Vacancy title:
Consultant for End-of-Year Annual Report (COAR)

[Type: CONTRACTOR, Industry: Professional Services, Category: Media, Communications & Writing, Social Services & Nonprofit, Consultant]

Jobs at:
UNICEF

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, November 28 2025

Duty Station:
Kampala | Kampala | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, November 21 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Background

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 is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Purpose of Activity/Assignment

At the end of the five-year implementation cycle, the UNICEF Uganda Country Office (UCO) will work on several strategic reports for its five-year Government of Uganda/UNICEF Country Programme (2021-2025). This includes an internal and external Annual Report for 2025, and a Summative five-year Country Programme Report.

The Internal Annual Report 2025 will analyze key results achieved for children in 2025, with focus on partnerships,analyzing the impact of UNICEF interventions on children; and highlighting lessons learned and challenges faced in 2025. The External Annual Report 2025 will be crafted to address external audiences including donors, partners, government, and private sector. The Summative five-year Report will be a high-level advocacy document capturing the cumulative results achieved for the five years period, major shifts in the situation of children in Uganda as a result of UNICEF programming and advocacy, key achievement from collaborations with stakeholders, with specifically highlighting transformative donor contributions and how flexible funding made a change during the implementation of the five-year Country Programme.

The UNICEF Uganda Country office requires the expertise of an individual with proven storytelling and impact writer's skills, including good communication, adaptability, and the ability to edit and revise, ensuring the final product is clear, concise, and effective for the intended audience.

Scope of Work

Quality Assurance of RAM Narratives

The individual consultant will review, edit and consolidate the Country Programme Outcome and Output narrative reports as provided by UNICEF Programme and Operations Sections to ensure high level, impact and strategic results are well captured in a compelling narrative. This will involve quality assurance of the information presented (ensuring the narrative speaks to the programme results and targets as set at the beginning of the year), and editing for English grammar, style, and logical flow.

Internal Country Office Annual Report (COAR)

The individual consultant will be responsible for consolidating the Country Program Outcome and Output narrative reports as provided by UNICEF Programme and Operations Sections into the 2025 End Year Summary Narrative report. This will involve in dept critical analysis of RAM narratives and deriving from those high impact results, that should be presented into compelling narrative on results for children, in addition to editing for English grammar, style, and logical flow. The assignment will also involve cross-checking and triangulation of information and data to ensure consistency with the previous End Year Summary Narratives of the Country Programme cycle.

Five Year CPD Thematic Report

The consultant will consolidate key elements of the five annual COARs from 2021 to 2025 in to a high-level advocacy document capturing the cumulative results for children achieved for the five years period, highlighting major shifts in the situation of children in Uganda as a result of UNICEF programming and advocacy, key achievement from collaborations with stakeholders, with specifically highlighting transformative donor contributions and how flexible funding made a change during the implementation of the five-year Country Programme. The report will reflect in a compelling story telling manner on each of the six outcomes of the 2021 – 2025 Country Programmes.

External Annual Report

The individual consultant will consolidate and condense the Internal COAR for external audiences. Additional elements will include a foreword, identifying, and editing blurbs from feature stories, and a donor funding overview. This will also require quality assurance for accuracy of the information presented, compiling inputs from various sources, editing and proof reading in line with the UNICEF Style book and brand guidelines.

Minimum Qualifications required

Bachelor's degree in mass communication or any related fields

Advanced University degrees in relevant fields is an added advantage.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

Job application procedure

The application to be submitted through the online portal and must contain these separate attachments, as follows:

• A cover letter/ Letter of interest (max 2 pages) explaining the motivation for applying and explaining how the qualifications and skillset of the candidate are suitable for this position.
• An updated CV demonstrating all requirements stated in the ToR.
• A Technical Proposal outlining a road map for review and implementation timeline.
• A Financial Proposal outlining the total costs for this consultancy with payment linked to the deliverables outlined above. The financial proposal should indicate an all-inclusive lump sum fee composed of consultancy fees.

Important Note: Please do not indicate financials anywhere else in the online application form, please mark "n/a or 00", under the fee related questions in the online application form.

Without all the above documents, your application will be considered incomplete and invalid and will not be considered further.

Any attempt to unduly influence UNICEF's selection process will lead to automatic disqualification of the applicant.

Joint applications of two or more individuals are not accepted.

Please note, UNICEF does not charge any fee during any stage of the process.

Women, trans, non-binary and gender diverse candidates meeting the requirements are strongly encouraged to apply.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion and encourages qualified candidates from all backgrounds including persons living with disabilities to apply.

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