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For each youngster, the best to a digital future

UNICEF Innocenti conducts analysis on youngster well-being and rights, together with within the digital atmosphere. The Digital Engagement and Protection (DEP) unit has been finding out how digital gaming, a preferred leisure exercise for kids, could be designed to help their well-being. This work has been ongoing since 2019 in collaboration with The LEGO Group and a spread of companions, funded by The LEGO Foundation, and resulted in analysis reviews and the Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC) framework of eight dimensions for kids’s well-being in digital play. The RITEC-8 framework was used to develop the RITEC Design Toolbox (RDT), supposed for design professionals within the on-line gaming trade who create digital play experiences for kids. The undertaking has entered a brand new part (referred to as RITEC 2.0), the place the unit will lead the technology and synthesis of high-quality proof on on-line gaming and youngster security specifically, so as to replace the RDT on this matter.
The present RITEC-8 framework and RDT contains ‘Safety & Security’ as a compulsory core dimension of designing for youngster well-being in digital play. However, the RDT presently solely supplies cursory steering on this dimension given the absence of a security focus within the earlier RITEC analysis. Through this new undertaking part, the Safety & Security dimension can be additional developed via proof synthesis and interesting gaming practitioners. The proof on the subject can be translated into actionable suggestions and lead to an up to date model of the RDT with constructed out security steering. The aim for this undertaking is to deal with practitioners’ suggestions about present analysis and information gaps and replace steering for practitioners to assist improve the technical and content material capability of design groups, ensuing within the design of video games that help kids’s well-being, security and safety.
The proof synthesis can be undertaken by UNICEF from January to May 2026. UNICEF is looking for a part-time guide to construct on this to supply the improved Safety & Security content material and replace the RDT, via participating stakeholders and supporting the piloting of the up to date toolbox for finalization in 2027.

How are you able to make a distinction? 

1. Map out key additions to present RITEC Safety & Security protection, together with via key informant interviews with sport design stakeholders.
2. Draw on the proof synthesis on safety-by-design and translate this information into actionable design steering.
3. Successively develop the extra content material and, working with a designer, combine it into an up to date RDT with strengthened RITEC Safety & Security dimension. Note that different dimensions that overlap with Safety & Security might also want updating.
4. Throughout, collaborate with UNICEF Child Rights and Business and Child Protection groups, RITEC undertaking companions, designers, and a Community of Practice (CoP) being convened via the undertaking, consolidating suggestions and making certain remaining manufacturing of outputs (coordinating with service suppliers for enhancing and format).

If you want to know extra about this place, please evaluate the entire Terms of Reference right here:  GORaF_ToR_Digital_RITECT2_Consultant EXT.pdf

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

Minimum necessities:

• Education: Advanced University diploma in Design, Gaming, Technology, Social Science, Psychology or different demonstrably related self-discipline.
• Work Experience: Minimum 3 years of labor expertise in one of many following areas is required: designing digital services or products for kids or kids’s rights within the digital atmosphere, design analysis within the gaming sector, online game design, or Trust and Safety specialization
  Proven expertise in producing toolkits or steering for sport designers or tech builders
• Skills: Excellent writing expertise, together with writing for non-technical audiences
  Ability to talk and write fluently in English
  Ability to prepare personal work with restricted supervision in line with deadlines
  Ability to work in a multi-cultural atmosphere
  Ability to determine harmonious and efficient working relationships
• Language Requirements: English

Desirables:

Experience in translating Safety and Security finest practices into steering or product design
Experience working in a world atmosphere on matters associated to accountable expertise, kids’s rights and well-being within the digital atmosphere, or expertise inside the gaming sector
Ability to talk one other official UN language
A related PhD

Relevant expertise at nation stage, notably in improvement, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts. 

For each Child, you show

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

Individuals engaged below a consultancy won’t be thought of “staff members” below 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 (equivalent to go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service can be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Individual Consultants. Consultants are accountable 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 insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your complete interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-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 usually are not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF during their consultancy contracts. 

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our world workforce should mirror the variety 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.

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UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims 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 can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can due to this fact 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 offer extra data to conduct a background verify.