Contract type: Temporary Appointment, Consultant
Level: P-3
Location: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Seychelles
Categories: Child Protection, Emergency
Seeking external candidates only
Contract Type: Temporary Appointment (TA) or Consultancy
Duration: 3 months to 364 days
Location: Countries based in Eastern and Southern Africa
Job Description
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, hope
Since two years, countries in the ESA region have experienced an alarming increase in the number of new, or re-emerging humanitarian emergencies, including public health (including Ebola, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, wild poliovirus, and Cholera), armed conflicts and natural disasters emergencies.
UNICEF ESAR has prioritized the critical need to support countries to rapidly scale up capacity to prevent, mitigate, and manage ongoing and anticipated emergencies as well as to enhance capacity for preparedness and response to these emergencies.
Purpose
The purpose of this external announcement is to attract suitable Child Protection Specialist on Mine action, armed violence and weapons candidates interested in working in any of the countries within UNICEF’s East and Southern Africa region to respond to emergencies for the next 36 months. The countries within each region are listed on the following website: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html.
How can you make a difference?
The purpose of this deployment is to support the UNICEF Country Office to scale up its emergency response programme related to the use of landmines and other indiscriminate or illicit weapons by state and non-state actors to ensure fulfillment of UNICEF’s CCC Commitment 8. This includes ensuring interventions are in place to prevent and address the use of landmines and other indiscriminate or illicit weapons.
Key activities & duties
- Design, prepare, implement, monitor and evaluate assigned Mine Action project.
- Prepare the sectoral documents for the Country Programme Recommendation (CPR) and Plans of Action, Country Programme Summary Sheet, and other programme documents, as required.
- Act as liaison to the other UN agencies involved in Mine action.
- Participate in intersectoral collaboration with other programme colleagues and ensure that mine action activities are well coordinated and integrated with other armed violence prevention projects
- Assists in development of appropriate communication and information strategy
- Undertake field visits to monitor project, as well as conduct periodic project reviews with government counterparts and other partners.
- Provide technical advice and assistance to government officials and other partners in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programme/project(s).
- Assist government authorities in planning and organizing training programmes. Identify needs for capacity building, programme sustainability, as well as promotion and advocacy.
- Work with government counterparts to design and initiate implementation of a ‘transition plan’ to handover UNICEF responsibilities to government counterparts.
- Participate in the development of sectoral workplans, ensures the achievement of specific assigned objectives. Provide guidance and support to staff in meeting project objectives.
- Ensure the accurate and timely input of project information in the computerized programme system, and issues status reports for monitoring and evaluation purposes.
- Prepare programme/project status reports required for management, Board, donors, budget review, programme analysis, annual reports, etc.
- Provide inputs on justice for children in all UNICEF and broader UN/Government planning processes, and provide inputs to all relevant reporting mechanisms within UNICEF as well as interagency
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education-
- Advanced university degree in social work, international relations, law, child psychology, or other relevant field.
Work Experience-
- A minimum of 5 years of experience with UNICEF and/or other relevant actors, including experience with child protection programming related to mine-risk education in situations of armed conflict.
- Background and familiarity with international human rights and humanitarian law, monitoring and reporting on grave violations against children is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of UNICEF’s core commitments to children in humanitarian action as well as the humanitarian cluster approach, particularly the child protection working group (sub-cluster).
Language Requirement:-
- Fluency in verbal and written English and/or French (depending on the country office’s official language).
- Good written and spoken skills in the language of the humanitarian operation in country of assignment and knowledge of another UN language or a local language is an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues
UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
Works Collaboratively with others (1)
Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.
UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children.
The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children.
All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions.
Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF.
UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.
Deadline: E. Africa Standard Time