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For each child

The UNICEF Evaluation perform drives outcomes for youngsters by selling evidence-informed decision-making. It performs a key function in guaranteeing accountability for UNICEF’s contributions to outcomes for youngsters, whereas additionally supporting studying and decision-making to enhance these outcomes. UNICEF Evaluation perform conducts a variety of impartial, credible, and neutral evaluations, together with company, thematic, institutional effectiveness, humanitarian, country-led, influence, and joint evaluations. These evaluations be certain that UNICEF makes use of proof to boost its outcomes for youngsters. Evaluation at UNICEF is decentralized, led by the Director of Evaluation, who supplies strategic management throughout all three ranges of the group—international, regional, and nation. The UNICEF Evaluation Office oversees the analysis perform, with senior regional analysis advisers and multi-country analysis specialists based mostly in seven regional places of work. Additionally, devoted nation analysis specialists are stationed in 15 UNICEF nation places of work worldwide, with assist from many different workers members who contribute part-time to the analysis perform as part of their broader obligations.

How are you able to make a difference? 

The UNICEF Evaluation Office is searching for a seasoned Operations Specialist to affix its strategic planning and operations crew. In this function, the Operations Specialist, below the supervision of the Senior Evaluation Specialist (Strategic Planning and Operations) will ship solution-oriented evaluation, recommendation, and providers to optimize the administration of operations and administrative processes. Key obligations embrace offering coverage steerage, guaranteeing adherence to organizational procedures, and collaborating with administration to boost the effectivity of the analysis perform. If you’re a expert skilled with a robust monitor report in driving organizational initiatives throughout varied operations administration areas, together with budgeting, monetary administration, reporting, administration, and human sources, we invite you to apply.

Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities:

1. Valuing Money – Champion strategic use of sources to realize organizational objectives and guarantee worth for cash (VFM)

• Ensure efficient identification and use of sources in varied concrete Value for Money (VfM) areas, together with eco-efficiency and inclusivity, costing, results-based budgeting monetary monitoring, and so forth.
• Lead the monetary oversight administration, monitoring and reporting of all workplace finances, make evaluation and suggestions for the supervisor and Senior Managers to take dangers knowledgeable selections.
• Actively search and promote artistic, and the place acceptable revolutionary, approaches (e.g., in processes, or total approaches) to maximise worth for cash, timeliness, effectivity, cost-efficiency and/or rigor and credibility of the finance/finances actions.
• Regularly advise, talk, coordinate, and the place relevant collaborate with Regional Evaluation Advisers and Multi-country Evaluation Specialists on supplementary funds allocations. 

2. Valuing Procurement – Ensure procurement of match of function items and providers.

• Support procurement methods and interventions to fulfill the workplace wants whereas guaranteeing worth for cash (VfM), together with procurement of match for function items and providers.
• Plan and handle technically advanced procurement operations, guaranteeing environment friendly supply and disposition of high quality items and providers contracts and in accordance with UNICEF Financial Rules and Regulations, Supply Procedures and Guidance Note, and all different relevant procurement procedures.

3. Valuing Systems and Structures – guarantee additional operational centralization and optimization for maximized effectivity positive aspects.

• Review and advocate simplification of Operations processes and advocate measures to reduce price, cut back duplication of labor and maximize efficiencies whereas creating an surroundings of starter controls to render the group prepared to answer workplace wants.
• Provide key contribution to OMP and assist to Results Based Management and implementation utilizing Value for Money standards. – Facilitate providers within the useful areas of operations assist: finances, monetary administration and reporting amenities administration, administration, procurement and logistics administration, human sources and security and safety.
• Support the workplace throughout exterior and inside audit critiques and reply to audit observations and monitoring implementation of suggestions.
• Facilitate enterprise transactions processed by CSC and GSSC from a perspective of Efficiency, Performance, Risk Management and Fraud prevention. 

4. Valuing Risk Management – Enhance dangers administration to extend organizational efficiency and strengthen inside controls. 

• Support the workplace with up-to-date info to make operational and programmatic threat knowledgeable selections and enhance efficiency, with the assist of the enterprise Governance, Risks and Compliance (eGRC) platform.
• Update and take part in testing of enterprise continuity plans to make sure UNICEF organizational resilience to catastrophe and dangers and workers security and safety in addition to Emergency Preparedness and Response to humanitarian conditions.
• Support implementation obligatory anti-fraud techniques, processes and actions, and share anti-fraud achievements throughout the workplace.
• Review inside controls and insurance policies/steerage included within the Regulatory Framework, present oversight of acceptable implementation of insurance policies and procedures, and supply suggestions on coverage and inside controls as acceptable.
• Facilitate mitigation of dangers of engagement with exterior companions by way of acceptable, dangers knowledgeable due diligence.

5. Valuing People – Develop folks sources to advertise technical competence and foster profession development and a spotlight of a ‘fit for purpose’/agile workforce.

• Facilitate an surroundings of administration excellence, workers well-being and accessibility and inclusion by means of implementation of methods, insurance policies, procedures.
• Implement options associated to folks administration and workplace tradition.
• Keep abreast of business requirements in administration and finance and share finest practices and data discovered throughout the workplace.
• Support excellence in Operations in UNICEF derived from the 5 strategic pillars. 

6. Valuing Partners – Strengthening inside and exterior dealing with partnerships and leveraging UNICEF’s oversight and understanding of monetary administration throughout all areas of the workplace.

• Facilitate implementation of agreements with companions.
• Provide technical assist and suggestions on HACT implementation, together with advise method to endeavor spot checks, follow-up actions required on results of monetary assurance actions.
• Foster a constructive and enabling operations surroundings that helps non-public sector fundraising and solution-focused engagement (the place relevant). 

7. Undertake particular assignments as required by the Supervisor.

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

Minimum necessities:

Education:

• An Advanced University Degree (Master’s and above) in one of many following areas is required: Business administration; Financial administration; Accounting; Public Finance; and associated operations perform (Supply Chain, Human Resources, Information Technology, International Business, Project administration, and so forth.)

Work Experience:

• A minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise, on the nationwide and/or worldwide degree, is required, particularly in implementing organizational initiatives in a number of operations administration space together with finances; monetary administration and reporting; amenities administration; administration; provide and logistics administration; info and communication expertise; human sources. 

Skills: 

• Knowledge of Results Based Management is a requirement.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office functions is required

Language Requirements: Fluency in English; data of one other UN language is an asset (Arabic, Chines, French, Russian, Spanish).

Desirables:

• Experience in working with company ERPs (Enterprise Resource Planning) and IPSAS (International Public Sector Accounting Standards) is extremely fascinating
• Prior expertise within the improvement sector or UN system/ worldwide NGOs can be an asset.
• Experience in supporting profitable client-oriented work items is an asset.
• Additional expertise in a number of of the next areas, can be desired: Audit and investigations, Safety and safety, Grant Management, Enterprise Risk Management
• Experience in a UN system company, giant non-public or public firm, or expertise working in a creating nation and/or humanitarian/ emergency context is an asset.
• For nation places of work with a big non-public sector fundraising operation, prior expertise working with or within the non-public sector, and supporting non-public sector fundraising, is fascinating.
• Knowledge of one other UN language is an asset (Arabic, Chines, French, Russian, Spanish).
• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergencies.

For each Child, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing 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 (II)
2. Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (III)
3. Drive to realize outcomes for influence (II)
4. Innovates and embraces change (II)
5. Manages ambiguity and complexity (II)
6. Thinks and acts strategically (II)
7. Works collaboratively with others (II)
8. Nurtures, leads and manages folks (II)

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 presents paid parental go away, 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 embrace those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with varied obstacles, might 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 for 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 means of the accessibility e mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.

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 based mostly on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to promote the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, endure 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 offer extra info 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 obligation station is required for IP positions and might be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments can also 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 might 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 crucial to delivering the perfect outcomes for youngsters. The UNICEF Evaluation Office is dedicated to constructing and fostering a various, inclusive, and dynamic work surroundings, free from discrimination of any type, during which each crew member is valued and revered for her/his expertise, competencies, data, expertise and values. Qualified candidates from UNICEF programme nations are notably inspired to apply, as are candidates with disabilities.

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 proper to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or essential inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose. 

UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing price 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 info.

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 might be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the degree of the submit within the related useful space, or an inside/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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