UNICEF works in over 190 nations and territories to save youngsters’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 isn’t just a job – it’s a calling.
UNICEF is a spot the place careers are constructed: we provide our workers numerous alternatives for private {and professional} growth that can assist them develop a satisfying profession whereas delivering on a rewarding mission. We pleasure ourselves on a tradition that helps workers thrive, coupled with a sexy compensation and advantages bundle.
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For each child, Peace
UNICEF Syria was established in 1970 and has been working with companions to assist empower youngsters to totally declare and revel in their rights beneath the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
UNICEF works with companions throughout Syria to ship provides, providers, and experience in areas of Child Protection, Education, Health, Nutrition, Water, Hygiene and Sanitation for each child. UNICEF additionally gives humanitarian help when wanted.
Syria continues to face one of the crucial complicated emergencies on this planet. Unprecedented humanitarian wants are compounded by displacement contained in the nation and throughout its borders, in depth destruction of civilian and social providers infrastructure, devastating impacts on the financial system, and most significantly, the breakdown of the social cloth that stitched the nation collectively for a long time.
Today, 90% of individuals in Syria stay in poverty, most are unable to make ends meet or deliver meals to the desk. Families have had their assets depleted, with restricted employment alternatives, skyrocketing costs, and lack of fundamental provides. For most individuals, the present socio-economic challenges characterize a number of the harshest and most difficult circumstances they’ve confronted because the starting of the disaster 11 years in the past.
In 2024, 16.7 million folks want humanitarian help. This is the best variety of folks in want ever recorded in Syria since 2011. The variety of youngsters in want – greater than 6.5 million – has elevated by seven per cent previously yr alone. This is essentially due the continuing battle, continued displacements, the unprecedented financial disaster, deepening poverty, and unemployment. The COVID-19 pandemic, the hike in worth of commodities triggered by the general international financial state of affairs and the affect of sanctions are additional compounding the dire state of affairs.
For info of the work of our group, please go to our web site: UNICEF Syria
How are you able to make a difference?
The Finance Officer is accountable for offering assist to the supervisors and colleagues within the workplace by administering and executing a wide range of skilled and technical monetary transactions and processes, making use of theoretical expertise and thorough data of organizational objectives, targets, guidelines, rules, insurance policies, and procedures to full the duties.
The Finance Officer will probably be accountable for planning and guiding work in progress and for reviewing work accomplished by subordinate workers to confirm accuracy and compliance with International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS), UNICEF Financial Regulations and Rules, insurance policies, procedures, pointers, requirements of accountability, and ethics.
Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities:
- Support to monetary planning and administration
- Control of accounts
- Treasury and money administration
- Knowledge and capability constructing
For detailed key accountabilities and duties and duties please evaluate the entire Job Description right here: [
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
Minimum necessities:
1. Education:
A primary stage college diploma in accounting, monetary administration or one other associated monetary discipline is required.
2. Work Experience:
- A minimal of two years {of professional} expertise in monetary administration or audit is required.
- Experience in a global group and/or giant company is most popular.
- Experience in a UN system company is taken into account as an asset.
- Advanced data of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel required.
- Experience in database packages, net based mostly administration programs and ERP programs (ideally SAP monetary modules) is taken into account as an asset.
- Experience with IPSAS and/or IFRS is taken into account as an asset.
- Proven expertise associated to outlined duties and duties is required.
- Experience in supervising different staff members is an asset.
3. Language Proficiency:
Fluency in English and Arabic is required.
For each Child, you show…
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…
- Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
- Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
- Works Collaboratively with others (2)
- Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
- Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
- Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
- Drive to obtain impactful outcomes (2)
- Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)
Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should mirror the range 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-economic background, or some other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of measures to include a more diverse workforce, corresponding to paid parental go away, day without work 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 beneath 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. UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and will probably be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to present further info to conduct a background check.
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 will probably 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 have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice will probably be canceled.
Remarks:
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
Government workers who’re thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the best to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or essential inoculation necessities are usually 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 info.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and only shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the stage of the submit within the related purposeful 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.
Finance Officer, NOB, Fixed Term, #86339, Damascus-Syria, MENA- Open only to Syrian nationals
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