SSRRE 2024 – ESAR – Representative, D-2, South Sudan

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve 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 youngster, all over the place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each youngster, dedication.

The Consultant serves because the accredited consultant of UNICEF within the nation and reviews to the Regional Director for common route and oversight. The Consultant is accountable for establishing dialogue with the Authorities to develop the framework of cooperation within the nation and for working carefully and collaboratively with the Authorities and nationwide establishments, UN Mission and UN Nation staff, different stakeholders and companions, to develop the Authorities-UNICEF Nation Programme of Cooperation in energetic help of efforts to advance youngsters’s rights as established beneath the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster, different worldwide treaties/frameworks, the SDGs, and UN intergovernmental our bodies.

As head of the Nation Workplace, the Consultant is accountable for offering management and imaginative and prescient to the UNICEF Nation Workplace staff in managing and leveraging sources for the achievement of outcomes and realization of the rights of kids. The Consultant leads and oversees the varied programme sectors and operations groups making certain supply of high quality ends in accordance with UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, Core Commitments for Kids in Humanitarian Motion, requirements of efficiency and accountability framework, ethics and integrity. The Consultant is accountable for upholding UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability and making certain the institution and upkeep of a non-discriminatory, inclusive and nurturing working atmosphere for all workers and personnel, to allow them to successfully and effectively ship high-quality outcomes for youngsters.

This place is out there from finish of 2024.

How will you make a distinction?

The Consultant’s key features and accountabilities embrace:

• Growing and planning the Nation Programme
• Main and managing the Nation Workplace
• Monitoring and high quality management of the Nation Programme
• Illustration and exterior relations at international, regional and nationwide degree
• Delivering top quality outcomes for youngsters, together with in a fancy working atmosphere
• Assist to the Resident Coordinator and UN Nation Workforce to advance the UN Cooperation Framework
• Assist to the Humanitarian Coordinator and Humanitarian Nation Workforce within the implementation of the Humanitarian Response Plan whereas advancing the rights of kids as articulated within the UNICEF Humanitarian Motion for Kids
• Main useful resource mobilization efforts and nurturing and strengthening partnerships
• Main innovation, data administration and capability constructing
• Security, safety and well-being of workers, obligation of care, programmes and organizational belongings

To qualify as a champion for each youngster you’ll have…

{Qualifications}:

• A complicated college diploma in social sciences, worldwide relations, authorities and public relations, public or social coverage, sociology, social or neighborhood growth, or different associated fields, is required.
• A minimal of fifteen years {of professional} growth expertise that mixes mental and managerial management in growth cooperation on the worldwide degree, a few of which served in creating international locations and international locations in fragile contexts is required. Related skilled expertise in any UN system company or group is taken into account as an asset together with human rights-based approaches.
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language or native language of the obligation station is taken into account as an asset.
• Expertise working in obligation stations with important operational area presence and emergency response is a vital asset.

Individual Profile:

• Sturdy programme and peoples administration abilities and monitor document on the worldwide degree together with change administration processes.
• Worldwide and creating nation data and sensible area expertise, within the areas of programme and operations, ideally from excessive menace, fragile and sophisticated humanitarian contexts.
• Sturdy expertise in coverage growth and advocacy and constructing capability of weak nationwide techniques and capacities.
• Emergency preparedness and response, and associated capability constructing help expertise at nation and worldwide ranges.
• Confirmed data and expertise in formulating methods and managing a big dimension programme (sectoral, growth, humanitarian, advocacy, coverage dialogue and capability constructing, UN Inter-Company, Multi-Donor Belief Funds).
• Substantive data of utility of a human rights-based strategy in follow, and results-based programming.
• Demonstrated capability to construct inter-sectoral and Inter-Company strategic, technical and programme partnerships.
• Potential to direct and foster and negotiate strategic private and non-private sector alliances and partnerships and mobilize and leverage sources, e.g. multi donor belief fund modalities.
• Confirmed capability to guide, inspire and develop a big dimension staff.
• Sturdy individuals administration, emotional intelligence and diplomatic abilities.
• Confirmed danger administration abilities and environment friendly administration of economic sources.
• Potential to function beneath excessive ranges of stress and calls for.

Nation Typology:

• Nation Earnings Stage: South Sudan is a Low-Earnings nation
• Obligation Station: Juba is an “E”, non-family, and emergency obligation station, with 7 area workplaces
• Workplace Dimension: 250 workers
• Annual Finances: Approx USD 200 million per yr
• Good for 1st time Consultant: No, suggest for present D2 or D1 candidates
• Education: it is a non-family obligation station
• Healthcare: The system is weak, and medevacs are the norm moderately than the exception

Temporary nation context:

The Republic of South Sudan has nice financial potential and alternatives to safe the financial prosperity of its inhabitants, together with oil and mineral wealth, and an vital agricultural sector with considerable livestock and fertile land. Nevertheless, the lengthy historical past of battle in addition to deep rooted political and tribal divides, corruption, and lack of transparency has enormously stalled social and financial growth.

In August 2022, the Authorities of South Sudan unilaterally introduced a 2-year extension of the Transitional Authorities to implement the excellent Articles of the Revitalized Peace Settlement, a transfer that has raised considerations amongst worldwide neighborhood within the means of present leaders to maintain peace and guarantee a easy and peaceable transition to new Authorities.

The nationwide economic system is going through rising debt and important depreciation of the South Sudanese Pound (SSP), what some imagine to be actual indicators of potential hyperinflation. Because the onset of the worldwide financial disaster and the continued indicators of volatility within the nationwide economic system, the scenario is anticipated to worsen throughout 2023, particularly for probably the most weak populations and push extra individuals into deeper poverty.

On the humanitarian entrance, South Sudan proceed to face deteriorating situations. The scenario is worsened by endemic violence, battle, entry constraints and operational interference, public well being challenges similar to measles and cholera outbreaks and climatic shocks leading to extraordinary flooding and localized drought. These in flip have a extreme influence on individuals’s livelihoods, hamper entry to schooling and water, sanitation and hygiene and well being providers. Safety considerations stay excessive, particularly for ladies and ladies. Individuals affected by violence have restricted entry to formal justice in addition to restriction of their motion and entry to fundamental wants similar to meals.

The nation programme implementation technique will undertake a risk-informed strategy programming which can permit for contextual evaluation and construct an efficient hyperlink the place attainable to humanitarian motion. Ranging from 2023, the UNICEF nation progamme will supply a imaginative and prescient aligned to the revised Nationwide Improvement Technique to construct – moderately than substitute for – capability in social providers supply. As such this shall be a core contribution of UNICEF to a humanitarian growth peace nexus technique aligned with different UN businesses and positioning UNICEF as a key actor for investing in capability constructing of presidency establishment to progressively take possession of social service supply by contributing public funds and lowering the reliance on Official Improvement Assist (ODA).

For each Youngster, you reveal…

Core Values

• Dedication
• Respect
• Integrity
• Belief
• Accountability
• Sustainability

Competencies

• Builds and maintains partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness
• Drive to attain outcomes for influence
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others
• Nurtures, leads and manages individuals 

To view our competency framework, please go to here. 

Remarks

This place is classed as “rotational” which implies the incumbent is anticipated to rotate to a different obligation station upon completion of their tour of obligation.  

UNICEF is dedicated to range and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, non secular and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to use to grow to be part of the group.    

This place has been assessed as an elevated danger position for Youngster Safeguarding functions as it’s both: a job with direct contact with youngsters, works immediately with youngster, is a safeguarding response position or has been assessed as an elevated danger position for youngster safeguarding. Further vetting and evaluation for elevated danger roles in youngster safeguarding (doubtlessly together with further prison background checks) applies. 

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 will, due to this fact, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas.  

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 may additionally be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities staff which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an affordable interval for any motive.