UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to save lots of kids’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 is not only a job – it’s a calling.
UNICEF is a spot the place careers are constructed: we provide our employees various alternatives for private {and professional} growth 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 gorgeous compensation and advantages bundle.
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For each child, love
The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each child, all over the place, in the whole lot the group does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness implies 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 meet their potential but additionally will result in sustained progress and stability of nations. This is why the concentrate on fairness is so very 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 growth of countries
For info of the work of our group in Ecuador, please go to our web site: https://www.unicef.org/ecuador/
How are you able to make a difference?
The Supply Assistant will help the uninterrupted provide of reasonably priced and good high quality provides and companies, tailored to the actual context and thru compliance with UNICEF’s insurance policies, procedures and ethics requirements.
The Supply Assistant performs expert, technical work, which can embrace the availability of procedural steerage to employees.
Key capabilities, accountabilities and associated duties/duties
Supply Chain Service Delivery and Response
Procurement/contracting:
- Assist in reviewing Terms of Reference (TORs) by checking for completeness and accuracy, and help adjusting them for additional evaluate by senior employees. Provide administrative help in gathering vital suggestions from related stakeholders.
- Provide help in drafting documentation for the institution of Long Term Arrangements (LTAs) and help with particular procurement requisitions as directed by the supervisor. Support the processing of Request for Quotations (RFQs), Invitations to Bid (ITBs), and Requests for Proposals (RFPs) as wanted. Assist in organizing bid openings and assist put together paperwork for technical and monetary evaluation of presents, below the steerage of senior employees.
- Support the preparation of submissions for the Contract Review Committee, together with requests for awards. Assist in getting ready buy orders and contracts within the SAP (ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning) system, making certain that each one documentation is full earlier than submission for approval.
- Assist in sustaining communication with stakeholders and suppliers, offering updates on procurement processes as wanted. Help monitor supply schedules and observe provider efficiency according to vendor administration practices, getting ready vital documentation as directed by senior employees.
- Regularly extract stories on the standing of the prevailing LTAs, contracts, Purchase Orders (POs) and take vital motion in coordination with the related Programme.
- Support native market surveys on ongoing and common foundation for identification of potential suppliers to obtain the products and companies at aggressive prices.
- Keep information of procurement course of in accordance with process
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
Minimum necessities:
- Education: Completion of secondary training is required, ideally supplemented by technical or college programs associated to provide chain, enterprise administration, contract/business legislation, or one other related technical area. For this place, a bachelor’s diploma from a acknowledged tutorial establishment in a related area could exchange three years of associated work expertise.
- Work Experience: A minimal of 4 years of related administrative expertise in provide chain administration or a business context is required. Understanding of growth and humanitarian work is a bonus.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in Spanish and dealing information degree of English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian).
For each Child, you display…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin the whole lot 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 attain outcomes for affect
(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 cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of 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, 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 help necessities of candidates and workers 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 help 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 kids (individuals below 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 kids. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and might 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 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 might be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments can also 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 should 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 very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF’s energetic dedication to range and inclusion is vital to ship the very best outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate female and male 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 project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the correct to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or vital inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an inexpensive interval for any purpose.
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 is not going to ask for candidates’ checking account info.
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 publish within the related practical space, or an inner/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the publish, with out evaluation of different candidates.
Additional details about working for UNICEF might be discovered here.
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