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, all over the place, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means surrender.
For each baby, an advocate.
Background
Almost six months since preventing erupted in Sudan, civilian displacement continues throughout the nation. An estimated 5.6 million folks have fled their houses for the reason that battle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Speedy Assist Forces (RSF) began in mid-April, making Sudan the biggest baby displacement disaster on this planet. Households have sought refuge inside Sudan and/or in neighbouring international locations. The battle is placing the well being and well-being of Sudan’s 24 million youngsters in danger. Virtually 14 million youngsters in Sudan require pressing humanitarian help. Entry to susceptible populations stays constrained as a result of preventing. Social programs – together with the well being and schooling programs – are on the point of collapse as a result of lack of entry and monetary sources. Provides are depleted and infrastructure, together with hospitals and faculties, nonetheless underneath assault or used as shelter by displaced households.
UNICEF is staying and delivering for the youngsters of Sudan, via a three-pronged humanitarian, improvement, and peace nexus technique: keep essential and lifesaving companies in hotspot areas, present pressing help to newly displaced and host communities, guarantee fundamental service supply continues in non-conflict areas. In 6 months, UNICEF has reached 5.7 million folks with well being provides, 3.4 million folks with secure ingesting water, 3.2 million youngsters with malnutrition screening – of whom round 200,000 acquired life-saving remedy, over 500,000 youngsters and caregivers with psychosocial counselling, studying, and safety assist via greater than 700 secure areas, and over 300,000 moms, youngsters and relations with money, info and care companies to guard their well being and well-being. Crucial to those efforts has been a deal with increasing partnerships with native actors, particularly in areas the place entry is constrained, to make sure well timed supply of humanitarian motion, and strengthen the resilience of communities affected by the battle via implementation of native options. Native actors usually are the primary to answer humanitarian crises and improvement challenges, remaining within the communities they serve earlier than, throughout and after; and are current all through the humanitarian improvement nexus. In Sudan, native actors have been essential in negotiating entry to, and selling acceptance amongst, affected populations in Khartoum, the Darfurs and Kordofans, and to delivering humanitarian assist as direct responders – as instance, native actor response to the cholera outbreak in Khartoum.
Working extra successfully with native actors helps guarantee choices by humanitarian and improvement actors are made nearer to the communities they serve, thus strengthening the inclusion of, accountability to, and acceptance by affected populations. It’s key to enhancing the standard and protection of programming and enhancing early response and entry to affected inhabitants as native actors are at all times with the affected communities.
How will you make a distinction?
P3 Localization ToR (003).pdf
To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have…
Schooling: A complicated College diploma in any of the next: Worldwide Relations, Social Sciences, Public Administration, or different related fields associated to the work of UNICEF. *First college diploma with further two years of related work expertise is appropriate in lieu of a sophisticated college diploma
Expertise:
- A minimal of 5 years of related skilled expertise at worldwide stage within the subject of humanitarian help and safety, of which not less than 3 years on the subject stage in humanitarian settings, particularly advanced and excessive menace environments.
- Demonstrated expertise engaged on the localization agenda in advanced settings, together with confirmed report mobilizing and constructing belief with native actors round humanitarian motion.
- Robust understanding of the sensible utility of the humanitarian normative framework, together with however not restricted to worldwide humanitarian regulation, the humanitarian ideas, and kids’s rights, in addition to the UN and humanitarian structure, is required.
- Prior subject expertise in UNICEF, a UN humanitarian company or comparable humanitarian organizations/NGOs is a bonus.
- Total expertise in humanitarian response in settings of armed battle and/or pure catastrophe, and technical experience together with for example: emergency preparedness, humanitarian logistics and provide, safety threat administration, emergency applications, and interagency or cluster coordination, is an asset.
- Expertise in and information of Sudan and the Sudan context a robust asset.
- Willingness and readiness to undertake deep subject missions is required.
Language Necessities: Fluency in English required and dealing stage Arabic a robust asset.
For each Baby, you reveal…
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 publish are…
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)
Purposeful Competencies
- Analyzing (3)
- 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: 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 energetic dedication in direction of range and inclusion is essential to ship the most effective outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate females are inspired to use.
Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.
UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which will probably be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Do you have to 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 probably be cancelled.
All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and will probably 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 verify.
Authorities workers which can be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the appropriate to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance will not be obtained, or vital inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any cause.
Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
Marketed: 14 Dec 2023 E. Africa Customary Time
Deadline: 23 Dec 2023 E. Africa Customary Time
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