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For each child, dedication

Mauritania is positioned within the Sahelo Saharan area. Essentially desert, the nation has a low inhabitants density, with 4 inhabitants per sq. kilometer. Its inhabitants of 4.78 million could be very younger (about 52 per cent are underneath 19 years of age and 75 per cent underneath 35 years of age) and the bulk (56 per cent1) lives within the nation’s main cities. The nation, which has one of many largest refugee camps within the Sahel, continues to be experiencing the consequences of the disaster within the subregion.

Despite the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) and the disaster in Ukraine, Mauritania has been in a position to revive its economic system and pursue its improvement aims as outlined within the Strategy for Accelerated Growth and Shared Prosperity (SCAPP) 2016–2030 and the President’s Expanded Priority Program, September 2020. Following contractions in 2020, financial progress has accelerated and was anticipated to succeed in 5.3 per cent in 2022.

The nation shouldn’t be but in a position to create sufficient jobs, particularly for youth, nor to make sure redistributive progress and equitable entry to public companies. The poverty price stays excessive (28.2 per cent in 2020), particularly in rural areas (41.2 per cent, in contrast with 14.4 per cent in city areas). Nearly 56.9 per cent of the inhabitants stay under the multidimensional poverty line. Children are the poorest age group, with a 31 per cent price of financial poverty and an estimated 61.9 per cent price of multidimensional poverty. Thirty-six per cent of 14–19-year-olds and 44 per cent of 20–24-year-olds should not in training, employment or coaching. There are nonetheless vital disparities between city and rural areas, between wealthy and poor areas, and between areas.

The 2024-2027 Country Program Management Plan (CPMP) considers (i) the outcomes and traits of the up to date evaluation of the state of affairs of youngsters, (ii) the teachings realized from implementation of the 2018-2022 cooperation program and UNDAF (2018-2022), (iii) the primary programmatic and managerial dangers, and (iv) the estimated sources and means required to implement and obtain the methods, aims and outcomes formulated. The new cooperation program cycle for Mauritania (2024-2027) is an actual alternative to induce the changes and prioritizations wanted to proceed unfinished work, consolidate achievements, and take up new challenges and people insufficiently thought of for the belief of youngsters’s rights in step with the acceleration of the SDGs. To this finish, the nation program will contribute to reaching the priorities of the Strategy for Accelerated Growth and Shared Prosperity (SCAPP) and the UNSDCF 2024-2027. It can pay specific consideration to the fairness dimension and the discount of inequalities and discrimination and can contribute to nationwide efforts to (i) localize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), (ii) take into consideration the suggestions of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), and (iii) the concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination towards Women.

How are you able to make a difference? 

The Deputy Representative studies to the CO Representative for normal supervision and path. The Deputy Representative helps the Representative on the general administration of the CO and for coordinating intently with the totally different programme sections on all phases of the Country Office Programme, from formulation to supply of leads to accordance with UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, requirements of efficiency and accountability framework, ethics and integrity.

The Deputy Representative helps the Representative in main and leveraging partnerships with each private and non-private sectors for the achievement of outcomes and fulfilment of the rights of youngsters. 

Key Accountabilities, Duties & Tasks

1. CO programme planning and improvement.
2. Support to the Representative on managing the CO.
3. Monitoring and high quality management of programmes.
4. Alliance constructing and UN System coordination.
5. Private Sector Engagement and Partnerships.
6. Innovation, data administration and capability constructing.

If you want to know extra about this place, please overview the whole Job Description right here: 

 GJP – Deputy Representative Level 4 – Mauritania.doc

To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…

Minimum necessities:

• Education: 
  • An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: social sciences, worldwide relations, authorities and public relations, public or social coverage, sociology, social or group improvement, or one other related technical subject.

• Work Experience: 
  • A minimal of eight years {of professional} improvement expertise that mixes technical and managerial management in improvement cooperation on the worldwide degree, a few of which served in a growing nation is required.
• Language Requirements: 
  • Fluency in French and English is required. Knowledge of Arabic is an asset.

Desirables:

• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency contexts, notably inside the humanitarian settings of the Sahel area is an asset.
• Relevant skilled expertise in UNICEF/UN system company or group is taken into account as an asset.

For each Child, you exhibit…

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 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 
8. Nurtures, leads and manages individuals 

Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges.

This place has been assessed as an elevated danger position for Child Safeguarding functions as it’s both a job with direct contact with youngsters, a job that works immediately with identifiable youngsters’s information, a safeguarding response position, or an assessed danger position. Additional vetting and evaluation for elevated danger roles in child safeguarding (doubtlessly together with extra prison background checks) apply.

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Remarks:

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