International Consultancy - Annual Reporting at United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Specifically, The Consultant Will Make The Following Editions

• The components of the report include the (a) “Assessments of progress for all active Outcomes and Outputs” and (b) the “End Year Summary Narrative”.
• The assignment will involve therefore quality assurance for accuracy of the information presented, editing for English/French and logical flow.
• The assignment will also involve cross-checking information and data to ensure consistency and coherence.
• Check for and correct redundancies, spelling, or grammar mistakes, improve the language.
• Proofread the overall report to ensure that the content is relevant and clearly understandable to external audience and adjust where necessary.
• Check for coherence amongst programme components throughout the document, including statistical data used.
• Ensure full compliance with the Guidelines for the 2022 Country Office Annual Reporting.
• The consultant is required to work remotely during the consultancy assignment period.

How can you make a difference?

• Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative, the consultant will be responsible for reviewing, editing, and organizing contributions submitted by Programme Sections and Operations to the 2022 Guinea country office annual report, working with the PME Section’s team.
• Review contributions on outcome and output assessments of progress towards Country Programme Results, and provide feedback Programme/Operations sections on quality, coherence, and compliance to the 2022 global guidelines.
• Consolidate, organize and review inputs to the end-of-year Summary Narrative from all contributors, checking completeness, quality consistency and compliance to the 2022 global guidelines.
• Integrate final comments from Representative /Deputy Representative, Regional Office, final review, and final editing.
• Full ToR is available here : UNICEF Guinea_ToR Consultant COAR 2022_.pdf

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in
• At least 5 years of proven relevant experience in the field of professional English and French writing, editing of national and international development reports.
• Previous report writing experience, particularly UNICEF reports, will be considered as an asset.
• Experience or a working knowledge of UNICEF’s work.
• Sound knowledge and skills on results-based reporting, monitoring and evaluation.
• Demonstrated experience in working with UNICEF would be an asset.
• Capacity to work under pressure and deliver quality inputs to meet deadlines.