Hungary: Assessment Expert

Organization: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Hungary
Closing date: 11 Jan 2015

I. About UNHCR

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and seek solutions to the refugee problem worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees.

II. About the GLC

The Global Learning Centre (GLC) was established on 1^st of June 2009 in Budapest with the goal of improving organizational performance through providing all staff that with opportunities to acquire knowledge and learn new skills, to improve their performance and better manage their individual career paths. We are responsible for coordinating internal learning activities agency-wide, ensuring that learning design, delivery, assessments and evaluations have the highest substantive and methodological integrity, adopt state-of-art educational technologies and that our learning activities closely reflect institutional priorities.

III. Background of the project

The GLC is in the process of establishing a number of training programmes that upon successful completion by staff will lead to UNHCR recognized certification. In order to be certified, a staff will be invited to undergo an assessment that needs to be passed in order to provide the organization with reasonable assurance that the staff possesses the required knowledge and skills. The assessment is supported by a learning programme. The certification programmes are for managers and others in functional areas, such as programme, human resources, supply and financial management. Possession of certification will be one of the elements that the organization will take into account in its posting processes. In light of the high stakes involved in the certification project, the related assessments need to be as solid and as effective as is possible, particularly from a methodological, administration and maintenance point of view. Whilst the GLC has established policies, technical guidelines and parameters for its entire training offer, the certification programmes require a supplementary effort.

IV. Purpose

The purpose of this consultancy is to produce solid and effective overall certification assessment framework (umbrella), certification assessment frameworks for the respective certification programmes and related assessments. As such, relevant policies, technical guidelines and parameters will need to be developed, in addition to actual assessments.

How to apply:

Please submit your application via email to Mr. Vincenzo Lionetti (lionetti@unhcr.org), with a copy to Ms. Viki Csozik (csozik@unhcr.org). Only applicants under serious consideration will be contacted.