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For each child, a calling.
We are dedicated, passionate, and happy with what we do. Promoting the rights of each child just isn’t a job, it’s a calling.
UNICEF’s Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC) in Budapest, Hungary supplies providers to UNICEF places of work globally within the areas of Finance, Human Resources, Payroll and Information Technology. For extra details about GSSC please go to our webpage at Global Shared Services Centre (GSSC) and check this YouTube.
How are you able to make a difference?
The Business Innovation and Support (BIS) part has been established to drive enterprise modernization and effectivity throughout UNICEF. The part helps workers globally and works intently with all HQ Divisions, regional and nation places of work for simplification and automation of processes making use of LEAN ideas and venture administration methodologies.
BIS is in search of a GS-5 Project Assistant to hitch the Digital and Data Innovation Stream underneath the steerage of the IT Officer, Network Administrator, NOB (Applications Support). This function will concentrate on supporting the implementation of the Boosting Office Operational Efficiency (BOOE) venture, which addresses gaps in enterprise platforms by offering methodologies and instruments tailor-made to fulfill the precise operational wants of UNICEF places of work. The Project Assistant may also promote innovation and discover new applied sciences and practices inside GSSC in addition to within the broader UNICEF system. This function is pivotal to enhancing operational effectivity, fostering innovation, and advancing digital transformation efforts throughout UNICEF.
This is a short lived appointment alternative for an preliminary interval of 17 March 2025 to 31 December 2025.
Summary of key features/accountabilities:
- Project Support and Coordination
- Support the implementation of the Boosting Office Operational Efficiency (BOOE) initiative.
- Assist in planning, organizing, and executing venture actions, guaranteeing adherence to timelines, milestones, and goals.
- Maintain complete venture documentation, together with stories, proposals, displays, and progress updates.
- Coordinate conferences, workshops, and consultations with stakeholders, getting ready agendas and documenting key outcomes.
- Stakeholder Engagement and Communication
- Act as a liaison between the venture staff, and stakeholders to facilitate seamless communication and alignment.
- Collaborate with inside and exterior companions to make sure venture actions align with organizational targets.
- Prepare detailed stories, displays, and summaries to speak venture progress and achievements.
- Document assembly outcomes, choices, and motion gadgets for efficient follow-up and alignment with venture targets.
- Research and Analysis
- Conduct analysis on trade greatest practices, organizational agility, and rising applied sciences to tell actions of the staff.
- Analyze tendencies and present insights to optimize methods and implementation methods.
- Supporting Innovation
- Contribute to the event, implementation, and monitoring of GSSC’s innovation technique.
- Support the event and strengthening of the GSSC innovation community
- Strengthen collaborate with universities and educational establishments to foster partnerships that drive analysis and innovation initiatives.
- Promote the adoption of design considering and user-centered design methodologies to determine and clear up challenges innovatively.
- Facilitate occasions/workshops to contain end-users in co-creating options that meet their wants and enhance person expertise.
- Assist in growing and managing instruments, sources, and communication supplies to assist innovation initiatives.
If you want to know extra about this place, please evaluation the entire Job Description right here: Job description
To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…
Education:
- Completion of secondary schooling (i.e., highschool diploma) is a minimal requirement. University diploma or grasp’s diploma within the area of labor comparable to enterprise administration and innovation administration are an asset.
Work Experience:
- Minimum 5 years of related skilled work expertise in innovation/technique administration ideally inside the UN or different worldwide organizations is required. A accomplished bachelor’s diploma from an accredited establishment in a area related to the place counts as three years of related work expertise, whereas a accomplished grasp’s diploma provides two extra years.
- Advanced proficiency in Office 365 merchandise, together with MS Word, Excel, and PowerLevel, is required. ·
- Familiarity with instruments comparable to MS Power Platform, SharePoint, knowledge administration techniques, and digital transformation applied sciences is fascinating.
- Experience in a growth group with a multicultural and various setting is an asset.
- Work expertise in partnership constructing with educational establishments is an asset. Experience in establishing and managing innovation networks, together with connecting with exterior specialists and facilitating data alternate is an asset.
- Background in venture setup and associated communication is an asset.
Language necessities:
- 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.
Internal candidates from the GSSC are required to finish the Learning Path equivalent to their present degree earlier than making use of for one other place. Additionally, they need to connect a snapshot of the finished path to their functions. Applications that don’t meet these two minimal necessities is not going to be thought-about. For additional particulars on studying paths, please go to the L&D Portal Learning and Development (sharepoint.com).
Applicants have to be nationals of Hungary or EU/Schengen international locations OR within the possession of a sound long-term Hungarian residence and work permits. Temporary and/or sponsored visas should not accepted. UNICEF GSSC doesn’t facilitate MFA accreditation for domestically recruited workers, candidates have to be holders of acceptable permits already on the time of application. Applicants with non-EU citizenship should connect copies of their legitimate Hungarian work permits, in any other case their functions is not going to be thought-about.
For each Child, you exhibit…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every part we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships, (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness, (3) Drive to realize outcomes for affect, (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.
As an advocate for each child, you’ll obtain
- A aggressive wage which is exempted from paying nationwide earnings taxes in Hungary on United Nations emoluments. The tax-free wage of this place begins at internet HUF 684,059 per thirty days. Please check SalCalcLocal (undp.org) for simulation.
- Hybrid work alternative
- Holidays and depart, together with 18 days of annual depart per yr (prorated in step with contract size)
- Parental depart
- Dependency allowance
- United Nations sponsored medical insurance coverage plan
- Pension plan
- Optional life insurance coverage plan
- Access to skilled growth and studying applications, on-line studying and studying path
- Access to workers well-being assist
- Access to profession growth assist
Please go to Compensation and Benefit website on UNICEF Career page
UNICEF is dedicated to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, non secular or ethnic background, and individuals with disabilities, to apply to develop into a part of the group. To create a extra inclusive office, UNICEF provides paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations. Click here to study 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 embrace those that have long-term bodily, psychological, mental, or sensory impairments which, in interplay with varied limitations, 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 extend the variety of staff with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we offer reasonable accommodation for work-related assist necessities of candidates and staff with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen bodily and digital accessibility. If you might be an applicant with a incapacity who wants digital accessibility assist in finishing the web application, please submit your request via the accessibility e 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 goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based mostly on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will likely 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 extra 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 responsibility station is required for IP positions and will likely be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may additionally 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 will likely be canceled.
Remarks:
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF’s energetic dedication to variety and inclusion is important to ship one of the best outcomes for kids.
Government staff 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 suitable to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities should not met, inside an affordable interval for any cause.
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 will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the degree of the submit within the related purposeful 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.
Additional details about working for UNICEF might be discovered here.
Temporary appointment: Project Assistant (Innovation), GS-5, Business Innovation and Support Section (BIS), Global Shared Services Centre, Budapest, Hungary (submit #131842)
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