Consultancy: Advocacy Capacity Building Consultant

at  UNICEF

Job no: 575587
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: New York
Level: Consultancy
Location: United States
Categories: Communication
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, [an advocate]
UNICEF is mandated to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, and the Strategic Plan recognizes the importance of advocacy to deliver against UNICEF’s mission and secure programmatic results for children. Advocacy plays an essential role in supporting and pressing governments and other influential actors to ensure measurable, sustainable change for children, whether through private influencing, mobilizing public support, policy advice, or a holistic blended approach. As highlighted in the Global Communication and Advocacy Strategy, truly global or ‘glocal’ advocacy requires identifying strategic advocacy opportunities at the national, regional, and global levels, and working together to capitalize on these opportunities to advance advocacy goals. We accelerate our impact for children by building, strengthening and leveraging the full advocacy strength of the organization.
The Advocacy Capacity Building Initiative (ACBI) within the Advocacy Section, Division of Global Communications and Advocacy, requires consultancy services to support the strengthening of UNICEF advocacy skills, capacity and knowledge at a global, regional, and country level.

DESCRIPTION OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The purpose of the consultancy is to support the Advocacy Section in:

3. ENSURE CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING THROUGH ADVOCACY PORTAL UPDATE AND MAINTENANCE, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING FOR KEY ADVOCACY MEETING, WEBINARS ETC.

• Contribute to the maintenance of the Advocacy Portal, based on recommendations of the user testing carried out with Regional and Country office staff, so that it is a go to hub for advocacy resources, templates, and examples staff across the organization. This includes restructuring the website including with a dedicated area to act as a guide for advocacy strategy development.
• Develop advocacy practice case studies to enable cross-organizational learning and maintaining the Advocacy Portal with useful advocacy tools, templates, and resources to support advocacy planning and implementation across UNICEF.
• Support strengthening of institutional advocacy practice, including through documenting and disseminating advocacy lessons, good practices and organizing speaker series’, spotlight webinars and advocacy awards, among others.

VISA REQUIREMENTS

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4.
IMPORTANT – G4 Visa is only valid if the consultant will reside within the tri-state area during the duration of the assignment. It is illegal to apply and obtain a visa for consultants who do not intend to reside within the tri-state area during the duration of the consultancy assignment.

Please refer the Job description for details