Business for Results Specialist, NO-3, Bucharest, Romania, (, 364 days)

Contract

This is a NO-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-3 contracts.

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.

For every child, results.

The war in Ukraine has triggered the fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II. By 23 April 2022, more than 774,000 refugees from Ukraine had arrived in Romania. The overwhelming majority of refugees are women and children, often separated from husbands and fathers who remained in Ukraine; older people; and significant numbers of unaccompanied children, including those from state care facilities.

Local and national authorities have established reception facilities at border crossing points to receive new arrivals and are providing life-saving assistance, including accommodation, food, and other basic needs, as well as onward transport for those moving to urban centers. In the reception centers, information is also provided on the asylum process and temporary protection, as well as on the risks of trafficking. Access to basic rights and services, such as health, has been facilitated. Steps have already been taken to foster protection and inclusion into national systems, such as for health and education. Referral services are being scaled up, focusing especially on case management and protection of unaccompanied children and those evacuated from boarding schools, institutions and other alternative care arrangements, survivors of gender-based violence (GBV), victims of trafficking, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups

UNICEF Romania Country Office is involved in the emergency response by supporting the national government and local partners in delivering assistance and protection services.

How can you make a difference?

Business for Results (B4R) is global organizational effort to ensure that UNICEF offices and teams systematically consider the role of private sector in respecting and promoting children’s rights, as well as strategically engage business in programme planning and delivery, where feasible and relevant to accelerate context-specific results for children. The B4R Specialist in Romania is responsible to strengthen the collaboration with key business stakeholders and helps to provide an interface for business landscape analysis, knowledge exchange, resource mobilization, and technical shared-value partnerships within the context of the refugee crisis. He/she ensures greater visibility for UNICEF within the business sector and influence the business response to the current refugee crisis.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

• Create strategies and workplans to guide Business Engagement work at Country Office level
• Integrate a socio-economic perspective and a demand-driven, priority-focused business landscape analysis into the situation analysis of the refugee crisis
• Work closely with relevant programme units to support the development and maintenance of strategic shared-value partnerships with the business sector
• Map the roles and responsibilities, and the opportunities of the private sector partners and engagements to support the delivery of UNICEF’s programme and advocacy objectives, in conjunction with programme sections Support the integration of B4R into the Country Office programme strategies and plans by providing guidance and reviewing UNICEF Country Programme Documents, workplans thematic theories of change, and implementing instruments.
• Support COs with partnerships building and management with internal and external counterparts, (including those of the UN and national partners). This includes prospecting, due diligence, cultivation, MoU development and M&E of the impact achieved through an enhanced engagement with business.
• Institutionalize/share good practices and knowledge learned/products with global/regional/local partners and stakeholders to build capacity of practitioners and use, and disseminate lessons learned to key audiences including partners and donors.
• Support the organization, administration and implementation of capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of stakeholders/partners across programme sectors in Private Sector Engagement planning, implementation and evaluation in support of programmes/projects. Develop training materials for training activities and revise them periodically for improvements and updates
• Provide expert technical advice in the identification of selected programme areas to focus on for an effective and efficient business engagement, leading to an office-wide agreement on practicable priority actions to support.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in one of the following fields is required: Social Sciences, Economics, Development, Business Administration, Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Administration, International Relations, or related field is required.
• A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience in one or more of the following areas is required: social development programme planning, corporate social responsibility, private sector engagement or another related area
• Prior experience in engaging business for the promotion of the SDGs or other social causes is desirable.
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization, as well as in local or multinational private sector players, is considered as an asset.
• Background/familiarity with emergency is considered as an asset.
• Strong analytical skills and strategic planning experience are a requirement as is the ability to work independently and to meet deadlines.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

Core Competencies

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

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 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:

Eligible UNICEF National Officer (NO) and General Service (GS) Staff Members on fixed-term, continuing or permanent contracts applying to this TA, which is dedicated to L3 Response, may be able to retain a lien on their existing post for the duration of this TA.

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