Social Protection Consultant

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is the United Nations agency for the world of work. It sets international labour standards, promotes rights at work and encourages decent employment opportunities, the enhancement of social protection and the strengthening of dialogue on work-related issues. The ILO works in Cambodia and around the world to promote Decent Work – productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security, and human dignity – in order to reduce poverty and secure social justice. The work of the ILO in Cambodia is structured around the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP), which provides the basis for the ILO’s contribution to national development priorities in line with Cambodia Sustainable Development Goals (CSDGs) and the national development framework, and reflects the ILO’s commitment to the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF).

In Cambodia, under the UNDAF, the ILO is implementing two projects, namely on “Advancing Social Protection in Cambodia” and on “Improving synergies between social protection and Public Finance Management”, together with UNICEF and with support from the EU Delegation in Cambodia. The projects seek to extend social protection by ensuring that more women and men in Cambodia have access to a more effective, efficient, accountable and sustainable gender-responsive social protection and by improving the design and monitoring of SP programmes. The projects also focus on building capacity within the social protection institutions and sub-national entities in Cambodia to ensure that these entities are scaled up in terms of their capabilities and capacities to deliver the outcomes of the projects and a more effective and quality service to the population in Cambodia.

The Consultant on Social Protection will directly support the implementation of both projects. As such, the Consultant will be collaborating with the social protection project team consisting of international and national experts. When required the consultant will be supported by other experts with more specific expertise, including ILO experts from the Decent Work Team in ILO Bangkok and SOCPRO Headquarters.