Social & Behavior Change (Nutrition) Specialist, NOC, Fixed Term, #116182, Islamabad, Pakistan

UNICEF works in among the most difficult locations on the earth to achieve probably the 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 youngster, in all places, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means hand over.

For each youngster, the champion!

Pakistan was the sixth nation on the earth to signal and ratify the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster, lower than one 12 months after it was adopted by the United Nations Basic Meeting in 1989. Nevertheless, youngsters and adolescents residing in Pakistan nonetheless face acute challenges.

UNICEF helps the Authorities of Pakistan to speed up progress for youngsters, work to attain the Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDGs), and assist youngsters notice their rights beneath the Conference on the Rights of Kids. This shall be made by means of, amongst different issues, sturdy partnerships with provincial authorities, lecturers and well being professionals, frontline staff and social mobilizers, communities and households, and, after all, the kids and adolescents themselves. 

Specifically, UNICEF will work in order that:

• Each youngster survives and thrives by being in good well being, immunized, protected against polio, and accessing nutritious meals.
• Each youngster learns.
• Each youngster is protected against violence and exploitation and registered at beginning.
• Each youngster lives in a secure and clear setting, with entry to secure ingesting water and satisfactory sanitation. 

To be taught extra about UNICEF work in Pakistan, please go to the nation web site, www.unicef.org/pakistan, and movies on YouTube and Vimeo.

The Social and habits Change Specialist experiences to the pinnacle of the part or Deputy Consultant for common steering and supervision. The Specialist offers technical and operational help for growing a scientific, deliberate, and evidence-based technique and course of for S&BC as an integral a part of program improvement, planning, and implementation. By communication and engagement, in addition to the empowerment and participation of stakeholders, communities, youngsters, civil society companions, and authorities counterparts, s/he promotes measurable behavioral and social change/mobilization. This subsequently contributes to the achievement of sustainable and concrete ends in enhancing youngsters’s rights, survival, and well-being within the nation.

How are you going to make a distinction?

Fundamental duties and tasks for the publish embrace the next:

1. Assist to technique design and improvement of S&BC actions:

• Conduct and/or take part in complete S&BC state of affairs evaluation of social, cultural, financial, and political points within the nation/area, together with by means of nationwide/subnational working teams or committees. Assess/synthesize qualitative and quantitative data, information, and proof to help the institution of complete and evidence-based data for growing and planning the S&BC element of the Nation Programme of Cooperation (and UNDAF).
• Take part in nation program planning and critiques to contribute to discussions on the underlying and contextual points to be addressed (e.g., insurance policies, gender/youngsters inequality, cultural/social habits, and so on.) to make sure the profitable and sustainable supply of program outcomes and supply technical suggestions on approaches, methods and plans of motion for S&BC to advertise behavioral and social change specializing in Vitamin, Early Childhood Growth (ECD) and MIYCF.
• Put together or present high quality assurance on supplies and associated documentation for S&BC methods and plans (as a element of the CO and/or UNDAF Programmes) to make sure optimum impression, scale, and sustainability of achievements/outcomes.
• Collaborate/seek the advice of with a variety of companions and stakeholders to make sure synergy, integration, coherence, and harmonization of S&BC actions with UNICEF MTSP, CO world communications and advocacy actions and UN System improvement actions and initiatives on the CO degree, together with in humanitarian response.

2. Implementation of S&BC actions:

• Collaborate with, advise, and/or seek the advice of inside companions and exterior companions to design S&BC methods, together with formulation, manufacturing, and testing supplies to arrange S&BC occasions and actions to make sure engagement and participation of key audiences and most outreach and impression on behavioral and social change, together with in humanitarian response.
• Affirm/confirm the technical high quality, consistency, and relevancy of communications methods, together with supplies which might be developed, produced, and disseminated to focus on audiences (e.g., people, communities, authorities officers, companions, media, and so on.). I like to recommend applicable a number of media codecs (e.g., print, digital/social media, TV/radio, internet, group networks, and so on.). Oversee the manufacturing and implementation of multi-media initiatives for compliance with targets and plans that combine the newest proof.
• Perform S&BC advocacy actions with/for a variety of constituents, stakeholders, companions, communities, and so on., to encourage/promote engagement and dialogue, inclusion, self-determination, and participation in mobilizing social and cultural change to attain sustainable program outcomes on youngsters and ladies’s rights, fairness and wellbeing. Develop/choose supplies and different communication instruments for S&BC occasions.
• Establish, set up, and keep energetic interplay/relations with media, academia, and different strategic companions to speak/advocate UNICEF’s competencies and achievements to make sure their engagement, pursuits, and help in selling social/political engagement for political motion on youngsters’s rights, and measurable modifications in social and behavioral outcomes.
• Supervising group outreach actions for SBCC and social mobilization efforts, together with group peer help teams for SBCC on ECD and MIYCF by means of the implementation of an efficient group engagement technique.
• Conduct and/or take part in M & E and Analysis workout routines, together with nation program previews, conferences, and mid-term/annual critiques to evaluate/report on the efficacy/final result of S&BC on UNICEF and CO Strategic Plans/Objectives. Suggest well timed motion to make sure the achievement of outcomes as deliberate and allotted.   Combine/disseminate classes realized in improvement planning and enhancements.

3. Technical and operational help:

• Collaborate with inside CO, RO, and/or RO colleagues to contribute to the event  of methods,  approaches,  insurance policies,  and the planning of S&BC social and useful resource mobilization initiatives in help of packages/initiatives implementation and supply of outcomes, together with the humanitarian response.

• Take part in CO strategic discussions to collaborate on coverage and agenda setting for S&BC advocacy and investments and associated exterior relations and useful resource mobilization initiatives.
• Take part in finances planning and administration of program funds and put together monetary plans for S&BC initiatives. Monitor/observe the usage of assets as deliberate and confirm compliance with organizational pointers, guidelines and laws and requirements of ethics and transparency.

4. Advocacy, networking, and partnership constructing:

• Establish, construct, and keep partnerships by means of networking and proactive collaboration with strategic companions, e.g. academia, social networks; celebrities, journalists, media, all sectors/ranges of (socially conscious) society and significant audiences to bolster cooperation and/or pursue alternatives for S&BC advocacy to advertise UNICEF mission and objectives for youngster rights, social fairness and inclusiveness with give attention to Vitamin and ECD.
• Collaborate with inside world/regional communication companions to harmonize, hyperlink, and/or coordinate messaging and use of a number of media and communication platforms to reinforce S&BC outreach, together with in humanitarian contexts.
• Take part in organizational and/or inter-agency (UNCT; Nationwide UN Social & Habits Change Roundtable) discussions and planning to collaborate with inter-agency companions/colleagues within the UNDAF planning and preparation of S&BC advocacy and useful resource mobilization initiatives, together with emergencies.
• Assist advocacy actions to interact well being influencers, political, non secular, and group leaders, and different stakeholders.

5. Innovation, information administration, and capability constructing:

• Implement revolutionary practices, approaches, and the newest know-how on a number of media and social/digital platforms and networks for S&BC    which might be applicable/out there for the CO context and viewers.
• Institutionalize/share greatest practices and information realized/merchandise with world/native companions and stakeholders to construct the capability of practitioners and disseminate these merchandise to key audiences together with donors and companions.
• Manage/implement capacity-building initiatives to reinforce the competencies of purchasers/stakeholders/companions (authorities and non-government) in S&BC planning, implementation, and analysis in help of packages/initiatives, together with in humanitarian settings.

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster, you should have…

• A sophisticated college diploma (Grasp’s) in social and behavioral science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, schooling, communication, public relations, or one other related technical area.
• *A primary College Diploma in a related area mixed with 2 further years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.
• A minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise in a number of of the next areas is required: social improvement program planning, social & behavioral change, public advocacy, or one other associated space.
• Expertise working in a UN system company or group is taken into account an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian, or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.

For each Youngster, you show…

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are Nurtures, Leads and Manages Folks (1) Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (2), Works Collaboratively with others (2), Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2), Innovates and Embraces Change (2), Thinks and Acts Strategically (2), Drive to attain impactful outcomes (2), Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

View our competency framework at  Competency Framework Brochure.pdf

Click on here to be taught extra about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

Life at UNICEF:

Working at UNICEF is extremely rewarding. With a lovely remuneration bundle encompassing aggressive pay and advantages, a tradition that helps workers thrive, and various alternatives for private {and professional} improvement, we intention that can assist you keep a satisfying life each at and out of doors the workplace.

We be sure you and your family members obtain the assets and care that you must thrive. We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. Our contracts, wellbeing insurance policies, and initiatives guarantee that you’re properly outfitted to successfully ship for youngsters resembling;

• Tax exemption, household allowances, hardship advantages, 10 UN holidays and annual depart allowance, maternity, paternity, adoption depart, medical and dental insurance coverage, pension, and so on.
• Profession help, workers wellbeing program, breastfeeding coverage, versatile work preparations, childcare room, household help, insurance policies & initiatives, safety, and so on.
• UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations. 

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters, and our world workforce should replicate the variety 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.

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 ideas. All chosen candidates shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and laws 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 verify.

Remarks:

• The VA is open to all (inside and exterior candidates).
• Verified instructional certificates/HEC Attested Levels are a pre-requisite for employment at UNICEF. Through the recruitment course of, candidates should current HEC-attested levels/certificates.
• Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
• UNICEF’s energetic dedication to range and inclusion is vital to delivering the very best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates shall be prioritized.
• UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Appointments are additionally topic to immunization (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities staff thought of for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if medical clearance will not be obtained or crucial inoculation necessities usually are not met inside an inexpensive interval for any purpose.