Back International Consultant: Social and Behavioral Change Consultant

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Hiring Office:

UNFPA Timor-Leste

Purpose of consultancy:

UNFPA seeks an experienced professional to drive advocacy efforts, communications strategies, and behavior change initiatives to promote reproductive health, gender equality, and population development worldwide and to contribute to achieve the overall goals of advocacy strategic intervention to influence policy and mobilize support for UNFPA's objectives

Scope of work:

(Description of services, activities, or outputs)

Under the overall guidance of the UNFPA Representative and in close collaboration with the UNFPA Assistant Representative and the Program Team, the consultant will:

• Co-lead the implementation of social and behavioural change partnerships, together with program managers;
• Design and implement communication strategies to enhance public awareness and engagement with UNFPA’s initiatives;
• Lead behavior change campaigns aimed at promoting positive societal attitudes and actions towards sexual and reproductive health and gender equality, including “upstream” SBCC.

  The following tasks are to be carried out in the consultancy:

  1. Implementation of social and behavioural change partnerships
     • Provide technical accompaniment to the roll-out of the social and behavioral change for maternal health project with academia;
     • Assume technical leadership of private sector partnerships in social and behavioral change campaigns.
     • Identify key advocacy opportunities and create impactful campaigns to influence policy decisions and societal attitudes toward specific issues.
       1. Provide technical leadership in amplifying programmatic impact through social and behavioural change strategies:
          • Design and oversee behavior change initiatives rooted in evidence-based approaches, aiming to drive societal change related to specific thematic areas.
          • Evaluate the impact of communication strategies on behavior change, conducting assessments and adjusting interventions for increased effectiveness.
          • Harmonize and uniform key messages to end gender-based violence including harmonizing the content of the various training modules developed in past GBV projects
          • Coordinate and provide substantive technical inputs to the SRH National Campaign to end maternal mortality and unmet need for family planning
            1. Management of external communications and advocacy:
               • Develop and implement communication plans to disseminate key messages and advocacy goals across various platforms and audiences.
               • Create compelling content and materials (e.g., press releases, reports, social media content) to convey advocacy messages and initiatives effectively.
               • Manage community engagement of UNFPA Timor-Leste
                 1. Collaboration and Partnership Building:
                    • Forge partnerships with external stakeholders, NGOs, governments, and community organizations to amplify advocacy efforts and leverage expertise in behavior change communication.
                    • Coordinate with internal teams to ensure alignment of communication, advocacy, and behavior change strategies for maximum impact.
                    • Identify and support fundraising opportunities for social and behavioral change
                      1. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting:
                         • Develop metrics and frameworks to monitor and evaluate the success of advocacy, communication, and behavior change initiatives.
                         • Provide regular reports and recommendations based on data-driven insights to enhance program effectiveness and outreach.

                           Duration and working schedule:

                           100 days (from February-July 2024)

                           Place where services are to be delivered:

                           UNFPA Timor-Leste Country Office

                           Delivery dates and how work will be delivered (e.g. electronic, hard copy etc.):

                           📚 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝗯 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯! 🌍🤝 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗡𝗛𝗖𝗥, 𝗪𝗙𝗣, 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗙, 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦𝗦, 𝗨𝗡𝗙𝗣𝗔, 𝗜𝗢𝗠 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀! 🌐

                           ⚠️ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰: 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐖!

                           Contract Period: 100 days spread over 6 months from February – July 2024

                           Deliverable

                           Target Date

                           %

                           Upstream SBCC (external communication and advocacy plan) for SRH, GBV and Youth for 2024

                           15 February 2024

                           10%

                           Organization of advocacy activities for International Women’s Day 2024

                           8 March 2024

                           10%

                           Execution/ full roll-out of family planning campaign in Timor-Leste, including development of products as agreed with partners.

                           20 March 2024

                           25%

                           Mapping of donor landscape for SBCC

                           1 April 2024

                           10%