UNICEF works in over 190 nations and territories to save lots of kids’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood via adolescence.
At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and pleased 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 employees numerous alternatives for private {and professional} improvement that can assist them develop a satisfying profession whereas delivering on a rewarding mission. We satisfaction ourselves on a tradition that helps employees thrive, coupled with a sexy compensation and advantages bundle.
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For each child, hope
UNICEF has a 70-year historical past of innovating for kids. We imagine that new approaches, partnerships, and applied sciences that help realizing kids’s rights are important to bettering their lives.
The Office of Innovation is a inventive, interactive, and agile crew in UNICEF. We sit at a singular intersection, the place a corporation that works on large world points meets the startup considering, the know-how, and the companions that flip this vitality into scalable options.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation creates alternatives for the world’s kids by specializing in the place new markets can meet their important wants.
UNICEF’s Innovative Finance Hub, primarily based in Helsinki, goals to catalyze world capital in help of kids to fill the SDG hole and radically speed up progress in the direction of the SDGs. It sits at a singular vantage level the place a corporation engaged on world points meets the startup considering, new concepts, and companions to show this vitality into scalable options.
How are you able to make a difference?
Based in Helsinki, the incumbent will:
(1) help the technical crew in creation of steering and instruments together with associated to information and metrics together with working collectively with UNICEF’s companions,
(2) help the crew on partnership pipeline administration, together with on Child-lens Investing Framework adoption,
(3) help the crew on technical help to companions,
(4) help in data administration and capability constructing on CLIF throughout the group and externally,
(5) help the Hub, as wanted for its fundraising efforts.
The Innovation Officer (Impact Analyst) experiences to the Senior Impact Analyst, Innovative Financing of the IF Hub in Helsinki. He/she’s going to work carefully with different divisions on innovation and revolutionary finance, together with inner divisions comparable to Office of the Executive Director (OED), Public Partnership Division (PPD), Private Fundraising and Partnerships (PFP), Programme Group (PG), Division of Financial and Administrative Management (DFAM), Legal and Supply Division (SD), in addition to exterior actors.
If you wish to know extra about this place, please evaluation the whole Job Description right here: 
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
Minimum necessities:
- Education: Bachelor’s diploma in one of many following fields is required, Finance, International Relations, Business Administration, Social Science or Humanities or one other related technical area.
- Work Experience: At least 2 years of related work expertise in a global group, with major expertise in finance or sustainable finance
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.
Desirables:
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
- Understanding and related expertise of Impact or ESG Investing is extremely fascinating.
- Experience and/or robust understanding of Private Equity / Venture Capital or the funding trade is extremely fascinating
- Familiarity with present requirements/frameworks adopted by monetary establishments (i.e. ESG standards) extremely fascinating
For each Child, you reveal…
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 submit 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.
UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, spiritual or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to turn into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF provides paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of 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, 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 workers with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related help necessities of candidates and workers 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 targets 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, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and might 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 might be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may additionally 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 have to 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 best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF’s lively dedication to variety and inclusion is important to ship one of the best outcomes for kids.
Government workers who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the proper to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance will not be obtained, or needed inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any cause.
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.
In this position, you’ll collaborate with colleagues throughout a number of places. For efficient collaboration, we encourage versatile working hours that accommodate totally different time zones whereas prioritizing employees wellbeing.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the subsequent 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.
Additional details about working for UNICEF could be discovered here.
Contact: For any queries, please contact: swe-ooi-recruitments@unicef.org
Innovation Officer (Impact Analyst), (P-2), Helsinki, Finland, #131621 Temporary Appointment (till 31.12.2025)
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