Consultancy – Support LACRO with the Formulation of Project Proposals for the ECHO HIP 2024, LACRO, Panama city

• Country: Panama
• Organization: UNICEF
• Deadline: 2023-11-20
• No of Vacancies: N/A

Scope of Work:

The consultant working on a specific geographical and thematic proposal, will work in collaboration with UNICEF LAC Regional Office (LACRO) Emergency and Public Partnerships units, being part of the team that will support the selected Country Offices (COs) to write, consolidate, elaborate, and include critical information for the submission of project proposals to ECHO through the use of the donors’ templates.

The consultants will specifically:

Structure and ensure follow-up of communications with COs for the formulation of the project proposals according to the donor´s requirements and templates:
Characterization of humanitarian needs assessment and its geographical delimitation.
Analysis of humanitarian response and strategy.
Identification of beneficiaries and vulnerable groups.
Definition of the logic of the intervention (i.e., objectives, sectorial indicators, targets, activities, required budget and workplan).
Assumption statements with corresponding risk analysis and management.
Monitoring and evaluation as well as accountability mechanisms.
In close coordination with LACRO and COs, programme and resource mobilization teams, ensure opportune consolidation, and elaboration of project proposals (multi-country) in appropriate alignment with UNICEF’s and the donor’s guidelines.
Any other related tasks as required for the development of the projects.
Deliverables

Work Assignments Overview

Deliverables/Outputs

Delivery deadline

First draft of the sections:

3. Humanitarian Organisation in the Area

4. Needs Assessment and Risk Analysis

3.1 Presence in the area

3.2 Synergies, links, complementarity with your other actions

4.1 Assessment dates and methodology

4.2 Problem, needs and risk analysis

4.3 Response analysis

Week 1 upon contract signature

First draft of the sections:

2. Project Data Overview by Country

5. Beneficiaries

6. Gender & Age Marker

2.1 Geographical information

2.2 Places of intervention

2.3 Information on beneficiaries

2.4 Sectoral information

5.1 Beneficiaries identification criteria

5.2 Involvement of the beneficiaries

5.3 Specific target groups

6. Gender and Age Marker

Week 2

First draft of the sections:

7. Logic of the Intervention

8. Resilience Marker

9. Monitoring and Evaluation

7.1 Principal objective

7.2 Specific Objective Indicators

7.3 Results

7.4 Results Context and Conditions

8.1 Resilience

9.1 Complaint mechanism

9.2 Monitoring of the action

Week 5

Required Annexes

Budget annex
Workplan annex
List of expected Implementing Partners

Week 6

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

Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, International Relations, Education, Public Policy, Social Policy, Social Development, Community Development, or other relevant disciplines.
Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional work experience in project management and coordination in the humanitarian and or human rights sector.
International and developing country work experience at regional, national or sub national level.
Familiarity with emergency response strategies, as part of the main UNICEF programme areas.
Experience in Humanitarian Action and with ECHO projects.
Networking experience with international organizations, NGOs and other key partners at regional and country level.
Extensive knowledge of UNICEF programme works in the LAC Region in the areas of Humanitarian Action.
Availability during holidays.in Social Sciences, International Relations, Education, Public Policy, Social Policy, Social Development, Community Development, or other relevant disciplines.

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