Social Policy Specialist, (Shock Responsive Social Protection), P3, #126629, FT, N’Djamena, Chad

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For each little one, safety.

Chad continues to face a mix of rapid-onset and protracted humanitarian crises. This persistent humanitarian state of affairs is expounded to the rising insecurity in lots of elements of the nation and in neighbouring international locations, pure disasters, rising meals insecurity, excessive charges of malnutrition, financial disaster, and political transition in a context of local weather challenges. UNICEF, in partnership with nationwide and worldwide improvement and humanitarian assist actors, helps the Chadian authorities within the improvement of packages and insurance policies aiming at selling and respecting the rights of youngsters to survival, training and safety. To this finish, UNICEF Chad has 4 discipline workplaces (Abéché, Bol, Mongo and Moundou), 2 Outposts (Farchana and Faya) and a predominant Workplace (N’Djamena) which make sure the design, implementation and monitoring of the cooperation program.

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How are you going to make a distinction?

Below the final supervision and steerage of the Chief Social Coverage, the Social Coverage Specialist (Shock Responsive Social Safety) works to enhance linkages and tackle challenges impacting many households without delay corresponding to pure hazards, financial crises, and battle. Particularly, the Social Coverage Specialist (Shock Responsive Social Safety) fashions approaches, conducts evaluation and advocates for higher preparedness to allow programs – present or new social safety or emergency programmes in Chad – to be able to accommodate new populations and desires because of a shock.

The Social Coverage Specialist is chargeable for the next capabilities:

1.           Shock-responsive social safety

2.           Cross-cutting social coverage areas

For extra data, please see the hooked up job description GJD Social Policy Specialist, P3, Ndjamena

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

Schooling

• A complicated college diploma in one of many following fields is required: Economics, Public Coverage, Social Sciences, Worldwide Relations, Political Science, Operations Administration, or one other related discipline.

Work Expertise

• A minimal of 5 years {of professional} work expertise in social safety insurance policies, programmes or companies together with related expertise in shock-responsive social safety is required. Related programmatic humanitarian expertise the place linkages to authorities work has been made will even be thought of.
• Expertise in programme design and administration and coverage advocacy is required.
• Expertise working in international locations / contexts with advanced and wide-variety dangers associated to pure hazards, financial crises, and/or conflicts is taken into account as a robust asset.
• Growing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.

Language Proficiency 

• Fluency in French and English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic) or a neighborhood language is taken into account as an asset.

For each Baby, you show…

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UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…

Builds and maintains partnerships; Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness; Drive to attain outcomes for affect; Innovates and embraces change; Manages ambiguity and complexity; Thinks and acts strategically; Works collaboratively with others.

Throughout 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 international workforce should replicate the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter 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 and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities.

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 can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply extra data to conduct a background verify.

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

N’Djamena is a Non-Household Obligation Station (categorised as D) with Relaxation & Recuperation each 8 weeks.

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

Remarks:

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Authorities staff 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 fitting to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities should not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose.