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Join the Social Policy Team at UNICEF Ukraine!

How are you able to make a difference? 

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each child, all over the place, in every thing 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 outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any child has an unequal probability in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is rising proof that investing within the well being, schooling and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all youngsters the chance to meet their potential but in addition will result in sustained development and stability of nations. This is why the deal with 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.

Job organizational context:

The Social Policy Officer GJP is for use in a UNICEF nation workplace. This place can be an vital part of UNICEF’s Humanitarian Cash Transfer (HCT) staff, and also will act because the Deputy Lead/Head of the HCT programme/staff when wanted.

In 2022, humanitarian companions supplied multi-purpose money help (MPCA) to nearly six million folks for greater than 1.2 billion USD, which was the most important scale-up of humanitarian money switch programming in historical past, highlighting the usage of MPCA as a normal fundamental help humanitarian response modality within the Ukrainian context. As per the 2024 Ukraine Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP), an estimated 14.6 million folks have been in want, together with nearly 3 million youngsters and three.6 million internally displaced folks, whereas 1.9 million folks have been focused with MPCA for a complete attraction of 643 million USD.

The UNICEF Ukraine Humanitarian Cash Transfer programme offers money help to susceptible, affected households with youngsters within the frontline to assist meet their fundamental wants, guarantee minimal dwelling requirements and stop the adoption of adverse coping methods. From 2022 to 2024, UNICEF has supplied humanitarian money transfers to greater than 350,000 households supporting 1.5 million folks, together with near 1 million youngsters in Ukraine.

Purpose for the job:

Under the final steerage of the Programme Specialist – Cash Transfers (which is the Lead of the Cash Transfer staff), the Social Policy Officer (Cash Transfers) can be an vital part of the Humanitarian Cash Transfer (HCT) staff. This place will assist and contribute to the next duties (together with, however not restricted to): a) outreach, communication and registration of beneficiaries for money help, b) coaching of implementing companions, c) AAP and grievance redressal, d) monitoring, e) coordination each on nationwide and sub-national stage (together with with the Cash Working Group as related), f) partaking with technical focal factors at Ministry of Social Policy, and g) donor reporting and useful resource mobilization. It is assumed that this place will even act because the Deputy Lead of the HCT staff when wanted. The Social Policy Officer (Cash Transfers) will work in shut collaboration with different members of the money switch staff, the emergency staff and area places of work, and related programme and cross-cutting sections, together with exterior companions and stakeholders.

Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities (it is a generic job profile, however this place is absolutely devoted to the implementation of money switch programming): 

1. Improving information on child poverty & vulnerability for elevated use for coverage and programme motion, together with to tell and regulate money switch programmes.

• 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 information for coverage decision-making.
• Provides well timed, common data-driven evaluation for efficient prioritization, planning, and growth; facilitates results-based administration for planning, adjusting, and scaling-up particular social coverage initiatives to cut back child poverty. 
• Analyzes the macroeconomic context and its impression on social growth, rising points and social coverage issues, in addition to implications for youngsters, and proposes and promotes acceptable 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 youngsters

2. Strengthening social safety protection and impression for youngsters, particularly by means of the supply of money help.

• Supports the event of social safety insurance policies, laws and programmes with consideration to growing protection of and impression on youngsters, with particular consideration essentially 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 reminiscent of medical health insurance, public works and social care providers in addition to complementary providers and intervention associated to vitamin, well being, schooling, water and sanitation, child safety and HIV.
• Supports improved monitoring and analysis round social safety impression on child outcomes, and use of information and analysis findings for strengthening programme outcomes.

3. Improving use of public monetary assets for youngsters

• Undertakes finances 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 providers for youngsters.  Works with sector colleagues to construct capability to undertake costing and price 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 means of assist to district stage planning, budgeting and public monetary administration in addition to facilitating group participation

4. Strengthening capability of native governments to plan, finances, seek the advice of on and monitor child-focused social providers.

• 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 carefully reply to the wants of native communities.
• Collaborates with the central and native authorities to strengthen capability on high quality information assortment, evaluation for coverage growth, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring of important social providers, 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 state of affairs of youngsters and protection and impression of child targeted providers – 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 businesses to assist sustained and proactive dedication to the Convention of the Rights of the Child and to realize international 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 guaranteeing it’s properly deliberate, monitored, and carried out in a well timed trend 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.
• Supports and contributes to efficient and environment friendly planning, administration, coordination, monitoring and analysis of the nation programme. Ensures that the social planning challenge enhances coverage dialogue, planning, supervision, technical recommendation, administration, coaching, analysis and assist; and that the monitoring and analysis part strengthens monitoring and analysis of the social sectors and offers assist to sectoral and decentralized data programs.

7.  Cash Transfer Programming

• Support within the planning, design, implementation, and monitoring of the assorted money switch programmes, together with multi-purpose money help (MPCA), cash-for-winterization help, different sorts of sectoral-based money, and complementary social safety programming in type of ‘top-ups’.
• This will embrace the next duties (together with, however not restricted to): a) outreach, communication and registration of beneficiaries for money help, b) coaching of implementing companions, c) AAP and grievance redressal, d) monitoring, e) coordination each on nationwide and sub-national stage (together with with the Cash Working Group as related), f) partaking with technical focal factors at Ministry of Social Policy, and g) donor reporting and useful resource mobilization.
• It is assumed that this place will even act because the Deputy Lead/Head of the money switch staff/programme (when wanted).
• The Social Policy Officer (Cash Transfers) will work in shut collaboration with different members of the money switch staff, the emergency staff and area places of work, and related programme and cross-cutting sections, together with exterior companions and stakeholders.

Impact of Results

The Social Policy Officer (Cash Transfers) will assist the design, implementation, and monitoring of the assorted money switch programmes carried out by UNICEF Ukraine, together with multi-purpose money help (MPCA), cash-for-winterization help, and complementary social safety programming in type of ‘top-ups’. It can be assumed that this place will act because the Deputy Lead/Head of the HCT staff (when wanted). The Social Policy Officer (Cash Transfers) can be an integral part of the Humanitarian Cash Transfer (HCT) staff and can positively contribute to the supply of much-needed money help to susceptible households with youngsters in want of fundamental help, seasonal and complementary sectoral money assist.

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.

Work Experience:

• A minimal of two years of related skilled expertise is required. 

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and Ukrainian is required.

Desirables:

• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
• Experience in money switch programming is taken into account as a powerful asset.
• Experience working in a growing nation is taken into account as a powerful asset.
• Background and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account as a powerful asset.
• Experience in coordination with related money actors and dealing teams – both on nationwide or sub-national stage – is taken into account as an asset.
• Experience in collaborating with the Ministry of Social Policy is taken into account an asset.
• Experience in different features of money switch programming – reminiscent of AAP, monitoring, and useful resource mobilization – is taken into account as an asset.
• Knowledge of one other official language or a neighborhood language is an asset.

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The UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness

(3) Drive to realize outcomes for impression

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

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We provide a wide range of measures to include a more diverse workforce, reminiscent of paid parental go away, break day for breastfeeding functions, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.

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Remarks:

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This place relies in Kyiv and the incumbent can be anticipated to work on-site. However, relying on the safety situations and advisory, s/he can be required to relocate inside Ukraine.