Maestral International is Hiring a Affiliate Consultant: Apply by 30 Jan 2026

Organization: Maestral International

Position Title: Affiliate Consultant

Position type: Independent consultant

Location: Remote, Based in the Middle East and North Africa Region
Languages:Fluency in Arabic and English required

Maestral International

Maestral International, LLC is a globally recognized consulting firm dedicated to strengthening systems that protect, support, and empower vulnerable children and youth. We have worked across more than 100 countries with multilateral, bilateral, governmental, philanthropic, and NGO partners. Our technical portfolio spans child protection systems strengthening, care reform, social service workforce development, public finance for children, and child and adolescent wellbeing.

Grounded in evidence and guided by a commitment to children’s rights, Maestral helps clients and partners translate policy into practice, strengthen national systems, and build sustainable, responsive services for children and families. Learn more at Maestral’s website.

Maestral is seeking to expand its technical expert roster in the MENA region to support our growing portfolio in the region and to be the primary team of technical experts supporting projects with Maestral’s new MENA Regional Office in Amman, Jordan.

About Being a Maestral Affiliate

Maestral International is a team of independent consultants who are affiliated with the organization. Consultants work on a project basis, providing technical assistance to Maestral’s clients. Maestral consultants benefit from the shared organizational knowledge, learning opportunities, resources, administrative and management support, project opportunities, and the Maestral network. All consultants work remotely from their country of residence. No relocation is required.

Description

Maestral International is seeking technical experts based in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region with senior level experience in our three technical focus areas: Care Reform, Child and Adolescent Wellbeing, and Child Focused Social Policy. The selected experts will work as Maestral affiliates on future consulting projects in the region and globally.

Technical Hubs

Maestral is seeking experts focused on its three technical focus areas: Care Reform, Child and Adolescent Wellbeing, and Child Focused Social Policy.

• Care Reform – Maestral’s work on care reform focuses on the process of reforming systems to ensure safe, nurturing family care for children who are at risk of losing, or are already deprived of, family care. This is done through strengthening families and communities to care for their children and preventing unnecessary family separation, enhancing and scaling family-based alternative care options, reducing reliance on residential care and ensuring effective linkages between different system components, with the broader child protection and social protection systems, and across sectors.
• Child and Adolescent Wellbeing – Maestral approaches child and adolescent wellbeing through a rights-based, systems lens, grounded in protection, participation, and prevention. Maestral’s work on child and adolescent wellbeing focuses on child protection, child protection in emergencies, violence against children (VAC) in all its forms including Gender Based Violence (GBV) and online violence, family strengthening and parenting, access to justice for children, safeguarding, and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). Maestral’s projects support the assessment and strengthening of systems, capacity strengthening, research, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Child Focused Social Policy – Maestral works with our clients to help governments assess, develop, and properly resource policies that ensure the rights and needs of all children are met. We do this by helping clients shape inclusive systems across sectors such as social and child protection, education, and health. Some of our particular focus areas include social service workforce assessment and strengthening, cash plus care schemes, disability inclusion, early childhood development, costing of policies, and investment cases.

Consultant profile

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in at least one of Maestral’s technical focus areas (Care Reform, Child and Adolescent Wellbeing, Child Focused Social Policy)
• 5+ years of experience providing technical assistance via consulting projects an asset, prior experience leading consulting teams an added advantage
• Prior experience consulting or working with UN agencies considered an asset
• Ability to work independently as well as in teams
• A strong team player
• High level commitment to improved outcomes for all children
• Applies high ethical and professional standards to work
• Experience with and understanding of working in a diverse team
• Able to apply critical thinking to engage in analysis
• Willingness and availability to travel for short term project assignments
• Adaptive and flexible
• Ability to work in fast paced environment
• Language skills: Fluency in English and Arabic are required. Maestral conducts its internal work in English, and Arabic will be required on consulting projects

How to apply

Submit the following documents through the Maestral MENA Affiliate Consultant Applicationno later than 30 January 2025.

• Cover Letter
• CV
• Two professional references
• Two writing samples of relevant work that the applicant contributed to or solely authored (preferred)

All application materials must be submitted in English, and additional writing samples may be submitted in Arabic.

Questions

Please contact info@maestral.org with any questions about this position or Maestral International with the subject line: MENA Affiliate Consultant

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