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For each child, … a champion
Gender equality is crucial to realizing the mandate of UNICEF to uphold the rights of all youngsters. The UNICEF Gender Action Plan (GAP), 2022–2025, operationalizes the UNICEF Gender Policy, 2021–2030, by specifying how UNICEF will promote gender equality throughout its programmes and workplaces. It affirms that selling gender equality and the empowerment of ladies and women is the accountability of everybody, no matter organizational function. The GAP elaborates the steps required to speed up progress on gender equality throughout the 5 Goal Areas of the UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2022–2025, in addition to inside institutional programs and processes, with clear indicators and monitoring mechanisms to trace change. Recognizing that gender discrimination has lifelong and intergenerational impacts, the GAP advances gender equality all through the life course. At the identical time, it promotes focused actions to advance the management and nicely-being of adolescent women, as women are each disproportionately affected by gender inequality and have large potential to be leaders for change. This twin-observe strategy goes past responding to the manifestations of gender inequality to sort out its underlying drivers, together with by partaking boys and males as allies; advancing upstream financing and coverage options; and supporting women’ company and voice.
UNICEF has launched an Adolescent Girls’ Programme Strategy which goals to speed up motion towards these commitments, and articulates a imaginative and prescient for shifting forwards, with and for adolescent women’, to ship multi-faceted, woman-focused programming, working in partnership with different companions, particularly woman-led and woman-targeted organisations. Girls’ voice, company and empowerment is on the core of the technique.
Much progress has been made in implementing this new technique, with tens of millions of adolescent women reached by underneath the pilot programmes underneath the POWER4Girls Initiative umbrella; a brand new Global Girl Leaders Advisory Group launched; a brand new Adolescent Girls’ Data Portal; new analysis programmes kickstarted, and extra. But extra is required to spearhead and institutionalize targeted work on adolescent women rights in a holistic approach.
How are you able to make a difference?
UNICEF is searching for a passionate Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist to drive proof and studying in assist of adolescent women’ nicely-being and empowerment. Guided by UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan and Adolescent Girls’ Programme Strategy, this function will work underneath the supervision of the Senior Advisor, Gender Equality. As part of the Global Team main the adolescent women’ agenda, you’ll collaborate with Gender and Adolescent Development colleagues to supervise a strong portfolio of 46 nation packages underneath the POWER4Girls Initiative. These packages goal to reinforce adolescent women’ expertise, safety, well being, and management by multisectoral approaches.
This function presents a singular alternative to form the ‘evidence into action’ agenda, translating analysis into impactful programming for women worldwide. You will lead data era efforts, assist implementation analysis, and work carefully with UNICEF’s Office of Research – Innocenti, Data & Analytics, and Global Office of Evaluation to bridge the hole between proof and follow. If you’re captivated with bettering outcomes for adolescent women and advancing gender equality, this place gives an opportunity to make a tangible, lasting impression.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have to…
The Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist will lead the event of a strategic proof and studying agenda centered on advancing the rights and empowerment of adolescent women. Working carefully with the Senior Advisor and collaborating with the Global Girl Leaders Advisory Group, UNICEF employees, and analysis colleagues, the function ensures that the proof agenda is each inclusive and sensible, driving significant shifts in coverage and follow. Key duties embody planning the general proof portfolio, aligning world analysis priorities with programmatic wants, and coordinating with exterior companions to construct excessive-high quality studying alternatives. By managing contracts, consultants, and partnerships, this function will ship proof-based mostly insights that inform and improve UNICEF’s adolescent women’ programming.
The Specialist will co-create and handle proof era initiatives in collaboration with UNICEF’s nation places of work and a world community of adolescent woman champions. This contains designing venture administration plans, offering technical oversight for analysis strategies, and making certain excessive-high quality outputs comparable to studies and coverage briefs. Additionally, the function includes conducting literature opinions, figuring out data gaps, and fostering engagement with inner and exterior stakeholders to form UNICEF’s adolescent woman agenda. By staying abreast of rising analysis and representing UNICEF in proof boards, the Specialist will strengthen the group’s capability to advocate for and implement transformative insurance policies and packages for adolescent women worldwide.
The following minimal necessities:
Education:
Advanced college diploma (Masters or larger) within the social sciences (i.e. sociology, demography, psychology, political science, social coverage or economics), public well being, public coverage, public administration, worldwide improvement, or in an space related to UNICEF’s sectoral work (e.g. Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Child Protection, Social Inclusion, HIV/AIDs, and so forth.)
Work Experience:
- Minimum eight years of related skilled expertise and demonstrated observe report of getting undertaken and led substantive programming and analysis on gender/adolescent women and improvement in key difficulty areas which might be the main focus of UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan.
- Proven expertise drafting high quality analysis outputs for completely different stakeholders and audiences is required.
- Experience working in a improvement setting, managing programmes and / or analysis is required.
Desirables
- Strong expertise in statistical evaluation using giant knowledge units, is as asset.
- Experience with qualitative knowledge assortment strategies and evaluation strategies extremely fascinating.
- Demonstrated individuals administration expertise and the flexibility to forge and handle partnerships.
Assets
- Experience advocating with trade and multistakeholder platforms, funding establishments, governments, NGOs, or inside the company sector, together with coordinating advocacy efforts with others.
- Knowledge of econometric fashions and identification methods to check impression of programmes an asset
- Relevant expertise in a UN system company or group is taken into account as an asset.
- Familiarity/ background with emergency contexts is taken into account as an asset.
- Demonstrated excellence in writing and verbal communication; expertise with proposal writing an asset.
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English is required. Working data of one other UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) is taken into account an asset.
For each Child, you display…
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 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 completely different ranges.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. 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 youngsters (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 youngsters.
All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer extra info 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 will probably 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 should be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice will probably 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 employees 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 over 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 mandatory inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an affordable interval for any cause.
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 info.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the stage of the publish within the related practical space, or an inner/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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