Vacancy Announcement – Operations Officer, NO-2 (FT), Mumbai, India, SAR Post No 104089 (This post is open for Indian Nationals 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 baby, all over the place, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each baby, AN ADVOCATE

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each baby, all over the place, in every part the group does — in packages, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded youngsters and households, interprets this dedication to youngsters’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness implies that all youngsters have a chance to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any baby has an unequal likelihood in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There may be rising proof that investing within the well being, schooling and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all youngsters the chance to meet their potential but in addition will result in sustained progress and stability of nations. That is why the deal with fairness is so important. 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 Little one, whereas additionally supporting the equitable growth of countries.

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How will you make a distinction?

In case you are a dedicated, inventive skilled and are captivated with making a long-lasting distinction for kids, the world’s main youngsters’s rights group wish to hear from you.

Strategic workplace context:

The Operations operate is a strategic Enterprise Companion function, assuring the most effective use of UNICEF belongings in alignment with sound administration practices, workplace priorities and objectives to ship outcomes for kids.

Objective for the Job:

As a Strategic Enterprise Companion, the Operation Officer might be accountable for operations features, facilitate change, present danger knowledgeable, solution-focused evaluation, recommendation and providers and contribute to programme and administration choices for delivering outcomes for kids in particular operational contexts. Operations Officer will accomplish this by:

• Facilitating providers within the purposeful areas of operations help: finances, monetary administration and reporting, services administration, administration, provide and logistics administration, data and communications know-how, human assets, and security and safety;
• Supporting the road supervisor to implement profession growth, alternatives for employees;
• Appearing as member of related Senior Administration Groups, representing the organizational dangers, governance methods and insurance policies, and supporting outcomes primarily based administration.
• Understanding enterprise wants for the workplace, to suggest viable options aimed toward worth for cash.
• Offering contribution to CPD, CPMP, AMP and help to Outcomes Based mostly Administration and implementation utilizing Worth for Cash standards.
• Supporting the basics of ICT administration, data safety and controls;
• Supporting provide and logistics methods and interventions to satisfy programmatic wants whereas making certain Worth for Cash (VfM), together with procurement of match for goal services.
• Offering common suggestions on dangers and achievements of operations features within the workplace;
• Supporting the administration of workplace premises and services with a selected deal with inclusive accessibility, eco sustainability and customary premises;
• Supporting the nation workplace throughout exterior and inside audit opinions, contributing with audit observations and monitoring implementation of suggestions.
• Facilitating enterprise transactions processed by GSSC from a perspective of Effectivity, Efficiency, Threat Administration and Fraud prevention
• Supporting the administration of PSFR operations, the place relevant.

The Operations Officer might be entrusted with the next 5 pillars, the core focus of all operations features: Valuing Individuals, Valuing Cash, Valuing Threat Administration, Valuing Methods and Constructions, Valuing Companions.

Key features, accountabilities, and associated duties/duties

Valuing Individuals: Implement individuals assets methods to advertise technical competence and foster profession development and retention of a “match for goal”/ agile workforce

• Facilitate an atmosphere of administration excellence, workers well-being and accessibility and inclusion via implementation of methods, insurance policies, procedures.
• Implement options associated to individuals administration and workplace tradition.
• Assist coaching technique and requisite plans to result in modifications in data, expertise, talents and thoughts units for Operations workers.
• Preserve abreast of business requirements in administration and finance and share finest practices and data discovered throughout the workplace.
• Assist Excellence in Operations in UNICEF derived from the 5 strategic pillars.

Valuing Cash: Champion strategic assets to attain organizational objectives and guarantee Worth for Cash (VfM)

• Guarantee efficient identification and use of assets in numerous concrete Worth for Cash (VfM) areas, together with eco-efficiency and inclusivity, widespread premises, costing, results-based budgeting monetary monitoring and so on.
• Assist the monetary oversight administration, monitoring and reporting of all of the nation programme budget- and the place relevant non-public sector fundraising budgets; make evaluation and suggestions as wanted.
• Assist implementation of assorted modalities of valuing assets via financing modalities reminiscent of budgeting and pre-financing modalities for provides, cash-based switch and so on.
• Implement Provide plan for the workplace and keep abreast of the regional methods. 

Valuing Threat Administration: Improve Threat Administration to extend organizational efficiency and strengthen inside management

• Assist the workplace with up-to-date data to make operational and programmatic danger knowledgeable choices and enhance efficiency, with the help of the enterprise Governance, Threat and Compliance (eGRC) platform.
• Contribute and take part in testing of enterprise continuity plans to make sure UNICEF organizational resilience to catastrophe, dangers and workers security and safety in addition to Emergency Preparedness and Response to humanitarian conditions.
• Take part in evaluation of inside controls and insurance policies/steering included within the Regulatory Framework, help acceptable implementation insurance policies and procedures and supply suggestions on coverage and inside controls as acceptable.
• Assist implementation obligatory anti-fraud methods, processes and actions, and share anti-fraud achievements throughout the workplace.
• Assist mitigation of dangers of engagement with exterior companions through acceptable, risk-informed due diligence.

Valuing Methods and Constructions: Guarantee additional operational centralization and optimization for maximized effectivity beneficial properties

• Take part within the evaluation of Operations processes and suggest measures to reduce price, scale back duplication of labor and maximize efficiencies whereas creating an atmosphere of smarter controls to render the group prepared to answer programme wants.
• Contribute to enhancing IT-enabled enterprise processes to extend productiveness and collaboration, higher data administration, and guarantee efficient use of UNICEF belongings.
• Present contribution to CPMP and evaluation operational buildings in collaboration with Regional Chiefs of Operations and the Strategic Enterprise Assist unit in DFAM.

Valuing Companions: Strengthening inside and external-facing partnerships and leveraging UNICEF’s oversight and understanding of monetary administration throughout all areas of the workplace.

• Present technical help and suggestions on HACT implementation, together with, recommendation strategy to endeavor spot checks, follow-up actions required on results of monetary assurance actions.
• Assist UNICEF Workplace useful resource mobilization companions from donor negotiation and formulation of partnership agreements and contracts via written monetary reporting, resolve discrepancies and guarantee donor accountability and transparency.
• Contribute to UNICEF Workplace useful resource mobilization via programme proposals, written monetary reporting, and evaluation of discrepancies.
• Contribute to creating non-public sector partnerships particularly in center revenue nations.
• Interact as stakeholders within the UN Reform, facilitating Enterprise Working Providers (BOS) and proactively paving the best way for a possible “one again workplace” in nation places of work.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…

Schooling:

A College Diploma (Bachelor’s) in one of many following areas is required:

• Enterprise administration
• Monetary administration
• Accounting
• Public Finance
• Associated operations operate (Provide Chain, Human Sources, Data Expertise, Worldwide Enterprise, Undertaking administration, and so on.)
• An expert license from internationally acknowledged establishments is an asset.

Expertise:

• A minimal of two years {of professional} expertise, on the nationwide and/or worldwide stage, is required, particularly in a number of operations administration space together with finances; monetary administration and reporting; services administration; administration; provide and logistics administration; data and communication know-how; human assets.
• Expertise in a UN system company, massive non-public or public firm, or expertise working in a creating nation and/or humanitarian/ emergency context is an asset.
• For nation places of work with a major non-public sector fundraising operation, prior expertise working with or within the non-public sector, and supporting non-public sector fundraising, is an asset.
• Expertise in working with company ERPs (Enterprise Useful resource Planning) and IPSAS (Worldwide Public Sector Accounting Requirements) is very fascinating.
• Understanding of Outcomes Based mostly Administration is a requirement.
• Expertise in supporting profitable client-oriented work models is an asset.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Workplace functions is required.

Language Necessities:

Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Little one, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every part we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

The UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

Core Competencies:

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages Individuals (1)
• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drive to attain impactful outcomes (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

Through 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 world workforce should mirror the variety 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 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. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background examine.

UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters.

Remarks:

• The place relies in Mumbai, India.
• This put up is open for Indian Nationals solely.
• The chosen applicant may have an preliminary two (2) 12 months fixed-term contract, with the potential for extension, topic to passable efficiency.
• UNICEF solely considers larger instructional {qualifications} obtained from an establishment accredited / acknowledged within the World Larger Schooling Database (WHED), an inventory up to date by the Worldwide Affiliation of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Academic, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO). The record could be accessed at http://www.whed.net/.
• UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Appointments may additionally be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). UNICEF reserves the suitable to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if medical clearance is just not obtained, or vital inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.
• UNICEF doesn’t cost a charge at any stage of the recruitment course of, together with software, interview, assembly, touring, processing, coaching, and so on.
• Solely shortlisted candidates might be notified and advance to the following stage of the choice course of, which entails numerous assessments.

For extra details about UNICEF India, please confer with the hyperlink under: – http://unicef.in/Wherewework