International Consultant for Reports and Proposal Writing and Review, Home-Based, for 120 working days ( for non Afghan Nationals)

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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, Hope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5aJZKWwwgc&t=9s

How can you make a difference?

The UNICEF Afghanistan Country Office (ACO) faces increased demands for donor submissions arising from the hugely expanded budget and donor portfolio since 2021. Further, with humanitarian and development funding for Afghanistan (including for UNICEF) facing diverse challenges (i.e., political environment, competing emergency funding needs across the world), resource mobilization efforts need to be intensified to ensure sufficient funding of key interventions implemented by UNICEF Afghanistan.

Under the supervision and guidance of the Partnerships Manager and in close collaboration with the Resource Mobilization unit (a team of 2 Partnerships Specialists and 1 Partnerships Officer), the consultant will be responsible for the timely consolidation, review, copy-editing, and formatting of narrative and financial donor reports to ensure the timely submission of high-quality products. In addition, and to a lesser extent, the consultant will support the development and/or review of proposals as well as other documents for donor communications and resource mobilization.

This will include ensuring the completeness, coherence, correctness and formatting of reports and proposals, including reviews of results reported, logframes, financial reporting and budgeting. The consultant will ensure that high-quality documents are produced by the agreed upon deadlines, for final review by the Partnerships Specialists / Officer and clearance by the Deputy Representative Programmes.

To these ends, the consultant is expected to collaborate with programme sections as well as cross-cutting teams of ACO (e.g., Budget, Field Coordination and Emergency, Communication and Advocacy).

The following tasks are expected to be executed with minimal guidance:

• Conduct quality checks of narrative and financial donor reports, including conformity with original proposal as well as amendments, previous reports submitted, donor and reporting requirements, and compliance with standards of results-based management
• Conduct quality checks of project proposals including compliance with results-based management and UNICEF budget guidelines
• Work together with programme teams to obtain missing inputs and clarify information provided where necessary
• Copy-edit documents (spell-checking, grammar, rewriting where necessary, format)
• Monitor and manage deadlines for timely submission of consolidated documents under consultants’ responsibility (reports, proposals)
• Follow-up with programme teams to receive complete and timely inputs on reports and proposals as well as other documents
• Any other tasks as required by the team and agreed upon with supervisor

Reports and project proposals will have to meet quality standards and be submitted on time. The volume of work needed will vary with each document. The target delivery date will be specific to each document. The work will be carried out over approximately 120 working days, tentatively between 01 June 2023 and 31 December 2023.

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Timeline

Donor reports and project proposals meet quality standards and are submitted on time

Donor reports, project proposals, consultancy report (no. of days worked and products delivered)

Q2 2023 (~20 working days)

Due dates will be agreed upon per report / proposal

Donor reports and project proposals meet quality standards and are submitted on time

Donor reports, project proposals, consultancy report (no. of days worked and products delivered)

Q3 2023 (~50 working days)

Due dates will be agreed upon per report / proposal

Donor reports and project proposals meet quality standards and are submitted on time

Donor reports, project proposals, consultancy report (no. of days worked and products delivered)

Q4 2023 (~50 working days)

Due dates will be agreed upon per report / proposal

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

• Advanced university degree in Social Sciences, Communications, Marketing, or other related field
• Five years minimum of relevant work experience
• Familiarity with results-based management
• Familiarity with narrative and financial reporting, basic budgeting
• Previous experience and exposure to UNICEF programmes (including in emergencies)
• Strong writing and editing skills in English
• Strong logical and analytical skills, attention to details
• Advanced MS Word and intermediate MS Excel skills
• Highly organized, excellent time management and ability to work under tight deadlines
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to quickly establish trusted relationships
• Previous professional experience in Afghanistan is considered an asset

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:

Interested consultants are required to apply online, indicating availability and all-inclusive lump sum fee to undertake the terms of reference.

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.