UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to save lots of youngsters’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by means 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.
UNICEF is a spot the place careers are constructed: we provide our workers various alternatives for private {and professional} improvement that can assist them develop a satisfying profession whereas delivering on a rewarding mission. We pleasure ourselves on a tradition that helps workers thrive, coupled with a gorgeous compensation and advantages bundle.
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For each child, hope
Mali has been present process a multidimensional disaster since 2012. The Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM) was activated in Mali in 2013. Since the withdrawal of MINUSMA on the finish of 2023, The United Nations in Mali, with co-leadership by the Resident Coordinator and the UNICEF Representative, is the accountable for implementing all actions regarding the MRM, which incorporates finishing up monitoring actions, gathering, verifying and reporting on incidents regarding the six grave violations of kids’s rights, with a purpose to holding the events to the battle accountable and putting in advocacy actions and responses to the wants of child victims, witnesses and perpetrators. MRM actions additionally contain capability constructing of events to the battle, with a deal with stopping and eradicating all grave violations of child rights.
It is vital that the United Nations crew is strengthened to fill the workload hole left by MINUSMA. This reinforcement will make it doable to take care of and strengthen key partnerships, and to proceed all of the work regarding the MRM information assortment with a view to drafting the experiences required by the UN Secretary General.
The UN in Mali is scaling up its Child Protection Emergency Response, with a deal with the supply of life saving companies to youngsters affected by armed battle and on monitoring and reporting (MRM) grave violations.
How are you able to make a difference?
- Ensure the monitoring and reporting of grave violations towards youngsters in Mali
- Support the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism
- Prepare high quality and well timed evaluation and experiences
- Ensure recurrent MRM trainings for UNICEF workers and implementing companions
- Support and strengthen the Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting
- Technical assist to the CPiE applications
- Support high quality implementation for the Action Plans with the armed teams
- Support the MRMIMS+ deployment
- Contribute to different child safety in emergency points
If you want to know extra about this place, please evaluate the entire Job Description right here: 
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
Minimum necessities:
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Education:
An superior college diploma (grasp’s or increased) in worldwide improvement, human rights, psychology, sociology, worldwide regulation or different social science subject is required.
A primary University Degree in a related subject mixed with 2 further years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
- Work Experience
A minimal of 5 years of expertise with UNICEF and/or different related actors, together with expertise with child safety or SBC/Education programming associated to explosive ordnance threat schooling in conditions of armed battle.
Knowledge of the Malian or the Central Sahel context can be an asset.
Previous skilled expertise in human rights and/or child rights monitoring and reporting.
Advanced technical information of the MRM, together with on the particular function of UNICEF inside the MRM.
Strong analytical and communication expertise (each written and oral)
Background and familiarity with worldwide human rights and humanitarian regulation, monitoring and reporting on grave violations towards youngsters is extremely fascinating.
Knowledge of UNICEF’s core commitments to youngsters in humanitarian motion in addition to the humanitarian cluster strategy, notably the child safety working group (subcluster).
- Languages
– Fluency in verbal and written French and English
– Good information of one other UN language or a neighborhood language is an asset.
Desirables:
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
For each Child, you show…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the pieces we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
(3) Drive to realize outcomes for influence
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges.
This place has been assessed as an elevated threat function for Child Safeguarding functions as it’s both a job with direct contact with youngsters, a job that works instantly with identifiable youngsters’s information, a safeguarding response function, or an assessed threat function. Additional vetting and evaluation for elevated threat roles in child safeguarding (probably together with further felony background checks) apply.
UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, spiritual 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 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 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 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 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 based mostly 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, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and can 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 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 responsibility station is required for IP positions and can be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may additionally be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards 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 can 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 very best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates are inspired to apply.
Government staff 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 correct to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or obligatory 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 won’t ask for candidates’ checking account data.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the degree of the publish within the related purposeful space, or an inside/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the publish, with out evaluation of different candidates.
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Child Protection Specialist MRM P3, TA (364 days), Bamako, Mali
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