UNICEF works in over 190 nations 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 workers numerous alternatives for private {and professional} improvement that can 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 gorgeous compensation and advantages bundle.
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For each child, a future
UNICEF has been current in Uruguay since 1992. Since then, it has supplied technical cooperation and monetary help to the Government and to the society in numerous areas to advertise the rights of youngsters and adolescents and generate alternatives for all of them to attain the complete improvement of their skills. UNICEF work relies on a cooperation program that’s agreed with the federal government each 5 years. A brand new cooperation program between UNICEF and Uruguay’s Government began in March 2021.
UNICEF gives technical help and recommendation for monitoring, supporting and selling youngsters’s rights on the next areas throughout the nation:
- Support insurance policies to cut back ranges of poverty affecting youngsters with particular give attention to early child improvement.
- Prevention of non-communicable ailments on youngsters underneath 5.
- Improve commencement charges in higher secondary training.
- Guarantee the entry of youngsters with disabilities to inclusive training.
- Reduce the variety of youngsters and adolescents dwelling in institutional care.
- Prevention of violence towards women and boys.
- Empower adolescents to take part in determination making processes.
- Improve options to deprivation of liberty for adolescents in battle with the legislation.
- Raise consciousness about child rights amongst Uruguay’s common public and the engagement of the non-public sector, civil society organizations (CSOs) and educational establishments in selling, defending and monitoring child rights.
How are you able to make a difference??
Under the supervision of the Fundraising Manager, NO-C, the Finance and Budget Associate GS6 will likely be accountable for executing a broad number of procedural and specialised administrative duties to assist planning, budgeting, monetary administration and administration for the Fundraising division.
The place requires in-depth data of UNICEF administrative procedures, processes and insurance policies, making certain compliance with UNICEF guidelines and rules.
Key Accountabilities and Duties & Tasks
Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities:
1. Preparation and monitoring of annual workplan and funds
- Provides assist within the elaboration of annual workplan and funds, and within the monitoring of the implementation standing, funding utilization, operational and monetary closure.
- Monitors budgets and monetary expenditures for the Section, making certain compliance with UNICEF guidelines and rules, holding supervisor knowledgeable and suggested for correct determination making and observe up.
- Prepares and maintains data, paperwork and management plans for the funds monitoring of challenge/programme implementation.
- Carries out transactions in SAP pertaining to grants for his/her part equivalent to registering grant allotments and monitoring expiring grants.
2. Support administration, monitoring and reporting of fundraising revenue
- Provides assist within the preparation of the money forecasting and revenue allocation proposal for the Country Office.
- Ensures that fundraising revenue reconciliations are well timed and precisely carried out.
- Ensures that every one revenue transactions are correctly registered in administrative and monetary programs and financial institution accounts in accordance with the established procedures.
- Monitors the revenue allocation processes.
- Supports the preparation of annual and quarterly reviews following HQ tips in addition to different ad-hoc reviews, in collaboration with supervisor and the Operations part.
3. Perform administrative and monetary actions to assist the fundraising operation
- Facilitates the contracting course of for providers, items, and consultants. This contains supporting the elaboration of TORs, making ready and submitting paperwork, performing transactions in SAP, and making crucial logistical preparations.
- Supports the assessment of contractual phrases and situations of Fundraising contracts to make sure adherence of suppliers and consultants to UNICEF guidelines and rules.
- Proposes contracting options and assists within the improvement of market assessments to determine new potential suppliers, in keeping with the recognized wants.
- Carries out completely different monetary transactions in SAP equivalent to elevating buy requisitions, fund commitments, amongst others.
- Coordinates and screens funds towards contractual obligations.
4. Overall assist to fundraising operation and capability constructing
- Provides sensible inputs to the Section for the implementation of UNICEF guidelines, rules, insurance policies and procedures, in shut coordination with the Operations part.
- Contributes to the advance of the Section’s planning, budgeting and monitoring processes, making certain efficient revenue and expenditures management programs.
- Keeps supervisor and Fundraising specialists abreast of potential issues, prepares reviews on administrative and technical issues when required.
- Liaises with Regional and HQ counterparts on completely different issues to make sure correct implementation of the Section’s workplan.
- Supports capability constructing and studying and improvement efforts for the Section.
- Prepares required data and helps the implementation of different administrative and monetary processes to successfully assist the fundraising operation.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
Minimum necessities:
Education: Completion of secondary training is a requirement. University research in enterprise administration, finance, accounting, economics, funds, planning or every other associated discipline is an asset.
For this place, a bachelor’s diploma from a acknowledged educational establishment in a related discipline might change three years of associated work expertise and a grasp´s diploma might change an extra two years.
Work Experience: A minimal of six years of related work expertise in administration, finance, accounting, funds evaluation and/or planning is required.
Language Requirements: Fluency in Spanish and Intermediate English is required.
Desirables:
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
- Strong organizational, planning, and prioritizing abilities and skills.
- High sense of confidentiality, initiative, and logic.
- Ability to work successfully with individuals of various nationwide and cultural backgrounds.
- Training and expertise utilizing Microsoft Office instruments (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
- Strong workplace administration abilities.
- Knowledge of SAP is an asset.
For each Child, you exhibit…
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…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
(3) Drive to attain outcomes for impression
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely 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 identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of measures to include a more diverse workforce, equivalent to paid parental depart, time without work for breastfeeding functions, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of 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 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 youngsters. 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 embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply extra 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 can 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:
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 very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF’s lively dedication to range and inclusion is important to ship the most effective outcomes for youngsters.
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 correct to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an affordable 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 is not going to ask for candidates’ checking account data.
UNICEF shall not facilitate the issuance of a visa and dealing authorization for candidates into consideration for positions on the nationwide officer and common service class.
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 inner candidate performing on the degree of the publish within the related practical 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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Finance/Budget (Fundraising) Associate, GS-6, Montevideo, Uruguay, #130923, Temporary Appointment (12 months)
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