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How are you able to make a difference? 

The elementary mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each child, in all places, in every thing 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 possibility to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any child has an unequal likelihood 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, training and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all kids the chance to satisfy their potential but in addition will result in sustained development and stability of nations. This is why the deal with fairness is so important. It accelerates progress in the 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 because of the ongoing battle and its extreme socioeconomic impacts. Pre-existing demographic and structural challenges have been compounded by the conflict, disproportionately affecting weak teams reminiscent of 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 weak 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 determine a extra coherent, versatile, and responsive system able to addressing each quick 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 underneath the Ministry of Social Policy (MoSP) to drive reforms and coordinate efforts with different stakeholders.

Recognizing the significance of strengthening social safety methods, the UK authorities has launched the SPIRIT programme to assist extra inclusive, efficient, and environment friendly social methods 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 realize 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 methods for probably the most weak and war-impacted teams;
• Improve coordination, strengthen technical capability, and catalyse evidence-based reforms consistent with Ukraine Plan commitments throughout social safety, providers and inclusion priorities

Develop roadmap, generate studying/commissioning proof, and establishing formal coordination constructions 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 straight with the Ministry of Social Policy. The Programme Manager (Social Recovery Office) will report back to the Senior Programme Manager (Social Recovery Office).

Purpose for the job:

The Programme Manager stories to the Senior Progamme Manager (Social Recovery Office) for normal steering and course, and is accountable for main, managing and supervising all levels of the Office’s programming and associated advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes. This contains programmes aimed 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.

Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities: 

1. Managerial management

• Establish the workplace’s annual work plan. Set priorities and targets and monitor work progress to make sure outcomes are achieved in keeping with schedule and efficiency requirements.
• Establish clear particular person efficiency goals, targets and timelines; and supply well timed steering to allow the crew to carry out their duties responsibly and effectively. Plan and guarantee well timed efficiency administration and evaluation of the crew.
• Supervise crew members by offering them with clear goals and targets, course and steering to allow them to carry out their duties responsibly, successfully and effectively.

2. Improving knowledge on child poverty & vulnerability for elevated use for coverage and programme motion

• Provides well timed, common data-driven evaluation for efficient prioritization, planning, and improvement; facilitates results-based administration for planning, adjusting, and scaling-up particular social coverage initiatives to cut back child poverty. 
• 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 applicable responses in respect of such points and considerations, together with authorities useful resource allocation insurance policies and the impact of social welfare insurance policies on the rights of youngsters.

3. Strengthening social safety protection and affect for kids

• Develops social safety insurance policies, laws and programmes with consideration to growing protection of and affect on kids, with particular consideration probably the most marginalized.  Identifies, generates and presents proof to assist this objective in collaboration with companions.
• Promotes strengthening of built-in social safety methods, offering technical assist to companions to enhance the design of money transfers and child grants and enhance linkages with different social safety interventions reminiscent of medical health insurance, public works and social care providers in addition to complementary providers and intervention associated to diet, well being, training, water and sanitation, and child safety.
• Undertakes improved monitoring and analysis round social safety affect on child outcomes, and use of knowledge and analysis findings for strengthening programme outcomes.

4. Improving use of public monetary sources for kids

• Identifies 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 way of assist to district degree planning, budgeting and public monetary administration in addition to facilitating neighborhood participation.

5. Strengthening capability of native governments to plan, finances, seek the advice of on and monitor child-focused social providers.

• Where the 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 are child-focused and repair supply extra carefully reply to the wants of native communities.

6.  Strengthened advocacy and partnerships for child-sensitive social coverage

• Seeks and promotes new partnerships and useful resource mobilization, working to establish partnership and useful resource mobilization wants and dealer useful resource mobilization agreements to satisfy these wants.
• Receives and screens inquiries from potential collaborators and facilitates communication with applicable workers. Scans and scouts exterior setting inside designated partnership space for alternatives and dangers and shares info in a well timed vogue with related UNICEF workers.
• Develops and maintains deep data and familiarity with present and potential companions and related stakeholders, contributing to a database of key contacts and to UNICEF’s base of data on partnership and useful resource mobilization.
• Contributes to methods for engagement and the event of communications and advocacy merchandise to reinforce UNICEF’s visibility and affect with present and potential companions and key stakeholders by offering evaluation of the present setting and tendencies 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.
• Oversees the right and compelling use of knowledge 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 total. 
• Identifies different important companions, promotes consciousness and builds capability of companions, and actively facilitates efficient collaboration throughout the UN household.

7. UNICEF Programme Management

• 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 threat evaluation and threat mitigation are embedded into total administration of the assist, in shut session with UNICEF programme sections, Cooperating Partners, and governments.
• Ensures efficient and environment friendly planning, administration, coordination, monitoring and analysis of the nation programme. Ensures that the social planning venture 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 supplies assist to sectoral and decentralized info methods.

Impact of Results

The strategic and efficient advocacy, planning and formulation of social coverage packages/tasks and the achievement of sustainable outcomes, contributes to achievement of targets and goals to create a protecting setting for kids and thus guarantee their survival, improvement and well-being in society. Achievements in social coverage packages and tasks in flip contribute to sustaining/enhancing the credibility and skill of UNICEF to offer program providers for moms and youngsters that promotes better social equality within the nation.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you should 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 area.

Work Experience:

• A minimal of eight years of related skilled expertise is required.

Language Requirements: 

• Fluency in English is required.

Desirables:

• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency. 
• Experience engaged on social safety reforms is taken into account as a robust asset.
• Background and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account as a robust asset.
• Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or Ukrainian is an asset.

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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 put up are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness

(3) Drive to realize outcomes for affect

(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 

Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges.

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We supply a wide range of measures to include a more diverse workforce, reminiscent of paid parental go away, break day 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 underneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals 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 shall 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 offer further info 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 very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF’s lively dedication to range and inclusion is important to ship the most effective outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate folks with disabilities 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 task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the appropriate to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or essential inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose. 

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Eligible workers members on fixed-term, persevering with or everlasting contracts making use of to IP TA positions in an obligation station designated as L2/L3, could possibly retain a lien and their fixed-term entitlements, topic to approval by their Head of Office. The situations of the momentary task will fluctuate relying on the standing of their put up and relocation entitlements could also be restricted as per the related insurance policies.

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This place is predicated in Kyiv and the incumbent shall be anticipated to work on-site. However, relying on the safety situations and advisory, s/he shall be required to relocate inside Ukraine.