🔔 HIRING: National Consultant – Senior Technical Advisor (Social Protection) at UNICEF – NG

Scope of Work
Coordinate technical support from DPG the Ministry of humanitarian affairs, specifically:
Coordinate Technical Advisors (TA) Across Core Areas:

• Provide day-to-day coordination support to the TAs working on the core areas.
• Ensure that the technical inputs of each TA are cohesive, complementary, and aligned with the Ministry’s agenda.

Liaise Between the Ministry and UNICEF:

• Serve as the focal point for the draft implementation and monitoring of the workplan between the Ministry and UNICEF
• Facilitate information flow, meeting coordination, and reporting to ensure mutual alignment and accountability.
• Support the preparation of briefings, presentations, and updates for both Ministry leadership and UNICEF stakeholders.

Provide Strategic and Operational Support:

• Identify synergies across the four core technical areas and support cross-functional collaboration among the TAs.
• Assist in tracking milestones, deliverables, and timelines for technical outputs.
• Ensure timely escalation to UNICEF of any bottlenecks or issues requiring senior-level decisions.

Support Documentation and Reporting:

• Consolidate inputs from all TAs into unified technical reports and progress updates.
• Maintain proper documentation of TA deliverables, stakeholder feedback, and engagement outcomes.

Work Assignment Overview
Tasks/Milestone:

• Review workplans and key milestones for each technical area supported by DPG

Deliverables/Outputs:

• Consolidated DPG workplan
• Prepare presentation of key activities and milestones 2025-2026

Deliverables/Outputs:
Presentation:

• Facilitate monthly coordination meetings with TAs to review progress of implementation.

Deliverables/Outputs:

• Progress update reports (per core area of support)
• Prepare monthly technical updates and reports for DPG members

Deliverables/Outputs:

• DPG briefing notes and slide deck
• Coordinate and support DPG-Ministry meetings

Requirements

• An advanced university degree (master’s or higher) in Social Policy, Economics, Public Administration, Development Studies, Social Protection, or a related field from a recognized institution.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible professional experience in strategy development, policy dialogue, and institutional capacity strengthening for social protection at national or subnational level.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical advisory support to government ministries, departments or agencies on social protection, poverty reduction, or related policy reforms.
• Familiarity with shock-responsive social protection systems, social registries, cash transfer programs, and inter-agency coordination mechanisms is highly desirable.
• Experience working with international development partners (e.g., UN, World Bank, EU, bilateral donors) on social protection or humanitarian-development nexus programming is a strong asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate:

• UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, Sustainability (CRITAS), and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
• UNICEF is also proud of a diverse workforce who are profoundly committed to supporting the full realization of children’s rights, and in uplifting a rights-based approach in all that we do.

Competencies:
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are:

• Builds and maintains partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others.