Apply for Social Policy Officer, NOA, FT, Brasilia, Brazil # 129156 Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to avoid wasting youngsters’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by adolescence.

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For each child, a good probability

Since 1950, UNICEF has supported a very powerful transformation for youngsters and adolescents in Brazil. UNICEF Brazil with its major workplace in Brasília and 9 area workplaces,works in shut partnership with nationwide and sub-national governments, company companions, youth, and civil society organizations. For data on the work of our group in Brazil, please go to our web site:  UNICEF Brazil.

How are you able to make a difference?

Under the overall steering of the Chief Social Policy, the  Social Policy Officer (Shock Responsive Social Protection) is accountable for offering technical assist and help in all levels of social coverage programming and associated advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes. This consists of develop social safety protection, money transfers if wanted, improve social safety programme supply, strengthen social safety programs, together with by linkages with different sectors, strengthen the shock-responsiveness and child-sensitiveness capability of social safety programs and assist the leverage of social safety programs in response to shocks.

 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.  This consists of:

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 affect on social improvement, rising points and social coverage issues, in addition to implications for youngsters, and proposes and promotes applicable responses in respect of such points and issues, together with authorities useful resource allocation insurance policies and the impact of social welfare insurance policies on the rights of kids

2. Strengthening social safety protection and affect for youngsters

• Supports the event of social safety insurance policies, laws and programmes with consideration to growing protection of and affect on youngsters, with particular consideration on probably the most marginalized.  Identifies, generates and presents proof to assist this aim in collaboration with companions.
• Supports 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 equivalent to medical health insurance, public works and social care companies in addition to complementary companies and intervention associated to vitamin, well being, training, water and sanitation, child safety and HIV.
• Supports improved monitoring and analysis round social safety affect on child outcomes, and use of information and analysis findings for strengthening programme outcomes.

3. Improving use of public monetary assets 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 value 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 assist to district degree 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 going down, 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 intently responds 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 kids and protection and affect 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 companies 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 crucial companions, promotes consciousness and builds capability of companions, and actively facilitates efficient collaboration inside the UN household.

6. UNICEF Programme Management

• Helps handle and coordinate technical assist round child poverty, social safety, public finance and governance making certain it’s effectively deliberate, monitored, and applied in a well timed vogue 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.

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

Minimum necessities:

Education: A college diploma in one of many following fields is required: Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or one other related technical area.

Experience:

• A minimal of 1 12 months of related skilled expertise in social coverage, social help, and/or social safety.

Language: Fluency in English and Portuguese is required.

Desirables:

• Experience working within the space of social safety/social help in a creating nation is taken into account as a powerful asset.

• Background and/or familiarity with social safety in emergency is taken into account as a powerful asset.

• Experience working with Governments on points associated to social safety and/or humanitarian points.
• Proven data within the space of shock-responsive social safety, together with world developments and discussions.

• Knowledge of Spanish is an asset.

For each Child, you exhibit…

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

• 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 attain impactful outcomes (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

 

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 UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to change 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 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 embody those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with varied 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 staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related assist necessities of candidates and staff 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 web application, please submit your request by 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, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further data 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 will probably be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may additionally 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 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 employees is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity. 
• UNICEF’s lively dedication to variety and inclusion is crucial to ship one of the best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate afro-descendants, indigenous, LGBTQIA+ and different minorities are inspired to apply. 
• Government staff 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 correct to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance will not be obtained, or essential inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an inexpensive interval for any purpose. 
•  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 probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inner candidate performing on the degree of the put up within the related practical space, or an inner/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the put up, with out evaluation of different candidates. 

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This job alternative is presential (São Paulo) and for Brazilians solely or inner candidates with a piece allow for Brazil.