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The Programme Group (PG) supplies world programme management to realize outcomes for essentially the most deprived and excluded youngsters in all places throughout the total framework of the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022–2025 and in response to the common scope of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). PG leads UNICEF’s world programmatic imaginative and prescient to offer nations in all kinds of contexts with technical help (working carefully with regional workplaces) to spice up programme excellence in addition to assist to leverage proof, partnerships, and improvements that may be tailored and taken to scale in several nation contexts – together with in humanitarian, fragile and disaster-affected settings in low-, middle- and excessive-revenue nations.

Within the PG, a small core workforce led by the Director, Programmes facilitates cross-programme groups round UNICEF’s normative mandates (gender, human rights, disabilities) and life course priorities (together with the give attention to early childhood and adolescence). This workforce fosters and champions particular programming areas, programming in excessive-revenue nations; change methods, equivalent to techniques strengthening; rising programme priorities, equivalent to psychological well being; in addition to advocacy as a programme technique.   

For each child, a hope..

Under the shared steering of the Senior Programme Specialist (Prevention, Recovery and Transitions) and the Programme Specialist, CEED, the Programme Specialist, HDP nexus is accountable for overseeing information administration (KM) and the curation of a powerful world proof base on UNICEF’s work throughout the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) nexus, together with in relation to local weather motion, and contributes to and represents UNICEF in technical-degree interagency processes associated to the nexus. He/she may even present technical assist to nation and regional workplaces on implementing the HDP nexus method, together with for local weather motion, with a selected give attention to selling studying and information amongst UNICEF workers at world, regional, and nation ranges. He/she can also be often deployed as surge capability to offer technical assist on HDP nexus and resilience in fragile and excessive-danger settings. 

How are you able to make a difference? 

Programme assist

• Represent UNICEF in inter-company and information-sharing platforms targeted on the HDP nexus, selling greatest practices and fostering collaboration.
• Establish monitoring, analysis, and studying mechanisms to trace progress, measure impression, and inform adaptive programming in relation to the nexus and local weather, vitality, surroundings, and catastrophe danger discount (CEED).
• Support subject groups in addressing operational challenges associated to HDP nexus and CEED programming.
• Supports the Programme Specialist, Humanitarian within the coordination of property throughout PG and inter-divisionally to make sure that nation workplaces obtain well timed and excessive-high quality technical help in humanitarian motion and working throughout the HDP nexus.

Knowledge administration, studying, and thought management

• Collaborates with UNICEF divisions and groups at HQ and regional ranges to develop KM plans in relation to HDP nexus and CEED and establish obligatory sources to execute these plans.
• Building on current sources and in keeping with Programme Group Knowledge Management Framework, improves the curation of current information merchandise, organized by means of thematic net pages, doc libraries and databases lists and constantly replace the SharePoint websites on the HDP nexus, battle prevention and peacebuilding, and CEED, together with related digital libraries.
• Contributes to advancing thought management on the HDP nexus and CEED.
• Curates, organizes, and share instruments, steering, and insurance policies associated to the HDP nexus and CEED with inner stakeholders, together with different divisions, groups, and nation and regional workplaces.
• Coordinates, oversees, and shares work of marketing consultant(s) accountable for HDP nexus and CEED KM to make sure well timed and excessive-high quality information sources, instruments, and technical assist to advance local weather motion, environmental sustainability, and catastrophe danger discount efforts.
• Contributes to studying and capability-constructing efforts aimed toward strengthening UNICEF workers capability in HDP nexus.

Communications and partnerships

• Extracts and packages information administration merchandise for inner and exterior communications, making certain readability and alignment with organizational priorities.
• Oversees the mapping of HDP nexus- and CEED-associated publications, making certain high quality management measures are established and adhered to for all exterior publications.
• Supports UNICEF’s exterior and interagency information-sharing throughout numerous working teams and mechanisms in relation to the HDP nexus and CEED.
• Contributes to the event of proposals to fundraise for programming in fragile and battle-affected settings and top quality programmatic methods and interventions to forestall and mitigate the impression of shocks on youngsters and techniques.
• Advocates for the HDP nexus method with inner and exterior stakeholders to affect insurance policies, methods, and funding priorities.

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

Minimum necessities:

Education

Advanced college diploma in communication, social sciences, political science, worldwide relations, worldwide improvement, humanitarian affairs, or different associated fields or a associated subject is required.

Work Experience

A minimal of 5 (5) years of related progressively accountable skilled expertise on the nationwide / worldwide degree in information administration, communication, and programme coordination.

Desirables/Assets:

• Prior expertise with UNICEF, particularly in programmes, an asset.
• Proven skill to work independently and effectively to coordinate all kinds of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated expertise within the execution of advanced priorities, processes and tasks in workplace work-plans.
• Capacity to coordinate multi-sectoral groups is an asset.
• Strong analytical abilities and skill to work with and as part of a workforce.

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.

For each Child, you reveal…

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The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

• 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 realize impactful outcomes (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

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