Social Policy Specialist (Inclusive Social Protection), NO-C, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia #126706 (Opens for Malaysians only)

UNICEF works in a number of 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 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, in all places, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each youngster, hope

Along with the Malaysian authorities and others who’re really obsessed with youngster rights, UNICEF works in Malaysia to make sure each youngster has the chance to develop wholesome and completely happy; dwell safely; and obtain their full potential.

With the Conference on the Rights of the Baby, the Sustainable Improvement Objectives, and the twelfth Malaysia plan as our guides, we endeavor to vary minds, change insurance policies, and in flip change the lives of all youngsters in Malaysia.

https://www.unicef.org/malaysia/

How will you make a distinction?

Eliminating youngster poverty and guaranteeing entry to social safety have been acknowledged as essential priorities of the Agenda 2030. An express requirement to measure and monitor multidimensional youngster poverty is included beneath SDG 1.1.2, and equally, the necessity to speed up progress round public spending for poverty discount beneath SDG 1.a.2, and SDG 1.b.1 for which UNICEF has just lately turn into a custodian. The efficient scale-up of social safety, with a selected consideration to youngsters, is included as a part of guaranteeing entry to social safety, a core goal of SDG 1 (Elimination of poverty), and SDG 10 (Lowered Inequalities). Furthermore, social safety can also be an accelerator for a number of different targets. Addressing the a number of and compounding deprivations skilled by youngsters requires an express dedication to know their drivers and to scale-up complete methods to handle them. The total realization of the correct of kids of entry to social safety and satisfactory lifestyle won’t solely be sure that each youngster lives freed from poverty, but additionally stop these in danger or susceptible to poverty on account of exclusion and discrimination, or going through environmental and conflict-related dangers, from falling into poverty.

Lowering youngster poverty, enhancing entry to gender-transformative, and inclusive social safety, selling effectivity, transparency and fairness of financing, whereas strengthening capacities at subnational degree, together with in city contexts, is essential. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all youngsters, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Conference on the Rights of the Baby, whereas additionally supporting the equitable growth for each youngster.

UNICEF has articulated its contribution to this agenda and added worth throughout varied devices together with, the Social Protection Strategic Framework, the Call for Action on Inclusive Recovery and roadmap, the Urban Evaluation and Management Response, the social safety commitments to the Core Commitments on Children (CCS), in addition to – most just lately – within the new Purpose Space 5 of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025, “Each Baby has Entry to Inclusive Social Safety and Lives Freed from Poverty”.

Job organizational context:

Malaysia  is present process a robust restoration from the financial downturn attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic, with GDP development exceeding expectations. Nonetheless, the economic system has additionally suffered from elevated price of residing, which continues to have an effect on particularly the poorest households. Previous to the COVID-19 pandemic, Malaysia had been profitable in lowering poverty. The pandemic modified this trajectory, and proof emerged on discount of family earnings ranges which led in lots of instances to households shifting from the center 40 to backside 40, and from the highest 20 to center 40 of the earnings distribution. Moreover, regardless of spectacular socio-economic development, nationwide figures disguise regional disparities, and challenges stay in fairness, as illustrated by persistent geographic, gender and well-being inequalities. Social safety programmes in Malaysia exist and goal the poorest, nevertheless are fragmented and insufficient to successfully cut back poverty. Whereas it’s well-known that poverty and multidimensional deprivations have long-lasting results on youngsters’s growth and enhance the probability of persistent and inter-generational poverty, Malaysia doesn’t have measurements of kid poverty or of multi-dimensional poverty affecting youngsters. Nonetheless, households with youngsters expertise larger ranges of poverty in comparison with households with out youngsters, offering some proof of kids experiencing larger deprivations in comparison with the remainder of the inhabitants.

The options

Strengthening social inclusion to handle multidimensional poverty is a core a part of UNICEF’s programme in Malaysia. UNICEF’s social coverage programme focuses on evaluation of information to tell coverage responses to youngster poverty and budgeting for youngsters and goals to ship ends in 5 areas:

• Rising availability of proof on youngster poverty, deprivation, wellbeing and inequity.
• Strengthening governance for promotion of kid rights
• Strengthening the child-sensitivity of Malaysia’s social safety system
• Strengthening state and municipal capacities for planning and budgeting for youngsters. 
• Strengthening the strategic use of public assets for the realisation of kid rights

UNICEF Malaysia’s social safety staff is engaged on advocating for a kid delicate social safety system in Malaysia via proof technology and piloting profitable money plus on the sub-national degree, in addition to via supporting the measurement of kid poverty and entry to social companies to assist proof primarily based coverage making.

Function for the job:

Beneath the final supervision and steerage of the Chief Social Coverage, the Social Coverage Specialist (Inclusive Social Safety) engages in social safety dialogue for programme growth, advocating for elevated public useful resource allocation and bettering linkages between social safety and important social companies to assist the UNICEF Malaysia nation workplace to proceed working in direction of the belief of kids’s rights. Particularly, the Social Coverage Specialist (Inclusive Social Safety System) fashions approaches, conducts evaluation, adapts or designs new programmes the place potential, and advocates for gender-transformative, disability-inclusive and migrant-inclusive social safety programmes and methods. The Social Coverage Specialist (Inclusive Social Safety) can even assist efforts in bettering youngster poverty measurements in Malaysia, via sub-national and nationwide efforts.

The Social Coverage Specialist is liable for the next capabilities:

1.    Inclusive social safety

2.    Cross-cutting social coverage areas

Particularly, the Social Coverage Specialist (Inclusive Social Safety) performs:

1. Inclusive social safety

• Advocates for inclusion and equity-driven significantly because it pertains to gender, incapacity and migration by advocating and selling insurance policies that deal with particular vulnerabilities tied to multifaceted points of poverty and the contribution social safety has on lowering exclusion.
• Works carefully with colleagues throughout UNICEF to make sure a coherent agenda on inclusive social safety, participating with cross-sectoral and thematic areas reminiscent of adolescence and humanitarian response.
• Along with youngster safety, training, vitamin and different substantive sections, identifies essentially the most appropriate methods to develop social safety companies for essentially the most marginalized and at-risk youngsters and adolescents supporting inclusion and stopping institutionalization. This consists of contributing to the event of inclusive, gender-transformative methods that reply to ladies’s and caregivers wants.
• Designs, updates, evaluations, adjusts, implements and evaluates particular programmes and devices that contribute to gender-responsive / transformative, disability-inclusive and migrant-inclusive social safety methods.

2. Cross-cutting social coverage areas

• Establishes efficient partnerships with the federal government, bilateral and multilateral donors, 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 Baby, obtain international UN agendas such because the Sustainable Improvement Objectives and strengthen UNICEF’s main positioning for his or her implementation as they relate to inclusive, child-sensitive and gender-transformative social safety.
• Analyzes nationwide context, together with key socio-economic traits, and their affect on social growth, rising points and considerations. Makes use of proof and knowledge to assist the nation workplace predict, put together for and mitigate dangers and modify programming course.
• Helps the right and compelling use of information and proof together with on the state of affairs of kids, and protection and affect of child-focused companies, in assist of the social safety programme and the nation programme general.
• Develops approaches to establish social and behavioural change wants and undertakes interventions for the significant accountability to affected populations and group engagement.
• Displays present technological traits, new modalities of working relevant to social safety versus present and rising must assess their function and match their potential applicability to social safety for enhanced outcomes for youngsters.

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

• A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or larger) in  one of many following fields is required: Economics, Public Coverage, Social Sciences, Worldwide Relations, Political Science, or one other related subject.
  *A primary College Diploma in a related subject mixed with 2 extra years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.
• A minimal of 5 (5) years {of professional} work expertise in social safety insurance policies, programmes or companies together with related expertise from an inclusion lens concerning essentially the most marginalized and at-risk is required.
• Expertise in programme design and administration and coverage advocacy is required.
• Expertise working in growing nations / contexts is taken into account as a robust asset.
• Background and/or familiarity with emergencies and humanitarian contexts is taken into account as a robust asset.
• Fluency in English and Malay is required. Data of one other official UN language or an area language is taken into account as an asset

For each Baby, you show…

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 Value
(https://www.unicef.org/careers/get-prepared#Values)

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Click on here to be taught extra about UNICEF’s wage scale & construction. (https://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/salaries_allowances/salaries/malaysia.htm)

Click on here to be taught extra about UNICEF’s job classes (GS/NO/IP). (https://www.unicef.org/careers/unicef-job-categories)

UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to attain outcomes for affect (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 folks.

Through the recruitment course of, we take a look at 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 youngsters and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. 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 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 youngsters. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply extra info to conduct a background verify.

Remarks:

UNICEF’s lively dedication in direction of range and inclusion is essential to ship one of the best outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate candidate are inspired to use.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which shall be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities workers which might be 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 correct to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or vital inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.

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