Call for Experts: Mentoring Cities Working On

il y a 3 semaines


Brussels, Belgique Eurocities Temps plein

**Call for experts: Mentoring cities working on children’s rights**:
Eurocities and UNICEF are looking for experts from Romania and Slovakia to help deliver a mentorship and training project that will support cities working on initiatives to protect and promote children’s well-being. The external experts will support cities to transition from pilot projects and emergency measures, to longer term child-sensitive policies and initiatives. Read the full Terms of Reference for this call.

**Objectives and expected deliverables**:

- In-person training to equip city officials with the necessary skills and knowledge to overcome the hurdles and bottlenecks identified during mentorship process and in the project’s diagnosis phase.

**Specific tasks for external experts**:
The external experts will act as both mentors and trainers, and will need to provide services in three main areas:
1) Guiding cities to identify the bottlenecks to upscaling child-sensitive innovative projects and/or transition from short-term, emergency measures to longer-term policies, and devising solutions to help them reach their goals.
- Experts will lead and facilitate an initial and follow-up online meetings with the assigned city teams to understand their challenges, needs and projects they would like to transform into long-term policies. A structure and content will be proposed by Eurocities.
- Experts will use the results of initial surveys already run by Eurocities to tailor mentorship sessions, focusing on leveraging these insights for addressing city-specific challenge.
- Each expert will be assigned one to three cities for mentorship. Experts that are assigned more than one city should organise online sessions in groups.

2) Contributing to shaping the content of the in-person training, based on the online mentorship sessions with cities, and acting as lead trainers during the in-person meeting in Cluj.
- Experts will provide advice to Eurocities on what content to cover during the in-person meeting, based on the needs and challenges identified during the online mentorship sessions.
- They will deliver some of the training sessions in Cluj, according to their expertise and based on the training’s design, and/or facilitate some sessions, as needed. Methodologies for the sessions will be proposed by Eurocities.
- Experts will facilitate the mentorship day in Cluj-Napoca (Wednesday 29 May 2024), including working bilaterally with each city team to help them translate the learnings of the training into the Action Plan, facilitating peer-to-peer reviews among cities and helping their mentees finalise their Action Plans. A template will be provided for the drafting of the Action Plans.

**Selection criteria**:

- At least eight years of relevant experience working in or with local governments in Eastern Europe.
- Advanced knowledge of main elements in city policy-making, among others: policy planning (impact assessment, alignment with city’s policy goals); budgetary planning; multi-stakeholder participation; multi-level cooperation; human capital/skills.
- Good knowledge of the European and national funding landscape accessible to cities (EC, EIB, etc.), both public and private.
- Good understanding of processes and factors driving innovative, child-sensitive practices in cities.
- Working knowledge of Slovak or Romanian, in addition to English.
- Experience in facilitating learning and co-creation workshops and sessions.

**Proje**ct information**:
In recent years, cities in Eastern Europe have faced unexpected challenges, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ukrainian refugee crisis and the cost-of-living increase, that have required ad-hoc projects and programmes to protect and promote children’s wellbeing. In most cases, this came with funding allocated by national governments, the European Commission and other international institutions.

However, as these funding streams are coming to an end, city administrations are struggling to keep short-term measures in place and transform them into longer term policy planning.

The mentorship and training project being developed by Eurocities and UNICEF aims to provide participant cities with tailored support to identify bottlenecks for transitioning from short-term projects to longer-term solutions. The project encompasses capacity building in areas such as fundraising, budgetary and strategic planning, governance enhancement and policy upscaling.

The project will involve 10 cities from Poland, Slovakia and Romania.

**Work days and fees for external experts**:
Three and a half work days, at a daily rate of 800 EUR (VAT excluded) each:

- One work day for online mentorship sessions, online support to cities, and mentorship.
- Two and a half work days in Cluj-Napoca.

This totals 2,800 EUR (VAT excluded) per expert.

Travel to the in-person training in Cluj-Napoca (27-29 May 2024) is expected:

- 70 EUR daily subsistence support for three days.
- Hotel room for three nights in Cluj


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