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 way of adolescence.
At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and happy with what we do. Promoting the rights of each child is not only 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} improvement that may assist them develop a satisfying profession whereas delivering on a rewarding mission. We satisfaction ourselves on a tradition that helps workers thrive, coupled with a sexy compensation and advantages bundle.
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For each child, … a champion
The influence of rising poverty and inequality is a significant impediment for the conclusion of kids’s rights. Despite modest, however vital progress in phrases of child poverty discount, kids proceed to be extra more likely to fall into poverty than adults. Today’s kids are rising up in a world beset by a number of, close to-simultaneous, interdependent shocks, stemming from the fallout of illness outbreaks, violent conflicts, local weather change and environmental degradation, and skyrocketing prices of residing.
UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. In the face of those more and more difficult setting, beneath the framework of its new Strategic Plan (SP), 2022–2025, UNICEF’s Social Policy and Social Protection (SPSP) Programme is dedicated to decreasing child poverty and increasing inclusive social safety for all kids and adolescents together with these residing in humanitarian context.
To obtain higher outcomes for kids, in a extra environment friendly and efficient means, UNICEF has initiated the mainstreaming and scale up of using Cash based mostly help throughout the group. This has develop into a precedence space of labor beneath UNICEF’s strategic plan. In fragile and Humanitarian contexts, UNICEF makes use of the terminology Cash-Based Assistance to confer with the supply of money transfers to weak households, in addition to the cost of incentives to particular person entrance line staff.
How are you able to make a difference?
Under the supervision of the Beneficiary Data Manager, this place helps regional and nation workplaces in managing cost recipients’ private knowledge to supply money help to these affected by humanitarian crises and to ship money incentives to frontline staff. It includes sustaining and enhancing knowledge administration instruments, collaborating with HQ and regional groups, and selling greatest practices in knowledge safety and administration. The position additionally contributes to making sure UNICEF’s Management Information System (HOPE) stays efficient and aligned with nation workplace wants. Frequent prolonged journey to disaster-affected areas and lengthy working hours are required, with as much as 75% journey anticipated.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have to…
Payees Data System Design, Deployment, and Support
This position focuses on creating strong knowledge administration practices for money-based mostly help and frontline staff, masking all features from registration and concentrating on to cost administration, verification, and grievance mechanisms. It ensures adherence to knowledge safety and data safety requirements on the nation stage, helps the worldwide rollout of HOPE and complementary purposes, and designs knowledge processing options tailor-made to native wants. The place includes creating and adapting Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for efficient knowledge assortment and evaluation, offering coaching on instruments like HOPE, Kobo, and Aurora, and troubleshooting knowledge-associated challenges each remotely and in-nation. Additionally, the position encompasses GIS knowledge assortment and evaluation, system improvement for money switch packages, and beneficiary database administration, whereas constructing the capability of UNICEF workers to make sure excessive-high quality knowledge dealing with practices.
Support for HOPE Operational Framework and Data Analysis
The place coordinates with programmatic and operational groups to make sure cohesive cost recipient knowledge administration for money-based mostly help in nation workplaces. It helps troubleshooting by way of person engagement mechanisms, contributes to the event of operational buildings for money switch implementation, and rolls out HQ-developed instruments, together with Data Protection Impact Assessments and Data Sharing Agreements. The position consists of drafting related templates, updating coaching supplies, and refining coverage paperwork associated to HOPE deployments. On the info evaluation entrance, it helps nation workplaces in cleansing and decoding datasets, analyzing developments, and figuring out course of enchancment alternatives. Findings from statistical evaluation inform resolution-making throughout nation, regional, and international ranges, with an emphasis on enhancing data administration initiatives.
More particulars might be discovered through the Job Description: 
The following minimal necessities:
Education:
Advanced University diploma Master’s diploma in economics, Social Science, Database administration, knowledge analytics or associated area is required..
Work Experience:
- Minimum 5 years of information and data administration system expertise, together with with a number of stakeholders.
Desirables/Assets
- Experience in implementing money-based mostly help programmes in fragile and humanitarian contexts is fascinating
- Experience in Beneficiary Data system for money-based mostly help programmes in fragile and humanitarian contexts at area stage is fascinating.
- Experience in enterprise operation environments with a confirmed monitor file of interfacing with a number of stakeholders (inside and exterior)
- Experience in working with UN businesses (UNICEF expertise most well-liked) at interagency stage
- Experience in utilizing cell knowledge assortment purposes (e.g.:ODK and Kobo)
- Experience in utilizing GIS software program and knowledge sources.
- Detailed data of Structured Query Language (SQL), alternatively strong command of STATA or different statistical software program is accepted.
- Experience collaborating throughout a number of features and dealing with operational subject material consultants, technical assets and structure groups.
- Experience in programming language (Phyton, Visual Basic, Java) is 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 show…
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 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 totally different ranges.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should mirror the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-financial background, or some other private attribute.
We supply 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 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 kids.
All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and will likely 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 responsibility station is required for IP positions and will likely be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments might 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 will likely 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 in the employment of the workers is the need of securing the very 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 task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the appropriate to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.
UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing price 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.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the publish in the related practical space, or an inside/exterior candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the publish, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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Emergency Specialist – Beneficiary Data Field Support (P-3), FT, PG Social Policy – HCT, outposted in Turkeye # 00131330
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