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For each child, empowerment! 

The Division of People and Culture (DPC) acts as an enabler to the change methods and ongoing transformation initiatives of UNICEF in line with the Global OneHR Strategy and Delivery Model to realize outcomes for youngsters. Accordingly, DPC priorities are aligned to assist UNICEF’s strategic plan, particularly to foster a ‘dynamic workforce and an organizational culture that is people-centered’, one of the important thing focus areas of the OneHR Strategy.

DPC is main and supporting numerous Organizational change processes throughout the group, together with the Headquarters Efficiencies Initiative (HQEI), the worldwide Recruitment Administrative Services (RAS) hub centralizing all recruitment transactions, HR Transition and Transformation and Humanitarian Review Initiatives, and it’s a precedence for DPC to make sure that employees and stakeholders perceive the imaginative and prescient of these modifications and how will probably be achieved and are meaningfully engaged all through the transformation. 

How are you able to make a difference? 

The Project Manager will likely be working beneath the steerage of the Associate Director People in Humanitarian Action, DPC and performs a pivotal function in supporting the coordination and implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the Humanitarian Review and HR in Emergency Retreat Initiatives. They will assist the Chief of preparedness as recognized with the facilitation of work groups to carry momentum to the design and implementation of initiatives /initiatives, liaising with groups, stakeholders and sustaining efficient linkages with different related useful models each in DPC, UNICEF and externally and supporting lively speaking inside and exterior to UNICEF. They would additionally coordinate and implement particular strategic National Staff initiatives assigned and assist fund elevating efforts for personnel and initiatives.

Key Accountabilities and Duties & Tasks

• Support the Associate Director and the group in setting and perusing key strategic targets associated to HR in Humanitarian Action.
• Support the Associate Director and key stakeholders with efficient work planning, prioritizing, coordinating and monitoring of key initiatives/initiatives associated to the implementation of the Humanitarian Review and HR in Emergencies Recommendations in line with the targets set.
• Support the group of the coordination board overseeing the implementation of suggestions. Ensuring it efficiently features and outfitted with the knowledge for well timed choice making, permitting Project Leads to satisfy deadlines. Follow-up on initiatives, actions and actions and duties introduced by the coordination group.  Provide common updates and determine distinctive points which must be escalated.
• Collaborate with and contribute to applicable administration and monitoring with Project Leads to make sure high quality and timeliness of completion, forestall gaps, overlaps and duplication of efforts.  Support troubleshooting on points which can come up. Monitor work progress and guarantee outcomes are achieved in line with schedule and efficiency requirements and timelines, escalating any related points to the Associate Director and coordination board as vital.
• Determine, and receive experience from completely different UNICEF enterprise models equivalent to Evaluation Office and the Division of Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, progressive to agree on methods to measure affect of initiatives.
• Support reporting and communication on progress implementation of particular initiatives an in addition to with the suggestions. Prepare background and place papers, briefing notes, presentation for the supervisor’s consideration in cooperation with related venture leads. Consolidate content material obtained, and finalize drafts ready by venture leads and different stakeholders.
• Collaborates with venture leads and DPC communication group on creating communication supplies for publishing.
• Manage the circulate of data to the Coordination group together with Directors of DPC and EMOPS, and Deputy Executive Directors for Management and Humanitarian Action and the important thing issues together with challenges, alternatives and optimistic outcomes. Establish a information sharing and administration system to supply constant data and guarantee actions taken.
• Keep the supervisor conscious of operational developments and comply with up actions to be taken together with liaising with key focal factors in the sector and suggestions.
• Assist the supervisor in the preparation of paperwork and presentation for coordination conferences and conferences different key senior officers inside and exterior the group.
• For initiatives being dealt with / led, or supported e.g. National Staff initiatives, Mentoring  set up targets, targets and timelines; and present replace on progress.
• Build and leverage new and present partnerships inside UNICEF, with different UN Agencies, establishments (tutorial and in any other case), exterior specialists, and different organizations. Liaises with inter-company counterparts, and managers to study and share good / finest practices. 
• Should a guide be engaged beneath their supervision, set up clear particular person efficiency targets, targets and timelines; and present well timed steerage to allow them to carry out their duties responsibly and effectively.
• Participates in taskforces and working teams as assigned and supplies common suggestions to supervisor and updates on factors for choice making.

 To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…

Minimum necessities:

Education: An superior college diploma is required in Social Sciences, Human Resources, Business Administration, International Relations, Political Science, Public Administration, or one other related technical area.

Work Experience:

• A minimal of 5 years of related skilled work expertise in human assets, exterior relations, public affairs, or worldwide growth cooperation, ideally throughout the UN, a authorities establishment, or an NGO.
• Experience of coordinating initiatives with inputs and pursuits of a number of stakeholders towards strengthening partnerships for outcomes supply
• Experience in venture administration in Human assets could be a bonus.
• Prior expertise of involvement in planning and reporting processes will likely be an asset.
• Experience in each headquarters and the sector, working with a number of priorities in excessive-strain environments is fascinating.
• Experience in change communication or creating partaking written merchandise, is an asset. 

Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or 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 things we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (2)
• 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)

Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges.

Candidates who utilized previosuly to this emptiness stay into account and don’t have to reapply. 

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-financial background, or another private attribute.

We supply a wide range of measures to include a more diverse workforce, equivalent to paid parental depart, day without work for breastfeeding functions, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of versatile working preparations.

UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals beneath 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 youngsters. All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of tutorial credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further data 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 will likely be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments might also be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards 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 likely be canceled.

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the employees is the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.

Government staff who’re thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or vital inoculation necessities should not met, inside an affordable interval for any motive. 

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 likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the put up in the related useful space, or an inside/exterior candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the put up, with out evaluation of different candidates.

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