Fund Portfolio Management Consultant, UNICEF Hosted Funds, EVAC - Safe Online, NYHQ, remote. Req# 585299

About UNICEF

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines fordeveloping countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

Consultancy: Fund Portfolio Management Consultant  

Duty Station: UNICEF Hosted Funds, EVAC-Safe Online  

Duration: 1 January 2026 – 31 December 2027

Home/ Office Based: Remote

 

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

Safe Online is seeking a consultant to support the fund management portfolio, including key systems, platforms, and processes to maximise the Safe Online’s return on investment from its Safe Online grants and support its grantee network in sharing and leveraging learning. This role will contribute to the assessment of the portfolio’s needs, manage technical assistance, identify opportunities, and guide cohorts and technical collaboration between grantees and other Safe Online partners

Scope of Work:

1. Monitoring of progress reports from the Safe Online grantees
2. Quantitative and qualitative analysis and reports on activities and results achieved by Safe Online grantees
3. Conduction of due diligence processes for new grantees
4. Conduction of reassessments for existing grantees
5. Sifting and review of applications received for each call for proposals
6. Data recording of grantee’s information in the Safe Online Grant Management System

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

Work Assignment Overview/Deliverables and Outputs/Delivery deadline

1. Monitoring of progress reports from the Safe Online grantees (approx. 50 reports per year)

- 50 reports prepared including analysis on qualitative and quantitative information on project progress provided by the grantees, as well as on monitoring of project implementation as per the approved project documents and plans (Spreadsheets, Word Documents and Project Documentation Packages)

30 August 2026

-  50 reports prepared including analysis on qualitative and quantitative information on project progress provided by the grantees, as well as on monitoring of project implementation as per the approved project documents and plans (Spreadsheets, Word Documents and Project Documentation Packages)

30 August 2027

2.  Conduction of due diligence processes for new grantees (approx. 20 new grantees per year)

-  Documentation of due diligence steps for approximately 20 grantees (Core Values Assessment, PSEA assessments and HACT assessments), in coordination with new grantees and external parties (Spreadsheets, Word Documents and Project Documentation Packages)

30 August 2026

-  Documentation of due diligence steps for approximately 20 grantees (Core Values Assessment, PSEA assessments and HACT assessments), in coordination with new grantees and external parties (Spreadsheets, Word Documents and Project Documentation Packages)

30 August 2027

3.  Conduction of reassessments for existing grantees (approx. 10 grantees per year)

-  Documentation of due diligence steps, coordination with grantees and external parties, and monitoring of this process for approximately 10 grantees per year  (Spreadsheets, Word Documents and Project Documentation Packages)

31 December 2026

-  Documentation of due diligence steps, coordination with grantees and external parties, and monitoring of this process for approximately 10 grantees per year (Spreadsheets, Word Documents and Project Documentation Packages)

31 December 2027

4.  Quantitative qualitative analysis and reports on activities and results achieved by Safe Online grantees

-  Development and updating of a grantees’ results tracker compatible with MS Office 365 and SharePoint (Spreadsheets, Gantt charts, Presentations, MS Word forms, Events Documentation Package) 

31 December 2026

-  Delivery of 4 presentations to Safe Online donors and stakeholders on grantees results 

31 December 2027 

5.  Sifting and review of applications received for each call for proposals (approx. 30 applications per Call)

-  30