UNICEF works in over 190 nations and territories to avoid wasting youngsters’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by adolescence.
At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and pleased 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 pleasure ourselves on a tradition that helps workers thrive, coupled with a horny compensation and advantages package deal.
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Background:
The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each child, in all places, in every little thing the group does — in applications, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing probably the most deprived and excluded youngsters and households, interprets this dedication to youngsters’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all youngsters have a chance to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any child has an unequal likelihood in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is rising proof that investing within the well being, schooling and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all youngsters the chance to satisfy their potential but additionally will result in sustained progress and stability of nations. This is why the concentrate on fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in the direction of realizing the human rights of all youngsters, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement of countries.
How are you able to make a difference?
Purpose Of the Job:
Under the steering of the Health Specialist HSS and the general steering of the HSS Manager, the Health Officer – Logistics Management helps skilled technical, operational, and administrative help all through the well being programming course of, from improvement planning to supply of outcomes, by getting ready, executing, managing, and implementing a wide range of technical and administrative programme duties for efficient supply of important medicines and provides to facilitate attainment of UNICEF’s well being program leads to Nigeria.
- Conduct and replace the scenario evaluation for the event, design and administration of provide chain and logistics packages for well being applications. Research and report on improvement tendencies (well being commodity worth chain), together with fairness analyses, for greater administration use to reinforce programme administration, effectivity and supply of outcomes.
- Contribute to the event and institution of sectoral programme targets, targets, methods, and results-based planning by evaluation of well being wants and areas for intervention and submission of suggestions for precedence and purpose setting.
- Provide technical and operational assist all through all phases of programming processes by executing and administering a wide range of technical programme transactions, getting ready supplies and documentations, and complying with organizational processes and administration programs, to assist programme planning, results-based planning (RBM), and monitoring and analysis of outcomes.
- Support the implementation of the first well being care provide programs strengthening coverage working carefully with the totally different departments within the Government and the well being and provide groups internally.
- Work carefully and collaboratively with colleagues and companions to develop the well being worth chain and logistics program. Support the event of nationwide capability for native manufacturing of important medicines, provides, and logistics programs.
- Support central stage and central to State and under provide logistics for your entire well being part programme together with provide monitoring of all commodities related to the well being and HIV portfolio linked with the Government’s main well being care provide system technique programs. Provide common replace and analytics, together with stock and dispatches dashboard to mirror the commodities delivered in-country both on to companions or PPO in UNICEF WHs.
- Provide technical assist and take part in all conferences with Government, together with NAFDAC, FMOH, NPHCDA and many others.
Impact of Results:
The effectivity and efficacy of assist supplied by the well being officer to programme preparation, planning and implementation facilitates the supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes that straight influence the advance of the well being and wellbeing of probably the most marginalized and weak youngsters and girls within the nation. This in flip contributes to sustaining and enhancing the credibility and skill of UNICEF to proceed to supply programme providers to guard the rights of kids, and to advertise larger social equality to allow them to outlive, develop and attain their full potential in society.
If you wish to know extra about this place, please assessment the whole Job Description right here: 
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
Minimum necessities:
A college diploma is required in pharmacy, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Procurement, Contract/Commercial Law, International Development, Health or associated social science discipline.
For each Child, you display…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every little thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2)
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (2)
(3) Drive to realize outcomes for influence (2)
(4) Innovates and embraces change (2)
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)
(6) Thinks and acts strategically (2)
(7) Works collaboratively with others (2)
(8) Nurtures, Leads, and manages individuals (1)
Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters, and our international workforce should mirror 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-economic background, or some other private attribute.
We supply a wide range of measures to include a more diverse workforce, corresponding to paid parental go away, day without work for breastfeeding functions, 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 bear rigorous reference and background checks and shall 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 supply 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 shall 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 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 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 over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the appropriate to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance will not be obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities should not 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 info.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the put up within the related useful space, or an inside/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the put up, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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Health Officer, (Logistics), NO-2, Fixed Term, Abuja, Nigeria #123449
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