International Consultant at the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: International Consultant - Country Programme Planning and Monitoring Quality Assurance

Job No: 555259
Location: Abuja
Contract type: Consultant
Level: Consultancy
Categories: Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
Duration: 5 months

For every child, an advocate

• In Nigeria, UNICEF works in a complex humanitarian and development setting to fulfill and protect children's rights in partnership with the government, civil society, children, and families.  UNICEF Nigeria is one of the largest UNICEF Country Offices globally.

Purpose of Activity/Assignment
How can you make a difference?

• UNICEF Nigeria is commencing a new country programme, 2023-27. At the same time, new UNICEF processes for reporting and work planning have been introduced and will add to the office workload.
• The objective of the consultant is to provide support and quality assurance to end-year reporting, 2023-24 work planning, and ongoing front office processes including support to the country office management team (CMT) and maintaining the office risk register.

Scope of Work

• Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Representative, the Consultant will support the development and quality assurance of Donor reporting and Resource Mobilization materials and support the new Country Programme Development processes.

Key activities will include:

• Review and provide quality assurance of end-of-year reporting, including the Results Assessment Module (RAM) narratives and particularly the end-year summary narrative and the new CSI indicators.
• The consultant will work with inputs from outcome and output leads, the M4R monitoring manager, to provide editorial support for the outcome and output narratives and draft the end-year summary narrative.
• With the programme and planning manager in M4R, the consultant will provide quality assurance to federal and state work plans for 2023-24, based on the new country programme document and inputs from section chiefs, chiefs of field offices, and government partners.
• The consultant will provide guidance to sections on how to implement the work planning module of the RAM.
• Support secretariat functions for the Senior Management Team and Country Office Management Team (CMT), responsible for monitoring actions and the follow-up mechanisms.
• Ensure information is available for the management prior to the meeting and decisions are communicated to relevant people, responsible for the monitoring of actions and the follow-up mechanisms.
• Support sections and FO in maintaining updated risk registers and keeping the management abreast of critical risks, associated actions, and support.
• Maintain risk register as a special agenda item in the CMT meetings every quarter.

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

• An Advanced University Degree in Communications, International Development, or other relevant areas
  required. 

Knowledge / Expertise / Skills required:

• Demonstrated strong writing and editing skills and attention to detail
• The ideal candidate will be self-starting, strategic, and creative with the ability to work independently and deliver quality results without supervision
• Excellent organizational skills, including project management skills and the ability to meet deadlines
• Availability and willingness to take up an assignment on short notice are important
• Experience working with the UN system is an added value.
• 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).

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2022 (W. Central Africa Standard Time).