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For each child, safety 

II. Organizational Context and Purpose for the job

The basic mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of each child, in every single place, in all the things the group does — in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded youngsters and households, interprets this dedication to youngsters’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all youngsters have a chance to survive, 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 within the well being, training and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all youngsters the chance to fulfill their potential but in addition will lead to 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 youngsters, 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.

 

Positioned amongst East, West, and North Africa, and shut to the Middle East, Sudan is surrounded by pre-current disaster and sophisticated emergencies in an unpredictable, unstable and quickly evolving area. By measurement the third greatest nation in Africa, with a various inhabitants of round 42 million individuals. Sudan’s youngsters make up half of the whole inhabitants, and the previous 20 years have seen their lives considerably enhance: fewer ladies and boys are dying earlier than their fifth birthday, major faculty attendance is growing, immunization protection is excessive and the nation stays polio free.

 

Recent developments, such because the 2019 revolution, the worldwide Covid-19-pandemic, created new challenges and alternatives. The area for civic engagement together with notably for youth and girls’s teams, widened and introduced an area for new varieties of engagement. In addition, following the ousting of the earlier regime, strides have been made for authorized reform and coverage growth offering a stronger framework for realizing the rights of women and girls.

The army coup of 25 October 2021 led to a extra fluid setting with uncertainties within the implementation panorama.

Heavy combating between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces

(RSF) erupted on 15 April 2023, displacing greater than 2.6 million individuals inside Sudan, and a further 757,000 individuals to neighboring nations. Millions of essentially the most susceptible youngsters and households are caught within the crossfire with no or restricted entry to important providers together with water, meals, healthcare, and security.

 

The first 10 months of 2023 has witnessed a 4-fold improve within the variety of grave child rights violations verified in Sudan, as in contrast to 2022 figures reported within the 2022 UN Secretary-General’s Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict.

UNICEF is implementing interventions to tackle response, mitigation, and prevention of gender-primarily based violence, alongside the nexus humanitarian-peace-growth.

Job organizational context:

The Program Officer stories to the Chief of Section, with dot strains to the Programme Partnership Manager (for the Sudan Free of FGM Initiative

Purpose for the job:

Under supervision of the Chief of Section, with dot strains with the Programme Partnership Manager, the incumbent will carry out quite a lot of information administration, programme/venture/monetary monitoring and evaluation, and secretariat capabilities in help of the Child Protection Program, and significantly the Sudan Free of FGM Initiative, collectively carried out  by the  United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund and the World Health Organization, so as to strengthen total administration of the Joint Programme and the evaluation of Value for Money.

How are you able to make a difference? 

III. Key perform, accountabilities and associated duties/duties

Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities:

1. Knowledge Management for Programmes and Reporting
2. Financial Management
3. Program Monitoring
4. Coordination and Partnership
5. Programme Development and Management

1. Knowledge Management for Programmes and Reporting
• Contribute to the child safety program by supporting information administration by means of offering skilled help in knowledge assortment and evaluation, full and correct reporting in addition to participation within the Programme Knowledge Network system of “lessons learned” and different company-stage databases.
• Participate in data trade with companions in addition to within the growth of coaching and orientation materials by offering skilled technical help.
• Participate within the preparation of, and making skilled contribution to, the preparation of programme stories required for the administration.
• Identify and preserve an answer for a safe, cloud-primarily based file-sharing platform to archive and set up all shared programme recordsdata for the three collaborating companies and the donor
• Organize and prepare administrative facets of conferences, workshops, trainings, and different occasions, together with joint monitoring visits and discipline-primarily based actions
• Ensure case research, human curiosity tales, classes learnt, and studying/adaptive actions are documented and shared with all related stakeholders, companions, donor and beneficiaries.

2. Financial Management
• Monitor programme implementation progress and compliance.
• Monitor the allocation and disbursement of programme funds, ensuring that funds are correctly coordinated, monitored and liquidated.
• Takes applicable suggestions or actions to optimize use of programme funds.
• Support the event of monetary administration methods and instruments, together with a framework and system for monetary evaluation of key actions to decide costing and worth for cash, movement of funds, and donor accountability
• Collate required monetary monitoring data, together with movement of funds to authorities companions, from the collaborating UN companies, and determine gaps and different high quality points
• Prepare consolidated quarterly and annual monetary stories with the collaborating companies
• Monitor monetary plans and expenditures together with month-to-month money forecast for funds, offering routine updates and flagging any rising considerations with the Partnership Manager

3. Program Monitoring
• Participate in monitoring and analysis workouts, annual critiques, and different studying occasions with key stakeholders to assess progress, formulate suggestions and classes learnt, and have interaction stakeholders to take motion and discover proactive and environment friendly options
• Undertakes discipline visits to monitor and assess programme implementation and decides on required corrective motion.
• Collaborate with companions to perform a rigorous and clear method to analysis and take part within the main programme analysis workouts in session with the Representative, the Operations Officer, the Evaluation Officer and others to enhance effectivity and high quality of programme supply. Participate in annual sector assessment conferences with authorities counterparts. Collaborate and put together annual program standing stories in a well timed method, as required.

4. Coordination and Partnership
• Organize and, within the absence of the Programme Partnership Manager, facilitate conferences amongst the collaborating companies primarily based on programme governance necessities
• Support the collaborating companies to monitor actions to assess progress, determine bottlenecks and potential issues and share data with the Partnership Manager
• Ensure well timed communication with companions on all program associated points by means of assembly minutes, motion factors, Gantt charts, and different programme administration instruments and help
• Support efficient integration and synergy of all actions by all companies
• Update collaborating company staffing profiles, context/occasion log (associated threat register) and help companion and intervention mapping, as essential

5. . Programme Development and Management
• Provide skilled technical help within the preparation of the Situation Analysis for programme growth and administration by gathering and analyzing knowledge and monitoring implementation progress.
• Contribute to the identification of vital intervention factors and measures by administering a constant and clear monitoring system;
• Analyse nation stage socio-political-financial traits and their implications for ongoing programmes and tasks.
• Draft or put together programme work plans as required.
• Propose changes/adjustments in work plans
• Propose program suggestions for inclusion in formal programme documentation, and new approaches, strategies and practices for supervisor.

IV. Impact of Results

The effectivity and efficacy of help supplied by the Program Officer to programme preparation, planning and implementation, contributes to the achievement of sustainable outcomes to create a protecting setting for youngsters towards hurt and all types of violence, and ensures their survival, growth and nicely being in society. Success in child safety programmes and tasks in flip contributes to sustaining and enhancing the credibility and skill of UNICEF to present programme providers for moms and kids that promotes higher social equality within the nation.

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

 Program Officer Level 2- Port Sudan-National.doc

To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…

Minimum necessities:

VII. Recruitment Qualifications

Education:

University diploma in in Business, Public Administration, Financial Management, Social Sciences, Development Planning, Planning, or different associated discipline or comparable educational {and professional} {qualifications}

Experience:
A minimal of two years {of professional} expertise Program Development, Program Management and Monitoring, and Financial Management, or associated areas, is required.

Experience working in a battle-affected context is an asset.

Experience in each growth and humanitarian contexts is taken into account an added benefit

Language Requirements:

Fluency in English and Arabic is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

For each Child, you show…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the things we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

VI. UNICEF values and competency Required (primarily based on the up to date Framework)

i) Core Values Core Values: · Care · Respect · Integrity · Trust · Accountability · Sustainability

ii) Core Competencies (For Staff with out Supervisory Responsibilities) *
 Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
 Works Collaboratively with others (1)
 Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
 Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
 Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
 Drive to obtain impactful outcomes (1)
 Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

 

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UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-financial background, or another private attribute.

We supply a wide range of measures to include a more diverse workforce, equivalent to paid parental depart, day off for breastfeeding functions, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.

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 goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and will likely be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to present extra data to conduct a background check.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station is required for IP positions and will likely 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 will likely be canceled.

Remarks:

UNICEF’s energetic dedication to variety and inclusion is vital to ship the very best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine 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 over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or essential inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an affordable interval for any cause. 

UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing price 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 data.

 

All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the stage of the submit within the related practical 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.

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