Closing date: 03 Dec 2014
1.Background: Each UNICEF Country Office will complete their 2014 Country Office Annual Report (COAR) on the web-portal. All COARs will be downloaded at Headquarters at the end January 2015. In compliance with the Information Disclosure Policy for improved organizational transparency, all annual reports from Country Offices will be made available on the internet (www.unicef.org). Before posting, the COARs must be reviewed for reputational risk statements and edited for quality assurance. The editing process will identify narrative which may require revision from a reputational risk perspective and will correct language and grammatical issues, in addition to identifying incomplete narrative and inconsistencies within the report.
The COARs provide an analysis of performance and results in relation to the Country Office’s work and management plans. In addition, the reports provide important input to the Executive Director’s Annual Report to the UNICEF Executive Board on progress against the Strategic Plan and on other forms of organisational reporting and accountability. As publically available documents, they also provide important information on the work of the Organization to UNICEF supporters and interested members of the public.
2.Purpose and key objectives:To complete the task of reviewing and editing 126 Country Office Annual Reports for 2014, five editors will be contracted on a short-term basis by the Data, Research and Policy unit within Headquarters.
Editors are tasked with the editing and reviewing of the COARs for: the identification of narrative which may require revision from a reputational risk perspective; the revision of language and grammatical issues; the identification of inconsistencies and any incomplete narrative. The changes carried by out by the editors in ‘track changes’ will form the basis for review and revision of the reports.
3. Expected results: Editors are expected to:
- Read and review all components of the annual reports (MS Word).
- Identify narrative that may be sensitive from a reputational risk perspective and make alternative suggestions for changes.
- Edit the reports, in ‘track changes’, to ensure that the language and grammar are of good quality, without changing in any way the intended meaning of the narrative.
- Assure consistency and quality in the annual reports.
4. Estimated duration and start date:Efforts are made to balance the quality and length of COARs allocated to editors, to ensure an equitable distribution of COARs between editors. A thorough reading, review and edit of one annual report normally takes between 6 to 8 hours. This assignment has to be carried out within an eight week period, between the 2nd February 2015 through 3rd April 2015.
5. Key competences, technical background, and experience required:
a) Advanced university degree preferred.
b) Excellent English writing and editing skills following UN standards and styles of writing.
c) At least 5 years of experience in professional editing in English with prior experience in writing/editing development literature.
d) Proven computer literacy in using MS Word and its edit features.
e) Previous experience of editing UNICEF documents and publication products an asset
f) A good background knowledge of UNICEF’s mandate and mission as well as programmes an asset.
How to apply:
Qualified candidates are requested to submit a cover letter, CV and P-11 form (which can be downloaded from our website at http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/P11.doc ) together with a sample of a piece of work edited by them to pdconsultants@unicef.orgwith subject line “***Consultant, 2014 COAR Editing***” by 3rd December 2014.
The rate quotations should be provided on a ‘per report’ basis, with the understanding that on average the report will be about 40 pages (range being 25 to 55 pages) and will take between six and eight hours. Applications submitted without a rate ‘per report’ will not be considered.
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