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For each child, Education
Access to protected, efficient, high quality assured, and inexpensive important merchandise for youngsters and their households by way of public well being providers is instrumental to enhancing the well being of kids and households, and enhancing well being protection. Countries’ rising reliance on their very own home sources, particularly within the context of transition from donor assist, additional
UNICEF procurement providers allows governments and companions to leverage UNICEF’s procurement scale and experience to fulfill provide wants. During the previous many years, pre- financing interventions turned instrumental in supporting nations in securing entry as demand for these well being provides surged in low, center and excessive revenue nations within the context of the COVID-19 Emergency, different public well being emergencies and rising wants. In 2020, the Executive Board accepted the extension of the Vaccine Independence Initiative (VII) and its revolving fund for 5 years. Additional sources had been mobilized for the VII in an effort to assist adequately nation pre-financing and particular contracting.
The COVID-19 legacy, declining ODA budgets, and general macroeconomic challenges are anticipated to materially affect each the home fiscal area in programme nations, in addition to the worldwide well being and improvement financing structure for nation programmes and different improvement priorities, going ahead. Therefore the together with providing pre-financing assist to governments will proceed to be a strategic ingredient in sustaining and increasing entry to important provides for youngsters and their households in lots of programme nations.
Many of Supply Division’s approaches and options used within the 2022-2025 strategic interval for supporting the ample financing of provides will proceed to evolve and be expanded. However, there may be additionally a must determine and construct new financing alternatives, partnerships and options to assist the availability of important provides and speed up outcomes for youngsters.
Through financing and partnerships options, Supply Division helps authorities efforts to extend home and domestically-mobilized financing and mobilize different financing to assist improved market dynamics, together with a strengthened native provider base which enhances home sources and additional allows improved entry.
How are you able to make a difference?
The objective of this place is to supply management and oversight administration to SD’s portfolio of modern financing instruments to assist the well timed availability of inexpensive important provides. Timely entry requires good forecasting, planning, and ample budgeting, financing, and execution on that financing. However, funding delays, market constraints, and different elements jeopardize systematic entry and are a number one explanation for commodity stockouts in nations. . The place will lead the deployment of pre-financing interventions to assist bridge these short-term funding gaps and deploy threat financing to enhance entry and market dynamics of those provide of important important commodities provides. The place will oversee UNICEF’s principal software for provide pre-financing and different provide financing interventions, the Vaccine Independence Initiative (VII), which is deployed to enhance entry to vaccines and different non-immunization commodities.
If you wish to know extra about this place, please assessment the whole Job Description right here:
Key features, accountabilities and associated duties/duties:
The Senior Manager (Innovative Financing) has the general strategic management of the VII and different financing instruments and can:
• Building upon a well-established basis and threat administration course of, take VII to the following degree by way of professionalization and sustainability;
• Lead the inner and exterior work on enlargement of VII and different bridge financing instruments with the target of serving to enhance operational timeliness for the availability of important commodities and/or market dynamics, and improved home useful resource mobilization;
• Identify alternatives from each a rustic financing and market dynamics perspective that will profit from a financing intervention, together with by partaking with respective UNICEF SD enterprise models and exterior companions.
• Originate transactions from each a country-facing and markets-facing perspective which is able to make the most of the VII and VII-enabled transactions, together with on design and negotiation of phrases with nations and suppliers.
• Develop and pursue a sensible threat administration methods, together with with lively restoration efforts for executed transactions to guard the VII capital base.
• Oversee & monitor capital base utilization to optimize use for financing and reporting
• Manage a staff that seamlessly executes on transactions and actively manages dangers and alternatives.
• Manage forecasting of demand for pre-financing and different financing interventions;
• Coordinate the underwriting course of and monetary administration of country-subscriptions (together with environment friendly credit score line purposes and VII motion plans are adopted), advert hoc prefinancings particular contracting making certain the nice stewardship of the VII
• Provide technical recommendation, steering and design improved operational processes and techniques enhancements to make sure provide financing actions are compliant to UNICEF FRR, relevant financing agreements, and general operational effectivity.;
• Lead day-to-day useful resource mobilization actions with donors and financing companions the VII;
• Work with exterior companions (together with different UN businesses) as a thought chief and collaborator on initiatives which may leverage VII’s capabilities and assist the strengthening of home useful resource mobilization actions;
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
Minimum necessities:
Education:
- Advanced college diploma in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or different associated area.
Work Experience:
- Minimum ten years of progressively accountable managerial expertise in complicated and huge operations involving planning and operation of financing initiatives and instruments, (for instance) mortgage amenities, revolving funds, credit score amenities and sovereign financing and/or different modern or different financing devices.
- Demonstrated expertise in markets, market dynamics and/or evaluation for well being provides. Experience with vaccines is an added benefit.
- Demonstrated expertise in partaking with nations on the mobilization of home sources and/or credit score restoration processes.
- Experience in UN/UNICEF or different improvement businesses or Private Sector together with:
- Capacity to diagnose and resolve a number of, concurrent issues; a conceptual and strategic analytical capability.
- Knowledge of present traits, practices in specialised area of UNICEF work.
- High degree of management, analytical and negotiation expertise.
- Ability to articulate and conceptualise concepts and affect insurance policies, methods and priorities.
- Ability to precise clearly and concisely, concepts and ideas in written and oral kind.
- Strong downside fixing orientation.
- Ability to plan, co-ordinate and handle a number of actions. Experience with undertaking administration work.
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural setting and set up harmonious and efficient working relationships.
Skills
• Computer expertise, together with preparation of PowerPoint displays, draft written paperwork for senior management viewers and numerous workplace purposes.
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English required and ideally one other UN language.
Desirables:
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
For each Child, you display…
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 publish are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
(3) Drive to realize outcomes for influence
(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 individuals
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 affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of 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 embrace those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with numerous limitations, 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 below 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 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, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace 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, 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 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 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 will likely 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 very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF’s lively dedication to range and inclusion is important to ship one of the best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate underrepresented teams are inspired to apply.
Government workers who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the best to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities will not be 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 info.
In this function, you’ll collaborate with colleagues throughout a number of places. For efficient collaboration, we encourage versatile working hours that accommodate completely different time zones whereas prioritizing employees wellbeing.
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 will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the degree of the publish within the related useful space, or an inner/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the publish, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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