UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to avoid wasting youngsters’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood via adolescence.
At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and happy with what we do. Promoting the rights of each youngster isn’t just a job – it’s a calling.
UNICEF is a spot the place careers are constructed: we provide our employees numerous alternatives for private {and professional} improvement that may assist them develop a satisfying profession whereas delivering on a rewarding mission. We satisfaction ourselves on a tradition that helps employees thrive, coupled with a sexy compensation and advantages bundle.
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For each youngster, hope
The Chief, Child Protection experiences to the Deputy Representative for normal steerage and course. The Chief is accountable for managing and main all levels of kid safety programmes/tasks from strategic planning and formulation to attaining concrete and sustainable contributions to nationwide and worldwide efforts to create a protecting surroundings for youngsters towards all hurt and to guard their rights to survival, improvement and effectively being as established beneath the Convention on the Rights of the Child, worldwide treaties/frameworks and UN intergovernmental our bodies.
The Chief is accountable for main and managing the kid safety part and establishing the plans of motion to make sure the achievement of concrete and sustainable programme/undertaking outcomes, in keeping with plans, allocation, outcomes based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, requirements of efficiency and accountability framework.
How are you able to make a difference?
Summary of key features/accountabilities:
- Managerial management
- Programme improvement and planning
- Programme administration, monitoring and high quality management of outcomes
- Advisory providers and technical help
- Advocacy, networking and partnership constructing
- Innovation, information administration and capability constructing
If you want to know extra about this place, please assessment the entire Job Description right here: 
To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have…
Minimum necessities:
- Education: An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: worldwide improvement, human rights, psychology, sociology, worldwide legislation, or one other related social science area.
- Work Experience: A minimal of ten years {of professional} expertise in social improvement planning and administration in youngster safety associated areas, on the worldwide stage, is required.
- Experience working in a growing nation is taken into account as an asset.
- Relevant expertise in programme administration in youngster safety associated areas in a UN system company or group is taken into account as an asset.
- Experience in each improvement and humanitarian contexts is an added benefit.
- 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.
For each Child, you display…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing 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) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
(3) Drive to realize outcomes for affect
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
(8) Nurtures, Leads and Manages People
Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges.
This place has been assessed as an elevated danger function for Child Safeguarding functions as it’s both a job with direct contact with youngsters, a job that works straight with identifiable youngsters’s information, a safeguarding response function, or an assessed danger function. Additional vetting and evaluation for elevated danger roles in youngster safeguarding (probably together with further legal background checks) apply.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.
We supply a wide range of measures to include a more diverse workforce, resembling paid parental go away, day without work for breastfeeding functions, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals beneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals 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 youngsters. All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and shall 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 shall be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments can also 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 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 employees is the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF’s energetic dedication to range and inclusion is crucial to ship the very best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates from programme international locations are inspired to apply.
Government staff who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the correct to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance will not be obtained, or mandatory inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an affordable interval for any motive.
UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing payment 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 data.
Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the submit within the related purposeful space, or an inside/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the submit, with out evaluation of different candidates.
Eligible employees members on fixed-term, persevering with or everlasting contracts making use of to IP TA positions in an obligation station designated as L2/L3, might be able to retain a lien and their fixed-term entitlements, topic to approval by their Head of Office. The situations of the momentary task will fluctuate relying on the standing of their submit and relocation entitlements could also be restricted as per the related insurance policies.
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UNICEF doesn’t cost any payment throughout any stage of the recruitment course of.
Chief Child Protection, P-5, Beirut Lebanon, PN #98901, Fixed Term Appointment
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