Chief Education, Protection and Adolescent Development, Fixed Term, P-4, Brazzaville-Congo, #112167

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. 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 all places, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

 

For each baby, alternative…

 

The UNICEF Congo Brazzaville Nation workplace is a small-medium UNICEF Nation workplace. The 2020-2024 Nation Programme, signed between UNICEF and the Authorities of Republic of Congo, goals to advertise the supply of an built-in package deal of high quality providers for kids and promote the training and safety of adolescents, utilizing the life-cycle method and supporting the fairness focus included within the 2030 Agenda, particularly, to depart no baby behind and assist probably the most deprived first, within the explicit context of the Republic of Congo as a Low Center Revenue Nation. 

To satisfy Programme methods and outcomes, the workplace will want dedicated and artistic professionals who wish to make an enduring distinction for Congolese kids.

 

How will you make a distinction?

Function for the job:

Below the general steering of the Deputy Consultant, the Chief of Schooling, Safety and Adolescent Growth shall be accountable for outcomes for kids within the second decade of life, with a selected give attention to the training and safety elements of the programme in addition to the combination of well being, vitamin and WASH associated interventions (in collaboration with the CSD part) and cross-cutting approaches. The training part shall be answerable for Early Childhood Schooling interventions, particularly entry to pre-primary training and would lead the Adolescent programming, particularly for adolescent ladies.

The Chief will present management to the training and safety staff in planning, improvement, implementation and monitoring and analysis of the programme.

The Chief shall be answerable for the general functioning and administration of the programme.

The Chief along with her/his staff will make sure that information technology, coverage dialogue, evidence-based advocacy and important supplies and knowledge referring to the training and safety programmes are correct and mirror the important thing problems with concern and alternatives for the conclusion of equity-based high quality training and safety from all types of violence in opposition to kids within the Republic of Congo.

The Chief will make sure that the Schooling and Safety Programme is designed to offer higher consideration to efficient advocacy: bringing collectively normative (upstream) recommendation,

information administration on kids’s rights and fairness and the operational (downstream)

technical help.

The submit is required to offer excessive degree technical management to affect coverage dialogue and

strengthen the general governance and accountability system of the federal government accordingly. The submit would be the negotiator; convenor and coordinator of the training and safety sector programmes and can keep relationship and liaise with excessive degree authorities counterparts, donors, and improvement companions.

The submit shall be answerable for mobilizing funds for extra sources to fund the EPAD programme, together with the OR posts; The submit would contribute to the recruitment of excessive calibre employees for the supply of the training and safety programme. Coordination amongst programme sectors on training and safety associated areas within the first decade may also be led by the submit.

The submit may also contribute to the general governance problems with the workplace as member of the

Nation Administration Staff.

 

Key features and accountabilities

1. Managerial management

2. Nation Programme planning and improvement

3. Programme administration, monitoring and high quality management of outcomes

4. Advisory providers and technical assist

5. Advocacy, networking, and partnership constructing

6. Innovation, information administration and capability constructing

 

 

To qualify as a champion for each baby you should have…

• A sophisticated college diploma in one of many following fields is required: training, economics, psychology, sociology, regulation/authorized research, humanities, or one other related technical subject.
• A minimal of eight years {of professional} expertise in programme planning, administration, and/or analysis in training on the worldwide degree is required.
• Expertise working in a growing nation is taken into account as an asset.
• Related expertise in a UN system company or group is taken into account as an asset.
• Familiarity/background with emergency is taken into account as an asset. 

• Fluency in each French and English is required. Data of a neighborhood language is an asset.

 

For each Little one, you show…

Technical competencies

Good understanding of the general world improvement context, together with points equivalent to: poverty, battle, and the impression of those components on training and vice-versa; and inter-sectoral approaches to deal with such points in collaboration with different sectors (together with Social Coverage, Little one Safety, Vitamin, WASH, Well being and Communications inside UNICEF).

• Good information of world developments in training and worldwide engagement methods, together with the applying of the fairness lens and human rights views to programming.

• Good potential to assist coverage dialogue: translation of analytical findings and proof into improvement programme and coverage discussions round fairness and studying with companions, together with authorities, improvement companions, CSOs and academia in related areas.

• Good training sector planning information/potential, together with the vary of modalities for delivering training, linkages between totally different sub-sectors (e.g. ECD, Major, Secondary, Tertiary, Inclusive Schooling), cost-effectiveness and effectivity points, key institutional buildings, elements and processes, in addition to governance points.

• Good training and coverage sector evaluation capability, together with understanding of the core training information units and indicators; instruments for evaluation of fairness; determinants of pupil entry and studying; price range, costing, and monetary administration in training methods; political financial system; and training coverage and strategic planning.

• Good potential to assist engagement with companions e.g. Sector Broad Approaches, International Partnership for Schooling, Schooling in Emergency Clusters, Schooling Supplier Boards, Delivering as One, Inter-sectoral partnerships equivalent to in ECD, in addition to networking with different key companions.

• Good understanding of gender and inequity points in relation to training and improvement and the applying of gender / fairness evaluation to coverage and planning in training.

• Good understanding of insurance policies and methods to deal with points associated to resilience: threat evaluation and threat administration, training in battle conditions, pure disasters, and restoration for CO and RO primarily based submit and the place related.

 

Core Values

• Care
• Respect
• Integrity
• Belief
• Accountability

 

Core Competencies

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages Folks (1)
• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drives to realize impactful outcomes (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

 

Useful Competencies

• Main and supervising (1)
• Formulating methods/ideas (2)
• Analyzing (3)
• Relating and networking (2)
• Deciding and initiating motion (2)
• Making use of Technical Experience (3) 

 

Through the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework.

Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: here.

 

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

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, 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 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 kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and shall 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 offer further info to conduct a background verify.

 

Remarks:

UNICEF’s lively dedication in the direction of range and inclusion is crucial to ship the very best outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate Congolese nationwide professionals are inspired to use.

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.

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