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Health and Nutrition Specialist, P3, FT #112186, Rabat, Morocco – MENA

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

At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and happy with what we do. Promoting the rights of each baby is not only a job – it’s a calling. 
UNICEF is a spot the place careers are constructed, we provide our employees various alternatives for private {and professional} improvement that may assist them develop a satisfying profession whereas delivering on a rewarding mission. We delight ourselves on a tradition that helps employees thrive, coupled with a pretty compensation and advantages package deal. 

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

For each baby, Health…

The elementary mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each baby, in all places, in all the pieces the group does — in applications, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing probably the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all kids have a chance to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any baby has an unequal probability in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is rising proof that investing within the well being, training and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all kids the chance to satisfy their potential but additionally will result in sustained development and stability of nations. This is why the give attention to fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all kids, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement of countries. 

Morocco is a center-earnings nation. UNICEF’s programme of cooperation throughout sectors works to realize the suitable stability between decentralized programme interventions and technical help for nationwide programmes and insurance policies. Morocco accords important significance to main well being care strengthening together with for optimum maternal, baby and adolescent well being outcomes.  It more and more seeks alternatives to scale-up proof-primarily based interventions to deal with inequities and to interact with regional and world companions to share programme expertise and classes discovered in a quickly altering world context.

How are you able to make a distinction?

You report back to the supervision of the Deputy Representative for normal steerage and supervision. You are accountable for the event, planning, implementation, monitoring and analysis and administration of the Health and Nutrition programme inside the nation programme. Accountable for efficient technical and programme help to facilitate the application and adaptation of UNICEF insurance policies and techniques to realize strategic priorities and targets and growth of UNICEF assisted Health and Nutrition interventions, together with the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Summary of keys features/accountabilities: 

• Timely sectoral evaluation, enter and help to contribute to the Situation Analysis and its periodic replace for efficient challenge planning, improvement and administration. Collaborate with cross-sectoral groups and with regional groups to share nation updates and help advocacy efforts.
• Quality technical contributions are made to the event and implementation of built-in Health and Nutrition methods, at nationwide and decentralized ranges by means of quite a lot of institutional and civil society partnerships.
• Work plan and targets are strategically established, implementation help is successfully supplied, and deliberate outcomes are well timed delivered by means of application of technical experience.
• Project implementation progress and technical recommendation is monitored and evaluated for adjustment, acceleration and enchancment of program supply and sustainability.
• Technical help is supplied to authorities and NGOs at numerous levels of programme implementation, monitoring and analysis, together with capability constructing of presidency service suppliers. Increasingly, technical help is supplied to make sure group engagement for efficient programme supply at decentralized ranges.
• The capacities of Country Office employees are strengthened by means of cross-sectoral collaboration and rising priorities of the well being and vitamin programme are shared in accordance with an built-in programme that’s attentive to life-cycle approaches.
• UNICEF and Government accountability is ensured for provide and non-provide help and disbursement of programme funds for Health & Nutrition. Technical and coverage help is supplied to companions round provide and procurement attentive to Morocco’s rising home capacities.
• Pro-active working relationships with inner items and groups, UN companions, and regional and world groups. Partnerships are leveraged for advocacy, technical coordination, info sharing and data networking.
• Contribute to scanning to the funding panorama, serving to to establish potential companions, contributing to funding proposals and to strategic advocacy efforts.
• Contribute to documentation, visibility, and advocacy round programme milestones, achievements, and challenges.
• Relevant and strategic info is saved obtainable to help the Health and Nutrition Programme by means of the efficient implementation of UNICEF monitoring processes and methods.
• Required programme/challenge reviews are well timed ready in compliance with the established pointers and procedures.
• Emergency preparedness is strengthened each internally and with companions; emergency response with efficient coordination is supplied.
• Other assigned duties and tasks are successfully completed.

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

• Education: Advanced college diploma in Public Health or Nutrition, Child Development, Water Sanitation, Public Administration, Social Policy, Social Development, Community Development, or different related disciplines.
• Work Experience: Five years {of professional} work expertise on the nationwide and worldwide ranges in planning, programming, implementation monitoring and analysis of technical cooperation programmes associated to Health and Nutrition.
• Professional work expertise in a managerial place, or a technical professional place in baby survival & improvement, well being and vitamin care.
• Developing nation work expertise
• Background/familiarity with Emergency
• Language Requirements: Fluency in French and dealing data in English and/or Arabic are required.

For each baby, you display…

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are… 

1. Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
2. Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
3. Works Collaboratively with others (2)
4. Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
5. Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
6. Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
7. Drive to realize impactful outcomes (2)
8. Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

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 range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-financial background, or another private attribute. 

We supply a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, 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 beneath 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 bear rigorous reference and background checks and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background check. 

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 will probably be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice will probably be canceled. 

Remarks: 

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

UNICEF’s energetic dedication to range and inclusion is important to ship one of the best outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate Male candidates from each industrial and programme international locations are inspired to apply.

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

“UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”

Only shortlisted candidates will probably be notified and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

“ The VA is open to all (internal and external Candidates)”

Government staff 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 will not be obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an affordable interval for any cause.  

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

All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the stage of the submit within the related purposeful 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 might be discovered here.