Emergency Manager (Disaster Risk Reduction), NO-3, FT, #125700, Caracas – Venezuela, LACR

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, all over the place, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each baby, hope

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each baby, all over the place, in every little thing the group does — in packages, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all kids have a possibility to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any baby has an unequal probability in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There may be rising proof that investing within the well being, training and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all kids the chance to meet their potential but additionally will result in sustained development and stability of nations. Because of this the concentrate on fairness is so important. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all kids, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster, whereas additionally supporting the equitable growth of countries.

Local weather motion and resilience constructing is key for the belief of rights of the kid. A clear and wholesome surroundings that sustains life on earth is crucial for youngsters’s survival, well being, growth and well-being. Advocating for and finishing up child-centred motion on local weather change and risk-informed growth advantages all focused SDGs, and UNICEF has a novel comparative benefit to assist cut back impacts on kids/youth. Venezuela is uncovered to a number of organic and human-made hazards, which create important catastrophe dangers. The nation is in an space liable to earthquakes, droughts, heavy rains, floods, landslides and potential soil desertification, all of that are exacerbated by local weather change. UNICEF Venezuela CPD 2023-2016 assist the combination of local weather, surroundings, power, and catastrophe threat discount in social and conduct change methods in Venezuela.

How will you make a distinction?

Beneath the general steerage of the Chief Discipline Operations, Emergency & DRR, the DRR Specialist shall be liable for offering skilled technical, operational, and administrative help to UNICEF Venezuela sectoral outcomes to enhance and improve the workplace’s local weather change, resilience, and surroundings initiatives and interventions. The place will assist the mainstreaming of DRR, local weather and resilience via necessary growth sectors by supporting UNICEF’s sections (Social Safety, WASH, Training, Youngster Safety) with programme design, planning and implementation, administration and stock-taking and analysis of programme/venture actions, knowledge evaluation and progress reporting. This consists of offering assist and growing sub-national entities and Authorities’s capacities throughout a number of sectors, catastrophe preparedness, response and resilience in addition to selling baby centered Catastrophe Threat Discount and Local weather Change approaches.

Abstract of key features/accountabilities:

 Programme growth, administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes.

• Put together the annual work plan, together with growing methods, figuring out priorities, and efficiency measurements.
• Coordinate work progress monitoring and guarantee outcomes are achieved in keeping with schedule and efficiency requirements, and reporting and evaluations (mid-annual and annual).
• Present technical steerage, recommendation, and inputs to UNICEF sections (baby safety, training, social coverage & social safety, SBC and operations) on all points of local weather (mitigation, adaptation, resilience), and surroundings planning, programming and
• implementation.
• Advance synergistic cross-sectoral programming, in training, baby safety, and social coverage & social safety sections, SBC and neighborhood engagement, to make sure that local weather programming has a larger affect for youngsters.
• With programme sections, determine UNICEF’s area of interest for addressing local weather change impacts on kids, consciousness elevating and design of programmes supporting the rights of youngsters and strengthening risk-informed programming.
• Lead the preparation, design and updating of the scenario evaluation for the DRR-CC and resilience part to make sure that present and complete knowledge on CEED points is out there to information work plans interventions and growth efforts on associated programmes.
• Take part in monitoring and analysis workout routines, programme evaluations and annual sectoral evaluations with authorities and different counterparts and put together studies on outcomes for required motion/interventions on the greater stage of programme administration.
• Put together/assess monitoring and analysis studies to determine gaps, strengths/weaknesses in programmes and administration, determine and doc classes realized.
• Help the replace/evaluate UNICEF EPP and different emergency associated instruments.

Present technical assist to sections relating to local weather, power and surroundings, DRR (CEED) and resilience.

• Be certain that UNICEF engagement within the space CEED and resilience is nicely coordinated inside and out of doors UNICEF, and that UNICEF progressively integrates local weather change motion into workplace packages.
• Coordinate UNICEF Venezuela nationwide, regional, and international advocacy factors and inputs into the annual COP local weather convention/s, together with neighborhood pushed motion.
• Help Training, Youngster Safety, SBC, Social Safety & Social Coverage sections in figuring out UNICEF’s area of interest for addressing Local weather Change and Setting impacts on kids, consciousness elevating and design of programmes to assist the rights of youngsters,and assist risk-informed programming in UNICEF Venezuela.
• EDUCATION: assist the part within the growth of surroundings and local weather motion curriculum assist, in addition to in consciousness elevating round environmental impacts on Early Childhood growth (ECD).
• CHILD PROTECTION: assist engagement relating to the local weather resilient safety and well being techniques, particularly work relating to MHPSS resulting from local weather change.
• SOCIAL POLICY: assist the part in incorporation of nationwide local weather and surroundings vulnerability assessments and social security techniques.
• SOCIAL PROTECTION: assist engagement relating to the local weather resilient social safety techniques and enhancing shock-responsive important.
• companies provision.
• WASH: coordinate idea and proposal growth collectively with inner and exterior stakeholders for accessing local weather finance. Potential entry factors embody family and institutional local weather adaptation, surroundings, and local weather consciousness via faculty programmes/EiE, innovation in WASH in emergencies, local weather resilient water security planning and water administration.

Generate proof, coverage advocacy and positioning of UNICEF in local weather change and kids.

• Present technical steerage and coverage recommendation and inputs to sub-national entities nationwide governments, non-public sector and civil society companions on local weather change and environmental dangers going through kids.
• Contribute to evaluations of related Authorities and companion coverage paperwork, together with assist to Nationwide Motion Plans, Nationally Decided Contributions, and nationwide local weather methods.
• In coordination and partnership with UNICEF programmes (Social Coverage/Social Safety part) and different UN and institutional stakeholders, assist public expenditure evaluations of nationwide public/non-public sector local weather and surroundings financing and budgeting.
• Help communication and coverage advocacy relating to local weather change, environmental degradation and baby rights in Venezuela and enter into key nationwide local weather and surroundings coverage dialogues (Nationwide Motion Plans, Nationally Decided Contributions and nationwide
• local weather methods).
• Establish targets, actions, and greatest practices for shielding kids from local weather change and environmental threat and work with sections on
• implementation methods.
• Establish companions and entry factors for strategic engagement relating to local weather change affect on kids in addition to strategic entry factors for
• engagement with the federal government.
• Take part in related workshops/conferences held by UNICEF, Authorities, and companions to develop or replace key insurance policies.
• Contribute the event and evaluate course of to UN emergency contingency plans; and signify UNICEF on the coordination platform.

Innovation, information administration and capability constructing

• Promote crucial considering, modern approaches, and good practices for sustainable CEED and resilience programme initiatives via advocacy and technical advisory companies.
•  Preserve abreast, analysis, benchmark, introduce and implement greatest and cutting-edge practices on local weather threat monitoring/administration and data techniques. Institutionalize and disseminate greatest practices and information realized.
• Contribute to the event of insurance policies and procedures and introduce innovation and greatest practices to make sure optimum effectivity and efficacy of sustainable programmes and tasks.
• Set up, plan and implement capability constructing initiatives to reinforce the competencies of stakeholders to advertise sustainable outcomes on CEED-related programmes/tasks.

 

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

• A complicated college diploma in surroundings, local weather change, environmental administration, catastrophe threat discount, social and financial growth or associated space. *A primary College Diploma in a related subject mixed with 2 further years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.

• A minimal of 5 (5) years of progressively accountable skilled work expertise on the nationwide or worldwide ranges in programme/venture growth, centered on growing nations in areas associated to growth cooperation in local weather change adaptation and mitigation, surroundings, and socio-economic growth.
• Sensible expertise in supporting nationwide insurance policies and techniques on Catastrophe Threat Discount, local weather change and power transition.
• Data of local weather change impacts, local weather threat assessments, and adaptation options is required.
• Confirmed capability to coordinate throughout a number of stakeholders.
• Familiarity with kids’s rights and gender within the context of local weather change adaptation and mitigation is fascinating.
• Wonderful analytical and writing expertise, advocacy, and presentational expertise.
• Expertise and information in local weather financing devices and the flexibility to design and develop local weather adaptation tasks is very fascinating.
• Specialised coaching/expertise in emergency response administration is very fascinating.
• Fluency in Spanish is required. Working information of English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French or Russian) is an asset.

For each Youngster, you show…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and 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 put up are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to realize outcomes for affect (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 individuals              

In the course of the recruitment course of, we take a look at 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 kids and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of 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 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 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 kids. 

Remarks:

This place has been assessed as an elevated threat position for Youngster Safeguarding functions as it’s: a task with direct contact with kids, works instantly with kids, and is a safeguarding response position. Extra vetting and evaluation for elevated threat roles in baby safeguarding (probably together with further prison background checks) applies.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which shall 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). Do you have to 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 shall be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. 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 test.

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

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