UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to save 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} improvement 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 pretty compensation and advantages bundle.
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For each child, hope
The UNICEF Nutrition Strategy 2020–2030 outlines UNICEF’s dedication to helping nationwide governments and companions in safeguarding kids’s proper to vitamin and eradicating child malnutrition globally. The technique goals to be inclusive, encompassing all kids, adolescents, and girls worldwide. It stresses the significance of tailor-made packages that prioritize prevention throughout all contexts, with therapy as a vital fallback if prevention falls quick.
In pursuit of this goal, the technique advocates for a complete method to enhancing vitamin outcomes. UNICEF acknowledges the pivotal position of the meals system in creating an atmosphere for nutritious, protected, reasonably priced, and sustainable diets for kids, collaborating with well being, water and sanitation, training, and social safety techniques. UNICEF’s major intention on this realm is to facilitate the institution and realization of efficient, accountable techniques able to addressing all types of child malnutrition.
How are you able to make a difference?
Under the supervision of the Health & Nutrition Specialist and in collaboration with different Nutrition Specialists, the Nutrition Specialist (P3) can be accountable for technical help within the improvement and implementation of insurance policies, programmes, advocacy and data technology for meals techniques for kids space of labor, addressing all types of malnutrition and protecting toddler and younger kids, faculty age kids and adolescents, and moms.
The Nutrition Specialist will present technical steering and administration help all through the programming processes to facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable ends in meals techniques and maternal, toddler and child vitamin associated programmes/tasks. This is carried out in accordance to plans, allocation, outcomes based-management approaches and methodology (RBM), in addition to UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, requirements of efficiency, and accountability framework.
Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities:
- Support to programme improvement and planning
- Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes
- Technical and operational help to programme implementation
- Networking and partnership constructing
- Innovation, data administration and capability constructing
If you prefer to to know extra about this place, please overview the whole Job Description right here: 
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
Minimum necessities:
- Education: An superior college diploma in one of many following fields is required: vitamin, public well being, dietary epidemiology, international/worldwide well being and vitamin, well being/vitamin analysis, coverage and/or administration, well being sciences, dietary epidemiology, or one other health-related science discipline.
- Work Experience: A minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise in a growing nation in vitamin, public well being, vitamin planning and administration, or maternal, toddler and child well being/vitamin care.
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset
Desirables:
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
- Experience in well being/vitamin programme/mission improvement and administration in a UN system company or group is an asset
For each Child, you exhibit…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing 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 obtain outcomes for influence
(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 completely different ranges.
UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, spiritual or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to turn into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF presents paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks, and affordable 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 embody those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with varied obstacles, might 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 enhance 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 web application, please submit your request by means of the accessibility electronic mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.
UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals underneath 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 primarily based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to promote the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and can 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 further 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 obligation station is required for IP positions and can 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 have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice can 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 the perfect outcomes for kids. For this place, all eligible and appropriate candidates are inspired to apply.
Government workers who’re thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the appropriate to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities should not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.
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 is not going to ask for candidates’ checking account info.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the submit within the related useful space, or an inside/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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Nutrition Specialist (P3), Windhoek, Namibia, #131673 Temporary Appointments (Open to Non-Namibian Nationals)
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