Deputy Representative Operations, P-4. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea #127792, Temporary Appointment for 6 months

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 fulfill their potential.

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

And we by no means hand over.

For each baby a Calling,

UNICEF began working in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in 1986. Papua New Guinea is among the many most ethnolinguistically various international locations, with over 800 languages spoken amongst its estimated inhabitants of 11.78 million. The nation’s mountainous terrain, small and scattered islands, poor transportation networks and costly air journey, widespread poverty, and gender inequality pose huge challenges for the supply of primary providers, making it onerous for a lot of youngsters to understand their rights. In PNG, a Programme of Cooperation collectively developed with the federal government guides UNICEF work within the nation. Via this programme of cooperation with the Authorities of PNG, UNICEF is ready to affect main coverage and programme choices, in addition to the allocation of price range priorities, for the good thing about youngsters. As well as, UNICEF works intently with bilateral and multi-lateral growth companions, non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, the media, and academia to behave as ‘strain factors’ to set off public debates on baby rights and growth points.

How are you going to make a distinction?

The Deputy Rep for Operations will likely be accountable to guide for outcomes, drive change, present threat knowledgeable, solution-focused evaluation, recommendation and providers and contribute to Programme and administration choices for delivering outcomes for youngsters in all operational contexts. Strategic operations will likely be completed by:

• Main by instance and supporting the Head of Workplace on managing the workplace
• Appearing as Officer in Cost within the absence of the Head of Workplace
• Managing providers within the purposeful areas of operations help: price range, monetary administration and reporting, amenities administration, administration, provide and logistics administration, info and communications know-how, human assets, and security and safety and convening the opposite features to reach at a unified imaginative and prescient;
• Appearing as member of the Nation and Senior Administration Groups, representing the organizational threat, governance methods and insurance policies perspective in administration discussions, and selling result-based administration.
• Understanding enterprise wants for the Nation Programme, to anticipate challenges, suggest viable/inventive options aimed toward worth for cash.
• Offering key contribution to CPD, CPMP, AMP and help to Outcomes Based mostly Administration and implementation utilizing Worth for Cash standards.
• Leveraging know-how for outcomes and Programme accountabilities, making efficient adoption of instruments and selling the basics of ICT administration, info safety and controls;
• Supporting the nation workplace throughout exterior and inside audit evaluations and responding to audit observations and monitoring implementation of suggestions.
• Guiding Provide and Logistics methods and interventions to fulfill programmatic wants whereas guaranteeing Worth for Cash (VfM), together with procurement of match for objective services and products, and offering advisory help to governments, nationwide methods and companions on provide chain administration;
• Leveraging governance, methods, and instruments to offer common suggestions on dangers and achievements of operations features within the nation;
• Main on facility administration with a selected give attention to inclusive accessibility, eco sustainability and customary premises;
• Overseeing enterprise transactions processed by GSSC from a perspective of Effectivity, Efficiency, Threat Administration and Fraud prevention

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have…

• An Superior College Diploma (Grasp’s and above) in one of many following areas: Enterprise administration; Monetary administration; Accounting; Public Finance; and associated operations perform (Provide Chain, Human Sources, Data Expertise, Worldwide Enterprise, Challenge administration, and so on.) or a full skilled accounting designation (CA, ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA, CPFA, Skilled Accountant) from an internationally acknowledged institute/physique of accountancy with legitimate membership in good standing is required.
• A minimal of 8 years {of professional} expertise, on the nationwide and worldwide degree, particularly in implementing strategic organizational initiatives in a number of operations administration space together with price range; monetary administration and reporting; amenities administration; administration; provide and logistics administration; info and communication know-how; human assets.
• Prior expertise within the growth sector or UN system/ worldwide NGOs.
• Extra expertise in Audit and investigations, Audit and investigations, Security and safety, Grant Administration, and Enterprise Threat Administration.
• Expertise in a UN system company or expertise working in a growing nation and/or humanitarian/ emergency context.
• Expertise in working with company ERPs (Enterprise Useful resource Planning) and IPSAS (Worldwide Public Sector Accounting Requirements).
• Expertise in Consequence-Based mostly Administration.
• Expertise in supporting profitable client-oriented work items.
• Earlier hands-on expertise in strategic operations.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Workplace functions.
• Fluency in English.

For each Little one, you exhibit…

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

UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…

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

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

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should replicate the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other 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 targets 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:

UNICEF’s lively dedication in the direction of range and inclusion is important to ship the most effective outcomes for youngsters. 

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Must you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to 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 endure rigorous reference checks and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. 

Authorities workers which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or essential inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.

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