Programme Associate (GS-6), PG Generation Unlimited, New York HQ (Temporary Appointment 364days) # 00128050

Underneath the supervision and steerage of the Deputy Director, Partnerships, the Programme Affiliate is chargeable for executing a broad vary of duties for the Partnerships, Communications and Entrance Workplace groups, requiring thorough data of UNICEF administrative procedures, processes and insurance policies.

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

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, in every single place, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each youngster, in every single place. Over the a long time, UNICEF has labored to guard the rights of kids of all ages — from earliest childhood by adolescence – and can proceed to ship for all youngsters and adolescents underneath the 5 objective areas of the Strategic Plan. Lately, our work to help the distinctive wants of adolescents has gained momentum, because the challenges going through them have come extra sharply into view. The second decade of life is a time of great alternative – however for a lot too many adolescents, nice danger and growing challenges.

Constructing on work throughout the UN with and for younger individuals, and consistent with the UN Youth Technique, in 2018 UNICEF launched a brand new world partnership devoted to increasing alternatives for younger individuals, ages 10-24.  Era Limitless (GenU) is centered on discovering new methods to make sure that each younger particular person is at school, studying, coaching or employment by 2030 — with a give attention to these within the biggest hazard of being left behind, together with women, the poorest, these with disabilities, younger individuals on the transfer and people affected by battle and pure disasters. This partnership brings collectively leaders from governments, UN businesses, the non-public sector, academia, worldwide and civil society organizations, and younger individuals, and identifies, co-creates, sources and scales-up progressive options to increase alternatives for younger individuals. Younger individuals take part meaningfully within the co-creation of options, informing, advising and serving to implement at each step of the best way.

For each youngster, Schooling…

Underneath the supervision and steerage of the Deputy Director, Partnerships, the Programme Affiliate is chargeable for executing a broad vary of duties for the Partnerships, Communications and Entrance Workplace groups, requiring thorough data of UNICEF administrative procedures, processes and insurance policies. The Programme Affiliate works in shut collaboration with a wide range of inner and exterior stakeholders and companions, from headquarters, nation and regional places of work to useful resource and implementing companions. On this capability, the necessity to challenge the picture of a reputable and dependable companion is important, and the effectivity and effectiveness of efforts straight displays on the general fame of the workforce when it comes to responsiveness to consumer wants and high quality and impression of course of execution.

How will you make a distinction?

Journey

• Offers journey help to workers members within the workforce for journey preparations and entitlements primarily based on the group’s guidelines and insurance policies.
• Liaises with related journey focal factors to make sure that the workforce obtains the most effective service and worth for all journey.
• Briefs/de-briefs workers members on points referring to associated administrative issues corresponding to visas, safety clearance, and documentation procedures.
• Extracts, inputs, maintains, and verifies correctness of journey information within the group’s journey system to make sure correct transactions associated to journey prices and workers journey.
• Assists within the preparation of budgets on journey prices and keep journey plan and budgetary management information.
• Displays journey certification and report again to the workforce.
• Conferences/Occasions/Logistics
• Help conferences and occasions by coordinating availability and making the logistical preparations, by engagement with facilitators, caterers and hosts.
• Put together and keep agendas on assembly and occasions; coordinate background supplies for contributors and add cleared supplies the place obligatory.
• Liaise with price range focal factors relating to prices and desires.

Price range Monitoring

• Displays budgets and monetary expenditures of the workforce, making certain compliance with UNICEF guidelines and rules, retaining supervisor knowledgeable and suggested on actions for resolution/observe up.
• Offers help on price range revision/preparation, implementation standing, dedication place of funding utilization, operational, and monetary closure.
• Prepares and maintains information, paperwork and management plans for the price range monitoring of challenge/programme implementation.
• Carries out transactions in VISION pertaining to grants for his/her part corresponding to registering grant allotments and monitoring expiring programme grants.

Communications & Workflow

• Facilitates the communications and workflow of the workforce to reinforce the effectivity and timeliness of operations and outputs.
• Communicates routine and a few non-routine data pertaining to the work of the workforce.
• Establishes and maintains the workforce’s submitting and reference programs, each conventional and digital; and ensures the inter/intra-net web sites are updated and correct.

Provides/Gear

• Help administration of workplace provides and tools.
• Monitor enough and acceptable use of provides; replace stock of things as wanted.
• Be sure that companies and upkeep of provides are in accordance with organizational requirements.
• Organize for the acquisition and well timed distribution of workplace provides.

Calendar/Conferences/Correspondence Administration

• Maintains the workforce’s calendar and arranges conferences
• Takes minutes of conferences, making certain accuracy, consideration to element and coherence.

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have…

• Completion of secondary schooling is required, ideally supplemented by technical or college programs associated to the sector of labor is required.
• For this place, a bachelor’s diploma from a acknowledged tutorial establishment in a related subject could exchange three years of associated work expertise.
  * A grasp’s diploma could exchange further two years.
• A minimal of 6 years of related administrative companies or clerical work expertise is required.
• Non-US candidates should be a US everlasting resident or citizen.
• Expertise in price range and monetary planning, monitoring and administration is very fascinating.
• Superior laptop literacy and the power to successfully use commonplace workplace software program instruments (MS Workplace, Enterprise database) and different workplace expertise to create documentation, alternate and archive e-mail, and keep digital submitting programs.
• Proficiency in utilizing SAP/ERP programs (VISION) will probably be an asset.

For each Baby, you show…

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to including everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, a variety of advantages to our workers, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using 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 selling 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 ideas.

Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further data to conduct a background verify.

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 be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid).

Authorities staff which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF.

UNICEF reserves the correct to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.

“UNICEF solely considers greater instructional {qualifications} obtained from an establishment accredited/acknowledged within the World Greater Schooling Database (WHED), a listing up to date by the Worldwide Affiliation of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Academic, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO). The record may be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”

For extra data on remuneration and advantages, please go to UNICEF’s Entitlements’ page.  If you need to seek out estimates for entitlements, it’s possible you’ll use the web Salary Estimate Calculator

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