Apply for Intern – Girls’ Vision for the Future, Yaoundé, Cameroon Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 international locations and territories, we work for each child, in every single place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means hand over. 

For each child, Hope 

UNICEF has been working in Cameroon since 1975 to permit ladies and youngsters to completely notice their rights to improvement with out restriction, as enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. UNICEF gives monetary and technical help to Cameroon throughout seven areas to completely notice the rights of ladies and youngsters. These areas embrace Health, HIV/AIDS, Water-sanitation-Hygiene, vitamin, training, child safety, and social inclusion. UNICEF focuses primarily on youngsters and the most weak and excluded households. The activity is immense however not insurmountable; it requires the power of all stakeholders in Cameroon and outdoors of Cameroon: ladies, males, youth and youngsters, authorities, technical and monetary companions, donors, civil society, the personal sector, parliamentarians, and communities. Everyone is invited to take part in the battle to fulfill the challenges that lie forward. Together, we are going to act for Cameroon, a rustic that summarizes the challenges and hopes of Africa.

For extra details about UNICEF Cameroon, please click on here.

How are you able to make a difference? 

The intern will help our ongoing efforts to advertise ladies’ rights and empowerment via the regional Summit on ‘Girls’ Vision for the Future’ slated to happen in 2025. The summit, a key goal of the WCAR Girls’ goals to develop a regional Agenda on Girls’ Rights. To obtain this goal, the Cameroon Country Office is dedicated to launching a ladies’ motion to help ladies’ teams and native companions in addition to empower ladies and their teams, by enabling them to advocate for the incorporation of key components from the Regional Agenda into nationwide authorized and coverage frameworks.

How are you able to make a difference? 

• Serve as Secretariat of the DOers and help in the supply of their duties, working intently with the coordinator.
• Conduct a mapping of key stakeholders working for and with ladies in the 10 areas of Cameroon in collaboration with area workplaces and key companions.
• Conduct a mapping of ladies’ organizations or teams.
• Assist in the improvement and monitoring of the Action Plan and the Girls’ Agenda for Cameroon.
• Identify all alternatives to contribute to the success of the initiative.
• Communicate the progress made in implementing the Action Plan.
• Assist with the compilation and dissemination of data supplies ready to

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

• To be enrolled in a level programme in an undergraduate, or graduate faculty, or be a current graduate in anthropology, psychology, sociology, gender research, training or one other related technical area.
• Be proficient in each of UNICEF’s working languages English and French
• Have robust educational efficiency as demonstrated by current college or establishment data or, if not out there, a reference letter from a tutorial supervisor
• Have no fast relations (e.g. father, mom, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF workplace
• Are not disqualified underneath the UNICEF Child Safeguarding Personnel Standards (DHR/STANDARDS/2019/001), or as amended.

Additional Knowledge.

• In group engagement and undertaking administration.
• In Research, analytical, and communication expertise.
• In multi-sectoral partnerships and expertise coaching system improvement are thought-about property in designing and managing session and analysis on completely different fields.
• Previous working expertise will probably be an asset

For each Child, you exhibit… 

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the things we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

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.

During the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background check.

Remarks:  

UNICEF’s lively dedication in the direction of variety and inclusion is crucial to ship the finest outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates are inspired to apply.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which will probably be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may additionally be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government workers which are thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the proper to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or vital inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.

Only shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.