National Consultant - Social Protection

Develops and tests a public-private partnership model to extend the Mother and Child Benefit Programme in Bangladesh's tea gardens, coordinating government and industry partners, assessing wider scale-up of cash-plus support and producing an evidence-based design for implementation.

• Develop and test a public-private partnership model to expand the Mother and Child Benefit Programme in tea gardens
• Coordinate implementation with the Department of Women Affairs, Bangladesh Tea Association and district and Upazila health offices
• Provide technical support for programme delivery at national and subnational levels
• Assess the feasibility of scaling UNICEF-supported MCBP cash-plus services to other locations
• Produce a design document for wider implementation of the cash-plus model

• Master's degree in Social Sciences, Public Policy, Public Administration, Disaster Management, Development Studies or a related field
• Minimum five years of progressively responsible experience in social protection, cash transfers or social-sector programmes
• Fluency in Bengali and English
• Bangladeshi nationality
• Availability for duty travel

• Contract duration: 8.5 months
• Office-based engagement with required travel