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For each child, hope
The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each child, in every single place, in every little thing the group does — in applications, 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, schooling and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all kids the chance to satisfy their potential but additionally will result in sustained development and stability of nations. This is why the deal with 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 growth of countries.
Job organizational context
UNICEF is striving for a piece setting the place workers wellness, resilience and work life stability are built-in elements of the organizational tradition. Due to the character and site of their work, UNICEF workers are ceaselessly uncovered to excessive ranges of everyday, cumulative stress, together with these stressors associated to their workload in addition to the calls for associated to residing and dealing in multicultural, usually unstable and insecure, environments.
In line with the UN System Wide Mental Health Strategy and UNICEF Global Staff Wellbeing Strategic priorities, as part of the UNICEF ECAR organisational framework, a regional workers counsellor is appointed to design, develop, and implement a regional workers psychological well being and wellbeing technique.
This place is office-based, positioned in Istanbul and reviews to the Regional Director of Europe and Central Asia (ECA) with Technical Guidance of the worldwide Chief of Staff Wellbeing. It serves primarily UNICEF workers and workplaces within the Europe and Central Asia Region in addition to extending its help to UNICEF Geneva primarily based workers; and contributes to the worldwide workers well-being capabilities and actions. It might contain journey to workplaces primarily primarily based in Europe and Central Asia area.
Purpose for the job
The P-4 Regional Staff Counsellor is predicted to supply experience to UNICEF administration and workers of the regional and nation workplaces in Europe and Central Asia and the workers primarily based in UNICEF Geneva; to help the general well-being of UNICEF workers and their households, in addition to groups in UNICEF workplaces within the area.
The submit will contribute in direction of the event of a regional framework for Staff Well-Being and promote its implementation on the regional stage. The framework will establish actions aimed toward elevating consciousness about wholesome work practices; bettering the work-life stability of UNICEF workers: facilitating the supply of help to workers/household experiencing work-related and/or private issues; facilitating the supply of quick help following a traumatic Incident and associated duties.
The Regional Staff Counsellor will coordinate and work in collaboration with the community of UN counsellors regionally. Frequent subject missions and shut collaboration with Country Offices are required.
The Regional Staff Counsellor varieties part of the UNICEF Staff Wellbeing group globally and help, coordinate and implement the UNICEF Staff Wellbeing Strategic priorities regionally. Global or cross-regional help could also be required.
How are you able to make a difference?
Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities:
- In collaboration with the Regional Director, the worldwide Chief of Staff Wellbeing, Regional Chief of People and Culture, and colleagues, facilitate the growth, implementation and coordination of a regional framework aiming at improved Staff Well-Being within the area:
- Assist in growing the framework;
- Develop methods for implementing the framework within the area;
- Monitor the impression of the framework on regional and nation ranges;
- Lobby and supply enter for enchancment.
- Facilitate the supply of efficient psycho-social help to workers management, managers and particular person workers prioritizing emergency areas with the intention to mitigating stress and enhance protecting elements by:
- Providing help and recommendation to the management and managers in workplaces on wholesome work practices and approaches on the right way to successfully help workers and encourage resilience. Recommend appropriate workers help methods to managers throughout and following emergencies and different crises;
- Providing workers with particular person and/or group counselling as wanted (i.e. evaluation, short-term intervention, referral);
- Facilitating the remedy of psychiatric problems primarily via referrals. Including to the medical companies division, and thru steering to supervisors and senior administration, the place applicable;
- Contributing to identification of artistic methods of extending a community of exterior psychological well being suppliers out there to supply companies to workers around the globe;
- Coordinating the regional community of Peer Support Volunteers (PSVs), together with choice, coaching and technical supervision;
- Coordinate with UNDSS, company counsellors and PSVs, to make sure the supply of enough psychosocial help throughout emergencies;
- Assess and monitor psychosocial wants and points affecting the wellbeing of workers.
- Provide Critical Incident Stress Management to groups- and/or particular person workers following vital incidents, using a holistic which can embrace companies comparable to sensible help, psycho-education, psychological first support strategic recommendation to management, household help and particular person or group interventions by:
- Contacting the affected workers member(s) and providing details about typical stress reactions, help and referral data;
- Facilitating applicable traumatic stress interventions, following a vital incident or traumatic occasion;
- Recommending and arranging for particular person and/or group follow-up help to workers and their dependents.
- Training and consciousness elevating on Staff Well-Being associated matters:
- Explore and contribute to the event 0f new modalities, comparable to e-learning and webinars, which make consciousness elevating materials out there and enticing to all workers;
- Cooperate with Regional and Country workplaces to Integrate topics comparable to wholesome work practices managing stress and trauma, constructing resiliency and many others. into studying methods.
5. Monitoring and oversight:
a) Provide on a quarterly foundation statistics and traits on points associated to workers well-being, while sustaining confidentiality. Alert the Regional Director, Regional Chief of People and Culture, and Chief of Staff Wellbeing on traits that could be of concern in workplaces or workplaces requiring focused help or Managerial intervention. Capture classes learnt and finest practices for dissemination as applicable.
Impact of Results:
In session with the Chief Staff Wellbeing, selections made concerning sort of interventions for workers help, referral businesses and consultants, methods to extend staff-well being, varieties of data for dissemination. These selections have an oblique impression on all UNICEF workers within the area, and straight have an effect on these workers concerned in interventions, shows, trainings, and many others.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
Minimum necessities:
- Education: Advanced University diploma In counselling, medical psychology or associated psychological well being career. Additional coaching or certification in workers help and traumatic/vital incident stress in addition to a broad vary of associated fields, comparable to alcohol/ substance abuse, household counselling, coaching, stress administration.
The candidate should maintain energetic licensure/registration as a psychological well being skilled with a acknowledged governing affiliation and be a member of that group in good standing.
Additional coaching or certification in workers help and traumatic/vital incident stress administration, in addition to a broad vary of associated fields, comparable to alcohol/substance abuse, household counselling, coaching, distant counselling.
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Work Experience: Minimum eight years of nationwide and particularly worldwide skilled expertise In workers help, psychological well being, cross cultural communications, counselling, and associated areas, ideally gained throughout the UN system or worldwide growth humanitarian support sector.
Track file exhibiting resourcefulness and eager social consciousness and sound judgement pertaining to widespread counselling caveats e.g. overzealous shopper advocacy, burnout, the necessity for self-care and private counselling. An empathic non-judgmental medical strategy with tact and confidentiality.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in written and spoken English. Knowledge of one other UN language (French, Russian) shall be an asset.
Desirables:
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
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Experience both working in a hardship location or offering counselling companies to workers working underneath very tough and insecure environments is an asset.
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Evidence of earlier expertise in adhering to skilled boundaries, e.g., administering solely these companies for which supervised coaching has been administered.
For each Child, you display…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every little 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
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
(3) Drive to attain outcomes for impression
(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 individuals
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, regardless of gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to change into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF provides paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using 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 limitations, 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 staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related help necessities of candidates and staff with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you might be an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility help in finishing the net application, please submit your request via the accessibility e mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
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 aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination primarily based 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 kids. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and shall 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 responsibility station is required for IP positions and shall be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may 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 shall 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 energetic dedication to variety and inclusion is vital to ship the perfect outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate candidates from minority communities 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 correct to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an inexpensive interval for any cause.
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 won’t ask for candidates’ checking account data.
In this function, you’ll collaborate with colleagues throughout a number of areas. For efficient collaboration, we encourage versatile working hours that accommodate totally different time zones whereas prioritizing workers wellbeing.
Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.
CO/ HQ particular: visa residence necessities: i.e.: UNICEF shall not facilitate the issuance of a visa and dealing authorization for candidates into account for positions on the nationwide officer and normal service class.]
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the submit within the related purposeful 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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