UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to avoid wasting youngsters’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by adolescence.
At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and happy with what we do. Promoting the rights of each child isn’t just a job – it’s a calling.
UNICEF is a spot the place careers are constructed: we provide our workers various alternatives for private {and professional} growth that can assist them develop a satisfying profession whereas delivering on a rewarding mission. We delight ourselves on a tradition that helps workers thrive, coupled with a horny compensation and advantages package deal.
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For each child, Health
UNICEF is a core accomplice of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) which goals to finish the eradication and containment of all wild, vaccine-related and Sabin polioviruses, such that no child ever once more suffers paralytic poliomyelitis. To date, world incidence of polio has decreased by 99.9% since GPEI’s inception and an estimated 16 million individuals in the present day are strolling who would in any other case have been paralyzed by the illness, and greater than 1.5 million persons are alive, whose lives would in any other case have been misplaced. Now the duty stays to sort out polio in its previous few strongholds and to do away with the ultimate 0.1% of polio instances. To fulfill our dedication to vaccinating greater than 400 million youngsters annually, UNICEF and companions have interaction in useful resource mobilization, partnership, and advocacy actions to make sure sufficient assist for our world polio eradication efforts.
How are you able to make a difference?
Under the steerage of the Senior Adviser Resource Mobilization, The Finance Manager is accountable for implementing a sturdy monetary technique for managing the funds of UNICEF’s polio eradication programme, together with assessing the monetary necessities of the programme, making certain all authorised actions are funded and creating and implementing methods to enhance monitoring and oversight. The Finance Manager ensures that funding proposals are in step with programme methods and budgetary ceilings. This workers member additionally represents UNICEF in a number of GPEI working teams, serves as Co-Chair of the Financial Management Group with WHO and leads on reporting on monetary issues to GPEI senior administration. The Finance Manager acts as a liaison between the Polio Programme and the Division of Financial and Administrative Management for all monetary and budgetary components of the Polio Eradication Programme. The Finance Manager additionally oversees preparation of the GPEI and UNICEF quarterly expenditure reporting in addition to monetary gaps evaluation, constructing on the GPEI and UNICEF useful resource mobilization technique. The submit additionally gives assist to regional and nation workplaces for in-country useful resource mobilization efforts each with personal and public sector donors.
Key accountabilities and duties embody the next:
- Provides technical recommendation and assist to regional and nation workplaces and to authorities counterparts within the administration of immunization budgets to implement methods to attain polio eradication. This consists of finances planning, quarterly updates of useful resource necessities and monitoring of expenditures. Oversees the estimation of monetary wants for the polio eradication at world, regional and nation stage and the event of quarterly monetary useful resource requirement (FRR) estimates.
- Undertakes subject visits to watch and consider implementation of initiatives/actions and construct capability for higher finances administration and monitoring inside the polio groups.
- Represents UNICEF in conferences with authorities and companions to advocate and promote UNICEF programme targets and targets. Collaborates with accomplice businesses in assist of fundraising for immunization and polio eradication. Participates in conferences with accomplice businesses and inside UNICEF masking immunization and polio eradication actions. Leads the event of supplies in assist of UNICEF’s fundraising efforts for broader immunization efforts for governments and Natcoms.
- Leads and oversees the event of grant proposals and donor studies for polio eradication which would come with an up to date or present nation Situation Analysis and their necessities. This entails evaluate of proposals ready by regional and nation workplaces to make sure consistency and accuracy. Monitors environment friendly administration of assets.
- Leads the preparation of donor grant evaluations and all programme studies for administration, board, donors, finances evaluations, programme evaluation, annual studies, and so on.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
Minimum necessities:
- Education: Advanced college diploma in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration or equal or some other comparable acknowledged skilled qualification or legitimate skilled certification (CA; CPA; and so on.) from an internationally acknowledged, accredited chartered accountancy establishment is required.
- Work Experience: A minimal of 8 years {of professional} expertise in monetary administration / finances administration in a world group and/or massive company is required.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English required.
Desirables:
- Experience in a UN system company or group a few of which served in a creating nation is taken into account as an asset.
- Advanced data of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel required.
- Experience in database packages, web-based administration programs and ERP programs (ideally SAP monetary modules) is taken into account as an asset.
- Experience with IPSAS and/or IFRS is taken into account as an asset.
For each Child, you display…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin the whole lot 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 attain 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 individuals
Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges.
UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, spiritual or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to turn into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF provides paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations. Click here to study extra about versatile work preparations, well-being, and advantages.
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), individuals with disabilities embody those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with varied obstacles, could hinder their full and efficient participation in society on an equal foundation with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has dedicated to extend the variety of workers with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related assist necessities of candidates and workers with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you’re an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility assist in finishing the web application, please submit your request by the accessibility electronic mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals underneath 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 primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody 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, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.
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 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 likely be canceled.
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 variety and inclusion is essential to ship the perfect outcomes for youngsters.
Government workers who’re thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the best to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities should not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any purpose.
UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing charge 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.
Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the stage of the submit within the related practical space, or an inner/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the submit, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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Finance Manager, P-4, Fixed Term, Polio Eradication Programme, New York, USA #43646
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