Chief Community Development (Community Resilience), P4, Lilongwe, Malawi

Contract

This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 131,361 USD and 169,362 USD.

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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, resilience…

UNICEF Malawi Country Programme (2019-2023) is aligned with the Government of Malawi’s Growth and Development Strategy (MDGS III) and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF). The programme supports the Government of Malawi to meet its commitment to respect, protect and fulfil children’s rights in line with international conventions and standards. The country programme is guided by the principles of children’s rights, equity, gender equality, inclusion and resilience, and supports evidence-based, integrative and innovative programming. The vision is that ‘all girls and boys in Malawi, especially the most disadvantaged and deprived, realize their rights’. The programme focuses on early childhood (parenting, high-impact social services, early stimulation and learning), middle childhood and adolescence (learning, multi-sectoral services, active citizenship), communities (decentralized services and systems, community ownership, social norms), programme effectiveness (monitoring, evaluation, HACT, Innovation, Social Protection and Social Policy and External Communication. The programme is based on ‘leaving no child behind’, realizing ‘rights for all children in Malawi’.

Framed within the Malawi Country Office Pillar 3 (child-friendly, inclusive and resilient communities), the Community Development and Resilience (CDR) Section is strategically positioned to support the Government of Malawi’s priorities in facilitating long-term multi-sectoral development for active citizenship and decentralization, disaster preparedness and resilience, community ownership and empowerment, and attention to changing harmful social norms and promoting good practices. This is being achieved through collaboration and integration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD), the district councils, Government’s Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DODMA), Ministry of Information (MoI) as well as Ministry of Civic Education and National Unity.

Against this backdrop, the Chief Community Development (Community Resilience) has an exciting leadership role to steer the programme forward and is responsible for the direct management of integrated programmes such as Decentralization, Social Behaviour Change, Emergency, Child Friendly Communities and is outcome lead for the coordination of the delivery of results for all programmatic pillar outputs with the participation of communities to demand and claim their rights.

How can you make a difference?

The Malawi Country Office offers an exciting and rewarding career opportunity for you to join our dynamic Community Development and Resilience team where you will be responsible for ensuring that the pillar outcome and output results aimed at enhanced community system strengthening, engagement and participation are achieved. As Chief Community Development (Community Resilience), you will provide the leadership to support families, communities, and district authorities to have in place shock responsive social protection measures that will promote resilience and will have the child at the center of development where girls and boys grow up in child-friendly, inclusive and resilient communities.

In your role, you will report to the/be under the overall guidance and supervision of the Deputy Representative for Programmes.

This job therefore presents a unique and significant opportunity for a qualified, vibrant, motivated and committed person to contribute to the overall achievement of transformative results for children with professional excellence and by delivering on the following key responsibility areas, but not limited to - you are however encouraged to read the attached and detailed job description Classified JD - P4 Chief Community Development.pdf in order to view the full role and its requirements:

1. Strong and responsible managerial leadership with a focus on teamwork both at section level as well as staff members matrixed to other sections, including nurturing staff morale;
2. Programme planning, development and implementing through critical strategic and contextualized thinking.
3. Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results through establishing clear accountability frameworks that are adaptable to emergency and humanitarian contexts.
4. Advisory services and technical support to Government both at national and district level and all other Development Partners, as well as internally to ensure effective cross-sectoral collaboration.
5. Advocacy, networking and partnership building, ensuring a responsive and dynamic UNICEF presence on the ground.
6. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building to ensure internal and external programme efficiencies and sharing of lessons learned.

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

Education:

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required:
  • Social sciences, rural development, and management or a discipline relevant to community resilience, emergency preparedness and response, and disaster/climate risk management
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant professional work experience is required in policy coordination and development, programme management, disaster preparedness, post disaster recovery linked to broader development context
• Experience in Disaster and Climate Risk management an advantage
• Proven experience in effectively leading a multisectoral team to deliver results is required
• At least 3 years field experience in humanitarian/development nexus situations is required
• Experience working in a developing country is considered as a strong asset
• Emergency experience is required

Technical knowledge and skills required:

• Programme design and implementation
• Results based planning
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Supervisory and management skills
• Resource mobilization
• Networking and partnerships
• Knowledge management

Language:

• Fluency in English, both strong verbal and written skills, is essential.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

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)
• Drives 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:

The position is not considered an elevated risk role. However, UNICEF reserves the right to conduct further vetting/assessment within the scope of child safeguarding as appropriate.

UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/.

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.

This vacancy announcement is open to all internal staff and other UNICEF personnel, including individuals holding Temporary Appointments (TA) and Individual Contractors (IC) who perform staff-like functions on a full-time basis and UNVs and external candidates.

Priority consideration will be given to staff on the mobility lists, staff on abolished post and staff returning to service and on SHA.

Furthermore, applications from suitable female candidates as well as suitable persons living with disabilities are strongly encouraged.