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For each child, … a champion
Every child has the precise to an training in a protecting atmosphere in order that they’ll be taught, develop and develop the abilities, and confidence they want to lead wholesome and productive lives. Schools have the potential to be transformative in selling constructive social norms and gender equality. But for too many women and boys all over the world, faculty is a spot of violence and worry. Physical, sexual and psychological violence in and round faculties impacts kids and younger folks in every single place. Violence is commonly a results of unequal gender and energy dynamics. Girls and boys expertise totally different types of violence. Girls are extra probably to expertise psychological bullying, sexual violence and harassment; boys extra probably to expertise corporal punishment and bodily violence. Disabled kids are extra typically 3 times as probably as their friends to endure bodily violence in faculties, and ladies with disabilities are up to 3 times at higher danger of rape.
Violence hampers studying and is detrimental to kids’s effectively-being. It decreases self-esteem, reduces attendance, lowers grades, and leads many kids to drop out of college altogether. Whether sexual exploitation for grades, corporal punishment in the classroom or bullying and harassment, all types of violence in faculties can and have to be prevented. It is each the precise and the sensible factor to do – morally, socially and economically – because it enhances a child’s probabilities of staying in faculty, will increase their capacity to fulfil their potential and breaks the cycle of violence.
Safe to Learn is a world initiative launched in 2019 to catalyse commitments and proof-based mostly motion to finish violence in and thru faculties by 2030. It works to enhance studying outcomes and higher leverage investments in training in direction of violence prevention and response. Safe to Learn brings collectively a robust coalition of companions (presently 14) from training, child safety, well being, gender, and social and behavior change. Together, Safe to Learn companions leverage one another’s strengths and distinctive experience to be certain that each child can be taught safely.
The Safe to Learn programme is managed and carried out from the Global Education and Adolescent Development and Participation part with UNICEF Headquarters.
How are you able to make a difference?
The Safe to Learn initiative focuses on creating secure, inclusive, and equitable studying environments by stopping violence, bullying, and discrimination in academic settings, whereas selling gender-transformative training. Serving as a catalyst for inclusive training, the initiative is supported by the Safe to Learn Secretariat, which offers coordination, technical steering, and information administration for stakeholders. Reporting to the Senior Adviser (Management, Advocacy, and Partnerships), the Programme Manager will play a pivotal function in implementing Safe to Learn initiatives, growing methods to finish violence in and round faculties, coordinating companions, managing information and analysis, and influencing international coverage to advance secure and inclusive studying environments.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have to…
The Programme Manager for Safe to Learn is accountable for strategic management, programme improvement, and implementation to deal with violence in faculties and foster secure studying environments. This contains defining priorities aligned with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan, growing programme proposals, managing partnerships, and integrating initiatives throughout sectors. The function entails mobilizing and managing grants, whereas guaranteeing coherence and effectiveness in collaboration with stakeholders. The supervisor offers technical steering to nation places of work, regional places of work, and companions, develops assets like toolkits and coaching supplies, and contributes to coverage improvement and capability constructing at nation ranges. Advocacy and networking are key elements, involving engagement with governments, donors, UN companies, and NGOs to promote secure studying environments and safe sustainable partnerships.
Additionally, the Programme Manager focuses on innovation, information administration, and capability constructing to institutionalize greatest practices and guarantee chopping-edge approaches are utilized in tackling violence in faculties. This contains organizing international and regional coaching initiatives, disseminating classes discovered, and driving sustainable interventions. The function additionally includes rigorous administration, monitoring, and reporting, equivalent to supervising employees, establishing work plans, managing assets effectively, and evaluating programme impacts to refine methods. By guaranteeing alignment with organizational requirements and donor commitments, the supervisor helps impactful outcomes and maintains clear communication with stakeholders by common reporting and advocacy efforts.
The following minimal necessities:
Education:
An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: training, human improvement, economics, psychology, sociology or one other related technical subject is required.
Work Experience:
- A minimal of 8 years {of professional} expertise work expertise at nationwide and/or worldwide ranges in training programme administration, with a give attention to coverage improvement, planning, and monitoring.
Desirables/Assets
- Extensive expertise in cross-sector collaboration, advocacy, and partnership constructing, significantly in the context of training reform, violence in faculties, and child safety.
- Good understanding of child safety programs and social norms, with a specific give attention to faculty-based mostly violence.
- Demonstrated capacity to lead technical and strategic discussions with a number of stakeholders, together with authorities officers, training specialists, and UN companions.
- Knowledge of UNICEF insurance policies and programmes is a plus, significantly programmes that deal with faculty-based mostly violence.
- Solid understanding of Social and Behaviour Change approaches.
- Previous expertise working with UNICEF or different UN companies and nationwide authorities ministries is an asset.
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English is required. Working information of one other UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) is taken into account an asset.
For each Child, you exhibit…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every part we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…
- Builds and maintains partnerships
- Demonstrates self-consciousness and moral consciousness
- Drive to obtain outcomes for affect
- 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 totally different ranges.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. 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 every other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, 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 kids (individuals underneath 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. UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all kids.
All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and will likely be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to present 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 may additionally 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:
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 in the employment of the employees is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
Government staff 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 precise to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities are usually not 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 won’t ask for candidates’ checking account data.
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 inside candidate performing on the degree of the submit in the related useful space, or an inside/exterior candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the submit, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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Programme Manager – Safe to Learn (P-4), FT, PG Education-ADAP, outposted in Nairobi – Kenya # 00131332
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