Process Consultant (National): national validation process coordination and project development
Organizational Context
UNICEF operates in over 190 countries, dedicated to saving children's lives, defending their rights, and helping them fulfill their potential. We are committed to our mission, offering diverse opportunities for professional and personal growth in a passionate and inclusive culture, with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Job Purpose
The consultant will coordinate the national project development process for a climate adaptation project in south-eastern Madagascar, focusing on financing climate-resilient water, health, education, early-childhood, and ecosystem investments. This involves managing consultations, ensuring compliance with government procedures and ministry guidance, and developing a comprehensive concept note. The role requires maintaining an integrated roadmap, preparing necessary documentation in French, supporting technical evaluations, and tracking commitments through to national endorsement. The consultant will also map relevant actors and interventions, analyze complementarity and co-financing opportunities, and engage diverse stakeholders to integrate their inputs into the project design.
Responsibilities
Coordinate the national project development process, ensuring compliance with government procedures and ministry guidance. Maintain an integrated roadmap of national validation and concept note steps. Prepare the French-language dossier and required forms. Support the Ministry’s technical evaluation and project development. Draft the protocole d’accord and track all commitments to national endorsement. Map institutions, partners, and ongoing/planned interventions in the project area, analyzing complementarity, duplication, and co-financing opportunities. Design and conduct consultations with national institutions, evaluators, regional/district technical services, communes, civil society, youth, women, and persons with disabilities, documenting input integration. Analyze the project’s contribution to NDC 3.0 and the National Adaptation Plan, screening mitigation co-benefits and identifying evidence gaps. Consolidate inputs, support concept note submission, draft responses to reviewer comments, and initiate full project proposal development, including workplan, specifications for studies, consultation plan, and co-financing process.
Work Experience
Minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience in coordinating national-level climate-related processes (e.g., NDC or adaptation planning, climate finance). Experience includes leading multi-stakeholder processes at the national level, working with Madagascar’s government and civil society, organizing consultations, producing reports and official documents in French, and understanding Madagascar’s climate institutional framework.
Skills
Project Coordination, Stakeholder Engagement, Climate Change Adaptation, Project Development, Consultation Management, Document Preparation, Institutional Analysis, Report Writing, French Language Proficiency, English Language Proficiency, Climate Finance, National Policy Analysis