Consultant – Child Rights Situational Analysis

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Develop a robust evidence foundation to comprehend the circumstances of children in targeted regions.

• Recognize key child rights concerns and disparities, identifying those most affected and left behind, as well as the immediate, underlying, and structural causes, changes over time, and the degree to which laws, policies, systems, services, and duty bearers protect and promote children’s rights.

• Guide the country strategy and strategic priorities.

• Inform program priorities and design initiatives.

• Determine priority populations and geographic locations.

• Shape advocacy and influencing strategies.

• Support engagement with government, partners, and other stakeholders.

• Enhance funding and business development efforts.

• Track changes in children's rights over time.

• Aggregate and synthesize available data at targeted geographic, regional, and national levels where applicable.

• Evaluate the current status of child protection, health, education, inclusion of marginalized children, and other rights domains by utilizing available secondary data.

• Identify what is effective, what is lacking, what is underperforming, and potential entry points.

• Focus on credible, well-sourced findings pertinent to programming and advocacy decisions rather than exhaustive data collection.

• Complete the consultancy within 20 days over a span of 3 months.

⛳️ Requirements

• Provide a technical proposal (maximum 3 pages) detailing your understanding of the assignment, proposed research strategy and sources, and work plan.

• Submit a financial proposal/fee schedule in USD.

• Include a curriculum vitae featuring at least two references from similar assignments.

• Provide a sample of previous, comparable written work.

• Demonstrate the ability to consolidate and synthesize existing data regarding children's rights.

• Exhibit the capacity to assess child protection, health, education, inclusion of marginalized children, and other child rights domains using secondary data.

• Identify strengths, gaps, weaknesses, opportunities, priority populations, geographic areas, causes, inequalities, and affected groups.

• Undergo relevant background checks prior to joining ChildFund Australia.

• Gain the knowledge and skills necessary to comprehend Child Safeguarding and PSEAH policies and procedures.

• Remain vigilant and responsive to risks related to child safeguarding or sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Undergo relevant background checks prior to joining ChildFund Australia.

• Receive training on child safeguarding and PSEAH policies and procedures.

• Join a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive team culture.

• Work for an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

• Submit a consultancy fee schedule in USD.