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.

For every child, Humanity

In the 1970s UNICEF established presence in Yemen to respond to the urgent needs of children in the poorest country in the Middle East. In 1991, Yemen ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and it was enacted immediately.  Since then the country has been making steady progress for children until it plunged into a brutal conflict in 2015 but even before that, Yemen needed large amounts of humanitarian assistance.

In collaboration with local authorities, nongovernmental organizations and community partners, UNICEF is working in all the governorates in Yemen to respond to the needs of children throughout the country with a continuum of services to help children survive and grow to their full potential through the following programmes: Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Basic Education, and Child protection.

For more on our work in Yemen, please visit our website: https://www.unicef.org/yemen/

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF Yemen is seeking a highly skilled and experienced consultant to support in producing the donors’ reports; to support for the already scheduled reports to be submitted until the end of September 2025 as well as support for the development of new donor proposals and support in grants management through review of reprogramming requests and coordination of verification exercises as needed.

Scope of Work/Assignment:

Under the guidance of the Partnerships Manager and in close collaboration with the Resource Mobilization Team (Partnerships Specialist and Partnerships Office, the consultant will:

• Produce wellwritten and impactful narrative and financial donor reports for the UNICEF Yemen Country Office (YC, across programmes and donors. This includes the preparation of report templates in line with donor and UNICEF standards, the briefing of sections and crosscutting units to provide inputs, the followup with colleagues to receive timely inputs, the review of inputs and coordination of necessary revisions, and the copyediting and formatting of reports. This will also involve coordinating amongst colleagues to finalize reports following feedback of donor and HQ counterparts.
• Develop proposals (narrative and budget document and concept notes for YCO across programmes. This includes the preparation of proposal in line with donor and UNICEF standards, the briefing of sections and crosscutting units to provide inputs, the followup with colleagues to receive timely inputs, the review of inputs and coordination of necessary revisions, and the copyediting and formatting of proposals.
• Produce other documents for donor communications and resource mobilization.
• Support to grants management, through quality assuring reprogramming requests to donors in line with donor and UNICEF standards and coordinating/consolidating inputs on related verification exercises across the YCO and related HQ teams as needed.

Each task will include ensuring the completeness, coherence, correctness, and formatting of documents, including reviews of results planned / reported, log frames, financial reporting, and budgeting. The consultant will ensure that highquality documents are produced by the agreed upon deadlines, for final review by the Partnerships Manager / Specialist and clearance by the Deputy Representative Programmes. To this end, the consultant is expected to collaborate with programme sections as well as crosscutting teams of YCO (e.g., Budget, Operations and Emergency teams, Communications, Yemen Service Cente.

All documents will have to meet high quality standards and be submitted on time. The volume of work needed will vary with each document, which is presented in the approximate classification below. The number of working days per deliverable will be revised if needed, depending on different factors including the quality of drafts to be passed on to the consultant.  The target delivery date will be specific to each document.

To view all required deliverables, scope of the work and full details of the job profile, hold CTRL & doubleclick on the following link:  Terms of Reference _Partnerships Consultant (Reports + proposal_Shared.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education:

An advanced university degree in Social Sciences, International Relations/Development, Communications, Marketing, Journalism, Technical Writing or another related field

Experience:

• Five years of relevant work experience; with eight years of experience considered an asset.
• Experience in writing for UN organizations and / or government.
• Experience in narrative and financial reporting.
• Familiarity with resultsbased management.
• Strong writing and editing skills in English.
• Advanced MS Word and intermediate MS Excel skills.
• Strong logical and analytical skills, attention to detail.
• Highly organized, excellent time management and ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to quickly establish trusted relationships.
• Familiarity with basic budgeting is considered an asset. Previous experience and exposure to UNICEF programmes (including in emergencieand UNICEF donor reporting is considered an asset.
• Previous professional experience in Yemen is considered an asset.

Language:

Fluency in English is essential. Knowledge of other UN language will be considered as an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITA.

To view our competency framework, please visit  here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socioeconomic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zerotolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference checks.

Remarks: 

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
• Individuals engaged under a consultancy contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures; and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverag. Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants. Consultants are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
• The selected candidate is solely responsible for ensuring that the health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARSCoV2 (Covid19) with a World Health Organization (WHendorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programmme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.
• Candidates are required to provide an allinclusive fee proposal (in U.S. as part of their application. It is better to attach a table which shall include fees for the deliverables mentioned in the table included in the Terms of reference attached with this advertisement, DSA, and travel cost (if applicabl
• Candidates might also provide a technical proposal as part of their application. The technical proposal might include highlights on the below points:

• • Background information that includes an interpretation and understanding of the terms of reference.
  • Methodology and approach outlining a clear conceptual and analytical framework for the work to be undertaken.
  • Proposed work plan outlining clear timeframe and logical steps in conducting the assignment.
  • Name and brief background of the vendor, including existing experience and expertise that will be of benefit to the proposed assignment.
  • Names and contact information of referees for the 3 most recent and relevant projects.