Apply for Regional Staff Counsellor, (P4), WCARO, Dakar, Senegal #91693 Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

UNICEF works in over 190 international locations 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 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 employees numerous 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 employees thrive, coupled with a gorgeous compensation and advantages bundle.

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For each child, Hope

Strategic workplace context:

UNICEF is striving for a piece atmosphere the place employees wellness, resilience and work-life stability are built-in components of the organizational tradition. Due to the character and site of their work, UNICEF employees are ceaselessly uncovered to excessive ranges of each day, cumulative stress, together with these stressors associated to their workload in addition to the calls for associated to dwelling and dealing in multicultural, usually unstable and insecure, environments.

The Staff Counsellor (P-4) will contribute in direction of the event of a company framework for Staff Well-Being and promote its implementation on the regional stage. The framework will determine actions geared toward: elevating consciousness about wholesome work practices; bettering the work-life stability of UNICEF employees; facilitating the supply of help to employees/household experiencing work-related and/or private issues; facilitating the supply of rapid assist following a traumatic incident.

The Regional Staff Counsellor will work in coordination with the community of UN counsellors globally. Frequent discipline missions and shut collaboration with Country Offices are required.

How are you able to make a difference? 

Purpose for the job:

Under the supervision of the Regional Chief of People and Culture (P-5) and the Technical Supervision of the Chief Staff Wellbeing based mostly in Budapest (P-5), the Regional Staff Counsellor (P-4) is anticipated to offer experience to the administration and employees of the regional and nation workplaces, to assist the general well-being of UNICEF employees and their households, in addition to groups in UNICEF workplaces within the area.

Key capabilities, accountabilities and associated duties/duties:

1. Under the technical steering of the Chief Staff Wellbeing, and the supervision of the Regional Chief of People and Culture, the Regional Staff Counsellor will facilitate the event, implementation and coordination of a company framework aiming at improved Staff Well-Being globally. More particularly, s/he’ll:
   • Assist in growing the framework;
   • Develop methods for implementing the framework within the area;
   • Monitor the affect of the framework at regional and nation ranges;
   • Lobby and supply enter for enchancment.
2. Facilitate the supply of efficient psycho-social assist to employees, management, managers and particular person employees, prioritizing emergency areas with the purpose to mitigating stress and enhance protecting components by:
   • Providing assist and recommendation to the management and managers in workplaces on wholesome work practices and approaches on the right way to successfully assist employees and encourage resilience. Recommend appropriate employees assist methods to managers throughout and following emergencies and different crises.
   • Providing employees with particular person and/or group counselling as wanted (i.e. evaluation, short-term intervention, referral);
   • Facilitating the therapy of psychiatric problems primarily by way of referrals, together with to the medical companies division, and thru steering to supervisors and senior administration, the place applicable;
   • Contributing to identification of artistic methods of constructing a community of exterior psychological well being suppliers accessible to offer companies to employees around the globe;
   • Coordinating the regional community of Peer Support Volunteers (PSVs), together with choice, coaching and technical supervision;
   • Coordinate with UNDSS, company counsellors and PSVs, to make sure the supply of ample psychosocial assist throughout emergencies.
   • Assess and monitor psycho-social wants and points affecting the wellbeing of employees.
   • Update the database of establishments or professionally educated service suppliers accessible in nation to offer psycho-social companies to employees and their households in Country Offices.
3. Provide Critical Incident Stress Management to teams and/or particular person employees following vital incidents. A holistic method to vital incident administration is used and will embody companies comparable to sensible assist, psycho-education, psychological first support, strategic recommendation to management, household assist and particular person or group interventions. The Staff Counsellor shall be accountable for:
   • Contacting the affected employees member(s) and providing details about typical stress reactions, support- and referral data;
   • Facilitating applicable traumatic stress interventions, following a vital incident or traumatic occasion;
   • Recommending and arranging for particular person and/or group follow-up assist to employees and their dependents.
4. Training and consciousness elevating on Staff Well-Being associated matters:
   • Explore and contribute to the event of latest modalities, comparable to e-learning and webinars, which make consciousness elevating materials accessible and engaging to all employees;
   • Cooperate with Regional and Country workplaces to combine topics comparable to wholesome work practices, managing stress and trauma, constructing resiliency and so forth. into studying methods.
5. Monitoring and oversight: Provide on a quarterly foundation statistics and developments on points associated to employees well-being, while sustaining confidentiality. Alert the Regional Chief of People and Culture on developments that could be of concern in workplaces or workplaces requiring focused assist or Managerial intervention. Capture classes learnt and finest practices for dissemination as applicable.

Impact of Results

In session with the Chief Staff Wellbeing, choices made concerning sort of interventions for employees assist, referral businesses and consultants, methods to extend staff-well being, varieties of data for dissemination. These choices have an oblique affect on all UNICEF employees within the area, and immediately have an effect on these employees concerned in interventions, displays, trainings, and so forth.

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

Minimum necessities:

Education: 

• Advanced University diploma in counselling, medical psychology or associated psychological well being career.
• A primary college diploma, skilled certification along with the suitable years of related expertise could also be thought-about in lieu of a complicated college diploma.
• Additional coaching or certification in employees assist and traumatic/vital incident stress administration, in addition to a broad vary of associated fields, comparable to alcohol/substance abuse, household counselling, coaching, distant counselling.

Work Experience:

• Minimum eight years of nationwide and particularly worldwide skilled expertise in employees assist, psychological well being, cross cultural communications, counselling, and associated areas, ideally gained throughout the UN system or worldwide growth/humanitarian support sector.

Language Requirements: Fluency in written and spoken English and French is required.

For each Child, you show…

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 submit are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness

(3) Drive to attain outcomes for affect

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

(8) Nurtures, leads and manages folks

Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges.

UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to grow to be a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF affords paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations. Click here to study extra about versatile work preparations, well-being, and advantages.

According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embody those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with varied boundaries, could hinder their full and efficient participation in society on an equal foundation with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has dedicated to extend the variety of workers with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related assist necessities of candidates and workers with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you might be an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility assist in finishing the web application, please submit your request by way of the accessibility e mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.

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 based mostly on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and shall 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 offer extra data to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.

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 additionally 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 should 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 employees is the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF’s lively dedication to range and inclusion is vital to ship the very best outcomes for youngsters.

Government workers who’re thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the correct to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or needed inoculation necessities should not met, inside an inexpensive 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 data.

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

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 submit within the related purposeful space, or an inside/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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