Administrative Officer, NO-B, Damascus, Syria, MENA Region # 93292

UNICEF works in a number of 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 fulfill their potential.

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

And we by no means quit.

UNICEF promotes the rights and welfare of all youngsters and adolescents in every little thing we do. Along with our allies, we work to rework this dedication into sensible actions that profit all youngsters, particularly focusing our efforts on reaching probably the most susceptible and excluded, worldwide.

For each baby, well being

UNICEF Syria was established in 1970 and has been working with companions to assist empower youngsters to totally declare and revel in their rights below the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster.

UNICEF works with companions throughout Syria to ship provides, companies, and experience in areas of Youngster Safety, Schooling, Well being, Vitamin, Water, Hygiene and Sanitation for each baby. UNICEF additionally offers humanitarian help when wanted.

Syria continues to face some of the complicated emergencies on the earth. Unprecedented humanitarian wants are compounded by displacement contained in the nation and throughout its borders, intensive destruction of civilian and social companies infrastructure, devastating impacts on the economic system, and most significantly, the breakdown of the social cloth that stitched the nation collectively for many years.

Right this moment, 90% of individuals in Syria reside in poverty, most are unable to make ends meet or deliver meals to the desk. Households have had their assets depleted, with restricted employment alternatives, skyrocketing costs, and absence of primary provides. For most individuals, the present socio-economic challenges symbolize a number of the harshest and most difficult circumstances they’ve confronted because the starting of the disaster 11 years in the past.

In 2023, 15.1 million individuals want humanitarian help. That is the very best variety of individuals in want ever recorded in Syria since 2011. The variety of youngsters in want – greater than 6.5 million – has elevated by seven per cent previously yr alone. That is largely due the continuing battle, continued displacements, the unprecedented financial disaster, deepening poverty, and unemployment. The COVID-19 pandemic, the hike in value of commodities triggered by the general world financial scenario and the impression of sanctions are additional compounding the dire scenario.

For info of the work of our group, please go to our web site: UNICEF Syria  

How will you make a distinction?

Underneath the help and steerage of Admin & finance Specialist, as point of interest of administrative administration companies in a rustic, the Administrative Officer is accountable for supply of environment friendly and cost-effective administrative help companies, offering steerage for operations of administrative help companies and administration of administrative workers.  Ensures the workplace’s administrative operations and companies are in compliance with the group’s administrative coverage, procedures, guidelines and laws. 

Your important duties & accountabilities are as per the next:

1.  Acceptable interpretation and software of administrative coverage and procedures are well timed carried out to help operations on the nation and sub-country ranges. 

2. The price range preparation and implementation are correctly administered, monitored and managed within the space of administrative administration and companies. 

3. Administration and operations of supply and enchancment in administrative help companies are well timed and successfully offered, and safety preparations are effectively established for enhanced security and safety. 

4. Property administration of administrative provides, workplace tools, autos and different properties are successfully carried out. 

5. All administrative transactions and preparations of contracts fulfill the necessities as stipulated and are in compliance with the relevant insurance policies, procedures, guidelines and laws. 

6. Employees capability is enhanced by means of lively workers studying/growth programmes within the space of administrative administration and companies. 

7. Efficient working relations are maintained with different companies, native authorities and implementing companions. 

8. Another assigned administrative administration obligations and companies are successfully carried out and delivered. 

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

Schooling:

• A college diploma is required in one of many areas which are related to the work of the group, most well-liked areas social sciences, enterprise administration, administration, finance, or some other related subject of self-discipline that’s thought-about related to the obligations described within the emptiness announcement.

Expertise:

• A minimal of two (2) years {of professional} work expertise with each nationwide and Worldwide in workplace administration, administration, finance, accounting, ICT, human assets, provide, or some other related operate.

• Supervisory expertise is an asset.

• Expertise working with the UN or humanitarian organizations will likely be an asset.

Language Necessities:

• Fluency in English and Arabic is required.

For each Youngster, you display…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every little thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

Nurtures, leads and manages individuals(1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness(3)Drive to realize outcomes for impression(4)Innovates and embraces change(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity(6)Thinks and acts strategically(7)Works collaboratively with others (8).

Throughout the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include 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, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. 

Remarks:

The VA is open to all (inside and exterior candidates)

UNICEF’s lively dedication in direction of variety and inclusion is essential to ship the most effective outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate females are inspired to use.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which will likely be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Must you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both should be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice will likely be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background examine.

Authorities staff which are thought-about 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 will not be obtained, or mandatory inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an inexpensive interval for any purpose.

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

Marketed: 04 Jan 2024 Syria Customary Time
Deadline: 14 Jan 2024 Syria Customary Time

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