Consultancy: Consultant for Effective Presentation Techniques Training (20 working days, February 2025)

The service provider will deliver effective presentation techniques training for staff in the Regional Office. The participants will learn to tailor their messages to the audience, utilize visual aids effectively, and employ confident delivery techniques such as clear articulation, controlled pacing, and eye contact.

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, hope 

How can you make a difference? 

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

The service provider will deliver effective presentation techniques training for staff in the Regional Office.

The participants will learn to tailor their messages to the audience, utilize visual aids effectively, and employ confident delivery techniques such as clear articulation, controlled pacing, and eye contact.

Scope of Work:

The training will be conducted over the month of February 2025 according to teams’ schedules and availability. Detailed schedule is highlighted under deliverables in this Terms of Reference. The course content will be customized based on needs for a full-day program from 9 AM to 4 PM. Expected number of participants is 80-90 from Regional Office. Staff will be combined in 13-groups (with 7 to 9 staff members in each group).

The participants will learn to tailor their message to the audience, utilize visual aids effectively, and employ confident delivery techniques such as clear articulation, controlled pacing, and eye contact. The course emphasizes the importance of preparation, including managing nerves, anticipating questions, and using storytelling to create an emotional connection. By incorporating interactive elements and seeking feedback for continuous improvement, presenters can ensure their presentations are impactful, memorable, and persuasive.

Module 1: Foundations and Starting Strong

Ice breakers and energizers, introducing yourself and building credibility, Starting a session: housekeeping, rules, and roles. Setting expectations and objectives and Elements of powerful presentations.

Module 2: Building and Delivering Your Presentation

Understanding different presentation levels, Connecting with your topic, Components and steps of effective presentations, Co-facilitation techniques, Differences between online and face-to-face presentations.

Module 3: Engaging and Managing Your Audience

Building rapport with your audience, Common mistakes and overcoming presentation anxiety, Effective questioning techniques. Using hooks to engage your audience, handling difficult audiences and Utilizing technology and supporting material. 

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

Minimum Qualifications required:

• Master’s in educational technology, Learning, Media and Communication and HR management.
• 5 years of experience.
• Skills required in International Professional Trainer and training managers.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, French) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

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

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 or ethnic background, and persons with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. To create a more inclusive workplace, UNICEF offers paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. Click here to learn more about flexible work arrangements, well-being, and benefits.

According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has committed to increase the number of employees with disabilities by 2030. AtIn UNICEF, we provide reasonable accommodation for work-related support requirements of candidates and employees with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen physical and digital accessibility. If you are an applicant with a disability who needs digital accessibility support in completing the online application, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). 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 based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

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. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.