UNICEF works in over 190 nations and territories to avoid wasting kids’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by way 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.
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For each child, an advocate.
In the Pacific we work in Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu: These 14 Pacific island nations are home to 2.3 million individuals, together with 1.2 million kids and youth, residing on greater than 660 islands and atolls stretching throughout 17.2 million sq. kilometers of the Pacific Ocean, an space similar to the mixed measurement of the United States of America and Canada. Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu are categorised as Fragile States in response to World Bank/OECD standards.
All 14 Pacific Island nations and territories have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, however solely a 3rd are on monitor with reporting obligations. Explore the completely different areas of our work
How are you able to make a difference?
Assists in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating an advocacy and communication technique to get kids’s and girls’s points into the general public area, strengthen political will in assist of UNICEF’s mission and targets within the nation, and improve the group’s credibility and model.
KEY END-RESULTS
- Communication technique: The manufacturing of communication merchandise and supplies are well timed executed and adopted as much as assist nation communication technique, regional and international campaigns and priorities, and to assist useful resource mobilization as set out within the work plan.
- Media relations: Effective and well timed skilled help and assist are supplied in growing, drafting and sustaining contact info, supplies and relationships with journalists and media retailers protecting all media – print, TV, radio, net and many others. – within the nation, to speak the story of UNICEF’s cooperation to a wider viewers.
- Monitoring and analysis: Regular monitoring and analysis actions are undertaken in response to the work plan to make sure most influence and steady enchancment of nation communication efforts. Results and experiences are ready and shared on a well timed foundation.
- Celebrities, companions and particular occasions: The Country Office’s contact record of people, teams, organizations and fora (together with Government, UN, and bilateral counterparts), is maintained and additional developed, whose assist is important to/can help in attaining the advocacy and communication targets and who assist and are in a position to actively take part in particular occasions and actions that additional the nation programme targets.
To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…
Minimum necessities:
Education:
- University diploma in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations or a associated discipline.
Work Experience:
- Two years sensible skilled work expertise in communication, print and broadcast media, or interactive digital media.
- Background/familiarity with Emergency conditions.
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English is required; Knowledge of the native language is an asset.
Desirables:
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
For each Child, you display…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin the whole lot 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…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
(3) Drive to realize 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 right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids, and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or another private attribute.
We supply a wide range of measures to include a more diverse workforce, resembling paid parental depart, day off 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 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. UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background check.
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 might be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments might 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 should be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice might 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 range and inclusion is essential to ship the very best outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate are inspired to apply.
Government staff who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the proper to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an affordable interval for any cause.
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 info.
All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the put up within the related purposeful space, or an inside/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the put up, with out evaluation of different candidates.
Additional details about working for UNICEF could be discovered here.
Communication Officer, NOB, Pacific Multi Country Office, Port Vila, Vanuatu, #69784 (Fixed-Term Appointment)
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