Apply for Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Specialist, Temporary Appointment (364 days), NO-3, Kyiv, Ukraine, #129893 (for Ukraine Nationals Only) Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

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UNICEF Ukraine

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How are you able to make a difference? 

The begin of the full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine has had wide-reaching social and financial penalties, together with these stemming from large-scale displacement, bodily injury to buildings and infrastructure, and elevated civilian casualties. As of June 2024, about 6 million individuals are refugees outdoors Ukraine1 and approx. 3.5 million individuals are internally displaced inside Ukraine. In addition, some 6.9 million individuals stay in frontline areas (primarily within the east and south of the nation) or in communities internet hosting massive numbers of internally displaced individuals (primarily within the north and west). Physical and psychological stress limits the well-being of the inhabitants affected by the battle and impacts the social cloth. Reduced response capacities and overloading of native providers are exacerbating the scenario. While the war-related emergency continues, Ukraine has began to orient in the direction of restoration within the Central and Western areas to construct again higher and prioritize coverage reform.

UNICEF is devoted to advancing the rights of each child, all over the place, focusing its applications, advocacy, and operations on this core mission. The group’s Equity Strategy is on the coronary heart of its dedication, aiming to rectify disparities by prioritizing essentially the most deprived and excluded youngsters and households. This technique interprets the dedication to youngsters’s rights into motion, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and is crucial for fostering sustainable development and stability inside nations.

Within its new Country Program Document for Ukraine (CPD), UNICEF Ukraine has included Early Childhood Development (ECD) as certainly one of three ‘Leadership Areas’ for the group over the approaching 5 12 months UNICEF’s Strategic Plan for 2022-2025. The ECD Leadership Area, generally known as Better Start to Life, is supposed to function the ‘foundation’ for the opposite two ‘Leadership Areas’ – Better Care, which is anchored inside Child Protection and focuses on essentially the most susceptible youngsters with an emphasis on these susceptible to abandonment and/or institutionalization, and prevention and  Better Learning and Skills which focuses on studying loss resulting from COVID and the struggle from pre-school by way of adolescence.

The well being and diet programme takes a systemic, built-in multisectoral method to Early Childhood Development (ECD) to embed nurturing care for younger youngsters in child-centred, resilient, gender-transformative and inclusive insurance policies, programmes and parenting practices, pre-empting the intergenerational impression of the struggle, local weather change and environmental degradation, according to the worldwide proof displaying that investing in younger youngsters has excessive returns later in life.

UNICEF Ukraine’s Health part has made notable progress in integrating Early Childhood Development by implementing the Nurturing Care Framework inside Primary Health Care. This effort consists of offering facility-based ECD providers by way of Child-Friendly Spaces (CFS) in major well being services, increasing the home visiting programme, introducing child growth monitoring, providing IYCF counselling, and mapping zero-dose immunized youngsters to higher perceive vaccine hesitancy or refusal. The programme consists of offering parenting assist at well being services and throughout home visits and coordinates referrals to different well being, social and instructional sectors.

To spearhead these efforts, UNICEF Ukraine is searching for to nominate a Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Specialist who might be accountable for planning, implementing, and monitoring diet and ECD programmes in collaboration with the well being and diet staff at central stage, subject workplace well being and diet officers, and UNICEF workers from the schooling, child safety social safety and SBC sections.

How are you able to make a difference?

The Nutrition and Early Childhood Development (ECD) Specialist helps the event and monitoring of diet and ECD programmes (operationalising nurturing care) and is accountable for supporting respective well being and diet programmes and companions in implementation, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting the progress of diet and ECD programmes/initiatives. The Specialist supplies technical steerage and assist all through the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of outcomes on key child growth domains, together with mainstreaming and integration  of ECD and diet inside well being programmes and providers.  

Job organizational context: The Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Specialist (NO-C) place is located inside the Country Office (CO) in Kiev, Ukraine. Reporting to the ECD specialist (P3), this function is essential for advancing UNICEF’s strategic targets in planning, implementing and monitoring built-in diet and ECD programmes inside Health whereas guaranteeing cross-sectoral linkages with different sectors in UNICEF and with companions in Ukraine.

Purpose for the job:

Under the direct supervision of the ECD Specialist (Level 3), the Nutrition and ECD Specialist helps the coordinated growth, planning, implementation, monitoring, and documentation of Nutrition and ECD programmes/initiatives inside the Country Programme. The Specialist supplies technical steerage and administration assist inside part to facilitate the administration and achievement of outcomes on diet and ECD associated programmes/initiatives. S/he assists in coordination and cross sectoral work across the ECD inside Health which hyperlinks with WASH, Education, Child Protection, Social Policy, Communication for Advocacy and Partnerships and Social Behaviour Change programmes.

The Specialist works intently with ECD Working Group (a sub-set of the ECD Task Force) on the nationwide stage and with well being officers within the Field places of work and contributes to the achievement of convergent and sustainable outcomes on ECD associated programmes/initiatives in keeping with plans, allocation, outcomes based-management approaches and methodology (RBM) and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, requirements of efficiency and accountability framework.

Key perform, accountabilities and associated duties/duties

Summary of key features/accountabilities: 

1. Promote convergence in growth, administration and monitoring of ECD programmes
2. Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes, with a deal with subject implementation and ECD programming
3. Technical and operational assist to programme implementation
4. Networking and partnership constructing, with a deal with subject implementation
5. Innovation, information administration and capability constructing on toddler and younger child Feeding and ECD Programmes

  1. Support programme growth and planning

• Support and contribute to the preparation, design and updating of the scenario evaluation for the sector(s) to ascertain a strategic plan for growth, design and administration of the diet and ECD programmes. Keep abreast of growth traits to boost programme administration, effectivity and supply.

• Promote convergence in growth, administration and monitoring of diet and ECD programmes

• Participate in strategic programme discussions on the planning of well being programmes. Formulate, design and put together a sector of the well being programme proposal, guaranteeing alignment with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, the Country Programme, in addition to coherence/integration with the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), regional methods, and nationwide priorities, plans and competencies.
• Establish particular programme objectives, targets, methods, and implementation plans based mostly on results-based planning terminology and methodology (RBM). Prepare required documentations for programme evaluation and approval.
• Work intently and collaboratively with colleagues and companions to debate methods and methodologies, and to find out nationwide priorities and competencies to make sure the achievement of concrete and sustainable outcomes.
• Provide technical and operational assist all through all levels of programming processes to make sure integration, coherence and harmonization of programmes/initiatives with different UNICEF sectors and achievement of outcomes as deliberate and allotted.

2. Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes, with a deal with subject implementation and ECD programming  

• Plan and/or collaborate with inner and exterior companions to ascertain monitoring benchmarks, efficiency indicators, and different UNICEF/UN system indicators and measurements to evaluate and strengthen efficiency accountability, coherence and supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes for the assigned sector in well being programmes.
• Participate in monitoring and analysis workout routines, programme critiques and annual sectoral critiques with the federal government and different counterparts to evaluate progress and to find out required motion/interventions to attain outcomes.
• Prepare and assess monitoring and analysis stories to establish gaps, strengths and/or weaknesses in programme administration, establish classes realized and use information gained for growth planning and well timed intervention to attain objectives.
• Actively monitor programmes/initiatives by way of subject visits, surveys and/or alternate of data with companions/stakeholders to evaluate progress, establish bottlenecks, potential issues and take well timed selections to resolve points and/or confer with related officers for well timed decision.
• Monitor and confirm the optimum and acceptable use of sectoral programme sources (monetary, administrative and different belongings) confirming compliance with organizational guidelines, rules/procedures and donor commitments, requirements of accountability and integrity, guaranteeing well timed reporting and liquidation of sources.
• Prepare common and mandated programme/challenge stories for administration, donors and companions to maintain them knowledgeable of programme progress.

3. Technical and operational assist to programme implementation 

• Provide technical steerage and operational assist to authorities counterparts, NGO companions, UN system companions and different nation workplace companions/donors on the interpretation, application and understanding of UNICEF insurance policies, methods, processes, and greatest practices and approaches on health-related points to assist programme growth planning, administration, implementation and supply of outcomes.
• Participate in discussions with nationwide companions, purchasers and stakeholders to advertise well being and growth points, particularly within the areas of gender, emergency preparedness, maternal and neonatal well being, and child survival and growth.
• Draft coverage papers, briefs and different strategic programme supplies for administration use, data and consideration.
• Participate in emergency preparedness initiatives for programme growth, contingency planning and/or to answer emergencies in nation or the place designated.

4. Networking and partnership constructing, with a deal with subject implementation 

• Build and maintain efficient shut working partnerships with well being sector authorities counterparts, nationwide stakeholders, in addition to international companions, allies, donors, and academia. Through lively networking, advocacy and efficient communication, construct capability and alternate information and experience to facilitate the achievement of programme objectives on child rights, social justice and fairness.
• Prepare communication and data supplies for CO programme advocacy to advertise consciousness, set up partnerships/alliances, and assist fund elevating for well being programmes (maternal, neonatal and child survival and growth).

• Participate and/or signify UNICEF in acceptable inter-agency (UNCT) discussions and planning on health-related points to collaborate with inter-agency companions/colleagues on UNDAF planning and preparation of well being programmes/initiatives, guaranteeing organizational place, pursuits and priorities are totally thought-about and built-in within the UNDAF course of in growth planning and agenda setting.

5. Innovation, information administration and capability constructing on toddler and younger child Feeding and ECD Programmes

• Apply and introduce progressive approaches and good practices to construct the capability of companions and stakeholders, and to assist the implementation and supply of concrete and sustainable programme outcomes.
• Keep abreast and conduct analysis to supply proof for implementation of greatest and leading edge practices in well being.
• Assess, institutionalize and share greatest practices and information realized.
• Contribute to the event and implementation of insurance policies and procedures to make sure optimum effectivity and efficacy of sustainable programmes and initiatives.
• Organize and implement capability constructing initiatives to boost the competencies of stakeholders to advertise sustainable outcomes on well being associated programmes/initiatives.

Impact of Results

The effectivity and efficacy of assist offered by the Nutrition and Early Childhood Specialist to programme preparation, planning and implementation facilitates the supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes that immediately impression the development of the well being of essentially the most marginalized and susceptible ladies and youngsters within the nation. This in flip contributes to sustaining and enhancing the credibility and capacity of UNICEF to proceed to supply programme providers to guard the rights of kids, and to advertise better social equality to allow them to outlive, develop and attain their full potential in society.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…

Minimum necessities:

Education:

• An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: Nutrition, Public well being, Developmental/ Child psychology, child growth, incapacity research, human growth, household research or one other related technical subject.

Work Experience:

• A minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise in a number of of the next areas is required: early childhood growth early intervention, diet, maternal and neonatal well being care, child well being, public well being planning and administration.
• Experience within the implementation of diet and ECD programmes is required.

Language Requirements: 

• Fluency in English and Ukrainian is required.

Desirables:

• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency. 
• Experience working with Government stakeholders is taken into account as an asset.
• Relevant expertise in a UN system company or group is taken into account as an asset.
• Knowledge of one other official UN language or a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Child, you display…

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The UNICEF competencies required for this submit 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 totally 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 another private attribute.

We provide a wide range of measures to include a more diverse workforce, corresponding to paid parental go away, day 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 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 bear rigorous reference and background checks and might 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 extra data to conduct a background check.

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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 very best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate individuals with incapacity are inspired to apply.

Government workers who’re thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or vital inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an inexpensive interval for any cause. 

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Eligible workers members on fixed-term, persevering with or everlasting contracts making use of to IP TA positions in an obligation station designated as L2/L3, could possibly retain a lien and their fixed-term entitlements, topic to approval by their Head of Office. The situations of the short-term project will differ relying on the standing of their submit and relocation entitlements could also be restricted as per the related insurance policies.

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This place is predicated in Kyiv and the incumbent might be anticipated be work on-site. However, relying on the safety situations and advisory, s/he might be required to relocate inside Ukraine.