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 nations and territories, we work for each baby, in every single place, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means surrender.
For each baby, hope
Organizational context:
The imaginative and prescient of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a world dwelling for constructing, accelerating and scaling transformational local weather resilient options for a WASH safe way forward for common and equitable entry to companies, addressing the complete ambition of the SDG6. WASH Hub will supply, pilot and scale transformational and frontier local weather resilient improvements that reply to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock quicker progress for a water safe future for youngsters and younger individuals. One of many key international challenges that the Hub will deal with by way of exploration and scale of progressive options shall be tackling foreseen local weather change impacts on WASH companies and supply entry. The Hub may even assist analysis and innovation on the hyperlinks between local weather change and water, sanitation and hygiene. The hub will carry collectively a passionate neighborhood of strategic companions together with youngsters and younger individuals, academia, personal entrepreneurs, public coverage makers, social growth and humanitarian actors, and our international UNICEF WASH / CEED and innovation colleagues in 150+ nations. Collectively we’ll co-create, advocate, allow, convene, and inspire for progressive sustainable options to long-standing boundaries and rising alternatives for a WASH safe and local weather resilient future for each baby. The WASH Hub shall be a part of a distributed community working in shut partnership with baby impacted native ecosystems in nations the world over, whereas concurrently partaking a number of the most impactful international innovation ecosystems.
How are you going to make a distinction?
The aim of this position is to assist Nation Workplaces engaged on innovation initiatives, to assist their work, facilitate documentation of greatest observe, assist navigate the challenges of innovation initiatives at scale and deal with points after they come up. The Innovation Specialist shall be answerable for supporting the day-to-day administration of the WASH Innovation portfolio initiatives and driving local weather resilient WASH improvements to speed up outcomes for youngsters and younger individuals.
The Innovation Specialist will work below the supervision of the Innovation Supervisor (WASH Hub). They might want to work in an setting that may evolve requiring adaptability, flexibility, and the flexibility to creatively reply to quickly altering innovation landscapes. The put up might want to guarantee sturdy connections between the WASH hub, Regional Advisors and Nation WASH groups and the related communities of observe to share the outcomes of the WASH innovation portfolio.
Key capabilities, accountabilities, and associated duties/duties:
To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…
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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 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 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 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 every 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.
Remarks:
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 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 should 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 ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply extra data to conduct a background test.
Authorities staff which are thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or vital inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an affordable interval for any cause.
Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
In case of any questions associated to this emptiness announcement, please contact: swe-ooi-recruitments@unicef.org
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