Remote/Home based Consultancy: Editor/writer for Middle East and North Africa Regional Office

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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

How can you make a difference?

The role of UNICEF Regional Office is to provide guidance, support, technical assistance, oversight, including quality assurance, and coordination of country offices within the region.

A key accountability of the Regional Office is the review and quality assurance of program documents like the Country Programme Documents (CPDs). Country programmes articulate UNICEF’s strategic contribution to national efforts towards the realization of child rights and the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. They align to national development priorities, respond to the national context, and build on a risk informed analysis of the situation of all children, adolescents, and women, as well as on achievements, lessons learned from previous cooperation, and opportunities for equitable development. This should follow UNICEF Guidelines for country offices for drafting country programme documents and UNICEF Country Programme Planning guidance.

In addition, every year the Regional Office is required to submit the ROAR (Regional Office Annual Report) as follows:

• End-of-year assessments of progress for all current Office Management Plan Outcomes and Outputs as outlined in its programme structure. This should include reporting on progress towards annual targets of all active Standard and Additional indicators for all active Outcomes (where applicable) and Outputs.
• A 6-10-page Summary Narrative based on analysis of Outcome/Output end-of-year updates on key aspects of annual results and management performance.

UNICEF Middle East and North Africa Regional Office (MENARO) is seeking the services of committed professional English writer and editor to create, review and edit Country Program Documents (CPDs), the 2024 Regional Office Annual Report (ROAR) narrative, Outcome and Output statements, the new Regional Office management Plan and other key programme documents with a focus on improving overall structure, clarity and style that conforms to the UNICEF Style Book.

Scope of Work:

The contract will specifically include the following services:

Regional Office Management Plan (ROMP), Country Programme Documents (CPDs) and other program documents:

• Quality Assurance, Review and Editing of the first draft of the Country Programme Documents
• Proofreading and Editing of the final version of the Country Programme Documents
• Quality Assurance, Review and Editing of the first draft of the Regional Office Management Plan
• Proofreading and Editing of the final version of the Regional Office Management Plan
• Proofreading and Editing of the final version of any other program documents within the time frame allocated.

Regional Office Annual Report:

• Write and consolidate the first version of UNICEF Regional Office Annual Report based on the narrative Outcome and Output statements from the different Outcome Areas of UNICEF Regional Office Management Plan.
• Editing texts for accuracy, flow and effective structure, ensuring the texts are clear and compelling.
• Editing and proofreading of sectoral Outcomes and Outputs statements.

5. The contents of documents must follow the UNICEF Style Book and meet the quality standard.

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

• Education: Advanced university degree, in English language, social sciences, law, humanities, public health, social work, public administration, or a related field
• Experience: At least 3-5 years' experience writing/editing professional and/or academic documents related to the above fields of advanced university study.
• Experience with and/or knowledge of UNICEF and the United Nations, as well as the Middle East and North Africa region will be an asset.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

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