other lab partners, develop a concept for the emerging technology exhibition.
2 Deliverables: Concept note and in person presentation to generate feedback. Anticipated delivery date: 30 December
(2) Incorporating feedback from the presentation, field test a minimum viable product version of the exhibition Deliverables: procure equipment and train one exhibitor to travel with a mobile lab. Generate feedback and revise exhibition accordingly. Anticipated delivery date: 1 Feb
(3) Working with UNICEF and incorporating lessons from MVP version of exhibition, develop full version of the emerging technology exhibition (or “tinker lab”) Deliverable: concept note and in person presentation to generate feedback Anticipated delivery date: 28 Feb
(4) Test full version of emerging technology exhibition (or “tinker lab”) Deliverable: Implementation of one version of exhibition run via mobile lab for two weeks. Anticipated Delivery date: 31 March
(5) Stock 10 vehicles and 2 camp labs with the necessary equipment and train facilitors. Deliverable: 10 Mobile labs are regularly travelling with emerging technology exhibition. Two labs in camp settings have permanent exhibitions. Anticipated Delivery date: 15 April
(6) In conjunction with UNICEF and partners, monitor roll-out and use of exhibition, make recommendations for on-going adaptation of exhibition, with full ownership by implementing partner Deliverable: Report on (1) how exhibition is being used; (2) its impact; and (3) its role in outreach for the innovation lab Anticipated delivery date: 15 June
Working conditions:
Selected candidate will be based in Amman, but must be willing to go to field locations in Jordan as required. UNICEF will ensure providing transportation to camps if necessary.
Timing:
Qualifications and Competencies required:
Assignment-specific qualifications
5 years of experience developing interactive educational opportunities for children and youth Extensive experience delivering interactive educational experiences for diverse populations in Jordan Experience assessing impact of interactive educational experiences according to how engaged/ excited participants are; and their educational outcomes. Fluency in Arabic Experience training facilitators
3 Competencies Communicates effectively to varied audiences, including during formal public speaking.
Able to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment.
Sets high standards for quality of work and consistently achieves project goals.
Translates strategic direction into plans and objectives.
Negotiates effectively by exploring a range of possibilities.
Quickly builds rapport with individuals and groups; maintains an effective network of individuals across organizational departments.
Contributes and tries out innovative approaches and insights.
Technical Evaluation—Minimum technical score for consideration should be 55 out of 70points.
Evaluation weighting and criteria
1) Overall Response (10 points)
- general adherence to Terms of Reference and tender requirements
2) Key Personnel (30 points)
- meets academic requirements
- meets minimum 5 years of experience
- has previously conducted similar work
- is properly registered a/o has required certifications, memberships, etc.
3) Proposed methodology and approach (30 points)
- deliverables are addressed as per TOR
- proposed timelines are met, or alternative timelines are suitable to UNICEF staff
Overall response Please let us know why you are the best fit for this position, covering the following issues. Demonstrates clear understanding of project goals and requirements. Demonstrates realistic assessment of skillsets and actions required to accomplish deliverables.
4 Company and key personnel
Please demonstrate your ability to implement this project, covering the following issues. Description of consultant, including CV. Years of experience
Links to or visuals of previous work Paragraph describing at similar projects previously undertaken by team, including description of key outcomes.
Proposed methodology and approach Please let us know what we should expect in terms of actions, deliverables, and timelines. Detailed timeline of activities-- including actions undertaken by your team and what is required from the UNICEF team-- based on the deliverables listed in the ToR. Timeline should include clear description of product roll- out of deliverables over time, including staged launching of the exhibition
The evaluation criteria will be a split between technical and commercial scores 70/30
Technical scores to be given based on the above mentioned desired deliverables, whereas commercial scores will relate to price.
Prepared and finalised
Eva Kaplan (Innovations Specialist) Date
5 Reviewed
Michiru Sugi (Chief, PME) Date
Supply Officer Date:
Authorised
Robert Jenkins (Representative) Date:
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