Programme Specialist (Disability inclusion), P4, EAPRO (Bangkok, Thailand)

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, all over the place, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each youngster, and advocate! 

Job organizational context

The publish Programme Specialist (Incapacity Inclusion) sits in UNICEF’s East Asia and the Pacific Regional Workplace (EAPRO) to strengthen programming and advocacy for incapacity inclusion throughout all sectors at regional and nation stage, selling the rights of youngsters with disabilities, and to help strengthening of our operations to advertise incapacity inclusion in our workforce and accessibility of our premises.

How are you going to make a distinction?

Because the Programme Specialist (Incapacity Inclusion), you’ll set the technique for and lead and help UNICEF’s regional work on selling incapacity inclusion and the rights of youngsters with disabilities throughout all sectors.

Working carefully with the HQ Incapacity Part, 14 UNICEF Nation Places of work within the area, UNICEF EAPRO sections and cross-regional and world technical groups and dealing teams on incapacity inclusion, you’ll help UNICEF’s world, regional and nation workplace efforts in mainstreaming incapacity in insurance policies, observe and programming, in addition to operations, with a concentrate on the roll-out of UNICEF’s Incapacity Inclusion Coverage and Technique (DIPAS) in East Asia and the Pacific, utilising EAPRO’s regional motion plan for DIPAS implementation (2024-2025).

You’ll guarantee incapacity inclusion is successfully built-in into nation programmes and programme overview processes. You’ll guarantee progress is mirrored in annual nation workplace reporting throughout sectors. You’ll monitor and doc regional progress on incapacity inclusion and funding in programming.

You’ll construct the capability constructing of workers and implementing companions within the EAP area on the rights of youngsters with disabilities and incapacity inclusive programming.

You’ll promote incapacity inclusion for emergency preparedness and response throughout sectors, working carefully with the leads on Emergency, Local weather & Surroundings, Gender and gender-based violence in emergencies.

You’ll promote and help engagement of Nation Places of work in treaty physique reporting processes related to kids with disabilities.

You’ll facilitate information administration and alternate amongst nation workplaces, help the era of kid incapacity information, analysis and proof, and guarantee evidence-based, coherent approaches inside and throughout sectors to reinforce UNICEF programming in disabilities.

As well as, you can be accountable for figuring out, creating and monitoring key bilateral and regional partnerships, together with with ASEAN, with Organizations of Individuals with Disabilities and as a part of the UN Difficulty Based mostly Coalitions, together with the Asia Pacific UN Incapacity Inclusion Working Group, with the intention to drive the advocacy agenda round kids with disabilities.

Additionally, you will lead and help useful resource mobilization efforts.

Abstract of key capabilities/accountabilities:

1. Inclusive programming and environments
2. Rights of youngsters with disabilities
3. Cross sectoral partnerships in help of youngsters with disabilities
4. Incapacity information and analysis on the state of affairs of youngsters with disabilities in UNICEF supported programming
5. Capability constructing
6. Useful resource mobilization

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

• A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or larger) in research associated to incapacity points, social sciences or related self-discipline.  A bachelor’s diploma in related self-discipline, with mixture of two further years of related expertise could also be accepted in lieu of Superior college diploma
• A minimal of eight years {of professional} expertise of engaged on problems with incapacity inclusion. A minimum of 5 years of which ought to be within the context of low and center revenue nations.
• Skilled expertise engaged on points of youngsters with disabilities is extremely fascinating.
• Sturdy technical expertise of nationwide work, and regional and/or world stage work on incapacity inclusive programme planning and implementation, of advocating on the rights of youngsters with disabilities, and of guiding monitoring and analysis efforts in a growth company context is required. Expertise supporting incapacity inclusion in emergency context is an asset.
• Clearly demonstrated skill to conceptualize growth points and write top quality technical experiences, analytical supplies and challenge proposals is crucial.
• Properly-developed information management and advocacy abilities, and the flexibility to work successfully with others. 
• Direct area and neighborhood stage expertise in programme execution, involving authorities and worldwide growth businesses is extremely fascinating
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language of East Asia & Pacific is an asset.

For each Little one, you reveal…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the pieces 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 attain outcomes for influence (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

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 kids and our world workforce should mirror the range of these kids. 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 another 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 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 kids. 

Remarks:

UNICEF’s energetic dedication in the direction of range and inclusion is important to ship the very best outcomes for youngsters. For positions in EAP Regional Workplace, eligible and appropriate nationals of programme nations are extremely inspired to use.

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

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