[Hiring] Internal Displacement and Durable Solutions Consultant @AGORA

Role Description

The purpose of this consultancy is to provide time-bound technical and coordination support to strengthen UNICEF’s institutional approach to internal displacement and its advocacy and programming for child-sensitive durable solutions. The consultant will support a structured review and revision of UNICEF’s Institutional Action Plan on Internal Displacement and deliver priority internal-displacement workstreams managed by the Migration and Displacement Hub.

The assignment will help ensure that UNICEF’s global priorities reflect current evidence, organizational learning and country-level realities, and clearly position UNICEF’s contribution to preventing and addressing internal displacement, protecting the rights of internally displaced children and supporting durable solutions. The consultancy has a global remit and will support MDH’s engagement with country offices, regional offices, headquarters divisions and relevant global teams.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in international development, humanitarian affairs, human rights, migration or displacement studies, social sciences, public policy, international relations, law, or another relevant field.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of progressively responsible professional experience in internal displacement, forced displacement, durable solutions, child rights, humanitarian development programming, policy, advocacy or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated knowledge of internal displacement and durable solutions frameworks.
• Experience reviewing or developing institutional strategies or action plans.
• Strong qualitative analysis, consultation facilitation and synthesis skills.
• Excellent drafting and editing skills.
• Ability to work across organizational units, sectors and geographic contexts.
• Sound understanding of child rights and UNICEF’s humanitarian and development mandate.
• Strong planning and delivery skills for remote, multi-stakeholder assignments.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required. Knowledge of another UN official language is an asset.

Desirables

• Previous experience with UNICEF, another UN entity or an inter-agency process.
• Country-level experience in internal displacement settings.
• Familiarity with results frameworks and indicators.
• Experience developing advocacy, learning or knowledge products.

Benefits

• Diverse opportunities for professional and personal development.
• Attractive compensation and benefits package.

Company Description

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

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.