UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 international locations and territories, we work for each little one, in all places, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means hand over.
The influence of rising poverty and inequality is a serious impediment for the belief of youngsters’s rights. Despite modest, however vital progress by way of little one poverty discount, kids proceed to be extra prone to fall into poverty than adults. Today’s kids are rising up in a world beset by a number of, close to-simultaneous, interdependent shocks, stemming from the fallout of illness outbreaks, violent conflicts, local weather change and environmental degradation, and skyrocketing prices of residing.
UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. In the face of those more and more difficult atmosphere, underneath the framework of its new Strategic Plan (SP), 2022–2025, UNICEF’s Social Policy and Social Protection (SPSP) Programme is dedicated to lowering little one poverty and increasing inclusive social safety for all kids and adolescents together with these residing in humanitarian context.
The publish sits throughout the Social Policy and Social Protection Programme workforce in UNICEF HQ, contributes to UNICEF’s strategic outcomes on little one poverty, social safety, public finance, and native governance. The Chief Public Finance and Local Governance reviews to the Chief Economist/ Director Social Policy and Social Protection in HQ. The Chief leads particular GA5 Strategic Plan outcomes on little one poverty by way of elevated and enhanced public financing for little one-delicate social programmes and strengthening native governance constructions.
For each little one, life freed from poverty….
The Chief of Public Finance and Local Governance performs a pivotal position in driving UNICEF’s mission to enhance investments and outcomes for kids and their households. This place offers visionary management, professional recommendation, and technical help in advancing finance for kids and native governance, whereas guiding governments to strengthen public monetary administration, financial and social insurance policies, and governance techniques. The Chief additionally leads the event of strategic partnerships, together with South-South collaborations, and oversees initiatives in techniques strengthening, advocacy, information sharing, and innovation to attain impactful and sustainable ends in alignment with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan.
How are you able to make a distinction?
Programmatic Leadership, Technical Support, and Capacity Building
Provide strategic course and technical steering for UNICEF’s world work on public finance and native governance, growing operational instruments and methodologies to help area places of work in diagnosing challenges, analyzing knowledge, and providing impactful options. Lead efforts to design and implement social, financial, and fiscal insurance policies, hyperlink them with context-particular analyses, and monitor progress to refine social coverage and social safety packages. Build world proof and advocacy efforts to boost the visibility of kid poverty and social exclusion whereas monitoring world financial and demographic tendencies to information UNICEF nation groups in shaping efficient responses. Additionally, establish world capability-constructing wants and set up coaching initiatives to handle them in collaboration with regional places of work.
Strategic Partnership, Advocacy, and Communication
Strengthen and broaden UNICEF’s world partnerships and alliances on public finance and native governance whereas enhancing the group’s fame as a information chief in these areas. Represent UNICEF in world boards and excessive-profile occasions, disseminating advocacy messages and elevating the visibility of public finance and native governance in world communication initiatives. Develop and maintain useful resource partnerships and mobilization efforts to help headquarters, regional, and nation-degree work in these essential areas, guaranteeing alignment with UNICEF’s broader advocacy and programming targets.
Knowledge Management and Managerial Leadership
Advance proof era and information sharing on little one-delicate public finance and native governance, fostering systemic knowledge assortment, revolutionary analysis, and influence evaluations to tell programming and SDG monitoring. Facilitate lesson-sharing by way of networks, tutorial collaborations, and communities of observe, whereas holding UNICEF up to date on worldwide literature and coverage debates. Ensure efficient administration of the Public Finance and Local Governance workforce, integrating approaches throughout UNICEF’s Finance for Children Framework, strategic plans, and packages to maximise influence on lowering little one poverty and social exclusion.
Managerial Leadership
Contribute to the conceptual integration of UNICEF’s public finance and native governance coverage and programming approaches, together with with the implementation of UNICEF’s Finance for Children Framework, throughout the strategic plan and throughout the group, together with guaranteeing efficient hyperlinks throughout the Social Policy and Social Protection workforce between little one poverty/inequity analyses, social safety, public finance revolutionary finance, and native governance, to maximise the efficacy of insurance policies and packages in lowering little one poverty and social exclusion.
Ensure efficient administration of the Public Finance and Local Governance workforce, workplans, budgets and human sources.
Prepare reviews on progress in UNICEF’s engagement in public finance and native governance and put together briefs on the topic for senior administration and the Executive Board.
The following minimal necessities:
Education:
An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or one other related technical area.
Work Experience:
- A minimal of ten years of related skilled expertise is required in all features of programme administration, and/or advisory help, within the public finance and native governance leading to acknowledged experience within the technical space..
Desirables/Assets
- Experience in administration multidisciplinary groups and partnerships.
- Experience working in a growing nation is taken into account as a powerful asset.
- Background and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account as a powerful asset.
- Relevant expertise in a UN system company or group and/or International Financial Institution (IFI) is taken into account as an asset.
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English is required. Working information of one other UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) is taken into account an asset.
For each Child, you show…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the pieces we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…
- Builds and maintains partnerships
- Demonstrates self-consciousness and moral consciousness
- Drive to attain outcomes for influence
- 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 completely different ranges.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our world workforce should mirror the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-financial background, or another private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using 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 targets 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 might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further data to conduct a background check.
UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station is required for IP positions and might be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may 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 might be canceled.
Remarks:
Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.
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 best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
Government workers who’re thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.
UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing payment at any stage of its recruitment, choice, and hiring processes (i.e., software stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and coaching). UNICEF is not going to ask for candidates’ checking account data.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the degree of the publish within the related purposeful space, or an inside/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the publish, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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