UNICEF works in over 190 nations and territories to save lots of 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 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 employees numerous alternatives for private {and professional} growth that can 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 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 belief of youngsters’s rights. Despite modest, however vital progress in phrases of child poverty discount, kids proceed to be extra prone 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 among 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 fee of incentives to
particular person entrance line employees.
How are you able to make a difference?
Join our dynamic workforce as a key contributor to UNICEF’s humanitarian efforts! Reporting to the Chief of the Humanitarian Cash Transfer (HCT) Unit, this position gives the chance to steer and coordinate money-based mostly help assist for regional and nation places of work working in fragile and humanitarian contexts. You will collaborate intently with varied UNICEF divisions and places of work, guaranteeing the efficient supply of technical help and driving impactful programming in among the world’s most difficult environments. Working in shut partnership with the HQ HCT inter-division workforce, this place gives the prospect to make a tangible difference by means of arms-on assist, innovation, and strategic collaboration. The position entails frequent journey (as much as 40%) to nations affected by conflicts and pure disasters and requires flexibility to satisfy the calls for of prolonged working hours. If you are obsessed with delivering life-altering assist to these in want, that is the position for you!
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have to…
Field Support Coordination in Humanitarian and Conflict Contexts
The place entails coordinating and prioritizing the supply of money-based mostly help (CBA) technical assist to nation and regional places of work, working intently with international, regional, and in-nation groups. Responsibilities embrace overseeing the operational design of UNICEF’s CBA packages, guaranteeing threat-knowledgeable and high quality programming, and planning the rollout of the HOPE beneficiary information administration system. The position additionally entails collaboration with UNICEF surge mechanisms, supporting emergency coordination, and addressing operational bottlenecks in L2/L3 responses.
Quality Assurance and Inclusive Programming
The incumbent ensures CBA packages align with UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children in Emergencies (CCCs) by collaborating with sectoral officers and incorporating inputs from gender and incapacity specialists. Key duties embrace main the mixing of money-based mostly help in emergency preparedness frameworks, selling money-plus approaches inside sectoral responses, and staying up to date on developments by means of collaboration with the HQ inter-division CBA workforce.
Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing
This position helps the dissemination of CBA insurance policies, steering, and instruments, contributing to the event and rollout of coaching supplies. It contains documenting area experiences, influencing discussions on humanitarian money programming, and bringing area insights to HQ-stage coverage and procedural developments. Additionally, the place helps the implementation of the HQ inter-division CBA work plan and engages in technical contributions to associated HQ actions.
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The following minimal necessities:
Education:
An superior college diploma (Master’s or larger) in economics, Social Science, Database administration, information analytics or associated area is required.
Work Experience:
- A minimal of 8 years of area expertise in varied humanitarian contexts, together with a minimal of 5 years working with Humanitarian Cash Transfer Programs (HCT).
- Direct expertise offering technical help to UN companies, NGOs, and governments, and be expert in program planning, implementation, reporting, monitoring, and analysis for HCT is required.
- Experience in workforce administration and coordinating a number of stakeholders is crucial.
- Familiarity with beneficiary information administration methods can be required.
Desirables/Assets
- Experience in managing/Exposure to inter company money coordination.
- Experience in working with UN companies (UNICEF expertise most well-liked) at interagency stage.
- Experience collaborating throughout a number of features and dealing with operational subject material specialists, technical assets.
- Excellent communication & presentation abilities (written & verbal) throughout a number of audiences with the flexibility to affect others whereas working in a multicultural, multi-ethnic setting with sensitivity and respect for variety is an asset.
- High motivation, and dedication to ship outcomes inside strict timeframes 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 display…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin the whole lot 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-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 variety of these kids. 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 every other private attribute.
We supply a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, 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 bear rigorous reference and background checks and might 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 supply extra 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 might be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments might 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 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 in the employment of the employees 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 best to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or mandatory inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.
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 might be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the submit in the related practical space, or an inside/exterior candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the submit, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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