Apply for Social Policy Specialist (Social Protection Systems Strengthening), P-3, Mogadishu, SOMALIA, Post # 131451, Temporary Appointment, 364 Days Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

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For each child, PROTECTION!

Eliminating child poverty and making certain entry to social safety have been acknowledged as essential priorities of the agenda 2030. An express requirement to measure and monitor multidimensional child poverty is included below SDG 1.1.2, and equally, the necessity to speed up progress round public spending for poverty discount below SDG 1.a.2, and SDG 1.b.1 for which UNICEF has lately turn out to be a custodian. The efficient scale-up of social safety, with a particular consideration to kids, is included as part of making certain entry to social safety, a core goal of SDG 1 (Elimination of poverty), and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities). Moreover, social safety can also be an accelerator for a number of different targets. Addressing the a number of and compounding deprivations skilled by kids requires an express dedication to grasp their drivers and to scale-up complete methods to handle them. The full realization of the suitable of youngsters of entry to social safety and enough lifestyle won’t solely be sure that each child lives freed from poverty but additionally stop these in danger or susceptible to poverty attributable to exclusion and discrimination, or going through environmental and conflict-related dangers, from falling into poverty.

Reducing child poverty, enhancing entry to gender-transformative, and inclusive social safety, selling effectivity, transparency and fairness of financing, whereas strengthening capacities at subnational stage, together with in city contexts, is essential. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all kids, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement for each child.

How are you able to make a difference?

Under the overall steerage of the Chief Social Policy and the direct supervision of the Social Policy Manager, the Social Policy Specialist (Social Protection Systems Strengthening) will help with general challenge administration of the CSSP programme, participating with MoLSA, FMS, district authorities, and different companions to make sure that the child grant contributes to the broader social safety system improvement in nation. Where relevant, the Social Protection Specialist will even contribute to the design, implementation and monitoring of HCT, making certain acceptable coordination with Government and different humanitarian actors (by the CWG) in addition to informing improvement of the general shock responsive SP system.

The Social Policy Specialist (Social Protection Systems Strengthening) is accountable for the next summarized features:

1. Expansion of protection and social safety system strengthening – strategic elements (proof/coverage/financing)
2. Social Protection system strengthening – operational facet (programme design/implementation)
3. Delivery of Humanitarian Cash Transfers – operational elements (HCT design /implementation/monitoring)
4. Cross-cutting social coverage areas

KEY FUNCTIONS, ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RELATED DUTIES/TASKS

Specifically, the Social Policy Specialist (Social Protection Systems Strengthening) performs:

1. Expansion of social safety protection and social safety system strengthening – strategic elements    (proof/coverage/financing)

• Promotes the strengthening and enlargement of an built-in social safety system by making use of proof and conducting advocacy throughout your entire strategic and coverage vary of child-sensitive social safety interventions, together with inter alia: political financial system evaluation; coverage advocacy; evaluation on financing choices for enlargement of protection; system constructing; programs diagnostics; linkages with sectoral programs (well being, schooling, child safety, diet, water and sanitation), and coordination mechanisms.
• Supports nationwide dialogue on social safety legal guidelines/insurance policies, and/or drafting of social safety methods, together with through coordination with totally different components of the federal government at nationwide and subnational stage, with different sectors, with different actors e.g. civil society organizations and with the worldwide organizations (UN, IFIs and past).
• As part of system strengthening at each the strategic and operational stage, search alternatives to increase protection and adequacy of social safety for each child in direction of common protection, together with contributing to UNICEF’s commitments to help the event of gender-responsive/transformative, disability-inclusive, migrant- inclusive and shock-responsive programmes and programs.

2. Social safety system strengthening – operational elements of CSSP (programme design/implementation/monitoring)

• Designs, updates, critiques, adjusts, implements and evaluates money transfers and different key social safety programmes which incorporates inter alia: measurement, concentrating on and implementation modalities, use of administration data programs, coordination constructions, communication technique, accountability frameworks, monitoring frameworks, operational capability and influence evaluations and so on.
• Helps improvement of implementation programs and capability that allows linkages of money switch programmes with different social safety interventions similar to medical health insurance, public works and social care companies, in addition to complementary intervention associated to diet, well being, schooling, water and sanitation, child safety and HIV/AIDS. Works to make sure sustainability and to keep away from fragmentation by the following integration of money switch programmes into current programs.
• Participates in inter-agency and different related social safety fora and identifies alternatives for joint programming and implementation, data sharing and coordination, whereas strengthening UNICEF’s standing as a key social safety participant nationally and sub-nationally.

3. Delivery of Humanitarian Cash Transfers – operational elements of HCT (programme design/implementation/monitoring)

• Identifies or units up dependable and digitalized fee programs to extend the effectivity, accountability and transparency of HCTs, whereas reaching extra and essentially the most susceptible kids in fragile humanitarian contexts.
• Helps construct infrastructure and capability that allows linkages of money switch programmes with different social safety interventions. Works to make sure sustainability and to keep away from fragmentation by – the place doable – the following integration of money switch programmes into current programs.
• Conducts operational evaluation of money switch programmes, together with registration, fee, verification workout routines, and so on., to determine areas of poor efficiency, bottlenecks, and determine options.
• Coordinates and helps fee verification and different components of the HCTs programmes’ monitoring based on the established monitoring frameworks and schedules.

4. Cross-cutting social coverage areas

• Establishes efficient partnerships with the federal government, bilateral and multilateral donors, civil society and native leaders, the non-public sector, and different UN companies to help sustained and proactive dedication to the Convention of the Rights of the Child, obtain international UN agendas such because the Sustainable Development Goals and strengthen UNICEF’s main positioning for their implementation as they relate to inclusive, gender-transformative social safety.
• Analyzes nationwide context, together with key socio-economic traits, and their influence on social improvement, rising points and considerations. Uses proof and knowledge to assist the nation workplace predict, put together for and mitigate dangers and alter programming course.
• Supports the proper and compelling use of knowledge and proof together with on the scenario of youngsters, and protection and influence of child-focused companies, in help of the social safety programme and the nation programme general.
• Develops approaches to determine social and behavioural change wants and undertakes interventions for the significant accountability to affected populations and neighborhood engagement.
• Monitors present technological traits, new modalities of working relevant to social safety versus present and rising must assess their function and match their potential applicability to social safety for enhanced outcomes for kids.

IMPACT OF RESULTS

The efficient route and technical help within the space of social safety is a key enabler to the nation workplace’s programme and direct contribution in direction of the outcomes below Goal Area 5 of UNICEF’s strategic plan and likewise contributes to leads to different areas (well being, schooling, water and sanitation, diet). Effective advocacy for elevated and expanded social safety will improve the credibility of UNICEF nation workplace’s programming and partnerships for kids’s rights in any respect ranges, together with subnational. The influence of outcomes ought to contribute to the Strategic Plan outcomes on social safety, together with the protection of social safety programs/ground amongst kids, strengths of the social safety programs, disability-inclusive social safety, gender- responsive/transformative social safety, migrant-inclusive social safety and shock-responsive social safety.

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

Minimum necessities:

EDUCATION:

• An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or one other related discipline.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• At least a minimal of 5 years of related work expertise in strategic and operational elements of social safety programs is required.
• Experience in programme design and administration and coverage advocacy is required.
• Experience in money switch programme design and administration and coverage advocacy is taken into account a robust asset.
• Experience working in growing nations / contexts is taken into account as a robust asset.
• Background and/or familiarity with emergencies and humanitarian contexts is taken into account as a robust asset.

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language or an area language is taken into account as an asset.

For each Child, you show…

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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 

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