Programme Assistant , GS5, TA, Quito-Ecuador #569970

UNICEF works in a few 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 all places, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each baby, a champion..

UNICEF Ecuador Nation Programme (2023-2026) is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Growth Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) 2023-2026. The imaginative and prescient of the Ecuador Nation Programme of Cooperation is that youngsters and adolescents, each ladies and boys, particularly essentially the most deprived, disadvantaged and hard-to-reach and people affected by crises, stay and take part in resilient communities, having fun with a protecting, nurturing and supportive atmosphere that enables them to unlock their full potential all through their lives.

UNICEF Ecuador Nation Workplace helps the achievements of the nationwide growth plan in addition to the Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDGs) via our nation programme in Ecuador with interventions in Well being, Vitamin, Youngster Safety, Schooling, Social Coverage, WASH and CEED. UNICEF Ecuador additionally leads on humanitarian response to the migrants and refugee disaster, pure disasters and violence. Because of these a number of shocks, vulnerabilities and exclusion, the CO prioritized area presence in three provinces and three municipalities affected by the extended disaster of human mobility (humanitarian outposts) as a part of the CPD 2023-2026.

The principle purpose of the nation workplace’s proposed area presence is to help coordinated cross-sectoral programme implementation, an efficient humanitarian response at decentralized degree, whereas strengthening the capability of companions and authorities actors, selling outcomes centered on empowerment and equality for girls and kids. This strengthening will search to realize programmatic and operational sustainability in native contexts with difficult and altering situations, together with catastrophe preparedness, resilience constructing and forward-looking threat evaluation, to set off a fast response to sudden onset emergencies or battle conditions, together with coordinated motion with the United Nations System (UN) within the area. The strengthened area presence can even enable a sustained method to monitoring of the scenario of kids and bottlenecks that hinder the success of ladies and kids’s rights, particularly in distant or chronically excluded areas of the prioritized provinces. Equally, a powerful area presence will enhance monitoring of the objectives achieved by UNICEF companions, together with the federal government and civil society. It additionally supplies UNICEF a better political and neighborhood credibility in a rustic with vital political, ethnic, and geographic diversities.

For extra data associated to the work of our group in Ecuador, please go to our web site: UNICEF Ecuador

 

How will you make a distinction?

Beneath the shut supervision and steerage of the supervisor, the programme assistant helps the respective part (s) by finishing up a variety of procedural, administrative, and operational duties, to assist develop, implement and monitor their nation programme, making certain well timed and efficient supply that’s in step with UNICEF guidelines and rules.   

Abstract of key capabilities/accountabilities:

• Facilitating the processing of contracts for consultants, distributors and exterior companions that help the workplace in programme supply. This consists of getting ready and submitting paperwork, finishing needed types and templates, importing TOR’s in VISION, and making needed logistical preparations. Retains vendor lists, companions, and marketing consultant rosters up-to-date.
• Accumulating invoices and submitting paperwork for approval and thereafter processing in VISION and Mycase.
• Making ready and sustaining data, paperwork and management plans for the monitoring of mission/programme implementation and monetary expenditures.
• Supporting the administration of administrative provides and workplace tools.
• Sustaining workplace calendar and arranging conferences. Taking minutes of conferences and retaining the correspondence of the workforce properly organized.
• Offering journey help to workers members in part for journey preparations and entitlements based mostly on the group’s guidelines and insurance policies. Liaising with related journey focal factors to make sure that the group obtains one of the best service and worth for all journey.
• Sustaining and updating a system which screens the absence of workers.
• Making ready and sustaining data pertaining to programme planning and growth for his/her respective part.
• Finishing up transactions in VISION making certain programme outcomes, actions and programme coding are as per annual work plans (AWPs), and makes amendments and alterations as per part revisions when needed.
• Supporting capability growth actions, conferences and conferences by making the logistical preparations, via partaking with facilitators, caterers and hosts; arranging occasions via liaising with members over availability; liaising with finances focal factors and part over prices and wishes; and getting ready background supplies for members

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…

• Completion of secondary schooling is required, ideally supplemented by technical or college programs associated to the work of the group.
• A minimal of 5 years of progressively accountable administrative or clerical work expertise is required
• Fluency in each Spanish and English are required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Youngster, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to realize outcomes for impression (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

Throughout the recruitment course of, we check 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 replicate the range of these youngsters. 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 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 aims 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 the direction of range and inclusion is crucial to ship one of the best outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate female and male  are inspired to use.

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

All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. 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 examine.

Authorities staff which might be thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the proper to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or needed inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an affordable interval for any cause.

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