Partnerships and Advocacy Consultant
Organizational Context
UNICEF operates in over 190 countries and territories, dedicated to saving children's lives, defending their rights, and helping them fulfill their potential from early childhood through adolescence. We are committed, passionate, and proud of our work, viewing the promotion of every child's rights not just as a job, but as a calling.
Job Purpose
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide comprehensive support to partnership and advocacy priorities within the Child Protection and Migration Practice. This involves ensuring the development of high-quality products such as concept notes, proposals, donor reports, talking points, and advocacy messages. These outputs are crucial for supporting proactive resource mobilization efforts and enhancing global visibility for UNICEF's Child Protection and Migration programmes. The consultant will play a key role in strengthening UNICEF's engagement with partners and advocating for the rights and well-being of children in the context of protection and migration.
Responsibilities
The consultant will be responsible for preparing up to 15 brief child protection and migration concept notes tailored for a range of donor partners to support resource mobilization initiatives. Additionally, the consultant will prepare up to 10 child protection and migration proposals for various donor partners, also aimed at supporting resource mobilization. A key responsibility will be preparing up to 10 donor reports for partners, ensuring consistent collation of input and clearly demonstrating results for children in child protection and migration outcomes. The consultant will also develop up to 12 sets of key child protection and migration advocacy messages/talking points for diverse internal and external audiences to advance key programme priorities. Furthermore, the consultant will develop up to 6 child protection and migration presentations to summarize key aspects of concept notes for donor engagement and prepare up to 15 info sheets for donor partners on different thematic areas within child protection and migration.
Work Experience
Requires strong experience in developing engaging concept notes and proposals for external donor partners (private and public sector), particularly in child protection and migration. Excellent written communication skills, including report writing, developing advocacy messages, and talking points, are essential. Strong presentation development skills and strategic thinking are also required.
Skills
Resource mobilization, Proposal writing, Report writing, Advocacy message development, Talking points creation, Presentation development, Strategic thinking, Child protection, Migration, Donor engagement, Concept note development, UN agency experience