Corporate Alliances Specialist (Digital Business and Children), P3, TA, CRB, PFP, Geneva, Switzerland

Contract

This is a P-3 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 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 137,951 USD and 180,636 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, care

In UNICEF Child Rights and Business (CRB) is an innovative form of programming that aims to mainstream child rights across business policy and practice. The approach mobilizes UNICEF’s unique position as a UN organization with a child rights mission and mandate and a field presence in over 190 countries. It involves three key approaches:

CRB has three interrelated and mutually reinforcing strategic work areas:

1. Embedding children’s rights considerations into the business environment contributing to transformative change across the business ecosystem (e.g. through regulation, due diligence, environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting, investor decision-making etc);
2. Embedding action to address adverse impact into business infrastructure through the development of effective solutions to adverse impact (e.g. in supply chain conduct, health and safety, working terms and conditions, marketing and advertising, harmful products, etc); and,
3. Translating insights gained into UNICEF’s traditional programme approaches where business policy and practice contribute causally to child deprivations and/or are necessary for solutions. This third area is dependent on work on business environment and infrastructure.

The CRB team engages the world of business (i.e. government policymakers, businesses, business associations, investors, and other business stakeholders) directly in all three of these work areas by providing substantive analysis, guidance, and case studies on the integration of children’s rights into responsible business conduct, within the framework of global sustainability. It also provides technical support to the rest of UNICEF to develop robust theories of change and programme strategies that integrate the business sector addressing its adverse impact on children’s rights to achieve results. This, too, involves technical guidance aimed at building the capacity of UNICEF offices to identify salient issues and how to engage the business sector on them. The team provides leadership on the implications for children and UNICEF of thematic areas of business activity, such as practices in the digital space, supply chains, marketing, or regulation. It contributes thought leadership, evidence, and research, written up in case studies, guidance, and tools, embedding the impact of business into UNICEF’s regulatory and planning systems. It supports the assessment of the potential CRB strategic relevance of priority shared value partnerships. It is responsible for developing the UNICEF results story involving business contributing to programme results.

To lead global CRB work on the impact of digital business on children, with a particular focus on adverse impact on children through digital business practices. These include data management, online protection and marketing and advertising. This will include supporting UNICEF and National Committees and developing and implementing work on issues arising from digital business. The adverse impact of digital business practices on children is a consistent theme arising in multiple programme contexts and with many prospective SVPs, and addressing it is a fundamental aspect of maximizing the major opportunities that the digital world provides for children. It is a technically complex area that requires specialist engagement.

How can you make a difference?

1. Working with business, governmental and trade bodies, the UNICEF working group on Child Online Protection (COP), National Committees and UNICEF offices to identify major trends in digital business and its impact on children and develop good examples of how to address it. Anticipated areas of focus:

• Data protection and privacy for children
• UNGPs in tech: Implementation of child rights due diligence and child rights impact assessments in relation to the digital environment.
• Transparency and reporting from technology companies on child rights impacts.
• Child rights in the online gaming industry.
• Digital marketing and advertising and gender and socialization.

2. Contribute to the conceptualization and development of CRB digital content to programmatically relevant priority shared value partnerships.

3. Develop, collate and quality assure CRB tools, guidance and case studies for UNICEF Offices:

• Lead relevant digital rights projects including but not limited to online gaming.
• Raise the agenda of child rights and business in the digital environment in key discussions on private sector regulation of technology (with a focus on the US and the EU) and with investors and benchmarking organizations.
• UNICEF methodologies and guidance for addressing the impact of digital business on children including through direct support to country offices, as relevant.
• Contribute to UNICEF PPPx pages and other forms of guidance, as required.
• Mainstream CRB “how to” guidance into other programme guidance.

4. Contribute to CRB and B4R knowledge management and capacity building, as requested by the supervisor.

5. Support UNICEF NatCom, CO and RO results reporting relating to digital business impact on children.

Deliverables:

• Major digital trends with impact on children identified and tools, guidance, information and knowledge products related to the impact of digital business on children developed and disseminated to relevant external and internal stakeholders.
• Guidance for business and UNICEF on business and child online privacy finalized and published.
• Guidance on digital advertising and impact on children finalized and published.
• CRB ICT/digital pages on the PFP Intranet and the UNICEF website are updated with relevant content.
• Digital yammer groups/Communities of Practice/team sites set up and facilitated/supported, as required.
• Results of work with digital business regularly collated and reported, including through compelling narratives.
• Contribution made to 2022 annual report.

Estimated duration of the contract:

• 364 days

Reporting to:

• Corporate Alliances Manager, Child Rights, and Business

Working Place:

• Geneva, Switzerland

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

Education:

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: ICT, 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.

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible professional work experience in corporate social responsibility or sustainability, or social impact of ICT, or child rights, or international development, or monitoring and evaluation, some at the international level.
• 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 and demonstrable skills in producing, editing, and uploading online content.
• Experience with technical knowledge sharing tools (Office 365)
• Experience in facilitating online communities of practice and discussion groups.
• Ability to work independently and to meet tight deadlines
• Experience of working within UNICEF, exposure to CSR/corporate sustainability work, and working with industry platforms, investment institutions, and with governments, the UN, and NGOs or within the corporate sector would be additional assets.

Language Requirements:

• Excellent writing and editing skills in English, fluency in other UN languages an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1) are required.

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:

UNICEF PFP-Geneva is currently reviewing organizational changes; therefore, the exact future location of the post is still under consideration/to be determined. Candidates may be asked commence duties remotely. Should the selected candidate be assigned and relocate to Geneva, they may later be asked to relocate and be assigned to another location during the initial contract or assignment period.

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