Public Sector Engagement hub Consultant, Public Partnerships Division (PPD), NYHQ, 6 months (Remote/Work from home)

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. 

And we never give up. 

For every child, Recognition and visibility …

UNICEF views Recognition and visibility as an important element in managing successful partnerships. Since 2018 the organization, in particular, Public Partnerships Division at UNICEF HQ, has been consistently investing efforts in improving recognition and visibility of public sector partners vis-à-vis provided resources. Through various feedback mechanisms, including annual surveys, bilateral meetings and high-level consultations, UNICEF learned that such visibility and visibility products produced and shared in a timely manner and for the right audiences make an impact on both UNICEF’s ability to raise funds, including quality funding, and facilitates partners’ advocacy efforts around the importance of contributions for children globally vis-à-vis domestic and international stakeholders. 

There is a lot of visibility and visibility products developed and shared at country, regional and global level that is, however, scattered on various platforms and which decision-makers representing major government partnerships may not have systemic and consistent access to.

To address this problem, UNICEF plans to produce and share with major government partners individual quarterly and End-Year reports that will curate most of the visibility material developed by UNICEF at country, regional and global level and disseminated via its and affiliated public channels. 

Scope of Work

Through this Request for Proposal for Quotation for Services (RFQS) UNICEF is seeking to hire an individual consultant to produce 15 Donor Country Quarterly Reports and 1 Year-End Report on visibility and recognition of the following major government partners:

1. The United States of America and its major institutions, BHA, PRM (1 Q3 and 1 Q4 report)
2. Germany and its major institutions, GFFO and BMZ (1 Q3 and 1 Q4 report)
3. Sweden and its major institutions (1 Q3 and 1 Q4 report)
4. Norway and its major institutions (1 Q3 and 1 Q4 report)
5. United Kingdom (1 Q3 and 1 Q4 report)
6. The Netherlands (1 Q3 and 1 Q4 report)
7. Australia (1 Q3 and 1 Q4 report)
8. Switzerland (1 Q3 and 1 Q4 report)
9. Belgium (1 Q3 and 1 Q4 report)
10. Japan (1 Q3 and 1 Q4 report)
11. Luxembourg (1 Q3 and 1 Q4 report)
12. Finland (1 Q3 and 1 Q4 report)
13. Spain (1 Q3 and 1 Q4 report)
14. Italy (1 Q3 one Q4 report)
15. France (1 Q3 and one Q4 report)

In addition, a consultant shall produce a 2024 End-Year Visibility and Recognition Summary Report that will include all 15 countries-donors and major results achieved through partnerships with them. 

All reports will be shared directly with relevant government partners, respective National Committees and featured regional and/or country offices of UNICEF and relevant HQ Divisions.

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

• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in one or more of the following fields is highly desirable: Communications, Marketing, Media and Journalism, Writing end editing, International relations,Political science

• Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:
  • Excellent command of English
  • Strong writing and editing skills
  • Skills in developing and designing documents for external audiences
  • Experience of working with any document design and producing programme such as (InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Advanced PPT)
  • Previous experience in producing similar type of products (documents, reports, or communication materials)
  • Knowledge of UNICEF style and brand is an asset
  • Previous experience of working with UNICEF or UN is 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.

 

NOTE: Kindly include your financial proposals as an attachment.

 

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

 To view our competency framework, please visit  here. 

 UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check. 

Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.