Social Policy Specialist FT (NO-3), Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea # 126782

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each little one, all over the place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each little one, Help

With over 850 indigenous languages, and probably the most ethnically numerous populations, widespread poverty and gender inequality make it laborious for a lot of youngsters to understand their rights.  In Papua New Guinea (PNG), UNICEF’s works successfully each ‘upstream’ (with governments) and ‘downstream’ (on the grassroots degree) to hold out its mission by way of a programme of cooperation collectively developed with the federal government guides our work within the nation.

 How will you make a distinction?

Beneath the overall steering of the supervisor, the incumbent is answerable for offering technical assist to the implementation, monitoring, and analysis of all levels of social coverage programing and associated advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to supply of concrete and sustainable outcomes. This consists of programmes geared toward bettering (a) public insurance policies to scale back little one poverty; (b) social safety protection and influence on youngsters; (c) the transparency, adequacy, fairness and effectivity of child-focused public investments and monetary administration; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to extend public participation and the standard, fairness and protection of social providers. This encompasses each direct programme work with authorities and civil society companions in addition to linkages and assist to groups engaged on schooling, well being, little one safety, water and sanitation, and HIV.

Abstract of key capabilities/accountabilities:

1. Enhancing information on little one poverty & vulnerability for elevated use for coverage and programme motion

• Helps the gathering, evaluation and user-friendly presentation of information on multidimensional and financial little one poverty, together with strengthening nationwide capability to gather routinely, report and use information for coverage decision-making.

• Supplies well timed, common data-driven evaluation for efficient prioritization, planning, and growth; facilitates results-based administration for planning, adjusting, and scaling-up particular social coverage initiatives to scale back little one poverty.

• Analyzes the macroeconomic context and its influence on social growth, rising points and social coverage considerations, in addition to implications for kids, and proposes and promotes applicable responses in respect of such points and considerations, together with authorities useful resource allocation insurance policies and the results of social welfare insurance policies on the rights of kids

2. Strengthening social safety protection and influence for kids

• Helps the event of social safety insurance policies, laws and programmes with consideration to rising protection of and influence on youngsters, with particular consideration probably the most marginalized. Identifies, generates and presents proof to assist this purpose in collaboration with companions.

• Promotes strengthening of built-in social safety techniques, offering technical assist to companions to enhance the design of money transfers and little one grants and enhance linkages with different social safety interventions reminiscent of medical health insurance, public works and social care providers in addition to complementary providers and intervention associated to diet, well being, schooling, water and sanitation, little one safety and HIV.

• Undertakes improved monitoring and analysis round social safety influence on little one outcomes, and use of information and analysis findings for strengthening programme outcomes.

3. Enhancing use of public monetary sources for kids

• Undertakes funds evaluation to tell UNICEF’s advocacy and technical help to Ministries of Finance, planning commissions and social sector ministries to enhance equitable allocations for important providers for kids. Works with sector colleagues to construct capability to undertake costing and price effectiveness evaluation on precedence interventions to assist inform coverage choices on child-focused investments.

• Helps the identification of coverage choices for improved home financing of child-sensitive social safety interventions.

• Undertakes and builds capability of companions for improved monitoring and monitoring of public expenditure to assist transparency, accountability and efficient monetary flows for important service supply, together with by way of assist to district degree planning, budgeting and public monetary administration in addition to facilitating group participation.

4. Strengthening capability of native governments to plan, funds, seek the advice of on and monitor child-focused social providers.

• The place nationwide decentralization processes are going down, collaborates with central and native authorities to enhance insurance policies, planning, budgeting, session and accountability processes in order that choices and child-focused service supply extra carefully reply to the wants of native communities.

• Collaborates with the central and native authorities to strengthen capability on high quality information assortment, evaluation for coverage growth, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring of important social providers, with emphasis on group participation and accountability.

5. Strengthened advocacy and partnerships for child-sensitive social coverage

• Helps appropriate and compelling use of information and proof on the state of affairs of kids and protection and influence of kid targeted providers – in assist of the social coverage programme and the nation programme total.

• Establishes efficient partnerships with the Authorities, bilateral and multilateral donors, NGOs, civil society and native leaders, the non-public sector, and different UN companies to assist sustained and proactive dedication to the Conference of the Rights of the Youngster and to attain international UN agendas such because the Sustainable Improvement Targets.

• Identifies different essential companions, promotes consciousness and builds capability of companions, and actively facilitates efficient collaboration throughout the UN household.

6. UNICEF Programme Administration

• Manages and coordinates technical assist round little one poverty, social safety, public finance and governance making certain it’s properly deliberate, monitored, and applied in a well timed vogue in order to adequately assist scale-up and supply. Ensures danger evaluation and danger mitigation are embedded into total administration of the assist, in shut session with UNICEF programme sections, Cooperating Companions, and governments.

• Helps and contributes to efficient and environment friendly planning, administration, coordination, monitoring and analysis of the nation programme. Ensures that the social planning venture enhances coverage dialogue, planning, supervision, technical recommendation, administration, coaching, analysis and assist; and that the monitoring and analysis part strengthens monitoring and analysis of the social sectors and supplies assist to sectoral and decentralized data techniques.

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

• A sophisticated college diploma in one of many following fields is required: Economics, Public Coverage, Social Sciences, Worldwide Relations, Political Science, or one other related technical discipline
• A minimal of 5 years of related skilled work expertise is required. Expertise working in a creating nation is taken into account as a robust asset. Background and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account as a robust 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 reveal…

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

 UNICEF competencies required for this submit 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 (8) Nurtures, leads and manages individuals.

Throughout the recruitment course of, we take a look at 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 international workforce should replicate the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, 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 direction of range and inclusion is essential to ship the most effective outcomes for kids. 

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  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 have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice can be cancelled.

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

Authorities staff which are thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually 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 a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or mandatory inoculation necessities usually are not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.

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