Appel d’offres : UNICEF recherche un Consultant international pour la rédaction et l’examen de rapports et de propositions en Afghanistan.

 

 

 

 

 

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.

Qualification

  • 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.

Deadline: Afghanistan Standard Time.

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