Consultant: European Poverty Watch 2025

Position description

About the European Poverty Watch

Each year, the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) publishes its European Poverty Watch report: a unique, evidence-based snapshot of poverty and social exclusion across Europe.

Grounded in national research from our members and the voices of people experiencing poverty (PEP), the Poverty Watch is EAPN’s flagship advocacy tool to:

• Expose the structural causes of poverty,

• Provide people-centred and rights-based policy solutions,

• Amplify grassroots and lived experience perspectives,

• Influence EU and national anti-poverty strategies.

Focus of the 2025 Edition

Provisional title: Promoting and Strengthening National and Local Anti-Poverty Strategies (NAPS & LAPS)

The 2025 edition will provide:

• A mapping and analysis of existing NAPS & LAPS across EU Member States and neighbouring countries,

• A review of key processes, content, milestones, and governance mechanisms,

• A spotlight on gaps, promising practices, and people-centred approaches,

• Policy recommendations to embed NAPS & LAPS into the upcoming EU Anti-Poverty Strategy,

• Insights from people with lived experience, as reported through national Poverty Watch contributions.

Objectives of the Consultancy

The selected consultant (or research centre) will:

• Review and analyse 20+ national Poverty Watch reports (20–30 pages each),

• Produce a comparative table of existing and missing NAPS & LAPS (by early October 2025),

• Draft the full European Poverty Watch report (max. 30 pages, Word format),

• Coordinate a consultation process with EAPN members and secretariat (one round of feedback),

• Deliver the final version by the first week of January 2026.

Essential Qualifications

• Ability to analyse and synthesise complex policy reports material,

• Experience working with social justice grassroots, NGOs and/or in European or national membership-based organisations,

• Experience working on advocacy for research in an EU or national policy context, especially in analysis related to social and economic justice,

• Experience working with national civil society organisations tackling poverty and social exclusion, discrimination or social injustice in general,

• Excellent writing, communication, organisation and coordination skills,

• Both written and oral fluency in English,

• Computer literacy,

• Ability to cope with competing deadlines.

Ideal Qualifications (Preferred, but not Required)

• Experience in developing National and/or Local Action plans for vulnerable groups,

• Knowledge of social policies, anti-poverty and social exclusion, fiscal justice principles and sustainable welfare state concepts,

• Expertise in social protection schemes in Europe in particular, experience conducting research and analysis on the economic and social impacts of fiscal policies is a plus,

• EU Policy Proficiency: Previous work in EU policy contexts, particularly concerning the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan and the EU Semester, is preferred,

• Good understanding of intersectionality applied in qualitative and quantitative research to understand the lived experience of people in groups experiencing disadvantage.

Application instructions

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