International Individual Consultancy - Child and Social Protection Contractor at United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Key tasks

• Establish and manage systems to record, track and analyze data and results of ISS and SWIMS with the aim of strengthening the systematic evidence generation on ISS and SWIMS and ensure relevant government counterparts will be able to manage those systems in the longer term.
• Support with knowledge management tasks, such as development of policy briefs and advocacy material, fact sheets, research and proposal writing and reporting in relation to ISS and SWIMS implementation to promote learning and sharing.
• Provide technical support for the full transition of SWIMS to the government-owned servers and establishment of inter-operability with other information management systems (such as the Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System and the MoGCSP’s Helpline of Hope) in collaboration with the Primero team of UNICEF HQ and West and Central Africa Regional Office.
• Develop necessary methodology and tools and support MoGCSP to conduct a review/audit of SWIMS with the aim of establishing a systematic process owned and managed by the MoGCSP to review the implementation of SWIMS on a regular basis.
• Support the implementation of the social protection and rights campaign strategy by working with three national CSO platforms under the UNICEF/CSOs social accountability for social protection programme.
• The individual contractor will be expected to support key preparatory activities leading to the launch of the campaign and also contribute to policy and advocacy materials in relation to the campaign.
• Support the development of fund-raising proposals and donor reports.
• This will involve working with child protection and social protection relevant officers to contribute to donor proposals at strategic moments.
• The individual contractor will also be expected to contribute to relevant donor reports when required.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in social sciences or relevant fields.
• A minimum of 4 years of relevant professional experience in professional work experience in child protection, including experience with social service workforce strengthening and child protection information management systems, such as Primero.
• Professional work experience in the management of programmes, planning monitoring, and evaluation, of which a significant share should be in developing countries.
• Proven capacity in preparing analytical programme documents and reports.
• Experience working with/ or in collaboration with UN agencies or international development organizations.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
• Interested candidates should provide their proposed budget covering all-inclusive fees (Monthly professional fee, subsistence allowance, travel-related costs-Approximately a total of 20 days during the consultancy (5 days per quarter).