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UNICEF recruits 01 Child Rights and Business Specialist P3

UNICEF recruits 01 Child Rights and Business Specialist P3

 

Job no: 525410
Work type: Fixed Term Appointment
Location: Switzerland
Categories: Alliances and Resource Mobilization, Private Fundraising and Partnerships, P-3

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

How can you make a difference?

Located in Geneva, Switzerland, the post is part of the Partnerships team of Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECARO), which offers strategic guidance, oversight and technical support to Country Offices’ (CO) private sector fundraising and partnership efforts using rights-based approaches to achieve results for children.

The post supports organizational capacity for the implementation of UNICEF’s strategic framework for child rights and business/rights-based corporate sustainability (Better Business for Children), integrating this with programmatic work to achieve results for children under the UNICEF Strategic Plan in ECAR. The post provides technical guidance and supports the creation of tools and case studies. The post has a dotted reporting line to the Chief, Child Rights and Business in PFP in order to reinforce global and regional synergies, including on overall strategy, guidance, knowledge management and results reporting.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

As a Strategic Business Partner and regional advisor, the incumbent will be responsible to lead for results, drive change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, advice and services and contribute to programme and management decisions for delivering results for children in all operational contexts within the Regional office and provide technical leadership and guidance for Operations in all countries and field offices within the region. Strategic Operations will accomplish this by:

Regional and country office technical support: Support to the RO and COs in ECAR to integrate child rights-based business strategies as part of country programmes, focusing on business preventing adverse impact.

Capacity building: Technical support to the development and implementation of child rights and business training materials and packages adaptable to different audiences, including business. Contribute to capacity development and training on child rights and business for ECAR, and deliver training as requested by the supervisor. Contribute to capacity building of external stakeholders, including businesses, regulators, industry associations, consultancy firms, and others.

Develop implementation tools and communication materials: Support the development of implementation tools and communication materials and strategies relevant to child rights and business, with a view to creating uptake by government, business and other stakeholders as well as visibility and awareness of the Child Rights and Business Principles and other relevant international standards.

Research and knowledge management: Initiate and support research related initiatives in support of the implementation of the child rights and business agenda, contributing to knowledge generation and knowledge management in COs, the RO and HQ. The post is responsible to ensuring effective monitoring and reporting of results achieved with the contribution of the business sector, collating a regional results narrative and sharing this beyond the region.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:

  • An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: law, social sciences, development, business or another relevant technical field. A first level university degree in a relevant field combined with 7 years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
  • A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible professional work experience in corporate social responsibility or sustainability, child rights, social development, programme administration, monitoring and evaluation, some at the international level is required.
  • A technical background in child rights or child protection, rights-based programme approaches and at least 2 years of field experience with a focus on child rights or associated programming, including designing, monitoring and impact assessment of projects and programmes is highly desirable.
  • Experience of working within UNICEF, exposure to CSR work and of working with multi-stakeholder partnerships whether within government, UN, and NGO or within the corporate sector or a Business Association/Council would be additional assets.
  • Fluency in English required. Working knowledge of Russian an asset.

Technical competencies must be demonstrated in most of the following areas:

  • In-depth understanding of the overall business and human rights context.
  • Extensive knowledge and experience of business engagement to promote social goals and human rights/child rights.
  • Strong ability to undertake policy dialogue.
  • Strong business engagement and advocacy planning knowledge/ability.
  • Strong ability to engage with partners (e.g. industry-wide and cross-sectoral approaches and partnerships, NGOs, bilateral government partners and inter-governmental fora such as the EU), as well as others.

For every Child, you demonstrate:

UNICEF’s core values of care, respect, integrity, trust and accountability, and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The technical competencies required for this post are: Formulating Strategies and Concepts (III), Relating and Networking (II), Analyzing (III), Persuading and Influencing (II), Planning and Organizing (III)

Other skills: Emotional Intelligence, Managing complexity and change

Please view our competency framework at:

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

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

Advertised: W. Europe Daylight Time
Applications close: W. Europe Daylight Time

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