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Programme Associate (GS-6), FT, PG – CEED, New York HQ #00043628

Job no: 577885

Position sort: Fixed Term Appointment

Location: United States

Division/Equivalent: Programme

School/Unit: Programme Group

Department/Office: Programme Group, Director’s Office

Categories: Programme Management

UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to avoid wasting kids’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by adolescence.

At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and happy with what we do. Promoting the rights of each youngster is not only a job – it’s a calling.

UNICEF is a spot the place careers are constructed: we provide our workers various alternatives for private {and professional} growth that may assist them develop a satisfying profession whereas delivering on a rewarding mission. We delight ourselves on a tradition that helps workers thrive, coupled with a gorgeous compensation and advantages package deal.

Visit our web site to study extra about what we do at UNICEF.

For each youngster, dedication…

Disasters, local weather change, and environmental degradation current important and escalating threats to the well-being of youngsters globally, jeopardizing the progress achieved in youngster survival and growth. Over a billion kids are uncovered to extreme dangers from local weather and environmental hazards comparable to heatwaves, floods, and cyclones. Consequently, it’s crucial for international locations to determine climate-resilient, low-carbon social providers encompassing water and sanitation, healthcare, training, vitamin, social safety, and youngster safety to deal with present threats and put together for more and more extreme impacts.

In alignment with our dedication to guard kids and younger individuals worldwide, UNICEF is launching its Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP) 2023 – 2030. The SCAP prioritizes pressing local weather motion by systematic change in partnership with private and non-private sectors to prioritize the wants of youngsters and younger individuals and construct their resilience to the local weather threats at hand. The SCAP strives to mainstream sustainability and local weather motion each internally and externally, by defending the lives, well being and well-being of youngsters and their communities; empowering kids with developmental alternatives and abilities; and decreasing emissions and the environmental footprint inside UNICEF.

The GS6 Programme Associate’s contribution goes past the HQ group and contributes to the profitable supply of the organization-wide SCAP. She/he’ll present administrative and funds help to your entire CEED Team and supply government help to the Director of CEED.

How are you able to make a distinction?

Join Our Team as a Programme Associate in Climate Action!

Are you captivated with sustainability, local weather motion, and making a distinction for kids worldwide? As a Programme Associate on UNICEF’s Climate, Energy, Environment, & Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED) Team, you’ll play an important function in supporting key initiatives and guaranteeing the efficient and well timed supply of packages aligned with UNICEF’s mission.

Collaborating carefully with the Director, Senior Advisor, CEED Technical Team Leads, and exterior companions, you’ll contribute to advancing UNICEF’s Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP) and its sources throughout areas and divisions. In this dynamic function, you may monitor milestones, present common progress updates, and provide suggestions to maintain actions on observe, serving to to drive impactful change for communities across the globe.

If you are a proactive skilled desperate to help important workstreams and foster collaboration inside a world group devoted to local weather and sustainability, this function is the proper alternative for you!.

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have to…

Budget Monitoring and Management Support

• Carry out transactions in VISION and Insight pertaining to grants and programme-related gadgets for CEED together with however not restricted to registering grant allotments and monitoring grants and expenditures
• Regularly monitoring budgets and monetary expenditures of the CEED group by using relevant instruments, guaranteeing compliance with UNICEF guidelines and laws, conserving supervisor knowledgeable and suggested on actions for resolution and/or comply with up.
• Working with the P1 Programme Officer and different help workers, put together periodic or ad-hoc monetary studies regarding CEED and donors to help the workplace in optimizing use of programme funds. This contains sources which are allotted throughout areas or different divisions for the organization-wide supply of the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP).
• Works with grant managers to determine funds trackers in keeping with Grant/Project Outputs and recurrently monitor balances / guarantee prices are in keeping with the outputs and never going over funds, particularly when a grant could also be utilized by a number of group members for a number of workstreams.

Procurement & Contracts Management

• Regularly updates the CEED Team with superior discover/ planning on company deadlines and processes (together with periodic course of adjustments) for contracts and procurement
• Maintains contract monitoring and enough earmarking of funds for ongoing or new contracts for the CEED Team
• Facilitates the processing of price distributions for workers contracts, contracts for consultants and exterior companions that present a service to the CEED group, working in shut collaboration with the CSC, POH, HR and different related sections. This contains conducting a high quality assessment of TORs, consolidating and storing supporting paperwork for contract requests, and making obligatory logistical preparations.
• Guides managers within the technique of PCA/SSAs in keeping with the insurance policies and steerage issued by FRG, provide division and DHR.
• Maintains up-to-date vendor lists, companions, and marketing consultant rosters.

Support to workplace precedence setting, planning and operations

• Supports the graceful working of the every day operations of your entire CEED Team, which is globally dispersed throughout a number of timezones with respect to communications, conferences and work circulate; identifies advanced or delicate topics, and contacts, for particular therapy in addition to precedence points that should be delivered to the supervisor’s consideration.
• Provides data and steerage to workers in any respect ranges to make sure understanding of processes and deadlines.
• Support Team planning, together with strategic opinions, journey plans and coordination, and administrative help necessities, calendar and assembly administration
• Undertakes every other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Executive Support & Correspondence Management for the CEED Director

• Maintains Director’s calendar and arranges conferences
• Supports with organizing high-level conferences, together with taking the lead for the finalization of the assembly agenda, invites, the manufacturing and distribution of documentation. Distribute assembly studies and knowledge and guarantee follows-up on required actions
• Organizes official journey for the Director
• Support Director’s workplace engagement actions, together with the planning, coordination and execution of inner and exterior conferences and occasions. Support the preparation of agendas, shows, briefing notes, and every other materials required by the Director.
• Follow-up on important duties requiring the Director’s motion and/or approval, together with correspondence with Offices of the ED/DED/Directors, and coordinating with workers members and different workplaces as required. Draft correspondence on a wide range of issues on behalf of the Director.
• Contribute to logistical preparations for occasions involving senior administration participation, working carefully with the assistants of different Directors.

The following minimal necessities:

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• Completion of secondary training in public administration, finance, worldwide relations, political science, or one other related technical area is required.
• For this place, a bachelor’s diploma from a acknowledged tutorial establishment in a related area might substitute three years of associated work expertise. * A grasp’s diploma might substitute extra two years is required.

Work Experience

• A minimal of 6 years of related administrative providers, funds administration, coordination or clerical work expertise is required.
• Non-US candidates MUST be in possession of an current US G4 visa or be a US everlasting resident/citizen.
• Staff on stretch assignments holding G4 Visa in NYHQ aren’t eligible.

Desirables/Assets:

• Experience with UNICEF/UN is a powerful asset.
• Training and expertise utilizing MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and different UNICEF software program comparable to SAP/VISION, SharePoint; data of built-in administration data methods required.
• Knowledge of UNICEF administrative insurance policies and procedures is an asset.
• Very robust organizational, planning and prioritizing abilities and skills.
• Well-developed sense of accuracy and a spotlight to element.
• Ability to work proactively and independently underneath time strain.
• Ability to deal patiently and tactfully with exterior companions.
• High sense of confidentiality, initiative and logic.
• Ability to work successfully with individuals of various nationwide and cultural background.

Language Requirements

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every part we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

• Builds and maintains partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
• Drive to attain outcomes for impression
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others

Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our world workforce should replicate the variety of these kids. The UNICEF household is dedicated to incorporate everybody, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

We provide a variety of advantages to our workers, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.

UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals underneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all kids.

All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer extra data to conduct a background examine.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station is required for IP positions and shall be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may additionally be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both should be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice shall be canceled.

Remarks

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.

Government staff who’re thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the proper to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance will not be obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.

UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing charge at any stage of its recruitment, choice, and hiring processes (i.e., software stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and coaching). UNICEF won’t ask for candidates’ checking account data.

All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the stage of the submit within the related practical space, or an inner/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the submit, with out evaluation of different candidates.

Additional details about working for UNICEF will be discovered right here.

Advertised: Dec 13 2024 Eastern Standard Time

Application shut: Dec 22 2024 Eastern Standard Time