National Consultant for Child Wellbeing Advocacy
Overview
The National Consultant for Child Wellbeing Advocacy will develop two advocacy strategies and deliver associated advocacy products, focusing on child marriage and nutrition with domestic financing.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop UNICEF Lao PDR's advocacy strategy on ending child, early and forced marriage, mapping audiences and asks, anchoring the strategy in policy hooks, and addressing sensitivities.
- Draft advocacy products for the child marriage strategy, such as ministry-facing budget briefs and briefing materials.
- Develop UNICEF Lao PDR's nutrition advocacy strategy, focusing on securing domestic financing for nutrition, covering stunting, wasting, and maternal nutrition.
- Set out financing asks and messaging with key partners for the nutrition strategy, aligning it with national strategies and plans.
- Draft advocacy products for the nutrition strategy, such as an advocacy brief on including nutrition services in sectoral budgets.
Required Experience
A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in advocacy, public policy, government relations or strategic communication, of which at least three years in Lao PDR. Demonstrated experience authoring advocacy, policy engagement or influencing strategies. Demonstrated experience producing policy briefs, investment cases or budget advocacy materials for government audiences. Demonstrated experience designing and delivering orientation or capacity-building sessions for senior government or elected officials.
Qualifications
A Bachelors degree in Communication, public policy, political science, development studies, social sciences, public health, law, or a related field. An advanced university degree is desirable.