New Job Vacancies United Nations at UNICEF April 2024

Job no: 571119
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Duty Station: Nairobi
Level: P-3
Location: Tonga,
Singapore, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Nauru, Micronesia, Macau, Marshall
Islands, Hong Kong, Cook Islands, Brunei Darussal, Australia, Bahrain,
Cambodia, China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Fiji/Pacific
Island Countries, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia,
Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon
Islands, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam, Mauritius, Seychelles, Angola,
Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho,
Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa,
South Sudan, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), United Republic of Tanzania,
Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland,
Iceland, Ireland, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Vatican City, San Marino, Serbia,
Monaco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Andorra, Malta, Latvia,
Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Norway,
Slovakia, Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Albania, Armenia, Austria,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Georgia, Greece, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Republic of Moldova, Romania,
Slovenia, Ukraine, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, Japan, United States, Republic of Korea, Switzerland,
United Kingdom, Antigua&Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, Grenada,
Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Puerto Rico, Belize, Argentina, Eastern
Caribbean, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras,
Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay,
Venezuela, Cyprus, Israel, Kuwait, Qatar, Gulf Area Office (GAO),
Djibouti, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, State
of Palestine (SoP), Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia,
Utd.Arab.Emir., Yemen, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Western Sahara,
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo,
Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon,
Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger,
Nigeria, Sao Tome And Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

Categories:
Adolescent Development, Child Protection, Education, Gender
Development, Health, HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, Social Policy, WASH (Water,
Sanitation and Hygiene), Partnerships, Early Childhood Development,
Knowledge Management, Innovation, Programme Management, Social and
Behavior Change, Health and Nutrition, Research, Planning, Monitoring
and Evaluation, UN Volunteer

UNICEF works in over 190 countries
and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help
them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At
UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do.
Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff
diverse opportunities for personal and professional development that
will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a
rewarding mission. We pride ourselves on a culture that helps staff
thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, HOPE
The
work to strategically leverage the role of the business sector to
achieve, accelerate and scale up results for children is a core strategy
of UNICEF programming, advocacy, and private sector agenda.

The Business Engagement and Child Rights (BECR) Team in Programme Group (PG) oversees the following work:

• Maximizes
  the role of business as a stakeholder, a consideration, and a strategy
  in programming, by leveraging of the multiple ways in which business can
  impact on, contribute to, and influence child rights outcomes.
• Engages
  with and on the world of business in a way that is driven by and
  aligned with the child rights agenda, programme priorities in support of
  delivering results for children.
• Strategically the BECR Team’s
  work focuses on providing global leadership and coordination on the
  following: Preventing, mitigating and transforming adverse business
  impact on child rights through policy work, evidence generation and by
  influencing the business environment (referred to as Child Rights and
  Business, or CRB)
• Leveraging programme-led technical
  collaborations and engagement with business through strategy
  development, engagement scoping and opportunity cultivation
• Integration of Business Engagement strategies through policy, guidance and technical tools and systems.
• Build
  institutional knowledge and capacity on the different UNICEF business
  engagement strategies and workstreams across UNICEF (HQ, RO and co),
  particularly among programme, planning and advocacy networks, and across
  National Committees.

How can you make a difference?
Under
the supervision of the Senior Adviser, Child Rights and Business, the
Programme Specialist (Digital CRB) will be responsible for developing
and implementing strategies, policies and programs that promote and
protect the rights of children in the digital environment.

The
position supports UNICEF National Committees, Regional, and Country
Offices to engage industry, policy makers, and other stakeholders on the
government duty to protect and business responsibility to respect
children’s rights, specifically in the context the digital environment.
The position works closely with relevant teams across UNICEF Divisions
including PG/Child Protection, Office of Research, Office of Innovation
and ICTD in developing evidence, policy guidance, technical support and
capacity building as it relates to children’s rights in the digital
environment.

The position will strengthen knowledge management
and lead external stakeholder engagement, including for resource
mobilization as relevant, including in support of CO programme
implementation.

Key function, accountabilities and related duties/tasks
Deliver on existing commitments relevant to the CRB/Digital work plan, internally and externally.
Including
but not limited to managing the ongoing Child Rights Impact Assessment
(CRIA) and disclosures project on child rights in the digital
environment, Responsible Digital Marketing Project, the Responsible
Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC) project as well as oversee
and ensure strategic roll-out of the UNICEF Interdivisional COP
Framework, the ITU/UNICEF Training modules, and the B-Tech Paper on
Child Rights. This also involves the provision of strategic, logistical
and programmatic support to senior management and other UNICEF
colleagues in relation to engagement with the tech industry, regulators
and relevant business stakeholders.

Further programme integration and provide wider organizational support
Provide
technical support to HQ Divisions, ROs, COs, National Committees and
other HQ teams to further drive momentum on digital CRB and programme
integration. This requires liaising and working closely with programme
teams in HQ, ROs and COs to embed CRB approached in programme strategies
and including advocacy messaging on child rights in the digital
environment. This includes existing priority areas (e.g., digital CRB,
CO model strategy on industry engagement) and advancing emerging themes
(e.g. Generative AI, etc.), as relevant.

Facilitate internal capacity building and knowledge exchange.
Duties
include coordinating regular information exchange and experience
sharing meetings (e.g., CRB Digital Working Group); regularly liaising
with ROs and relevant COs; responding to requests for technical support;
and capturing case studies of impactful UNICEF programming,
partnerships and advocacy work and initiatives at country-level.

Supports
the positioning of UNICEF and child rights in relevant external agendas
and events on business, human rights, and technology.
This
involves engaging with relevant stakeholders including governments,
regional bodies, decision makers, industry, foundations, civil society
organisations in support of advancing child rights in the digital
environment through research. publications, events, corporate
benchmarks, reporting frameworks etc.

Support resource mobilization and strengthen UNICEF’s engagement with donors.
Drive
content development, proposal writing and donor engagement (incl.
follow-up) to support resource mobilization in support of digital CRB
and programmatic work at CO-level. This requires working closely with
relevant Natcom and HQ, ROs, and COs to develop tailored and targeted
proposals, and engaging with relevant UNICEF colleagues before and
during donor engagement.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
The following minimum requirements:

For every Child, you demonstrate… 
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).  
To view our competency framework, please visit  here.   

UNICEF
is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global
workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone,
irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity,
sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background,
or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation
for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may
include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for
missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your
disability during your application in case you need reasonable
accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your
assignment. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that
is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and
UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment,
abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict
child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected
to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo
rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include
the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history.
Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to
conduct a background check.  

Remarks:  
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

Individuals
engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be
considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the
United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be
entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and
medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be
governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for
the Services of Consultants and Individual  Contractors.

Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining
their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in
accordance with local or other applicable laws. 

The selected
candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and
health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are
valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are
subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2
(Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine,
which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply
to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or
visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly
interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform
functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts. 
Advertised: 12 Apr 2024 E. Africa Standard Time
Deadline: 19 Apr 2024 E. Africa Standard Time