Individual Consultancy: Support for donor reporting in UNICEF Mozambique (open to non-Mozambican nationals only)

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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, health

How can you make a difference?

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

Support the Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Unit on the Advocacy, Communications and Partnerships team to develop and deliver high quality written materials, including but not limited to donor reports.

Scope of Work:

Under the general supervision of the Partnerships Manager and working closely with the Reports Specialist, the incumbent will primarily provide support to the donor reporting function. He/She will ensure the office’s ability to timely submit quality donor reports that are aligned with best result-based reporting practices, donor requirements, and UNICEF’s style and language.

1. Ensure timely and accurate reporting and monitoring of donor interests and information needs. This includes timeline and knowledge management, coordination with focal points, gathering of information, consolidation, editing and production of interim and final reports. (Ranging between 20 to 35 reports per quarter, from 2 to 30 pages each, including EU and ECHO reports).
2. Ensure the production of timely and high-quality donor communications materials (including the COAR, thematic reports, presentations, and other occasional office-wide reports).

Work Assignment Overview:

Tasks/Milestone 1: Support and maintain the donor report tracker to ensure timely and quality submission of reports, share and draft reminder messages to sections/focal points.

Deliverables/Outputs: Monthly updates to report tracker

Timeline: 1 month

Tasks/Milestone 2: Prepare templates for reports in line with proposals and ensuring alignment with budget and reporting requirements

Deliverables/Outputs: Pre-populated report templates shared with Grant Managers as aligned to the agreed timelines

Timeline: 1 month

Tasks/Milestone 3: Follow up with sections and reporting focal points to ensure timely and quality inputs, including with cross-sectoral specialists per the SOPs.

Deliverables/Outputs: Draft reports are complete when shared with the Reports Specialist and Partnerships Manager

Timeline: Monthly – variance in occurrence as per a given monthly report schedule

Tasks/Milestone 4: Finalize and format reports in line with the standard templates and other special requirements (including with UNICEF stylebook) as needed

Deliverables/Outputs: Finalized reports

Timeline: Monthly – based on number of reports due every month

Tasks/Milestone 5: Support resource mobilization information management and related administrative tasks.

Deliverables/Outputs 5: Ensure submitted reports are adequately filed and clearly marked in the internal SP

Timeline: Monthly – based on number of reports due every month

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

• A bachelor's degree in international development or a related discipline

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

• At least 2-years’ experience with donor reporting and/or grants management, including result-based management and reporting.
• Demonstrated exceptional level of narrative and technical writing skills in English
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

The detailed consultancy terms of reference is downloadable via this link TOR-Support for donor reporting in UNICEF Mozambique.pdf

If interested and available to undertake the individual consultancy, please submit your application online and attach the required documents including a technical proposal technical proposal and all-inclusive financial proposal.

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.