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For every child, the right to protection 

The UNICEF Guinea country office is seeking the services of a qualified and experienced professional writer/editor consultant to support the 2025 annual reporting process. The overall objective of the assignment is to produce a high-quality and compelling Country Office Annual Report in conformity with the Instructions for 2025 Country Office Annual Reports. The consultant is required to work remotely during the consultancy assignment period.

Scope of Work:

Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative Programme, the consultant will be responsible for reviewing, editing, and writing and re-writing contributions submitted by Programme Sections and Operations to the 2025 Guinea country office annual report, in close collaboration with the PME Section’s team. The components of the report include the (a) “Assessments of progress for all active Outcomes and Outputs” and (b) the “End Year Summary Narrative”. The consultant will also produce a ‘public version’ of the annual report, which will be a short compelling story telling about UNICEF work and results for children in Guinee in 2025 in a clear, accessible language, following UNICEF Brand guidelines and Style Book, using source materials provided by Guinea Country Office. The assignment will involve therefore quality assurance for accuracy of the information presented, editing for English/French and logical flow. The assignment will also involve cross-checking information and data to ensure consistency and coherence.

How can you make a difference? 

Specifically, the consultant will make the following editions:          

1. Check for and correct redundancies, spelling, or grammar mistakes, improve the language.
2. Proofread the overall report to ensure that the content is relevant and clearly understandable to external audience and adjust where necessary.
3. Check for coherence amongst Programme components throughout the document, including statistical data used.
4. Ensure full compliance with the 2025 COAR Instructions.
5. Editing and proofreading all content to ensure clarity, coherence, and consistency with UNICEF’s style guidelines.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: [ VA International Consultant Professional Writer Editor.pdf]

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

Minimum requirements:

Education:

Master degree in one of the following fields is required: Communication, Social Sciences, development studies, or other relevant fields.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of proven relevant experience in the field of professional English and French writing, editing of national and international development reports.
• Sound knowledge and skills on results-based reporting, monitoring and evaluation.
• Capacity to work under pressure and deliver quality inputs to meet deadlines.
• Excellent analysis skills
• Proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word
• Fluency in French and in English

Desirables:

• Previous annual reports writing experience, particularly UNICEF reports, will be considered as an asset.
• Sound knowledge and skills on results-based reporting, monitoring and evaluation.
• Demonstrated experience in working with UNICEF would be an asset.

• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts. 

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

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Remarks:  

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason. 

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Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

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