Project Manager – Strengthening social care services in Albania

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  • Albania
  • Posted 4 months ago

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in 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 little one, all over the place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

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For each little one, Safety!

UNICEF workplace in Albania is on the lookout for a guide to work as a Challenge Supervisor for the EU funded challenge “Enhancing Native Social Care Providers partnerships with residents and towards EU Requirements”. That is an initiative between UNICEF Albania (UNICEF because the lead applicant) and World Imaginative and prescient in Albania (WVA) and intends to strengthen the native partnerships and capacities to plan, set up, lengthen, and ship social care providers within the 14 focused municipalities (Gjirokaster, Vore, Cerrik, Librazhd, Kavaje, Kurbin, Kukes, Kruje, Pogradec, Korce, Kamez, Vlore, Elbasan, Durres) scaling up optimistic fashions of social service supply supported by UNICEF&WVA in different municipalities that reply finest to the native context and priorities outlined in Native Social Plans of focused municipalities.  The Challenge will contribute on to reaching two particular aims: (1) assist to ascertain and/or lengthen current social care providers on the municipal degree and (2) assist to ascertain and/or lengthen specialised social care providers centered on particular wants of municipalities.  

The Challenge Supervisor might be employed to supervise the general implementation of the motion/Challenge and monitor progress of challenge aims, scope and assets. He/she might be supervised by the Deputy Consultant and can work in shut cooperation with the Social Safety and Youngster Safety Specialist.
The core duties of the Challenge Supervisor might be:
 
1. Challenge Management and partnership improvement and nurturing: He/she is going to lead the general operational actions, guaranteeing seamless coordination between the donor, UNICEF senior administration, technical specialists, operations, co-lead applicant, Ministries, native authorities companions, and implementing companions in shut cooperation with UNICEF and co-applicant. Explicit consideration and oversight might be wanted concerning actions associated to native boards, information periods, coverage dialogue across the midterm finances planning, capability constructing on implementing and monitoring the native social care plans and repair supply, implementation of elements associated to evaluation, coaching and capability constructing, networking and exchanges.
2. Challenge Steering Committee: He/she is going to make sure that common Challenge Steering Committees conferences are organized, all members are nicely knowledgeable and ready upfront. He/she is going to facilitate the institution of the ToR for the PSC, put together minutes of every assembly and clear observe up actions, in addition to monitor implementation of actions drawn from the PSC with the sphere crew.
3. Planning and reporting: He/she might be accountable for creating and implementing challenge plans and total administration of assets. Guiding and performing strategic evaluation for the motion. He/she is going to supervise the M&E specialist and safe improvement of high quality reviews to UNICEF, EUD and any monitoring report.
4. Overview the Monetary Help to 3rd events. Supporting the event of grant program tips, guidelines and procedures, monetary monitoring of grants implementation, following the general public procurement guidelines, well timed addressing monetary points in grants implementation, assist to grant beneficiaries in monetary problems with grants implementation.
5. General High quality assurance: Guarantee total high quality of the challenge administration, monitoring and analysis.
6. Communications: Planning and overseeing the preparation and dissemination of challenge communications in 

shut coordination with communication groups.
7. Gender and human rights: safe integration of gender equality and human rights requirements all through the implementation of this system, will oversee the gender evaluation in addition to the gender responsiveness of providers and engagement of girls and marginalized teams
 
The Program Supervisor will supervise the Grant Supervisor, Communication Specialist in addition to the Monitoring Specialist. The incumbent will intently work with the UNICEF crew engaged within the Motion/Challenge, together with the Finance Affiliate who reviews to Operation Supervisor of UNICEF.

How are you going to make a distinction?

The Challenge Supervisor might be accountable for the deliverables and duties clearly talked about under. 

Deliverable 1: Detailed Challenge Workplan (PWP) developed and submitted to UNICEF and WVA.

Duties for this deliverable are:
  • Set up preliminary conferences with UNICEF, WVA and key stakeholders to start out the preparations for the challenge implementation.
  • Get conversant in the challenge proposal, establish challenge goals, aims, actions, timelines, duties, useful resource allocation, implementation requirements, collaboration procedures and danger mitigation measures.
  • Familiarize herself/himself with the EU procedures.
  • Set up the kick-off assembly (1st assembly of the SC) with the Steering Committee stakeholders.
  • Set up the launching occasion of the challenge.
  • Maintain common conferences with the UNICEF crew (Dep Rep and program employees engaged) to facilitate inner coordination.
Timeline: Finish of the primary two months of challenge implementation.
 
Deliverable 2:  Challenge outcomes managed and monitored as wanted. Month-to-month reviews ready and submitted to UNICEF and Challenge Implementation crew; Six (6) conferences of the Challenge Steering Committee organized and lead successfully. Assembly reviews ready and submitted to UNICEF and challenge administration crew.
 
Duties for Deliverable 2 are:
  • Replace the PWP repeatedly by reflecting new developments if and when mandatory.
  • Set up conferences of the Challenge Steering Committee, report on the standing of outcomes/outputs and agree on future plan of motion.
  • Maintain common conferences with the UNICEF crew (Dep Rep and program employees engaged) to facilitate inner coordination.
  • Commonly observe up on deliberate and ongoing actions, conduct challenge associated area missions, and monitoring actions.
  • In shut coordination with the M&E specialist, primarily based on the detailed monitoring plan, monitor challenge implementation, actively suggest discussions when changes are wanted.
  • Put together monitoring missions and data required by the EU.
  • Draft month-to-month progress reviews, focus on with UNICEF and World Imaginative and prescient Albania, to be able to preserve a stable monitor file and replace on the implementation of all deliberate and ad-hoc actions, together with standing replace on deliverables, challenges and obstacles and the way they are going to be addressed.
  • Lead and put together high quality donor reporting on program outcomes.
  • Overview the continuing deliberate actions and partnerships and different challenge actions and reviews in shut cooperation with program specialists.
  • Monitor, observe up and resolve eventual shortcomings or fall outs within the planning and or implementation of the challenge by the implementing companions.
Timeline: Common all through the challenge implementation
 
Deliverable 3: Challenge communication and visibility motion plan finalized and validated by the Challenge Administration crew and Steering Committee; Visibility actions designed and shared amongst varied stakeholders.

Duties for Deliverable 3 are:

  • With assist from the Communication Specialist lead on Visibility part, focus on with EU and different stakeholders and safe a dynamic and common visibility of this system. 

Timeline: Common all through the challenge implementation

The guide might be engaged on native journey which is estimated to be 50 day by day journeys to 14 Municipalities of Albania. 

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

  • Superior college diploma in Human rights, social sciences, regulation, administration, social/public coverage, social work or every other related self-discipline.
  • Familiarity with and understanding of the Albanian Context.
  • Minimal of 5 (5) years of sensible expertise in worldwide improvement, challenge administration and challenge management ideally in social care, social inclusion, safety, or any comparable area.
  • Expertise in Managing EU funded packages is an asset.
  • Information on gender and human rights programming.
  • Information of EU funded packages and EU insurance policies in social care, social safety and little one safety is an asset.
  • Glorious and confirmed writing abilities.
  • Expertise in working at and with native authorities items and on decentralization.
  • Expertise in provision of technical to and interlocution with authorities companions, worldwide and civil society organizations is an asset.
  • Glorious analytical capabilities, glorious capability to synthesize info and relate motion to outcomes.
  • Fluency in each, spoken and written English and Albanian.
  • Excessive degree of communication and laptop abilities.
  • Moral accountability and teamwork
  • Capability to interact full time throughout the challenge implementation.
What to submit:
 
1. Letter of curiosity, specifying summarizing the academic background, the working expertise that’s related to the project, and the particular function the candidate will play.
2. Monetary proposal – All taxes inclusive Lumpsum price in ALL (working price for the entire project together with monetary provide for 50 day by day journeys to 14 Albania municipalities)
 
Different administrative particulars:
 
– The guide may have a mixed working schedule from residence and in addition be current within the UNICEF workplace in Tirana, Albania. This may   be agreed upfront with the supervisor.
– The guide may have an web electronic mail deal with and have web entry and an organized seating when within the workplace
– The guide might be paid on a month-to-month foundation upon the submission of the month-to-month report on the standing of every of the actions. 
 
If in case you have any query associated the phrases of reference for the consultancy, please contact Elvana Pernaska, HR in UNICEF Albania workplace at [email protected]

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UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our world workforce should replicate the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

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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 little one safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact bear 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 extra info to conduct a background test. 

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought of “employees members” beneath the Employees Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (reminiscent of depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service might be ruled by their contract and the Normal Circumstances of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health 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 in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking over the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and are usually not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF at some stage in their consultancy contracts. 

Marketed: 09 Jan 2024 Central Europe Commonplace Time
Deadline: 23 Jan 2024 Central Europe Commonplace Time

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