Overview
The Consultant will provide strategic and technical support to strengthen Accountability to Affected Population (AAP), Risk Communication, and Capacity Building initiatives. The assignment focuses on scaling up the Community Feedback Mechanism (CFM) across provinces and enhancing partner and government capacity for community engagement and disaster preparedness.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with teams to integrate CFM into UNICEF’s monitoring systems.
- Ensure routine analysis, interpretation, and visualization of community feedback data.
- Draft and contextualize provincial chapters of the Community Engagement (CE)/AAP Guidelines.
- Maintain co-leadership of the AAP Working Group.
- Support the development of community-friendly risk messages and IEC materials.
- Support in the capacity development of DRR kits in four provinces.
- Support NDMA, NIDM, PGGA, and PBSA in finalizing national level DRR training curriculum.
- Support PGGA in implementing its three-tier training structure.
- Processing of Round 2 data, completion of quality assurance, final analysis, reporting, and dissemination of results.
- Offer technical support to Field Offices and partners on AAP, CE, and CFM, DRR and Risk Communication.
- Prepare monthly progress reports and a comprehensive final report.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 05 years of professional experience at national/international level in design and implementation of community engagement and accountability strategies, social sciences (including anthropology, sociology, and psychology), and social and behaviour change.
- Proven experience in designing and developing community engagement strategies, Accountability to Affected People frameworks, Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFMs), and Risk Awareness, with strong qualitative research skills.
- Demonstrated ability to provide high-level technical advice, supported by strong research, interpersonal communication, and advocacy skills, and expertise in participatory and engaging training methods.
- Experience of working with government, academic research and education institutions, private sector, CSOs, faith engagement organizations.
- Excellent Communication skills.
- Stakeholders’ engagement: experience of managing large and complex partnerships.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts (desirable).
- Experience within the United Nations system or other international organizations (an asset).
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (master’s or higher) in Social and behavioral science, including sociology, anthropology, Public Health, communication studies development communication, health communication, community development, development studies, psychology and/or related social sciences are required.
