Partnerships and Advocacy Consultant

Provide comprehensive support to partnership and advocacy priorities within the Child Protection and Migration Practice, ensuring high quality products such as concept notes, proposals, donor reports, talking points, and advocacy messages are developed to support resource mobilisation and global visibility for UNICEF Child Protection and Migration programmes.

Responsibilities

• Prepare up to 15 brief child protection and migration concept notes for a range of donor partners to support resource mobilization initiatives.
• Prepare up to 10 child protection and migration proposals for a range of donor partners to support resource mobilization initiatives.
• Prepare up to 10 donor reports for partners, ensuring input is consistently collated, and clearly demonstrating results for children on child protection and migration outcomes.
• Develop up to 12 sets of key child protection and migration advocacy messages/ talking points for a range of audiences (both internal and external) to support key Child Protection and Migration priorities.
• Develop up to 6 child protection and migration presentations to summarise key outline of concept notes, to be used when engaging with donor partners.
• Develop up to 15 info sheets for donor partners on different thematic areas within child protection and migration.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Communications, Media, Digital Communications, English Language, English Literature, Project Management, Social Work, or related area.
• Strong experience developing engaging concept notes and proposals primarily for external donor partners- both private and public sector- particularly in child protection and migration.
• Excellent written communication skills including report writing, developing advocacy messages and talking points.
• Strong presentation development skills.
• Strategic thinking.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• 8+ years experience in resource mobilization, proposal and report writing related roles, including for UN agencies, national and international NGOs.
• Previous experience in resource mobilization including drafting proposals, concept notes, donor reporting, talking points and presentations.
• Familiarity with UNICEF child protection result area.

Skills

• Proposal Writing
• Concept Note Formulation
• Donor Reporting
• Advocacy Message Development
• Report Writing
• Presentation Development
• Resource Mobilization
• Strategic Thinking
• Child Protection Systems Knowledge
• Migration Programmes Knowledge
• UN Agency Experience
• External Donor Engagement
• Private Sector Fundraising
• Public Sector Fundraising

Languages

English