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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, an advocate

How can you make a difference?

It is expected that the incumbent of this assignment will provide much-needed support for UNICEF's strengthened commitment to increased and more equitable investment in key services for girls and boys to realize their inalienable rights. The PF4C contractor will provide technical assistance to the UNICEF RO in South Asia:

  • Overall technical advice for evidence generation and based advocacy strategies and capacity building for sustained and equitable financing in the key social sectors.
  • Technical support with a special focus on health and social protection, including Primary Health Care, COVID 19, and vaccinations, among others.
  • Contribute to generating regional-level knowledge on PF4C to develop and expand regional partnerships in the area of PF4C.

A. Technical assistance, quality assurance, and knowledge management for the countries in ROSA with a special focus on Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh (funded under the EU UNICEF PFF)

  • Build and maintain a regional database/monitoring system with key economic, monetary, and financial indicators, specifically including the country-level indicators in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.
  • Periodically analyze and interpret regional (political, economic, and socio-cultural) developments which may impact public spending and public services for children in the region to inform UNICEF RO’s work on PF4C, and develop regular briefings on the situation in the region, through newsletters, presentations, briefs, etc.
  • Analyze and further use for regional advocacy the budget data for the social sector collected from the countries

B. Technical support with a special focus on health and social protection, including Primary Health Care, COVID 19, and vaccinations, among others

  • Support countries, where needed to undertake costing and budgeting for COVID-19 vaccine delivery, including developing coordinated budgets across different domestic and external funding sources.

  • Provide technical input to the design of primary health care costing studies and cost-effectiveness analysis, including the development of investment cases and advocacy strategies to leverage analysis to inform government budgets. This may include studies on the costs of reaching disadvantaged and vulnerable children and communities.

  • Support countries to identify public finance bottlenecks to frontline health service delivery, particularly about COVID-19 vaccination, primary health care, and pandemic preparedness and response. This may include identifying bottlenecks and constraints with costing, budgeting, timely flow of funds, procurement, and coordination across different agencies and levels of government in the financing process.
  • Work with other sector colleagues to identify the core public finance challenges to achieving sector priority results for children, and support the identification, adaptation, customization, and application of core public financial management tools and approaches to sector priorities, including integration into sector strategies, country support, and monitoring
  • Document regional engagement in public financings of primary health care, and synthesize the tools, approaches, advocacy messages, and lessons learned.

  • Document investment cases for leveraging resources for children and develop relevant knowledge products for advocacy use by the Regional Office.

  • Review interest, opportunity, and capacity to strengthen efficiency gains in the public financing of essential services for children, including through allocative efficiency and public finance reforms in areas such as procurement

  • Support COs define the advocacy strategy for public health financing using newly developed evidence, map out budget entry points, and make investment cases about COVID-19 vaccination, primary health care, and pandemic preparedness and response

C. Capacity building

  • Support the RO outline capacity development plan for the COs based on analysis of existing capacities, gaps, and opportunities, in key social sectors, including health.
  • Facilitate PF4C training for UNICEF staff (sectoral colleagues), management, and/or in-country partners.

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

  • An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Economics, Public Finance Management, Business Administration, Public Administration and/or related field. *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
  • A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in consultancy, research, teaching/training, policy analysis, and development on PFM and/or broader sustainable development financing issues.
  • Specific experience in health sector financing, including costing, budgeting, and public financial analysis
  • Specific experience in child-related social sectors will be considered an asset.
  • Experiences in low and lower-middle-income countries will be highly preferred.
  • Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergencies 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.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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.

Consultants and Individual contractors are responsible for paying any taxes derived from the earnings received from UNICEF.

Application to include an all-inclusive financial proposal that will detail daily/monthly rate (in USD) to undertake the terms of reference.

Payment of professional fees will be based on the submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

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 before 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.

ToR for Public Finance Consultant_ROSA_FINAL .pdf

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