LTA Nation/International English Editor & writer

Contract

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Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

The overall objective of this consultancy is to establish a standby arrangement with English writers/editors to be available at short notice to assist with the writing and editing of documents in English– with a focus on improving overall structure, clarity and style that conforms to the UNICEF Style Book.

Background

UNICEF Algeria Office (ACO) is seeking the services of committed professional Writers/Editors to render their services to ACO at short notice.

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.

For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.

UNICEF publications and documents must meet a high-quality standard with respect to their content, style and quality of writing both in English.

In order to meet these standards, ACO intends to set up a stand-by arrangement through the present recruitment of writers/editors for the English language.

Scope of Work:

The contract will specifically include the following services:

• Outcome/Output reporting of results assessment module

Summary Narrative of the annual report

Deliverables and Schedules

The assignment will involve writing, editing and formatting of documents for review and final clearance by the supervisor of the consultancy. This includes compliance with the UNICEF style and branding guidelines, grammatical accuracy, factual accuracy and coherence.

The specific scope, quality criteria, and estimated number of days and/or half-days required for each assignment requested of the consultant under the consultancy contract will be discussed and agreed in writing before the assignment is initiated.

Work will be assigned to the consultants on an as needed basis.

Timing

This consultancy is expected to be for a duration of 27 Months starting from 15 December 2023 to 15 March 2025. The consultants must render themselves available to begin work on assignments within 24 hours of the sending of a description of the assignment in writing (via email) by UNICEF.

Payment requirement

The consultants will be paid for number of days and/or half-days of work, following submission of deliverables for each assignment, and following review of the deliverables against agreed quality criteria and acceptance by the supervisor. Following receipt of a deliverable, ACO may send comments to the consultant for adjustments and improvement of the deliverable, and in such case the consultant will be required to resubmit the deliverable addressing UNICEF’s comments to its satisfaction prior to payment of the fee

Work Assignment Overview

Tasks/Milestone:

Deliverables/Outputs:

Timeline

Editing/writing Regional Office Annual Reports (ROAR), Results Assessment Module (RAM) statements in English

COAR finalized by 3 February

10 Days (by 15 December 2023)

Editing/writing various advocacy briefs and documents in English

5 documents reviewed/written

1-2 days per documents, depending on the request and type of document

Total

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

The consultant’s profile should meet the following minimum requirements:

Excellent written and spoken English

At least 10 years’ experience writing/editing professional and/or academic documents related to the above fields of advanced university study.

Demonstrated experience with and/or knowledge of UNICEF and the United Nations.

Criteria of evaluation :

The candidate must include in the application file: - A technical offer including (i) an introduction to understanding the Terms of Reference including any comments (ii) the methodology recommended for carrying out the work (iii) a timetable for carrying out the various tasks (iv) a letter presenting the assets that the expert judges to be able to draw on to carry out this work satisfactorily (academic training, professional experience, similar research work, etc.).

- A financial offer offering (i) the desired rate of remuneration specifying and taking into account the days worked in Algeria and/or remotely (ii) international travel costs based on anticipated missions (iii) all other costs including visa and travel costs

- Detailed and up-to-date CV(s) of the person(s) contributing to the study, the P11 of the principal consultant(e) - References of people who can be contacted in connection with similar work carried out by the consultant It should be noted that financial offers will only be examined if the technical offers are deemed admissible and of acceptable quality.

Technical criteria

Sous-critères

Points max : 80

General response

Completeness of the response

10

Concordance between the proposition and the request

15

Expertise

Experience writing/editing professional and/or academic documents related to the above fields of advanced university study.

30

examples of written assignments written exclusively or primarily by the candidate, either from a professional or academic context (preferably a mixture of both).

15

Certifications provided by customers

10

Financial criteria

Adequacy of skills and services to the ToRs

Points max : 20