Child poverty and social protection advocacy consultant - Req # 575938

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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant

 

Consultancy Title: Child poverty and social protection advocacy consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Programme Strategy and Coordination Hub/ Social and Behavior Change,  Programme Division, NYHQ

Duration: 14  October 2024 to 30 October  2025

Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote

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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 for developing 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.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

The purpose of the consultancy is to support the unit in developing outreach as well as advocacy approaches on child poverty and social protection, through a variety of policy advocacy and knowledge management initiatives. This includes supporting  dialogue, learning and advocacy on shock responsive as well as inclusive & gender responsive social protection, as well as support to managing an active Global Coalition to End Child Poverty, conducting outreach to member organizations, finding synergies between the individual work of the different organizations and providing more visibility to the work of the Coalition

Scope of Work:

UNICEF´s Child Poverty and Social Protection unit is seeking a consultant to support the unit with the following key advocacy related activities:

1. Support to advocacy activities related to shock responsive social protection:

Support to coordination of the SPIAC-B working group on linking humanitarian (cash) assistance and social protection 

• Support to advocacy activities related to shock responsive social protection
• Manage knowledge management function for the working group through gathering evidence, developing knowledge products and their dissemination through webinars/podcasts, technical notes, case studies, blogs, newsletter, workshop etc.
• Maintain the webpage, mailing list and the virtual library/folder for the working group.

Knowledge management and global advocacy on shock responsive social protection

• Undertake activities to support the Social Policy and Social Protection team in strengthening UNICEF’s positioning and engagement with G20 under the Brazil Presidency, COP29, and any other upcoming opportunities.
• Support in organising a learning event/stocktake exercise on SRSP for UNICEF colleagues in ROs/COs.

 Support technical assistance on shock-responsive social protection 

• Reviewing policy briefs and learning material to distill relevant information and sharing with thematic leads on the subject and to the social policy network in UNICEF.

1. Support to the Global Coalition to End Child Poverty activities:

Facilitation

• Proactive engagement with all the member organizations on range of issues – to maintain an active Coalition
• Support Coalition meeting, including annual meeting
• Draft annual workplan and active follow-up with members on activities

Advocacy and knowledge management

• Facilitate Coalition advocacy efforts
• Plan and execute Coalition webinars

Technical support:

• Support various strands of research and policy analysis work of the Coalition, based on key priorities identified by the Coalition, including identifying a flagship Coalition publication for 2025, and lead