Scope of Work: 

The consultant, under the supervision of the Senior Advisor, Gender Equality will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Strategy, Policy & Programmatic Support
• Prepare key guidance and technical resources for the Skills4Girls and HPV Plus global initiatives– with a focus on resources at design and inception phase
• Provide tailored technical assistance to at least 16 Country Offices across two years
• Provide technical support for the allocation and monitoring of global adolescent girl grants
• Evidence, Evaluation & Learning Support
• Identify and synthesize good practices in programme design, scale-up, cost-effectiveness, and government uptake of proven solutions.
• Produce regular learning products to support knowledge generation and dissemination.
• Contribute to the design and quality assurance of evaluation processes to advance the learning agenda of key global initiatives
• Reporting, Donor Engagement & Advocacy Support to Global Initiatives
• Support the preparation of annual portfolio reports (2025, 2026, 2027) and one mid-year HPV Plus report (2026)
• Contribute to at least 10 high-level engagement moments with donors and partners through development of briefing notes, presentations, and result summaries, support to field visits, in-person and virtual support to global advocacy moments and strategic events.
• Prepare and update strategic communications and donor-facing materials, including human interest stories, updated external webpage content, etc.
• Partnerships support
• Support new partnerships based on programmatic reporting and insights from research 

 Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

• Minimum five years of relevant professional experience and demonstrated track record of having undertaken and led substantive programming and research on gender/adolescent girls and development in key issue areas that are the focus of UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan is required – some experience working on HPV and skills programming with a strong gender equality/girls focus is essential.  
• Experience working in a development setting, managing programmes and / or research is essential, including budget and knowledge management 
• Experience at country/field level is an asset 
• Demonstrated people management skills and the ability to forge and manage partnerships  
• Proven expertise in drafting quality research and programmatic outputs for different stakeholders and audiences is required.  
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.   
• Familiarity/ background with emergency contexts is considered as an asset.  
• Demonstrated excellence in writing and verbal communication; experience with proposal writing an asset  
• Fluency in English is required. Working knowledge of another UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) is considered an asset.