Date of last update: 23/01/2021 2021-01-23
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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.
Disability and social protection contribute to Goal Area 5 of UNICEF's strategic plan. UNICEF is working in many countries in expanding and strengthening disability inclusive and sensitive social protection in line with the joint statement on inclusive social protection that UNICEF is signatory to. UNICEF's work is further strengthened by the joint project with ILO and IDA, financed by UNPRPD, that focuses on the collaborative development of capacity across countries, development agencies and academia to support development and reform of inclusive and CRPD compliant social protection systems that foster inclusion and empowerment in line with related ILO standards (GLO/18/40/UND).
For every child, Social Protection….
Under the general supervision of the Chief of Child Poverty and Social Protection and in close coordination with the disability section and other relevant sections, you will be responsible for setting UNICEF's building blocks and positioning on inclusive social protection, with a specific focus on disability. This will include strategic planning and formulation of programming; accelerating disability inclusion in the social protection programmatic area; providing technical support to Regional offices and country offices in the implementation, monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management of all stages of social protection programing for persons with disabilities; and communication and advocacy.
How can you make a difference?
Strengthening disability inclusive social protection programming
Capacity building, support development of tools, guidance and advocacy material on disability inclusive social protection
Strengthened advocacy and partnerships for disability inclusive social protection
UNICEF Programme Management and reporting
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF's core values of Care, Respective, Integrity, Trust and Accountability.
For more 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.
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Type of contract: Staff (Temporary)
Macro-area: North America
Level of experience: Senior Professional, more than 5 years
Area of work Definition: Diversity Management
Type of organisation: Multilateral Organisations