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 youngster, in all places, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

Within the Pacific we work in Prepare dinner Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu: These 14 Pacific island international locations are dwelling to 2.3 million individuals, together with 1.2 million youngsters and youth, residing on greater than 660 islands and atolls stretching throughout 17.2 million sq. kilometers of the Pacific Ocean, an space similar to the mixed dimension of the US of America and Canada. Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu are labeled as Fragile States in response to World Financial institution/OECD standards.

All 14 Pacific Island international locations and territories have ratified the UN Conference on the Rights of the Baby, however solely a 3rd are on observe with reporting obligations. Discover the completely different areas of our work right here: UNICEF Pacific Islands.

For each youngster, sustenance

Local weather change, environmental dangers, pressured displacements as a result of climate-induced hazards, and environmental degradation are fairness points, with youngsters and younger individuals typically being essentially the most weak and affected. Globally, thousands and thousands of youngsters are affected by battle and fragility, local weather change, pure hazards and air air pollution. Addressing local weather change, water shortage, power entry and environmental degradation is due to this fact important for constructing a extra sustainable future for youngsters, and it’s crucial that actions are built-in into SDG and our humanitarian responses.

UNICEF within the Pacific works to uphold the rights of youngsters to entry companies and safety, from early childhood via to adolescence. Our goal throughout the 14 international locations supported by the Pacific Multi Nation Workplace (PMCO) is to make sure that each youngster within the Pacific area, no matter background or circumstance, has an equal probability to satisfy their potential.

The Pacific Islands International locations and Territories (PICT) are one of the crucial affected and weak areas to the impacts of local weather change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity and habitat loss. UNICEF has clear cross-sectoral management in humanitarian response, catastrophe threat discount, schooling, well being, youngster safety, vitamin, water and sanitation, in addition to deep experience in youngsters and youth empowerment. As well as, UNICEF contributes extensively to different sectors and areas of labor, akin to social safety, well being and psychological well being and psychosocial help. To develop and ship a robust, cross sectoral programme constructed on local weather resilience, there’s want for knowledgeable employees with experience to correctly mainstream local weather change in UNICEF programmes and to make sure its integration within the nationwide insurance policies, methods and sector plans.

How are you going to make a distinction?

The Programme Specialist (Local weather and Setting) with the UNICEF Pacific Multi Nation Workplace will strengthen the combination of Local weather Change, Vitality, Environmental Degradation and Catastrophe Dangers Discount (CEED) into UNICEF Pacific MCO programmes beneath the supervision of the Deputy Consultant Programmes, whereas working with all Chiefs of sections, subject workplaces and local weather and atmosphere focal factors. The Specialist may even help the event, administration and implementation of partnerships to help youngsters and youth participation in local weather motion

The Specialist will present technical steering and administration help all through the programming processes, to develop and facilitate the administration and achievement of local weather and environment-sensitive output outcomes selling child-centred local weather change interventions.

Abstract of key features/accountabilities

1. Programme growth, planning, coordination, integration, and technical and operational help to sections
2. Advocacy, proof era, coverage, and positioning of UNICEF on local weather change and youngster rights
3. Exterior partnerships, useful resource mobilization and linkages to regional and world efforts
4. Programme administration, monitoring and supply of outcomes
5. Innovation, information administration and capability constructing

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have…

Schooling

• A sophisticated college diploma in environmental sciences, climatology, geology or earth sciences, local weather change, catastrophe threat discount and mitigation, biology or one other related technical subject is required.
• Further related post-graduate programs that complement / complement the principle diploma are extremely fascinating.

Work expertise

• A minimal of 5 years of progressively accountable skilled work expertise on the nationwide and/or worldwide ranges in programme/mission growth, targeted on growing international locations in areas associated to growth cooperation in local weather change adaptation and mitigation, atmosphere, engagement of younger individuals in local weather motion, advocacy and coverage growth associated to local weather motion and socio-economic growth is required.
• Confirmed expertise in growth and administration of partnerships and advocacy on youngsters’s rights and gender within the context of local weather change and atmosphere is required. Data of gender equality rules and gender-responsive programming is required.
• Expertise in working with nationwide governments in the direction of technique or coverage growth in areas associated to atmosphere, local weather change, threat administration and likewise on initiatives to advertise proof era and advocacy in help of community-led and/or youth-led environmental initiatives is required.
• Expertise of working with governments and/or civil society on local weather motion or local weather programming within the Asia-Pacific area is extremely fascinating.
• Earlier work expertise with a UN company or related group is an asset.

Languages

Fluency in English is required.  Data of one other official UN language or native language of the responsibility station is taken into account as an asset.

For each Baby, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

The useful competencies required for this publish are…

• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drive to attain impactful outcomes (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

Through the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges.

Remarks

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, spiritual and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to use to turn out to be part of the group.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and affordable lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations.

With regard to greater academic {qualifications}, UNICEF solely considers levels obtained from an establishment accredited/acknowledged within the World Larger Schooling Database (WHED), an inventory up to date by the Worldwide Affiliation of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO). The record could be accessed at http://www.whed.net/

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 additionally adheres to strict youngster safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can due to this fact endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background examine.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities workers which might 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 best to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or vital inoculation necessities should not met, inside an affordable interval for any cause.

This place is classed as “rotational” which implies the incumbent is predicted to rotate to a different responsibility station upon completion of their tour of responsibility.

Inside and exterior candidates are welcome to use.

Solely shortlisted candidates assembly the precise standards will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.