• We’re looking for an experienced qualified Lawyer to join Avantia on a freelance/ consultancy basis to spearhead the negotiation of investment-related NDAs, Engagement Letters, joinder agreements and non-reliance letters. • You’ll manage every phase of the contract process - from initial review and negotiation, guided by client playbooks, all the way through to document execution. • Working closely with fellow global Avantia lawyers and paralegals, you'll dive into fast-paced, high-volume negotiations on pre-M&A contracts (mainly ELs and investment related NDAs), collaborating directly with counterparties while ensuring rapid turnaround times.

Role Description The Principal Advisor is a senior transformation leader within WWT Engineering Services. You will shape strategic technology-led change for customers — from presales architecture visioning to delivery governance — ensuring that every engagement drives measurable, business-aligned transformation outcomes. You blend technology strategy, enterprise architecture, presales solutioning, delivery excellence, and organisational transformation. As a senior partner to Sales and Delivery, you ensure the solutions we propose are strategically grounded, technically sound, and executable in real-world customer environments. Key Responsibilities - Technology Transformation Strategy & Architecture Leadership: - Lead the development of modernisation strategies and technology transformation roadmaps across cloud, data, security, workplace, networking, automation, and platform domains. - Connect business strategy to architectural direction — framing current-state challenges and defining target-state architectures, capabilities, operating models, and value realisation paths. - Facilitate executive-level discussions that simplify complex technology landscapes and drive alignment on transformation priorities. - Presales Leadership & Outcome-Driven Solutioning: - Own the transformation narrative in pursuit cycles, developing outcome-focused proposals, architectural options, and multi-phase execution plans. - Translate problem statements into scalable, secure, cost-effective architectures and implementation pathways that balance innovation with risk. - Drive end-to-end presales solutioning across ES&A, Consulting, EA, Practices, and ATC — ensuring scope, stages, risks, governance, and success measures are defined from the outset. - Engage confidently with C-level and senior technical leaders to shape demand and align on strategic direction. - Delivery Excellence & Transformation Governance: - Provide senior oversight throughout delivery to protect the architectural intent, transformation roadmap, and business-outcome commitments. - Operate the Two-in-the-Box model with PMO to control scope, risks, dependencies, quality gates, and stakeholder communications. - Lead or support transformation governance forums (steering committees, architectural boards) to ensure alignment, transparency, and executive confidence. - Champion measurable value: operating-model change, adoption, risk reduction, performance uplift, and transformation KPIs. - Organisational Change, Adoption & Operating-Model Shift: - Ensure technology transformation is matched by people, process, and organisational evolution, including role definition, capability uplift, training, and embedding new ways of working. - Guide customers through the impacts of modernisation (e.g., cloud operating models, agile DevOps adoption, automation-driven processes, zero-trust uplift). - Partner with delivery and consulting teams to ensure transformation outcomes are achieved and sustained beyond project completion. - Practice Development, Offerings & Thought Leadership: - Lead or co-lead development of new ES&A transformation offerings — patterns, methodologies, accelerators, reference architectures, value frameworks. - Strengthen repeatable approaches for strategy-to-execution, discovery-to-roadmap, and presales-to-delivery continuity. - Mentor architects, consultants, and engineers to raise the organisation’s capability in transformation consulting and architecture-led delivery. - Contribute to internal thought leadership, enablement, and knowledge-sharing across global ES teams. Qualifications - 10+ years guiding complex technology transformations across enterprises (cloud, network/security, workplace, data/AI, automation, platform modernisation). - Proven experience shaping strategic transformation roadmaps, enterprise-wide architectures, and multi-phase programmes. - Strong presales and consulting expertise — discovery, problem framing, value articulation, storytelling, positioning, and commercial shaping. - Demonstrated ability to assure large, multi-domain deliveries and maintain alignment to architectural intent and business outcomes. - Experience leading governance, influencing senior executives, and managing risk across cross-functional delivery teams. Requirements - Enterprise Architecture & Modernisation Patterns: cloud operating models, network transformation, zero trust, workplace re-platforming, automation pipelines, data platforms. - Consulting Craft: hypothesis-driven framing, structured storytelling, facilitation, executive influencing. - Transformation Governance: RAID, change control, benefits realisation, roadmap tracking, organisational readiness. - Commercial Acumen: estimation, pricing, risk modelling, commercial guardrails, SOW clarity. - Change & Adoption: capability uplift, service introduction, operating-model change, workforce readiness. - Leadership: guiding multidisciplinary teams, mentoring senior technologists, driving cross-functional alignment. Measures of Success - Transformation proposals that result in strategic multi-phase wins with strong executive sponsorship. - Engagements delivered on time, on budget, and aligned to target-state architectures and outcomes. - Increased adoption of modernised capabilities and operating models within the customer organisation. - Repeatable transformation assets and patterns adopted across ES&A. - Observable uplift in architecture, delivery, and consulting capability across the team. Travel Requirement Travel up to 25–50% depending on engagement and customer needs.

Role Description The Senior Advisor is a business‑outcome–focused consulting leader within WWT Engineering Services. You will shape and win opportunities alongside the Principal Advisor and Sales, then ensure delivery excellence by guiding engineering and architecture teams to execute against clearly defined outcomes, scope, and success measures. The role blends presales leadership, solution design, delivery governance, and practice development to drive transformational results across technology and organisational change. Key Responsibilities - Presales & Solution Leadership - Lead customer discovery, outcome definition, and value hypothesis shaping; translate business drivers into feasible architectures, delivery approaches, and investment cases (TCO/ROI), working in lock‑step with the Principal Advisor. - Orchestrate solution strategy, estimates, risk and dependency analysis, and the creation of SoWs/proposals with clear scope, deliverables, and acceptance criteria; ensure proposals balance customer value with delivery and commercial risk. - Facilitate workshops, PoVs/PoCs, and ATC‑enabled evaluations to evidence approach and de‑risk decisions prior to commitment. - Delivery Excellence & Governance - Provide day‑to‑day solution ownership during execution, ensuring fidelity to the sold intent and measurable outcomes; partner through the Two‑in‑the‑Box model with PMO for planning, RAID management, change control, and stakeholder comms. - Guide architects and engineers across discovery, design, build, transition, and operate phases; ensure methodical hand‑offs, quality, and standards adherence. - Maintain continuity from presales to delivery by supporting or deputising the Principal Advisor as needed to preserve context and reduce delivery risk. - Business‑Outcome Solutioning for Technology & Organisational Transformation - Shape target operating models, capability roadmaps, and transformation backlogs that span people, process, technology, and data; align solution increments and milestones to business KPIs. - Advise on change enablement (communications, training, adoption) to accelerate time‑to‑value and sustain outcomes beyond go‑live. - Practice Development & Reuse - Contribute to ES&A offerings, methods, templates, and accelerators; convert bespoke engagement work into reusable artefacts and collateral. - Mentor consultants, architects, and engineers; uplift presales discipline inside ES and raise delivery maturity through coaching and reviews. - Cross‑Functional Collaboration - Partner with Sales, TD&E, PMO, Regional Management, and other delivery verticals to ensure coherent account strategies and smooth execution. - Act as a trusted adviser to senior customer stakeholders; present complex topics clearly, challenge constructively, and influence decisions at executive level. Qualifications - Essential - Proven track record (typically 8–12+ years) in technology consulting/architecture and delivery leadership across enterprise programmes. - Strong presales experience: discovery facilitation, solution shaping, estimation, SoW/proposal authorship, and risk/commercial governance. - Demonstrated delivery governance in complex, multi‑workstream engagements; adept at RAID, change control, and quality assurance alongside PMO. - Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills; able to translate between business and technical audiences and drive consensus. - Desired - Depth in one or more domains (e.g., cloud, networking, security, workplace, data/AI, platforms) with the breadth to integrate across the stack. - Familiarity with operating model design and organisational change methods. - Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, ITIL, PMP/PRINCE2, cloud/provider credentials) are a plus. Measures of Success - Presales impact: qualified pipeline influenced, win rate, proposal quality, estimate accuracy, time‑to‑proposal. - Delivery outcomes: on‑scope/on‑budget/on‑time engagement delivery, outcome attainment vs. success criteria, change request hygiene, risk burn‑down. - Customer value: CSAT/NPS, executive sponsorship strength, referenceability. - Practice health: reuse contributions, offering/accelerator uptake, mentoring and capability uplift across ES&A. Working Model - Operate in close partnership with the Principal Advisor through presales and into delivery to maintain context and ensure outcome continuity; collaborate day‑to‑day with engineers and architects to govern scope, quality, and risks. - Engage across discovery, design, build, transition, and operate phases in line with ES delivery methodology and WWT standards.

Working arrangement - Remote work UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling. UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package. Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF. TERMS OF REFERENCE To support a participatory consultation process aligned with new corporate guidance, UNICEF Moldova seeks to engage an international consultant to draft the next Country Programme Document (CPD), based on the Strategic Prioritisation Outcomes, the EPR, and other relevant documents/reports, which will define priorities and a new/revised theory of change (TOC). The consultant is expected to support UNICEF Moldova in compiling, reviewing and drafting a coherent, evidenceinformed, child-rights-centred CPD which articulates the programme rationale and structure for 2028-2032. The process for CPD development should include: a) Evidence Synthesis: Reflect on existing and emerging evidence to identify child rights deprivations and the bottlenecks that cause them. (Summarise evidence as a synthesis in a 30-page document, with information also reflected under Situation of Children's Rights - SOCR Template) b) Results-Based Management (RBM) and Prioritisation: Select the most critical deprivations and bottlenecks to be addressed in the new country programme through a facilitated RBM process (including a 2-day workshop walking through the RBM process) c) Develop a Theory of Change: Define what should change about child rights deprivations, and how to catalyse this change (should be included as part of the 2-day RBM workshop) d) Results and Resources Framework (RRF): Capture the specific contributions of UNICEF, including through our implementing partners, towards achieving the envisaged change per outcome area e) In addition, the CPD needs to be guided by the UNICEF Strategic Plan (2026-2029), Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Concluding Observations on the fourth and fifth periodic report and List of issues prior to submission of the combined sixth and seventh periodic reports of the Republic of Moldova of Moldova and current Simplified CRC reporting process, and aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), when a draft becomes available (end 2026) Scope of Work Under the leadership of the Deputy Representative, and with support from the UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office, the consultant will support the Country Office in preparing an evidence-informed, child-rights-centred, equity-driven CPD which articulates the programme rationale and structure for 2028-2032. Guided by the latest procedure for the development of country programmes, as well as following the Office of the Executive Board (OSEB) CPD standard template, the consultant is expected to support with the following specific tasks: - Synthesise the latest evidence on the situation of children in Moldova, with a focus on the Deep Dive analysis developed for the European Child Guarantee, and other analyses and evidence-generated products - Through an experiential learning approach, facilitate a workshop on CPD Strategic Programme formulation, including RBM, working towards strategic priorities and TOC - Provide coaching support to the CO for refining and finalising the TOCs and developing the Results and Resource Framework (RRF) - Drafting and facilitating the validation of the Country Programme Document (CPD) package, including the RRF and Costed Evaluation Plan (CEP) - Develop suitable presentations on the draft CPD for a) Development Partners, b) Government, c) Civil Society, d) Children and Adolescents, and e) Private Sector - Producing the final draft CPD package after incorporating feedback from validation workshops with key stakeholders and the Regional Office - Submission of final CPD package (CPD document, Country Programme Briefing PowerPoint) The consultant will have face-to-face consultations with programme sections, which will be agreed upon at the inception stage. The consultant is expected to work off-site when reviewing documents, developing an inception work plan, facilitating RRF development, and drafting CPD products. Under the guidance of the Deputy Representative, the Monitoring & Evaluation (CRM) Specialist, and the Representative, the consultant will pull together the various pieces of information into a coherent, equity-focused Country Programme Document. The consultant is expected to proactively consult with all UNICEF sections to ensure adequate coverage of all current outcomes and cross-cutting areas. If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: TMC0001647 External ToR 2.pdf Minimum requirements - Master's degree in Social science, Public Administration, International Relations or any related field. - Proven knowledge of and a minimum of 10 years of experience in strategic planning processes - Proven experience facilitating high-level workshops in strategic planning, such as strategic prioritization workshops for UN agencies and/or Resident Coordinator Offices - Strong technical competencies and experience in developing Theories of Change, SMART results and a high impact result framework - Proven experience of developing/preparing strategic documents for international organizations, including UNICEF, other UN agencies and/or Resident Coordinator Offices - Strong analytical and writing skills, required to compile and consolidate various inputs and produce technical and concise documents - Experience in the Europe and Central Asia region will be considered a strong asset - Fluency in English is required For every Child, you demonstrate... UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status. UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance. UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially. Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System): - An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV) - Cover letter - A separate financial proposal TMC0001647 FINANCIAL PROPOSAL.docx Remarks: UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information. All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here