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In Ghana, UNICEF cooperates with the Government and different companions to defend the rights of youngsters and assist them fulfill their potential. With places of work in Accra and Tamale, the UNICEF crew seeks to realize leads to strategic programme areas. The total aim is for each child to outlive and thrive, to stay in a protected and clear atmosphere, to be taught, to be shielded from violence and exploitation, and to have an equitable likelihood in life. The present Country Programme of cooperation is aligned with the Government priorities, the UN Sustainable Development Partnership (UNSDP) and Key Results for Children (KRCs) within the West and Central African Region (immunization, diet, studying outcomes, ending child marriage and ending open defecation). UNICEF important methods embody evidence-based advocacy, system strengthening, built-in programming throughout sectors, emergency preparedness and response, and innovation.
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Within the delegated authority and below the supervision of the Chief of Social Policy, the incumbent shall be assigned the primarily, shared, or contributory accountabilities for all or part of the next areas of main duties and key end-results of child rights monitoring output space.
The Social Policy (CRM) Specialist is accountable for strengthening child rights programs by way of Strengthened Capacity for Child-Specific Statistics and Evidence Generation, Utilization of Knowledge in Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Children and Reinforced System for Child Rights Monitoring, Oversight and Participation. He/She can even help the identification, documentation, validation and sharing of classes realized and good practices associated to child rights throughout the Country Office and past
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Key capabilities and tasks
1. Strengthened Capacity for Child-Specific Statistics and Evidence Generation
- In coordination with different stakeholders, help the enhancing knowledge high quality of Child Rights and child poverty, SDGs and different key social growth indicators and different to enhance nationwide planning.
- Continuously monitor the state of affairs of youngsters and develop a collective Situation Analises of Children and Monitoring and Assessment system owned by key companions at nationwide, regional and native degree which helps the preparation of nation degree statistical and analytic stories on the standing of youngsters’s and ladies’s rights points; and which permit, when alternatives emerge to affect developmental and social insurance policies.
2. Utilization of Knowledge in Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Children
- Present, talk about, advocate and foyer nationwide possession of child rights in step with CRC(and SDGs).
- Technical help to world reporting obligations together with nationwide stories on progress towards the SDGs, and towards CRC and CEDAW fulfilment.
- Provide technical help in coverage making in order that they mirror child-focused priorities and ship on anticipated leads to nationwide growth plans and techniques.
- Facilitate dialogue with key monetary determination makers in any respect ranges of presidency to lift consciousness on choices on youngsters.
3. Strengthening Child Rights Monitoring and Reporting Systems
- To embody technical help and recommendation to world reporting obligations together with nationwide stories and dialogue on progress towards the SDGs, and towards CRC and CEDAW fulfilment.
- Ensure sturdy Child Rights monitoring framework to GoG plans and the capability of parliament to observe these.
- Collaborate to implement capability constructing methods as a joint dedication with GoG, CRM establishments and different developmental companions. Utilize a variety of acceptable abilities constructing methods to develop a nationally owned child rights monitoring programs producing prime quality proof on the state of affairs of youngsters for use by coverage makers, implementers and growth companions.
- Actively search partnerships with information establishments at nationwide, regional and native degree for the identification of capability gaps and growth of methods to deal with them, guaranteeing that capacities to observe child rights are developed.
4. Coordination, Networking and recommendation
- Lead the institution and strengthening of analysis collaborations with exterior authorities, different UN companies, and non-government companions to construct a nexus between analysis, proof and advocacy and coverage help.
- Represent UNICEF in exterior networking conferences and occasions on knowledge and proof for youngsters.
- Support to make sure that present and correct child rights monitoring knowledge and outcomes are included in nation stories, research, and information sharing networks.
- Undertake lessons-learned opinions on profitable and unsuccessful knowledge monitoring practices and expertise on the nation degree, and guarantee they’re shared as acceptable.
- Develop and maintain studying by way of exterior knowledge and proof information networks to establish improvements and classes realized that could be related for the CO and companions to enhance their monitoring and reporting capabilities.
- Coordinate workplace extensive initiatives generate and analyze actual time data on child rights to affect child rights programming and coverage making
- Closely collaborate with all UNICEF sections and subject places of work and help the institution of an office-wide child rights monitoring system.
- Advice senior administration on child rights advocacy on provide and demand aspect
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
Minimum necessities:
- Education: An Advanced University Degree in Public Policy, International Relations, Political or Environmental Science or different related disciplines
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Work Experience: At least 5 years of related work expertise in strengthening child rights monitoring, particularly strengthening Capacity for Child-Specific Statistics and Evidence Generation, Utilization of Knowledge in Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Children and Reinforced System for Child Rights Monitoring, Oversight and Participation is required.
-Strong command in analyzing and influencing insurance policies and medium/lengthy phrases growth plans at excessive degree, nationwide and decentralized degree is required
-Hands on expertise in working with governments, statistical companies, academia and different CRM establishments.
-Experience in worldwide child rights monitoring mechanisms corresponding to SDG VNRs and/or CRC
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English (native language of the responsibility station)
Desirables:
- Research and proof era and growth of associated coverage papers, together with child poverty analyses.
- Coordination expertise is an asset
- Experience on child participation is an asset
- Developing ToRs, proposals and idea notes for collaborations and partnerships for implementation. Contracting and supervising consultancy assignments.
- Ability to work in a world and multicultural atmosphere.
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
For each Child, you reveal…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the pieces we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this submit 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
(8) Nurtures, leads and manages folks
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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 best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF’s energetic dedication to range and inclusion is important to ship one of the best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate candidates are inspired to apply.
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Social Policy Specialist (Child Rights Monitoring), NOC Accra Ghana Post No. 00131543 (Temporary Appointment)
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