UNICEF Jobs: Social Policy Specialist and WASH Manager (Wash Sector Coordinator), P4 at the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
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We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Social Policy Specialist
Job no: 575580
Location: Abuja
Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
Level: NO-3
Location: Nigeria
Categories: Social Policy
For Every Child, a Chance
The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programs, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to 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.
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How can you Make a Difference?
Under the general guidance of the Chief Social Policy, the incumbent is responsible for providing technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social protection programming and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programs aimed at improving public policies to reduce child poverty and vulnerability using social protection. This includes supporting reforms at federal and state levels strengthening social with focus on (a) social protection coverage and impact on children; (b) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of social protection child-focused public investments; (c) governance, and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social protection.
Summary of Key Functions /
Accountabilities
Improving data on Child poverty & vulnerability for increased use for policy and program action
Strengthening Social Protection Coverage and Impact for Children
Improving use of public financial resources for children
Strengthening the capacity of local governments to plan, budget, consult on, and monitor child-focused social services.
Strengthened advocacy and partnerships for child-sensitive social policy
UNICEF Programme Management
Requirements
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:
Minimum requirements:
Education: An Advanced University Degree in one of the following fields: Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or another relevant technical field.
Work Experience: A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience is required. Experience working in a developing country is considered as a strong asset. Background and/or familiarity with emergency is considered as a strong asset.
Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) 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:
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are:
Builds and maintains partnerships (1)
Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (1)
Drive to achieve results for impact (1)
Innovates and embraces change (1)
Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
Thinks and acts strategically (1)
Works collaboratively with others (1)
Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
Next Job
Job Title: WASH Manager (Wash Sector Coordinator), P4
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employment Type: Full-time
Purpose of the WASH Communities
The incumbent provides level leadership and facilitates processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, coherent, strategic, and by mobilized, organized and adequately resourced groups of agencies, organizations, NGOs, local communities, etc. In support of the government, act as interface between humanitarian WASH partners and duty bearers to ensure WASH related needs of the affected population are properly covered.
Responsibilities
Coordination mechanisms:
Ensure the inclusion of key WASH humanitarian partners in a way that respects their mandates and programme priorities, as well as national and local authorities, other governmental actors, civil society and other actors working and related to the WASH sectoral response.
Ensure appropriate coordination mechanisms between all WASH humanitarian partners are in place, including effective links, communication and information management, as well as technical working groups and/or sub-national coordination platforms as appropriate.
Needs assessment, analysis and strategy development:
Ensure effective and coherent WASH assessment, analysis and feedback involving all relevant partners, including the identification of gaps and conceptualize how sectoral needs can be met through collective delivery, involving all relevant partners and ensuring complementarity of their actions.
Monitoring and reporting:
Ensure adequate monitoring mechanisms are in place to review outcomes of WASH interventions and progress against strategy and action plans; including an analytical interpretation of best available information in order to benchmark progress over time (monitoring indicators: quantity, quality, coverage, continuity and cost; with target population data disaggregated by sex, age, etc.).
Ensure adequate WASH outcome reporting and effective information sharing (with government and other partner support) to demonstrate closing the gaps.
Training and capacity building:
Promote and support training of WASH humanitarian personnel in areas such as Minimum Standards for Emergency WASH and capacity building of humanitarian partners, based on the mapping and understanding of available capacity.
Support efforts to strengthen the WASH capacity of the national/local authorities and civil society.
Impact of Results:
The support provided by the Level 4 WASH Sector Coordinator will enable UNICEF to fulfil its obligations in WASH sectoral coordination, assessments, planning and effective implementation and capacity building of the sector agencies in meeting the agreed WASH standards.
This, in turn, will contribute to the achievement of the outcome results of the Humanitarian Response Plan.
When done effectively, the achievement of the outcome results will improve child survival, growth and development and reduce inequalities in humanitarian settings.
Requirements
Advanced university degree desirably in subjects/ areas of WASH e.g. Health Promotion or Education, Civil or Public Health Engineering, Public Health (MPH), Environmental Health.
Additional relevant post-graduate courses that complement/supplement the main degree are required.
A minimum of 8 years relevant experience with four years of direct WASH emergency experience at least two of which would be based in the field at a Team Leader/WASH programme management level.
A minimum of 2 years' emergency experience.
A minimum of 5 years' experience with either the UN and/or NGO.
Knowledge of WASH sector as a whole and its priority issues; an ability to strategize how these sectoral needs are met through collective delivery and ensuring that the roles responsibilities and functional linkages among sector support team are clear and well-coordinated.
Fluency in English and another UN language. Fluency in the national language of the duty station is an asset.
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