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.
Present technical assist to sections relating to local weather, power and surroundings, DRR (CEED) and resilience.
Generate proof, coverage advocacy and positioning of UNICEF in local weather change and kids.
Innovation, information administration and capability constructing
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.
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.
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