UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To avoid wasting 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, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means hand over.
For each baby, innovate…
The Workplace of Innovation is a inventive, interactive, and agile crew in UNICEF. We sit at a novel intersection, the place a company that works on large world points meets the startup considering, the expertise, and the companions that flip this vitality into scalable options.
UNICEF’s Workplace of Innovation creates alternatives for the world’s youngsters by specializing in the place new markets can meet their important wants. We do that by:
- Connecting youth communities (or extra broadly — anybody disconnected or under-served) to decision-makers, and to one another, to ship knowledgeable, related and sustained programmes that construct higher, stronger futures for youngsters.
- Upsetting change for youngsters via an entrepreneurial strategy — in a historically risk-averse discipline — to harness quickly shifting improvements and apply them to serve the wants of all youngsters.
- Creating new fashions of partnership that leverage core enterprise values throughout the general public, personal and educational sectors so as to ship quick, and lasting outcomes for youngsters.
The World Innovation Technique 2.0 technique goals to realize crucial shifts in the best way UNICEF at present works on innovation, constructing on what has been profitable, whereas additionally addressing classes realized and capitalizing on new alternatives. These crucial shifts are:
- Setting world priorities based mostly on the wants of youngsters and younger folks, specializing in these areas with the most important want.
- Specializing in scaling improvements
- Catalysing innovations the place no recognized resolution exists.
- Connecting the group and convening crucial stakeholders to unravel essentially the most urgent challenges going through youngsters and younger folks.
These shifts shall be enabled by:
- Establishing a portfolio administration strategy
- Modern funding and financing and the appliance of monetary engineering
- Guaranteeing speedy studying and fostering collaboration
- Constructing innovation tradition and competence throughout UNICEF.
How are you going to make a distinction?
This function inside the Portfolio, Tradition & Scale crew will assist the event and administration of the Humanitarian Innovation Portfolio, aiming to supply, speed up and scale options that may enhance UNICEF’s capacity to reply to humanitarian emergencies.
UNICEF takes a portfolio strategy to scaling improvements that mirror essentially the most difficult issues confronted by youngsters and younger folks. Every portfolio accommodates progressive options (sourced from throughout UNICEF and past) which have potential to scale and considerably speed up outcomes for youngsters.
The UNICEF Internship Programme provides eligible/certified college students the chance to accumulate direct sensible expertise inside the Portfolio, Tradition & Scale crew on the UNICEF Workplace of Improvements. The intern will work straight beneath the supervision of the Humanitarian Improvements Portfolio Supervisor and shall be tasked to contribute to assist to determine, confirm, and scale humanitarian options that may enhance UNICEF’s capacity to reply to humanitarian emergencies and meet its Core Commitments for Youngsters (CCCs).
Concerning the Humanitarian Improvements Portfolio
An estimated 340 million persons are in want of humanitarian assist as a result of extreme and complicated armed conflicts which might be turning into forgotten protracted crises, fueled by local weather change and financial turmoil. In the meantime, the hole between world wants and humanitarian funding continues to extend.
The Humanitarian Improvements Portfolio focuses on how improvements adopted and tailored throughout the group to enhance protection assist folks, and particularly ladies and women, affected by battle, local weather, and public well being emergencies. To do that, UNICEF takes a portfolio strategy to figuring out, validating, and scaling progressive options for enhancing humanitarian motion.
Help for transition to scale of improvements is prioritized amongst options that relate to key drawback statements at UNICEF. This contains higher information governance, making certain state- of-the-art applied sciences are deployed and utilized by humanitarians, and supporting environment friendly and sensible options to make sure boundaries confronted by native stage first responders to humanitarian crises are minimized and that native responders might contribute to improvements themselves as nicely, with a specific regard for incapacity, gender and social inclusion.
Your most important tasks shall be:
You’ll work beneath the management of the P5 Senior Advisor, Innovation (Portfolio, Tradition and Scale). You’ll work in shut collaboration with different Portfolio Managers, EMOPS, and technical resolution results in:
- Perform annual Portfolio Evaluation Course of to make sure company alignment of portfolio, drawback statements, and options, whereas working carefully with UNICEF Workplace of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS).
- Actively handle, and replace quarterly and yearly useful resource wants and allocations, priorities for partnerships, and nation stage assist for shifting humanitarian improvements from pilot to scale, whereas concurrently supporting the identification and scaling of crucial options that can speed up outcomes for youngsters.
- Oversee and facilitate efficiency administration for the portfolio general, and reporting for particular related options inside the Humanitarian Innovation Portfolio.
- Act as world focus for humanitarian improvements, and guarantee shut engagement with technical options leads (e.g., for Kits that Match and Voices of Change).
- Idem on collaborating with broader humanitarian group of companions and follow to trace, assist and contribute to progressive tendencies and options for humanitarian motion.
- Work with the Partnerships crew to assist useful resource mobilization and communications alternatives for the Humanitarian portfolio.
- Have interaction with Nation Places of work concerning capability growth to undertake and adapt improvements within the humanitarian area – together with via enterprise modelling and prototype of options.
- Set up frameworks to determine emergency humanitarian improvements prepared for scale.
- Strategic assist and different duties for Workplace of Innovation round Humanitarian Innovation.
Please click on right here to entry the total JD and associated info. 
TOR TA- Humanitarian Innovation Portfolio Manager.pdf
To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have…
- A complicated college diploma (grasp’s or larger) in in a related discipline (Worldwide Improvement; social sciences, engineering, legislation, worldwide relations, enterprise administration; or associated sensible expertise).
*A primary College Diploma in a related discipline mixed with 2 further years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma. - A minimal of eight (8) years of related skilled expertise in with humanitarian programmes supporting and coordinating challenge actions throughout a big group and with different worldwide growth organizations.
- Expertise in implementing and delivering humanitarian motion is taken into account an asset.
- Demonstrated capacity to determine, supply, and scale improvements throughout worldwide organizations.
- Sturdy monitor file for making use of ideas of innovation, significantly in humanitarian contexts.
- Expertise of working inside humanitarian preparedness/response, ideally for an NGO in humanitarian contexts or UN company.
- Monitor file of innovating, ideally in humanitarian / low useful resource contexts.
- Acquainted with information assortment in low useful resource settings.
- Demonstrated capacity to handle relationships with UNICEF Nation and Regional Places of work, programmes and companions, together with authorities, universities, UN organizations, NGOs and the personal sector.
- Confirmed expertise in communication, networking, strategic considering, advocacy and negotiation, and skill to narrate this to youngsters and younger folks.
- Confirmed capability to work with various groups throughout completely different places and with completely different technical expertise.
- Sturdy writing and communication expertise and the aptitude to deal with competing messages and priorities with a number of audiences.
- Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.
For each Youngster, you display…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the things 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 influence (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.
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 completely different ranges: competency framework here.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other 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 the usage of 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. 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 supply further info to conduct a background examine.
Remarks:
Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your entire interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking over the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and will not be anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF during their consultancy contracts.
Marketed: 30 Oct 2023 W. Europe Customary Time
Deadline: 12 Nov 2023 W. Europe Customary Time
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