Apply for Chief Field Office, NO-C, Fixed Term, Manaus, Brazil # 100352 Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

UNICEF works in over 190 nations and territories to save lots of youngsters’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by way of 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.

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For each child, an advocate

Since 1950, UNICEF has supported crucial transformation for youngsters and adolescents in Brazil. UNICEF Brazil with its principal workplace in Brasília and 9 subject workplaces UNICEF works in shut partnership with nationwide and sub-national governments, company companions, youth, and civil society organizations.

For data on the work of our group in Brazil, please go to our web site: UNICEF Brazil.

How are you able to make a difference?

As a Chief Field Office (CFO), and underneath the management  of the Deputy Representative, Programme and steerage of the Chief, Local Governanceyou will play a key function in managing and main the supply of the UNICEF Country Programme in Manaus and surrounding space inside Amazonas.  Representing UNICEF in your Area of Responsibility (AoR), you’ll lead, and oversee the varied program sectors and operational providers, participating with and mobilizing  State and municipal governments to ship public insurance policies and investments for youngsters and adolescents.  Your work might be aligned with UNICEF’s programme of cooperation, nation programme administration plan and the imaginative and prescient set ahead by our Representative.

Your key deliverables embrace:

1. You will make sure the efficient administration of UNICEF’s presence, employees, and property within the area. Representing UNICEF at conferences and occasions, you’ll advance the agenda for youngsters, whereas facilitating and implementing essential measures to keep up the protection and safety of our group and property. You will lead and information the Field Office group, managing employees efficiency to drive impactful outcomes for youngsters within the area.
2. Adopting a rights-based and results-based method, you’ll develop objectives, aims, methods, and frameworks that make sure the supply of an efficient and coherent programme for the development of youngsters and adolescent rights. You will put together suggestions on implementation, various approaches, and useful resource utilization to realize aims and uphold youngsters’s and girls’s rights.
3. In advocacy, you’ll conduct coverage evaluation from a child and girls’s rights perspective, advocating in any respect ranges to boost UNICEF’s credibility in coverage debates. You will actively promote UNICEF’s objectives by way of advocacy and communication aligned with nationwide pointers and technique.
4. For partnerships and coordination, you’ll foster collaboration with inner and exterior companions, together with the UN, authorities, and nationwide organizations, to enhance information assortment, programme coordination, and useful resource administration. By liaising with the Country Office, UNICEF’s regional and HQ advisers, you’ll guarantee efficient coordination, technical assist, and alignment on country-level objectives.
5. You will be certain that programmes in your space are supported by data administration, overseeing information assortment, evaluation, and correct reporting. Participation within the Programme Knowledge Network and corporate-level databases might be important, as will engagement in data alternate throughout donor and media visits and contributing to the event of coaching and orientation supplies.
6. In programme growth and administration, you’ll determine vital intervention factors, preserve clear monitoring programs, and assess socio-political-economic developments to tell programmes. You will put together and modify programme work plans, make suggestions for formal documentation, and guarantee alignment with new approaches and practices. Establishing workplans, monitoring compliance, offering steerage, and figuring out staffing wants might be key to assembly aims. You will even consider programme feasibility in partnership with authorities and stakeholders.
7. You will handle programme funds by establishing work plans, monitoring allocation and disbursement, and taking steps to make sure funds are used effectively. Your function consists of making certain programme supply by way of clear planning, monitoring, and analysis. In shut collaboration with the Programme and PFP groups, develop challenge proposals for useful resource mobilization that contribute to the supply of Annual Work Plan outcomes.
8. Programme monitoring and analysis will contain subject visits to evaluate implementation and provoke corrective actions as wanted. You will take part in analysis workout routines and sector evaluation conferences, working with counterparts to boost programme effectivity and put together well timed annual standing stories.
9. To construct sustainability, you’ll assist authorities and repair suppliers in planning and organizing capacity-building applications, figuring out strategic companions, and strengthening institutional capacities of native and nationwide companions.

 

To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…

 

• Education – Advanced college diploma (grasp’s) in any of the next: social sciences, worldwide relations, public administration, authorities, and public relations, public or social coverage, sociology, social or group growth, or one other related technical subject.
• Experience:

1.  A minimal of 5 years (5) {of professional} work expertise main programme administration, planning monitoring and analysis, challenge administration or one other related space is required.
2.  Proven management and administration expertise
3. A observe report of partnering with companions in authorities, civil society, and community-based organizations.
4. Demonstrated expertise with advocacy and social mobilization for the rights of weak communities.

• Language – Fluency in Portuguese and English.
• Desirables:

1. Understanding of the function of social coverage and public finance for the development of child rights could be thought of an asset.
2. A confirmed understanding of the Amazon context could be an asset.
3. Experience in different UN Agencies is an asset.  
4. Familiarity/ background with emergency is taken into account as an asset.
5. Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.

 

For each Child, you show…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, 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…

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drive to realize impactful outcomes (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

 

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Child Safeguarding

This place has been assessed as an elevated danger function for Child Safeguarding functions as it’s both a job with direct contact with youngsters, a job that works straight with identifiable youngsters’s information, a safeguarding response function, or an assessed danger function. Additional vetting and evaluation for elevated danger roles in child safeguarding (probably together with further prison background checks) apply.

UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to grow to be a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF gives paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations. Click here to be taught 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 numerous boundaries, 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 staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related assist necessities of candidates and staff 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 net application, please submit your request by way of 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 aims 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, non secular 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 might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace 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, 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 might also 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 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 employees is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF’s energetic dedication to range and inclusion is vital to ship the very best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate afro-descendants, indigenous, LGBTQIA+ and different minorities are inspired to apply.

Government staff who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or essential inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive. 

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 is not going to ask for candidates’ checking account data.

All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the degree of the submit within the related useful 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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