Overview
Consultant to lead the technical revision of the Alternative Care in Emergencies (ACE) Toolkit, ensuring it reflects current evidence, best practices, and practitioner needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Review relevant materials including the ACE Toolkit (2013), ACE Survey 2025 results, and existing guidance.
- Develop an inception note with an annotated outline, methodology, revision approach, and workplan.
- Revise and rewrite the ACE Toolkit, ensuring up-to-date evidence, terminology, standards, and integration of updated case management tools.
- Update, remove, or add tools and templates based on feedback and current standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to review revised content and incorporate feedback.
- Produce a finalized ACE Toolkit, including narrative text, updated tools, implementation guidance, an Executive Summary, and a Quick Reference Guide.
Required Experience
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in child protection in humanitarian settings.
- Proven expertise and experience directly implementing alternative care and UASC programming in humanitarian contexts.
- Proven experience working at global or inter‑agency level, including engagement with UN agencies, NGOs, and coordination mechanisms.
- Demonstrated authorship of technical guidance, toolkits, global standards, or policy documents.
- Strong familiarity with the ACE Toolkit, UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS), UASC Handbook and toolkit, IM, BIP and data protection.
- Demonstrated experience in synthesizing diverse feedback cohesively.
- Ability to produce practical field guidance.
- Ability to integrate equity, disability inclusion, and adolescent‑specific considerations into technical guidance.
- Demonstrated ability to manage work independently, deliver to deadlines, and balance technical ambition with realistic scope and time constraints.
- Ability to work collaboratively and respectfully within an inter‑agency, consensus‑driven environment.
- Prior involvement in the ACE Toolkit or Alliance working groups (desirable).
- Experience working in multiple emergency contexts (desirable).
- Experience with participatory research or large-scale consultation processes (desirable).
