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The elementary mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each child, in every single place, in the whole lot the group does — in packages, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing probably the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all kids have a chance to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any child has an unequal probability in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is rising proof that investing within the well being, schooling and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all kids the chance to meet their potential but in addition will result in sustained development and stability of nations. This is why the concentrate on fairness is so important. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all kids, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement of countries.
Background:
Ukraine is dealing with escalating poverty and inequality as a result of ongoing battle and its extreme socioeconomic impacts. Pre-existing demographic and structural challenges have been compounded by the battle, disproportionately affecting susceptible teams similar to girls, kids, individuals with disabilities, older individuals, and internally displaced individuals (IDPs). This has intensified the necessity for complete social sector reforms to reinforce the effectivity and effectiveness of Ukraine’s social safety system, strengthen its capability to assist susceptible populations, and promote financial development and social cohesion.
The Government of Ukraine has prioritized social safety reform in its restoration plan, supported by the UN Transitional Framework and the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF). These reforms purpose to ascertain a extra coherent, versatile, and responsive system able to addressing each fast wants and long-term structural challenges. UNICEF has been a key associate in these efforts, offering technical and monetary assist, and main the Social Protection Reform Office below the Ministry of Social Policy (MoSP) to drive reforms and coordinate efforts with different stakeholders.
Recognizing the significance of strengthening social safety techniques, the UK authorities has launched the SPIRIT programme to assist extra inclusive, efficient, and environment friendly social techniques and providers – laying the foundations for longer-term reform and restoration aligned with Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations. One of the mechanisms of the SPIRIT programme to attain these targets is to arrange a Social Recovery Office (SRO) led by UNICEF working hand in hand with the Ministry of Social Policy to:
- Support Ukraine’s imaginative and prescient for a sustainable, resilient and rights-based restoration underpinned by inclusive, efficient and environment friendly social safety techniques for probably the most susceptible and war-impacted teams;
- Improve coordination, strengthen technical capability, and catalyse evidence-based reforms in step with Ukraine Plan commitments throughout social safety, providers and inclusion priorities
- Develop roadmap, generate studying/commissioning proof, and establishing formal coordination buildings to enhance alignment, maximise effectivity, and open doorways for nearer cooperation and partnership throughout the Government of Ukraine, Development Partners, Civil Society, Private Sector, and the broader International Community.
Job organizational context:
Under the SPIRIT Programme, a Social Recovery Office led by UNICEF has been set as much as work immediately with the Ministry of Social Policy.
Purpose for the job:
Under the final steering of the supervisor, the Social Policy Specialist is accountable for offering technical assist to the implementation, monitoring, and analysis of all levels of social coverage programing and associated advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes. This contains programmes geared toward enhancing (a) public insurance policies to cut back child poverty; (b) social safety protection and affect on kids; (c) the transparency, adequacy, fairness and effectivity of child-focused public investments and monetary administration; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to extend public participation and the standard, fairness and protection of social providers.
The social coverage specialist might be accountable for deepening collaboration with key stakeholders, particularly throughout the related ministries, and supply an interface for environmental scanning, data alternate, useful resource mobilization, and coverage affect throughout the scope of task. S/He might also function point of interest and useful resource for colleagues on particular thematic areas of strategic relevance for partnership improvement. They will even be anticipated to coordinate, handle and plan actions/occasions in a scientific and arranged method; and lastly, handle an efficient system for incoming data, together with correspondence and choice memos.
Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities:
Strengthened advocacy and partnerships for child-sensitive social coverage:
- Supports appropriate and compelling use of information and proof on the state of affairs of youngsters and protection and affect of child targeted providers – in assist of the social coverage programme and the nation programme general.
- Establishes efficient partnerships with the Government, bilateral and multilateral donors, NGOs, civil society and native leaders, the personal sector, and different UN companies to assist sustained and proactive dedication to the Convention of the Rights of the Child and to attain world UN agendas such because the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Acts as a focus for figuring out strategic entry factors throughout the Government, different essential companions, promotes consciousness and builds capability of companions, and actively facilitates efficient collaboration throughout the UN household.
- Contributes to methods for engagement and the event of communications merchandise to reinforce UNICEF’s visibility and affect with current and potential companions and key stakeholders by offering evaluation of the present atmosphere and traits and formulating suggestions for technique approaches and message improvement. Works carefully with UNICEF’s colleagues to make sure that coverage advocacy and outreach is strongly grounded within the expertise and insights of the programmes that UNICEF’s helps. Contributes written inputs for communications devices that finest inform and affect choice makers.
UNICEF Programme Management and Operations assist:
- Manages and coordinates technical assist round child poverty, social safety, public finance and governance guaranteeing it’s effectively deliberate, monitored, and applied in a well timed vogue in order to adequately assist scale-up and supply. Ensures danger evaluation and danger mitigation are embedded into general administration of the assist, in shut session with UNICEF programme sections, Cooperating Partners, and governments.
- Supports and contributes to efficient and environment friendly planning, administration, coordination, monitoring and analysis of the nation programme. Ensures that the social planning undertaking enhances coverage dialogue, planning, supervision, technical recommendation, administration, coaching, analysis and assist; and that the monitoring and analysis part strengthens monitoring and analysis of the social sectors and gives assist to sectoral and decentralized data techniques.
- Prepares, distributes and maintains workplace occasion calendars guaranteeing key organizational and associate occasions, priorities and deadlines are mirrored and up to date as required.
- Lead the preparations of logistics for occasions involving senior administration participation and the interior and exterior reporting of the occasion.
- Ensure that UNICEF senior administration related to the assembly are ready for conferences and missions by drafting speaking factors, by researching related data; and by establishing contacts (inside and outdoors UNICEF) on the topic issues to be mentioned.
- Ensure coordination with the UNICEF Communications part and manufacturing of communication supplies for externally dealing with occasions.
Improving information on child poverty & vulnerability for elevated use for coverage and programme motion
- Analyzes the macroeconomic context and its affect on social improvement, rising points and social coverage considerations, in addition to implications for kids, and proposes and promotes acceptable responses in respect of such points and considerations, together with authorities useful resource allocation insurance policies and the consequences of social welfare insurance policies on the rights of youngsters.
Strengthening social safety protection and affect for kids
- Supports the event of social safety insurance policies, laws and programmes with consideration to rising protection of and affect on kids, with particular consideration probably the most marginalized. Identifies, generates and presents proof to assist this aim in collaboration with companions.
- Promotes strengthening of built-in social safety techniques, offering technical assist to companions to enhance the design of money transfers and child grants and enhance linkages with different social safety interventions similar to medical health insurance, public works and social care providers in addition to complementary providers and intervention associated to vitamin, well being, schooling, water and sanitation, child safety and HIV.
Improving use of public monetary sources for kids
- Supports the identification of coverage choices for improved home financing of child-sensitive social safety interventions.
- Undertakes and builds capability of companions for improved monitoring and monitoring of public expenditure to assist transparency, accountability and efficient monetary flows for important service supply, together with by means of assist to district stage planning, budgeting and public monetary administration in addition to facilitating neighborhood participation.
Strengthening capability of native governments to plan, price range, seek the advice of on and monitor child-focused social providers.
- Where nationwide decentralization processes are happening, collaborates with central and native authorities to enhance insurance policies, planning, budgeting, session and accountability processes in order that selections and child-focused service supply extra carefully reply to the wants of native communities.
- Collaborates with the central and native authorities to strengthen capability on high quality information assortment, evaluation for coverage improvement, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring of important social providers, with emphasis on neighborhood participation and accountability.
Impact of Results:
The strategic and efficient advocacy, planning and formulation of social coverage packages/initiatives/occasions and the achievement of sustainable outcomes, contributes to achievement of targets and targets to create a protecting atmosphere for kids and thus guarantee their survival, improvement and well-being in society. Achievements in social coverage packages and initiatives in flip contribute to sustaining/enhancing the credibility and talent of UNICEF to supply program providers for moms and kids that promotes better social equality within the nation.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
Minimum necessities:
Education:
- An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or one other related technical subject.
Work Experience:
- A minimal of 5 years of related skilled work expertise is required.
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in Ukrainian and English is required
Desirables:
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
- Experience working in a authorities construction is taken into account as a robust asset.
- Background and/or familiarity with social safety reforms is taken into account as a robust asset.
- Knowledge of one other official UN language or a neighborhood language is an asset.
For each Child, you exhibit…
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 put up are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
(3) Drive to attain outcomes for affect
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
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We supply a wide range of measures to include a more diverse workforce, similar to paid parental depart, time 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 kids (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 kids. All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further 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 best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF’s energetic dedication to variety and inclusion is essential to ship the most effective outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate individuals with disabilities are inspired to apply.
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This place relies in Kyiv and the incumbent might be anticipated to work on-site. However, relying on the safety circumstances and advisory, s/he might be required to relocate inside Ukraine.
Social Policy Specialist (Stakeholder Engagement), Temporary Appointment (364 days), NO-3, Kyiv, Ukraine, #131408
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