Date of last update: 27/06/2022 2022-06-27
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For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS.
UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is also the world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries. As a global authority UNICEF is able to influence decision makers at the global level and turn the most innovative ideas into reality.
More than 13,000 staff work with UNICEF, with approximately 85 per located in the field in 190 countries. Seven regional offices and over 124 country offices worldwide, 34 national committees, a research centre in Florence, a supply division in Copenhagen, a shared services centre in Budapest and offices in Berlin, Brussels, Seoul and Tokyo, and UNICEF headquarters in New York and Geneva work on helping children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence.
We employ committed professional to work in our five focus areas: Child Survival and Development, Basic Education and Gender Equality, HIV/AIDS, Child Protection and Policy Advocacy and Partnerships. We also employ staff with expertise in administration and finance, human resources, information technology, supply and logistics as well as external relations and communication. UNICEF's presence in humanitarian crises means that we also seek experts in emergency preparedness and response.
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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.
The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does ? in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The ?leave no one behind' principle of the SDGs and UNICEF's equity agenda translates this commitment on children's rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias, or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life ? in its social, political, economic, civic, and cultural dimensions ? her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, nutrition, education, and protection of a society's most disadvantaged citizens ? addressing inequity ? not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. Therefore, the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.
For every child, hope?
The newly established Programme Group Leadership Team (PGLT) is shifting its focus toward strategic oversight and coordination of the Programme Group (PG) to ensure multisectoral approaches and horizontal integration across programmes. In view of the growing recognition of the value-add of well-managed and selected multisectoral partnerships, the role of Partnerships Advisor has been created with the aim to ensure the dedicated capacity in the PGLT for this highly strategic portfolio of work.
As part of UNICEF`s 2022 -25 Strategic Plan and its Results Framework, disability inclusion is anchored as one of the guiding principles and disability inclusive programming is a cross cutting priority ensuring disability inclusion across the organization. A total of 34 indicators related to disability inclusion have been established across the Goal Areas, Change Strategies and Enablers.
How can you make a difference?
You will be responsible for the strategic and technical leadership, setting standards and global agenda, policy and advocacy, resource mobilization, partnerships, and inter-agency collaboration. Custodian of UNCRPD and UN Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS) across UNICEF. Guide the implementation of the UNICEF Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy (DIPAS). Promote best practices and innovative actions to support UNICEF's mandate to advance disability rights and inclusion across its programmes and operations. Coordinate efforts across the organization for UNICEF to deliver on its global commitments on disability inclusion.
Tasks and accountabilities will include the following:
Provide vision, expert advice, and policy direction to support the organization to build on existing progress on disability inclusion in programmes, operations, and overall culture, taking into consideration intersectionality, in everything UNICEF does in development and humanitarian contexts.
Influencing the global agenda both on the rights of the child (CRC) and the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) and set standards for required actions for their realization in development and humanitarian action.
Partnerships and Resource Mobilization
Knowledge, Research and Data, data collection and analysis on persons with disabilities, with a focus on children and adolescents.
To qualify as a champion for every child, the candidate must have?
An advanced university degree in social sciences, or development planning; international relations, political science, public affairs and/or international development is required.
At least 10 years of progressively responsible work experience with at least 8 years of experience mainstreaming disability, including in developing country context is required. Proven experience of mainstreaming disability across programmes and internal operations in large and complex organizational settings is required.
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of a second UN language (i.e. Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish) is considered an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate?
UNICEF's core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability.
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...
To view our competency framework, please visit here.
For information on remuneration and benefits, please visit UNICEF's Entitlements' page. If you would like to find estimates for entitlements, you may use the online Salary Estimate Calculator
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, culture, appearance, socio-economic status, ability, age, religious, and ethnic backgrounds, to apply to become a part of the organization.
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 also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.
?UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at
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Type of contract: Staff (Permanent and Fixed Term)
Macro-area: Multiple
Level of experience: Senior Professional, more than 5 years
Area of work Definition: Monitoring and Evaluation, Results-based Management
Type of organisation: Multilateral Organisations