International Consultant - Editing and Review of the English version of the Country Office Annual Report, the Core Standard Indicators, Annual SitRep and the Results Assessment, Remote (3 months)

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Scope of Work:

In accordance with the Results-Based Management principles, a Country Office Annual Report (COAR) is elaborated at the end of the year to assess progress achieved, identify, and analyze major bottlenecks in programme implementation, document lessons learned and innovations and define on that basis the ways forward for enhanced programme performance.

The Country Office Annual Report includes a narrative report, the Core Standard Indicators, and an assessment of progress achieved for each of the 8 outcomes and 27 outputs of the country programme. It also includes the operational effectiveness component with 1 outcome and 3 related outputs. This assessment of results achieved is based on the expected results, the indicators and the associated baselines and targets. All the annual reporting process is based on guidelines defined by the Headquarter and the regional office.

Côte d’Ivoire is a French speaking country and French is the major working language used by the Country Office.However, English, which is used by most of the staff as a second language, is the reference language for the Country Office Annual Report. This highlights the need to ensure the editing of the Country Office Annual Report documents which is widely shared by UNICEF through its website accessible to various audience such as donors, members of the Executive Board. Thus, it is important to ensure the consistency and the quality of the content, and the language used.

The COAR (Country Office Annual Report) process is led by the Deputy Representative in collaboration with the programme and operations teams. It is submitted to the Representative for his final review and approval. It will be drafted in English and shared by the Deputy Representative with the consultant for the review of the consistency of the content in accordance with the HQ guidelines and the quality of the language (editing).

The consultant will provide remote technical assistance under the supervision of the Deputy Representative and in close collaboration with the chief PME. The review will be based on the guidelines and quality assurance checklists provided by the Headquarter and the Regional Office.

The review and the editing of the draft COAR (narrative, RAM and comments about the CSI) will be made by the consultant following a participatory and iterative approach in close collaboration with the Deputy Representative between the month of December 2025 and February 2026 (according to the 2025 guidelines and timeframe).

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Work Assignments Overview 

Deliverables/Outputs 

Delivery deadline 

Estimated Budget  Allocation

Review and editing of the Outcomes/outputs analytical statements of progress and the comments on Core Standard Indicators 

100% of comments on the CSI 

reviewed and edited 

26 

December 2025 

25% 

100% of the analytical statements of 

progress for the outputs and outcomes are reviewed and edited 

26 

December 

2025 

25% 

Review and editing of the COAR narrative 

2025 COAR narrative published in English 

31 

December 2025 

 

50% 

Review and editing of Annual SitRep 

Annual SitRep 2025 published in 

English 

20 

January 2026 

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Minimum requirements:

• Education: A master's degree in Social Sciences, Development, Planning, Communication, International relations or languages
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