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 means of adolescence.
At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and happy 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} growth 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 horny compensation and advantages bundle.
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For each child, …. well being and alternatives:
There is rising proof that investing within the well being, training 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 development and stability of nations. This is why the deal with fairness is so important. It accelerates progress in the direction of realizing the human rights of all youngsters, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined within the Convention on the Rights of the Child, whereas additionally supporting the equitable growth of countries.
UNICEF’s present strategic plan revolves round guaranteeing that youngsters survive, thrive and remodel. This entails an built-in and complete strategy for each child (0-19 years) and selling continuum of care alongside the life cycle. For well being and wellbeing this requires a multi-sectoral strategy with actions at neighborhood degree, tackling the “causes of the causes” of ailments and ailing-well being, and selling the well being and nicely-being of youngsters. Community well being and vitamin programs are a cornerstone for bettering entry to major well being care; when excessive influence, top quality interventions are delivered to the final mile in an equitable, value-efficient method by authorities remunerated and institutionalized neighborhood well being staff and well being programs are strengthened, the total advantages of the well being-associated SDGs may be realized.
How are you able to make a difference?
Under the supervision of the Associate Director, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health throughout the Health Programme Team, you’ll be accountable for the general administration of the partnerships round Community Health, their sturdy linkages with different sectoral and multi-sectoral partnerships, notably the Community Health Delivery Partnership (CHDP) at UNICEF. This function entails fostering world, regional and nation degree partnerships to reinforce investments in neighborhood well being and vitamin/ Community primarily based Primary Health Care, aligned with nation priorities. You will oversee day-to-day administration and operations of those partnerships, together with the CHDP, coordinate nation and companion engagement, strengthen linkages with different initiatives, and help entry to nation-particular information for strategic resolution-making. Additionally, you’ll coordinate technical help to governments in implementing their neighborhood well being priorities and monitor progress in institutionalizing neighborhood well being.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have to…
This function is significant in guaranteeing that the partnerships together with the CHDP features as a strong world partnership platform for neighborhood well being. The incumbent leads efforts to reinforce the CHDP’s engagement with companion establishments and nation stakeholders, strengthening its hyperlinks with different world and regional networks. They work carefully with companions together with sister UN companies, bilateral and multilateral companions, non-public sector companions to ascertain a protracted-time period imaginative and prescient and governance mechanism for the platform. Regular stakeholder convenings are held to align with nation priorities, and information is used strategically to watch progress and inform choices. The function additionally contains making ready donor proposals and stories, guaranteeing compliance with pointers, and offering needed information for program evaluation and annual stories.
The incumbent mobilizes assets for neighborhood well being, collaborating with key companions to advocate for elevated investments in major well being care by means of robust neighborhood well being programs. They have interaction with world and regional partnerships to reinforce the CHDP’s linkages and coordinate investor dialogues to optimize assets for neighborhood well being. The function entails reviewing current well being program funding mechanisms to higher align assets and galvanizing efforts to ascertain a catalytic fund mechanism for CHDP precedence nations. This place performs an important function in fostering collaboration, alignment, and useful resource optimization for major well being care on the neighborhood degree.
The following minimal necessities:
An Advanced University diploma in Public Health (ideally with specialised coaching in well being programs strengthening, public well being planning, budgeting & costing, well being promotion and training, or epidemiology or vitamin), Child Development, Social Policy, Social Development, Community Development or one other related subject is required.
Work Experience:
A minimal of ten years {of professional} work expertise on the nationwide and worldwide ranges neighborhood / major well being care, well being planning, programming, implementation monitoring and analysis of well being programmes related to child survival, thrive and remodel agenda is required.
Desirables/Assets:
- Professional work expertise in a managerial place, or a technical professional place in neighborhood well being and/ or vitamin programming and different related technical areas of major well being care is very fascinating.
- Strong advocacy and communication abilities are desired.
- Developing nation work expertise or subject work is an asset.
- Relevant expertise in a UN system company or group is taken into account as an asset.
Language Requirements:
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.
For each Child, you display…
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 put up 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 completely different ranges.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should replicate 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-financial background, or another 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 youngsters (individuals below 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 endure rigorous reference and background checks and will probably 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 offer further 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 probably 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 will probably 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 within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
Government workers 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 proper to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or needed inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.
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 data.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the degree 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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