Global Gaming Industry Strategic Engagement and Market Intelligence Consultant, Office of Innovation, 4 months (digital)

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, in all places, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each youngster…innovate

UNICEF has a 70-year historical past of innovating for youngsters. We consider that new approaches, partnerships and applied sciences that assist realizing kids’s rights are important to bettering their lives.

The Office of Innovation is a artistic, interactive, and agile group in UNICEF. We sit at a novel intersection, the place a company that works on large international points meets the start-up pondering, the know-how, and the explorative curiosity that flip this power into new concepts and scalable options.

UNICEF’s Office of Innovation creates alternatives for the world’s kids by specializing in the place new markets and industries can collectively come collectively to satisfy their important wants. One method we do that is to co-design and discover new fashions of partnership that leverage core enterprise values throughout the private and non-private sectors as a way to ship quick and lasting outcomes for youngsters and their communities.

Our group

We’re an interdisciplinary group around the globe tasked with figuring out, prototyping, and scaling new applied sciences, practices and partnerships. With our companions, we deal with convening and collaborating on new and totally different options, low- and high-tech, by:

• Looking on the 2-5 12 months horizon to judge rising and trending applied sciences and to see how UNICEF can work with the non-public sector on doing higher enterprise whereas bettering important companies for youngsters;
• Investing in early stage options that present nice potential to positively impression kids within the 02 12 months future together with the Venture Fund that invests in open supply know-how options from start-ups based mostly in rising economies;
• Identifying confirmed options that may be carried out at nationwide scale in a number of international locations – taking the concepts that assist hundreds in a single nation, bringing them to dozens of nations throughout a number of sectors, and impacting the lives of tens of millions of kids.

How are you able to make a distinction?

The function of this consultancy is to conduct focused business analysis into the video gaming sector and suggest a minimum of 4 high-potential merchandise or engagement methods that UNICEF can use to:

• Engage with gaming firms and platforms, in addition to excessive internet price people from the business
• Raise funds, together with versatile (unrestricted)
• Increase international model consciousness, particularly amongst Gen Z

Specific goals embrace:

1. Map the gaming panorama to establish precedence geographical markets, platforms, firms and people with the very best potential for UNICEF engagement.
2. Document best-in-class examples of social impression and charitable collaborations within the gaming business, together with:
   1. In-game fundraising activations and donation mechanics
   2. Esports and event partnerships
   3. Live-streaming and influencer fundraising
   4. Branded storytelling, advocacy and academic content material
   5. Product licensing and merchandising tie-ins
   6. Jointly designed social impression initiatives
3. Conduct focused interviews or digital roundtables with key business stakeholders (e.g., publishers, builders, platforms, esports organizations, streamers, and companies) to grasp motivations, partnership preferences, and obstacles to collaboration.
4. Co-create 4 pilot ideas with indicative budgets, timelines, and anticipated outcomes for fundraising, advocacy, social impression programme attain, and model engagement.

Your predominant obligations will probably be:

The chosen guide will probably be answerable for:

1. Strategic Intelligence and Market Mapping

• Conduct focused evaluation of high-value gaming segments (e.g., in-game monetization, esports competitions and groups, streaming, licensing).
• Identify and profile the highest 20–25 firms or platforms or excessive net-worth people with sturdy potential alignment with UNICEF’s mission and goals for every class.
• Provide perception into market tendencies, viewers demographics, and monetization fashions related to social impression engagement.

2. Primary Insights from the Industry

• Conduct 8–10 in-depth interviews with senior representatives from the gaming business.
• Capture key findings on company social accountability (CSR), trigger advertising, licensing and most well-liked partnership fashions.
• Summarize actionable insights for UNICEF on partnership design and positioning of compelling partnership affords.

 3. Benchmarking and Case Studies

• Produce a Best Practice Compendium of 10–15 concise, visible case research highlighting profitable gaming-for-social impression collaborations (throughout charities and main manufacturers).
• Analyze partnership mechanics, income technology fashions, viewers attain, social impression outcomes and classes realized.

4. Pilot Concept Development

• Co-design 4 pilot ideas that illustrate how UNICEF might operationalize partnerships inside totally different areas of the gaming ecosystem.
• Each idea ought to embrace:
  • Description of the activation or collaboration mannequin
  • Potential companions and goal audiences
  • Implementation steps and estimated timeline
  • Resource necessities and projected ROI (fundraising, consciousness, advocacy, social impression)

5. Validation and Knowledge Sharing

• Facilitate a digital validation workshop with related UNICEF stakeholders to check findings
• Facilitate an in-person and digital design workshop to safe alignment on subsequent steps.
• Deliver design workshop supplies together with slides, facilitation notes, and a brief abstract of suggestions and agreed actions.

If you wish to know extra about this consultancy, please entry the total ToR right here:  ToR for Global Gaming Consultant.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have…

• A college diploma (Batchelor’s or greater) in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics or different related subject is obligatory.
• A minimal of 10 years of related skilled expertise in business analysis, particularly within the video gaming, digital leisure, or know-how sectors.
• Knowledge of gaming monetization and consumer engagement fashions.
• Familiarity with company social accountability (CSR), trigger advertising, or nonprofit-business partnerships.
• Strong analytical, writing, and presentation expertise.
• Experience working with or for UNICEF or mission-driven organizations is most well-liked.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.

Travel:

• The guide is predicted to journey for a keep of 4 (4) nights in Stockholm or different European location decided by the contracting supervisor a minimum of 2 instances within the contract interval.
• The guide is answerable for arranging his/her personal journey, together with visa and journey insurance coverage.

Payment particulars and additional concerns

• Payment {of professional} charges will probably be based mostly on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the guide.

How to use:

• Interest applicant is required to submit a monetary proposal with all-inclusive price.  Please see the monetary proposal template. Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
• Financial proposal should embrace journey prices (economic system class) and day by day subsistence allowance, if journey is required as per TOR and every other estimated prices: visa, journey/medical health insurance
• Applications and not using a monetary proposal won’t be thought of.

General Terms and Conditions:

Please overview UNICEF’s General Terms and Conditions for Consultants here for vital data relating to contract obligations, together with medical insurance coverage, SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) vaccination, and earnings tax necessities.

For each Child, you show…

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

To view our competency framework, please go to here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids, and our international workforce should replicate the range of these kids. The UNICEF household is dedicated to incorporate everybody, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

UNICEF affords affordable lodging for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This might embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your software in case you want affordable lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your task.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict youngster safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can subsequently bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply extra data to conduct a background examine.

Remarks: 

Only shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.

Individuals engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought of “staff members” underneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (corresponding to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are answerable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the whole interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of totally vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking on the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF all through their consultancy contracts.

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