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Purpose for the job:
Under the final steering of the supervisor, the incumbent is accountable for offering technical assist to the implementation, monitoring, and analysis of all phases of social coverage programing and associated advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes. This contains programmes geared toward bettering (a) public insurance policies to scale back child poverty; (b) social safety protection and impression on youngsters; (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 companies. This encompasses each direct programme work with authorities and civil society companions in addition to linkages and assist to groups engaged on training, well being, child safety, water and sanitation, and HIV.
Key features, accountabilities and associated duties/duties
1. Improving knowledge on child poverty & vulnerability for elevated use for coverage and programme motion
Supports the gathering, evaluation and user-friendly presentation of information on multidimensional and financial child poverty, together with strengthening nationwide capability to gather routinely, report and use knowledge for coverage decision-making.
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 scale back child poverty.
Analyzes the macroeconomic context and its impression on social improvement, rising points and social coverage issues, in addition to implications for youngsters, and proposes and promotes acceptable responses in respect of such points and issues, together with authorities useful resource allocation insurance policies and the results of social welfare insurance policies on the rights of youngsters
2. Strengthening social safety protection and impression for youngsters
Supports the event of social safety insurance policies, laws and programmes with consideration to growing protection of and impression on youngsters, with particular consideration probably the most marginalized. Identifies, generates and presents proof to assist this aim in collaboration with companions.
Promotes strengthening of built-in social safety programs, offering technical assist to companions to enhance the design of money transfers and child grants and enhance linkages with different social safety interventions corresponding to medical insurance, public works and social care companies in addition to complementary companies and intervention associated to diet, well being, training, water and sanitation, child safety and HIV.
Undertakes improved monitoring and analysis round social safety impression on child outcomes, and use of information and analysis findings for strengthening programme outcomes.
3. Improving use of public monetary sources for youngsters
Undertakes funds evaluation to tell UNICEF’s advocacy and technical help to Ministries of Finance, planning commissions and social sector ministries to enhance equitable allocations for important companies for youngsters. Works with sector colleagues to construct capability to undertake costing and price effectiveness evaluation on precedence interventions to assist inform coverage choices on child-focused investments.
Supports the identification of 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 means of assist to district stage planning, budgeting and public monetary administration in addition to facilitating group participation
4. Strengthening capability of native governments to plan, funds, seek the advice of on and monitor child-focused social companies.
Where nationwide decentralization processes are happening, collaborates with central and native authorities to enhance insurance policies, planning, budgeting, session and accountability processes in order that choices and child-focused service supply extra carefully reply to the wants of native communities.
Collaborates with the central and native authorities to strengthen capability on high quality knowledge assortment, evaluation for coverage improvement, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring of important social companies, with emphasis on group participation and accountability.
5. Strengthened advocacy and partnerships for child-sensitive social coverage
Supports appropriate and compelling use of information and proof on the scenario of youngsters and protection and impression of child centered companies – in assist of the social coverage programme and the nation programme general.
Establishes efficient partnerships with the Government, bilateral and multilateral donors, NGOs, civil society and native leaders, the personal sector, and different UN businesses to assist sustained and proactive dedication to the Convention of the Rights of the Child and to attain world UN agendas such because the Sustainable Development Goals.
Identifies different vital companions, promotes consciousness and builds capability of companions, and actively facilitates efficient collaboration throughout the UN household.
6. 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 trend in order to adequately assist scale-up and supply. Ensures danger evaluation and danger mitigation are embedded into general administration of the assist, in shut session with UNICEF programme sections, Cooperating Partners, and governments.
Supports and contributes to efficient and environment friendly planning, administration, coordination, monitoring and analysis of the nation programme. Ensures that the social planning undertaking 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 gives assist to sectoral and decentralized info programs.
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To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll 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 discipline.
- Work Experience: A minimal of 5 years of related skilled work expertise is required.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language or an area language is taken into account as an asset.
- Background and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account as a robust asset.
Desirables:
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
For each Child, you reveal…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every part 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
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 develop into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF presents paid parental go away, 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 embrace those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with numerous obstacles, 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 workers with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related assist 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 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 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, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer extra info 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 might also be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards 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 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 employees 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 youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates are inspired to apply.
Government workers 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 fitting 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 affordable interval for any motive.
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All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates can 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 practical 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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