Job no: 582545
Work type: Consultant
Location: Senegal
Categories: Social Policy

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. 

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Background
UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) provides support to 24 UNICEF country offices. The Social Policy team coordinates and provides technical support to the Sahel Social Protection Joint Project (Sahel SP-JP, or Joint Project), a regional joint programme with WFP which includes Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. This Project began in 2020 and is now in Phase II of implementation (2025-2028). The Project outcomes include:

1. Delivery: Affected populations receive cash transfers and access complementary services to absorb the social and economic impacts of multiple covariant shocks, as part of national response plans.
2. System Strengthening: National social protection systems are strengthened to become more shock-responsive, nutrition-sensitive, and child-sensitive.
3. Knowledge, evidence, and learning: Knowledge and evidence are generated from the project to inform social protection engagement that is shock-responsive and sensitive of nutrition and child protection concerns in the implementing countries, and fragile contexts more generally.

As the Project is jointly implemented and reported on across two agencies, and five countries, the Project requires dedicated capacity to support reporting obligations, development of proposals and project documents for complimentary or top-up funding (at regional and country level), and for the development of communications, advocacy and knowledge products.

Objective of the consultation
The purpose of this consultancy is to support the UNICEF WCAR regional and country office Social Policy teams with drafting and quality assurance of donor reporting, support to proposal development, and support to writing/editing