Jobs

The Business Support Assistant will be expected to perform the following duties: support and participate in planning and implementation and integration of social protection activities with other programme activities under Koboko Field Office; work with the Social protection team to develop meaningful nutrition communication messaging aimed at promoting the consumption of more nutritious food; support in the identification, registration and mobilization of social protection beneficiaries as well as data analysisand visualization; ensure provision of timely updates on Social Protection and report on programme activities weekly and monthly; among others. 

The Climate Finance Expert will be responsible for: performing a pre-feasibility assessment in a format and template previously agreed with WFP and acceptable to the fund; designing the project theory of change and structure, defining project components, outcomes and outputs in coordination with the Country Office and relevant stakeholders; participating in community consultations to assess communities’ vulnerabilities, capacities and needs in terms of climate change adaptation, discuss activities’ ideas, collect information on gender roles and specific vulnerabilities/needs, collect information on environmental and social risks – in collaboration with gender and Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS) experts; among other tasks.

The services of an international Consultant are being sought after to support the design of Guinea-Bissau’s national social protection system, and particularly to undertake the drafting of the Policy and Strategy documents that will form the basis of the system. Working under the supervision of the UNICEF Representative and in close collaboration with leads from the Ministry of Women, Family and Social Solidarity as well as counterparts in UNFPA and WFP, the international consultant will draft and present for validation a national social protection policy and strategy for the period of 2024-2028. The international consultant will be supported by a national consultant whose tasks are also specified.

This consultancy aims to support the design and adoption of national social protection policy and strategy that will support Guinea-Bissau’s coordinated response to poverty and vulnerability, thus contributing to poverty reduction efforts. The national consultant will support the international consultant in various elements of the consultation and drafting process of the National Social Protection Policy (NSPP) and the National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) for 2024-2028 and identify the institutions that should be engaged in the conceptualization, validation and implementation of social protection Policy and Strategy.