Chief of Supply Chain, P5, FT, Supply Chain Strengthening Centre (SCSC) UNICEF Supply Division - Copenhagen, Denmark (Location of the post to be Decided)

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Chief of Supply Chain, P5, FT, Post #86097

Supply Chain Strengthening Centre (SCSC)

UNICEF Supply Division - Copenhagen, Denmark (Location of the post to be Decided)

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.

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programs, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.

Strategic context

The UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2022-2025, has defined, “equitable and inclusive access to essential services and supplies” as a key Medium Term Change. UNICEF Supply Division leads an organizational strategy for Supply Chain System Strengthening (SCSS) as a key enabler of this Medium-Term Change in support of UNICEF’s efforts to achieve its vision and ambition by 2030. This entails working with Programme Group (PG), Private and Public Sector Fundraising (PFP and PPD), Technology for Development (T4D), UNICEF Regional and Country offices and a broad range of external stakeholders, with governments in the lead. The SCSS has 3 key pillars: Strengthening Government Supply Chains; Strengthening UNICEF Supply Chains in Support of Governments; and Strengthening UNICEF’s Leadership on Supply Chains for Children and their Families. UNICEF’s mandate has informed the SCSS strategy and aims to enable inclusive access to supplies and services and improve end-to-end efficiencies and effectiveness of supply chains to drive results across all of UNICEF’s five Long-Term Results but with a particular focus on: Survive and Thrive (Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS and Water and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene).

UNICEF is one stakeholder among many in global efforts to optimize supply chain performance. Strengthening partnerships, defining UNICEF’s comparative advantages and building new partnerships is central to UNICEF’s SCSS. Governments are in the lead, while key development agencies invest significant funding and technical support in strengthening supply chains to deliver essential supplies and services. The major partners include, but are not exclusive to: USAID, including the BHA, GAVI, The Global Fund, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, KfW, FCDO, the World Bank, DICE, the EU, academic institutions, and the private sector. overall UNICEF supply operations and achievement of results and oversees of resources.

Purpose for the job

The Chief of the Supply Chain Strengthening Center (Location of the post to be decided) is the steward of UNICEF’s Supply Chain Strengthening Strategy, 2022-2025 and must advocate for its implementation across the organization in concert with key external stakeholders, while promoting governments ownership. The Chief will also lead a team that coordinates Supply Division support to COs in partnership with Programme Group. The goal is for governments to improve supply chain support for selected essential products/product groups in order to reduce costs, stock-outs and/or wastage, improve performance & help achieve inclusive access to essential supplies and services for all beneficiaries. The Chief will also be responsible for advocating, planning and coordinating the SCSS contributions across development partners, private sector, academia and civil society.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

• Lead the implementation of UNICEF’s Supply Chain Strengthening Strategy, 2022-2025, in collaboration with UNICEF Country Offices, Regional Offices, Supply Division Centers; Programme Group and other relevant internal stakeholders to identify priority actions to drive end-to-end supply chain effectiveness and cost-savings to ensure inclusive access to essential supplies and services for beneficiaries.
• Network, coordinate, strengthen and build partnerships with key development, private sector, academic and civil society partners at global level; and provide guidance for UNICEF Regional and Country Offices to advocate for partnerships to realize the goals of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan and SCSS.
• Lead UNICEF’s engagement in the Verification and Traceability Initiative (VTI) and monitor the contract for the TRVST technology which provides a solution for vaccine and pharmaceutical verification with a vision toward end-to end traceability. Steward the process though a governance transition with VTI Steering Committee members in 2023-24, promoting country ownership at all stages.
• Lead a team of supply chain experts to work with internal and external partners to advocate, plan, design, implement, monitor and conduct improvement planning for: supply chain system innovations; supply chain design, including cold chain; data and analytics, including digital health eco-system mapping; supply chain policy development; and supply chain sustainability (economic, social and environmental).
• Apply UNICEF operational standards of excellence to build UNICEF and partners supply chain knowledge and skills; and empower UNICEF and partners to drive results through the use of required SOPs, guidance, tools and partnership strategy building with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
• Working through country/regional planning process enable UNICEF country offices, government and partners to establish monitoring systems to quickly identify supply chain bottlenecks and measure results over time; advocate for the use of tools, but not exclusive to, the Maturity Model, TRVST and end-user monitoring; and enable application of immunization supply chain tools led by Program Group, i.e., EVM and 360
• Host the People That Deliver (PtD) Secretariat and provide strategic leadership; monitor finances of Secretariat; identify technical expertise to represent UNICEF on the PtD Coalition, facilitate the bi-annual host review, and define new, strategic areas of engagement.
• Support to the Director’s office to strengthen and build new partnerships in response to emergencies; new product introductions; or other tasks as deemed necessary by the Director’s office.

Impact of Results****:

• Improvements in overall end to end supply chain performance amongst key product groups within the nutrition, immunization, HIV/AIDS, malaria, WASH and MNCH areas of work that leads to improved and inclusive access to essential, quality supplies.
• Improved capacity of UNICEF country offices and key national stakeholders to perform supply chain activities that contribute to overall end-to-end supply chain performance
• Establishment and use of supply chain monitoring and evaluation systems that demonstrate supply improvement and impact
• Improve patient safety and supply chain integrity by the scale-up of the VTI initiative with the aim of verifying vaccines and pharmaceutical authenticity, laying the foundation for end-to-end traceability.

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

Education:

Master’s Degree level, preferably within the areas of supply chain management, logistics management, procurement, management sciences, management of health programmes, digital technology, engineering or public health.

* A first level university degree in the above areas combined with two years of relevant progressively responsible professional experience may be accepted in lieu of advanced degree (Master's).

Experience:

At least ten years of experience in the area of supply management, system design and engineering; and/or health system strengthening for development programmes in LMICs.

• Demonstrated capacity to work within the international development partners to advocate, plan, design and implement global and regional scale projects impacting the delivery of supplies and services to beneficiaries.
• Managing supply chain operations, information systems or government operated health, education or protection supply/service systems in resource poor environments with governments.
• Experience with managing partnerships and commercial contracts within these environments.

Language:

• English and another UN language, preferably French

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

Core competencies skills

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (3)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (3)
• Works Collaboratively with others (3)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (3)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (3)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (3)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (3)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (3)

Functional / technical skills

• Supply chain management; design; or operations
• Partnership building, fundraising or advocacy
• Primary Health Care system implementation, or other programmatic supply/service systems strengthening
• Verification, Visibility and/or Traceability of health products
• Implementation of digital health policies, procedures or applications in low income settings
• Knowledge of Immunization, MNCH, Nutrition, HIV/AIDS, Sanitation and/ or hygiene programming
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and advocacy skills

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:

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.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Priority will be given to all the eligible candidates participating in UNICEF’s 2022 Mobility Exercise and Staff on Abolished post.