Consultant – Child Rights Situational Analysis

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Child rights consultant synthesising secondary evidence on protection, health, education, and inclusion. Informing ChildFund Australia’s country strategies, programmes, advocacy, and funding priorities.

Responsibilities:

  • Produce a credible evidence base for understanding the situation of children in target areas
  • Identify significant child rights issues and inequalities, who is most affected and being left behind, immediate, underlying and structural causes, changes over time, and the extent to which laws, policies, systems, services and duty bearers protect and advance children’s rights
  • Inform country strategy and strategic priorities
  • Inform programme priorities and design
  • Identify priority populations and geographic areas
  • Shape advocacy and influencing priorities
  • Inform engagement with government, partners and other actors
  • Strengthen funding and business development
  • Monitor changes in children’s rights over time
  • Consolidate and synthesise existing data at target geographic, regional, and national levels where relevant
  • Assess the current state of child protection, health, education, inclusion of marginalised children, and other rights domains using available secondary data
  • Identify what is working, what is missing, what is underperforming, and entry points
  • Prioritise credible, well-sourced findings relevant to programming and advocacy decisions rather than undertaking exhaustive data collection
  • Complete the consultancy over 20 days spread across 3 months

Requirements:

  • Submit a technical proposal (maximum 3 pages) outlining understanding of the assignment, proposed search strategy and sources, and workplan
  • Submit a financial proposal/fee schedule in USD
  • Submit a curriculum vitae including at least two references from similar assignments
  • Submit a sample of previous, similar written work
  • Ability to consolidate and synthesise existing data about children's rights
  • Ability to assess child protection, health, education, inclusion of marginalised children, and other child-rights domains using secondary data
  • Ability to identify strengths, gaps, weaknesses, opportunities, priority populations, geographic areas, causes, inequalities, and affected groups
  • Relevant background checks before joining ChildFund Australia
  • Acquire knowledge and skills needed to understand Child Safeguarding and PSEAH policies and procedures
  • Remain alert and responsive to child safeguarding or sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment risks

Benefits:

  • Relevant background checks before joining ChildFund Australia
  • Child safeguarding and PSEAH policies and procedures training
  • Welcoming, inclusive, and supportive team culture
  • Equal Employment Opportunity employer
  • Consultancy fee schedule submitted in USD