National Consultant: Public Finance for Children (PF4C) (Open to nationals of Zimbabwe only)

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Supporting the Government’s vision of a prosperous and empowered upper-middle-income society, the 2022 to 2026 UNICEF Zimbabwe country programme is aimed at contributing to sustainable socioeconomic development that provides all children, including adolescents, with opportunities to fulfil their potential, lead a healthy life, access quality learning and protection and meaningfully participate in society.

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UNICEF Zimbabwe is seeking to hire an enthusiastic individual consultant to provide support on PFM related outputs including budget briefs and quarterly economic updates.

BACKGROUND

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programs, in advocacy and in operations. Under its Social Policy and Reserach Programme, UNICEF is focused on The Social Inclusion Outcome area which seeks to improve the policy environment and systems for disadvantaged and excluded children, guided by improved knowledge.

The programme is focused on three output area:

1. Public Finance for Children (PF4C)

2. Inclusive, Child Sensititve Social Protection

3. Research focused on Child Poverty

Under its PF4C output, the team’s aim is to ensure that the The Government of Zimbabwe has enhanced capacity to plan, mobilize, equitably allocate, and efficiently utilize available resources at national and subnational level to improve the situation of children and adolescents. The section does so through policy dialogue and advocay, analsyis and technical support and engagement with local governance issues. The team carries out a series analytical pieces in the form of national and sectoral briefs that look at the budget spending and efficay across key social sectors most pertinent to the well being of children. The team also looks the perfomrance of the economy on a quarterly basis and its implciation on the work we do and the lives of women and children.

This terms of reference is for a consultant to support the PF4C team with its analytical outputs and technical outputs.

PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

To provide support on PFM related outputs including budget briefs and quarterly economic updates.

ASSIGNMENTS:

The PF4C consultant is expected to engage with the various stakeholders, especially the Ministry of Finance and other sectoral Ministries to develop several thematic budget briefs across Early Childhood Development, Nutrition, Climate Change and Social Protection and quarterly economic review reports that also provide an overview of spend by line Ministries to date.

Major tasks and deliverables:

Tasks/Milestone:****Deliverables/Outputs:

Level of effort (indicative), timeline & payment scheduleMonthly reports on progress across the following key outputs: development of three budget briefs, 4 quarterly economic updates and engagement with the Ministry of Finance on the following issues:

• Budget planning and preparations
• Open budget survey engagement
• And other adhoc meetings

Month 1 – Progress update report18 days

(7.41%) Month 2 – Progress update report21 days

(8.64%) Month 3 – Progress update report21 days

(8.64%) Month 4 – Progress update report22 days

(9.05%) Month 5 – Progress update report

20 days

(8.23%) Month 6 – Progress update report

22 days

(9.05%) Month 7 – Progress update report

22 days

(9.05%) Month 8 – Progress update report

22 days

(9.05%) Month 9 – Progress update report

21 days

(8.64%) Month 10 – Progress update report

21 days

(8.64%) Month 11 – Progress update report

22 days

(9.05%) Month 12 – Progress update report

11 days

(4.53%) 243 working days

100%****To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education:

Masters Degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Economics or related field

Experience:

Minimum 7 years experience in Public Finance Management

Working experience with Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, demonstrable experience of developing budget briefs

Languages:

English

If interested and available to undertake the individual consultancy, please submit your application online and attach the required documents including the technical proposal and an all-inclusive financial proposal incorporating the approximate 30 field travel days.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

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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.