UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to avoid wasting 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 pleased with what we do. Promoting the rights of each child isn’t just a job – it’s a calling.
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For each child, … a champion
Gender equality is important to realizing the mandate of UNICEF to uphold the rights of all kids. 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 position. 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 techniques 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 well-being of adolescent women, as women are each disproportionately affected by gender inequality and have super potential to be leaders for change. This dual-track method 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, girl-targeted programming, working in partnership with different companions, particularly girl-led and girl-focused 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 means of beneath the pilot programmes beneath 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 manner.
How are you able to make a difference?
UNICEF is looking for an Adolescent Girls’ Programme Specialist to play a pivotal position in advancing its Gender Action Plan and Adolescent Girls’ Programme Strategy. Reporting to the Senior Advisor, Gender Equality, this position is part of a world group main efforts to empower adolescent women by means of the POWER4Girls Initiative, supporting 46 nation programmes. Focused on enhancing women’ wellbeing, management, and empowerment, this initiative makes use of multisectoral approaches in abilities growth, safety, and well being. This place affords an unbelievable alternative to make a tangible influence on women’ lives by offering technical and programmatic experience, whereas additionally contributing to coverage, advocacy, and coordination efforts throughout UNICEF’s world community.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have to…
The Adolescent Girls’ Programme Specialist will present essential assist for growing, implementing, and monitoring impactful programming, together with main the worldwide POWER4Girls initiative. Responsibilities embody meticulous funds and outcomes monitoring, producing common studies for various audiences, and managing contracts and partnerships. The Specialist will work collaboratively with cross-sectoral groups to outline, measure, and report outcomes for adolescent women whereas selling high-quality analysis, proof era, and analysis. Coordination throughout sectors will guarantee coherent and environment friendly useful resource use, maximizing synergies and delivering significant outcomes for adolescent women.
This position includes offering technical steerage and operational assist throughout all programming levels to advance gender equality and adolescent women’ rights in keeping with UNICEF’s strategic priorities. Responsibilities embody advising nation workplaces, conducting gender analyses, designing gender-transformative programming, and advancing insurance policies that prioritize women’ monetary inclusion, training, and well being. The Specialist may even assist coverage efforts, contribute to advocacy and communication methods, and share classes discovered from country-level programming. Additionally, the position emphasizes partnership constructing, sustaining alliances with key stakeholders, and strengthening networks to advocate for adolescent women’ rights and well-being globally.
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 growth, or in an space related to UNICEF’s sectoral work (e.g. Health, Nutrition, WASH, Education, Child Protection, Social Inclusion, HIV/AIDs, and many others.)
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 growth in key concern areas which are the main target of UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan.
Desirables/Assets
- Experience in designing, implementing, managing, and delivering results-based programmes on gender, adolescent and growth or some other cross reducing programmes, particularly at nation/area degree, expertise in emergency response is an asset.
- Demonstrated means to attach sectoral points and programmatic approaches on gender; translate analysis into practicable programme design in complicated environments
- Demonstrated excellence in writing and verbal communication; expertise with proposal writing an asset
- UN/UNICEF expertise is 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 exhibit…
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…
- Builds and maintains partnerships
- Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
- Drive to realize 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 replicate the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic 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 kids (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 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 embody 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 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 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 staff who’re thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the appropriate to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or crucial 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 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 following stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the degree of the submit within the related practical 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.
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