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

At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and happy with what we do. Promoting the rights of each child isn’t just 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 pleasure ourselves on a tradition that helps workers thrive, coupled with a horny compensation and advantages bundle.

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For each child, dedication…

Disasters, local weather change, and environmental degradation current important and escalating threats to the effectively-being of youngsters globally, jeopardizing the progress achieved in child survival and growth. Over a billion youngsters are uncovered to extreme dangers from local weather and environmental hazards reminiscent of heatwaves, floods, and cyclones. Consequently, it’s crucial for nations to ascertain local weather-resilient, low-carbon social companies encompassing water and sanitation, healthcare, schooling, vitamin, social safety, and child safety to deal with present threats and put together for more and more extreme impacts.

In alignment with our dedication to guard youngsters and younger folks worldwide, UNICEF is launching its Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP) 2023 – 2030.  The SCAP prioritizes pressing local weather motion by way of systematic change in partnership with private and non-private sectors to prioritize the wants of youngsters and younger folks 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 way of defending the lives, well being and effectively-being of youngsters and their communities; empowering youngsters with developmental alternatives and expertise; and decreasing emissions and the environmental footprint inside UNICEF.

The GS6 Programme Associate’s contribution goes past the HQ staff and contributes to the profitable supply of the group-extensive SCAP. She/he’ll present administrative and price range help to your complete CEED Team and supply govt help to the Director of CEED.

How are you able to make a difference?

Join Our Team as a Programme Associate in Climate Action!

Are you obsessed with sustainability, local weather motion, and making a difference for youngsters worldwide? As a Programme Associate on UNICEF’s Climate, Energy, Environment, & Disaster Risk Reduction (CEED) Team, you’ll play a significant position in supporting key initiatives and making certain 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 position, you’ll monitor milestones, present common progress updates, and provide suggestions to maintain actions on monitor, serving to to drive impactful change for communities across the globe.

If you’re a proactive skilled desperate to help essential workstreams and foster collaboration inside a worldwide staff devoted to local weather and sustainability, this position is the proper alternative for you!. 

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

Budget Monitoring and Management Support

• Carry out transactions in VISION and Insight pertaining to grants and programme-associated objects 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 staff by using relevant instruments, making certain 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 advert-hoc monetary studies regarding CEED and donors to help the workplace in optimizing use of programme funds. This consists of sources which might be allotted throughout areas or different divisions for the group-extensive supply of the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (SCAP).
• Works with grant managers to ascertain price range trackers in step with Grant/Project Outputs and often monitor balances / guarantee prices are in step with the outputs and never going over price range, particularly when a grant could also be utilized by a number of staff 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 price range 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 staff, working in shut collaboration with the CSC, POH, HR and different related sections. This consists of conducting a high quality evaluate of TORs, consolidating and storing supporting paperwork for contract requests, and making obligatory logistical preparations.
• Guides managers within the means of PCA/SSAs in step with the insurance policies and steering issued by FRG, provide division and DHR. 
• Maintains up-to-date vendor lists, companions, and guide rosters. 

Support to workplace precedence setting, planning and operations 

• Supports the graceful operating of the every day operations of your complete CEED Team, which is globally dispersed throughout a number of timezones with respect to communications, conferences and work movement; identifies complicated or delicate topics, and contacts, for particular remedy in addition to precedence points that should be delivered to the supervisor’s consideration.
• Provides info and steering 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 some other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Executive Support & Correspondence Management for the CEED Director

• Maintains Director’s calendar and arranges conferences 
• Supports with organizing excessive-stage 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 inside and exterior conferences and occasions. Support the preparation of agendas, shows, briefing notes, and some other materials required by the Director. 
• Follow-up on essential 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 places of work 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:

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

Work Experience

• A minimal of 6 years of related administrative companies, price range administration, coordination or clerical work expertise is required.
• Non-US candidates MUST be in possession of an present US G4 visa or be a US everlasting resident/citizen.
• Staff on stretch assignments holding G4 Visa in NYHQ should not eligible.

Desirables/Assets:

• Experience with UNICEF/UN is a powerful asset.
• Training and expertise utilizing MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and different UNICEF software program reminiscent of SAP/VISION, SharePoint; information of built-in administration info methods required.
• Knowledge of UNICEF administrative insurance policies and procedures is an asset.
• Very sturdy organizational, planning and prioritizing expertise and talents.
• Well-developed sense of accuracy and a spotlight to element.
• Ability to work proactively and independently underneath time stress.
• Ability to deal patiently and tactfully with exterior companions.
• High sense of confidentiality, initiative and logic.
• Ability to work successfully with folks 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.

For each Child, you display…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the things we do and the way 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 affect
• 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 replicate the range 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 some other 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 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 youngsters.

All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and can 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 offer further 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 can be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments can also 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 have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice can 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 best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.

Government workers who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities should not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose. 

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 is not going to ask for candidates’ checking account info.

All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the publish within the related useful 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.

Additional details about working for UNICEF could be discovered here.