UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.
Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, all over the place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means surrender.
For each little one, innovation
UNICEF EAPRO, based mostly in Bangkok, Thailand, has been working within the East Asia and Pacific area for a number of many years offering recommendation and programme assist to 14 UNICEF Nation Workplaces and selling the rights and well-being of youngsters. More and more, this entails including digital options to ship higher, sooner and safer outcomes for kids and speed up the achievement of the Sustainable Improvement Targets.
Digital options remodel the way in which UNICEF delivers influence for kids. The EAPRO ICT workforce lead the regional Expertise and Digital Innovation Portfolio, together with digital incubation, prototyping, scale and replication. We work carefully with a spread of companion organizations on youngsters’s points within the digital world, together with different UN companies, civil society teams, bilateral and multilateral establishments, and donors. Throughout the area digital options have been used to empower youngsters and younger individuals. Our digitally supported programmes attempt for fairness and inclusion as we put together for the longer term challenges and alternatives expertise will convey.
How are you going to make a distinction?
The aim of this position is to coordinate and assist demand for Expertise for Improvement within the East Asia and Pacific area. UNICEF Programmes more and more leverage digital means for efficient programme supply, methods strengthening and monitoring. The T4D Specialist will work with programme groups within the identification, evaluation and integration of ICTs and digital innovation into UNICEF programming; strengthening inner capability to guide and assist T4D associated initiatives; figuring out and fascinating with key companions; constructing enterprise relationships; making use of reusable and replicable technical constructing blocks; and maximizing the potential for the scale-up and sustainability of expertise and digital innovation for UNICEF programming.
The position will work cross-sectorally with an emphasis on offering suggestions and methods to make sure integration of digital growth and expertise innovation into immunization programming whereas constructing capability and information inside the well being sections on digital growth. The T4D Specialist will present coaching for UNICEF employees, companions, authorities counterparts, and different finish customers to assist nations with digital options that tackle the causes of backsliding and boundaries to new vaccine introductions. To cut back inequity and attain zero-dose youngsters the incumbent will assist immunization methods strengthening via the event and costing of nationwide digital well being methods; Coaching, design, deployment, and assist to digital distant well being employee coaching instruments; System design and deployment of Interpersonal Communication for Immunization (IPC-I) methods; Logistics Info Administration Methods (LMIS), Actual-Time Monitoring, and Immunization Info Methods (IIS).
The T4D Specialist works carefully with Programme employees and in shut liaison with ICTD or different headquarters divisions (Programme Group, Workplace of Innovation, Division of Information, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring or others) the place relevant. The T4D Specialist could supervise employees members or oversee the work of consultants.
Key capabilities, accountabilities and associated duties/duties embrace:
- Digital/Information Resolution Implementation
- Steering and Design of T4D Interventions
- Resolution Procurement and Analysis
- Deployment Recommendation and Help
- Enterprise Relationship Administration
- Strategic Oversight and Coverage Compliance
- Participation in Programme and Administration Processes
- Digital Improvement and Expertise Innovation Technique
- High quality Assurance
- ICT Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Compliance with T4D Greatest Practices
- Useful resource Mobilisation
- Develop Partnerships and Networks
- Advocacy and Communication
- Proposal and Donor Improvement
- Switch and Ability-sharing for Programme Companions
- Requirements and Procedures for Possession
- Information Programme Companions
- Doc Localized Companions and Profiles
- Portfolio Coordination and Venture Administration
- Data Administration
- Share Classes Discovered
- Monitoring, Analysis and Studying
- Contribute to Peer Help Networks
- Digital Capability Constructing
- Utilise Information for Proof Era
- Present Coaching to Stakeholders and Finish-users
- Digital Innovation
- Determine and Assess New Expertise and Digital Improvements
- Construct Consciousness round Innovation and Frontier Expertise
- Immunization Methods Strengthening
- Design, Deployment and Help to Immunization Info Methods
- Present Capability Constructing and Coaching to Well being and Immunization Stakeholders and Finish-users
- Digital Well being and Immunization Technique
- Enterprise Evaluation
- Consumer Centric Design
- Panorama Mapping
- Management and Individuals Administration
- Strategically Lead, Supervise, Develop, and Empower Employees below Supervision
- Monitor Work Progress
To qualify as an advocate for each little one you’ll have…
- A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or increased) in Digital Transformation, Digital Well being, ICT Administration, Pc Science, Innovation, Digital Improvement, Worldwide Improvement or one other related technical area.
- A primary-level college diploma (Bachelor’s Diploma or equal) in a related area mixed with 7 years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of a sophisticated college diploma.
- A minimal of 5 years of related skilled expertise in Info Communication Expertise for Improvement in a big worldwide group or company is required, together with:
- Expertise advising on the identification, design and implementation of options for large-scale initiatives with technical parts – together with supervising exterior distributors and software program builders; duty for enterprise evaluation, budgets, contracts, venture administration and procurement.
- Expertise with digital public items and digital public infrastructure.
- Publicity to UNICEF, UN or different INGO programmatic areas, together with immunization, well being, diet, little one safety and/or training.
- Expertise in making use of technical options to deal with programmatic points.
- Expertise within the following areas is fascinating:
- A minimal of three years {of professional} expertise working with digital World Items for Immunization.
- Expertise in open supply, cell and rising expertise utilized to UNICEF programme areas acceptable to East Asia and the Pacific.
- Expertise working in T4D/ICT4D program design, service design, and area deployment/implementation in growing nations
- Expertise with RapidPro, Moodle, mSupply, SanteSuite, Tamanu, DHIS2, ODK and different international public good applied sciences, and deploying, sustaining and scaling these applied sciences
- Expertise in coordination with a number of stakeholders like Authorities companies, educational establishments, analysis organizations, non-public sector and many others. in implementing ICT initiatives and exploring area for collaboration and partnerships
- Software program programming expertise, together with high quality assurance and product possession to ship enhancements, new performance, and defect decision in addition to proficiency with supply code and associated instruments (e.g. GitHub, DevOps, and many others.)
- Creating nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency 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 reveal…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values
UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to realize outcomes for influence (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.
In the course of 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 replicate the range 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 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 using versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets 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, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer extra info to conduct a background test.
Remarks:
UNICEF’s lively dedication in the direction of range and inclusion is vital to ship the perfect outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate male from programme nations are inspired to use.
Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.
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 in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities staff which might be thought-about 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 proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or needed inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an affordable interval for any cause.
Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
Marketed: 11 Aug 2023 SE Asia Commonplace Time
Deadline: 03 Sep 2023 SE Asia Commonplace Time
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