Country Coordinator P5 FT -ECARO O/P Rome Italy PN

Contract

This is a P-5 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 10 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 148,232 USD and 185,768 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, Protection

The recent escalation in the armed conflict in Ukraine poses an immediate threat to the lives and wellbeing of the country’s 7.5 million children. The intensification of the armed conflict is posing severe human costs, causing a growing number of civilian and children casualties, interrupting livelihoods and damaging critical civilian infrastructure, including hundreds of homes, water and sanitation infrastructure, schools and health facilities. Hundreds of thousands of children and their families have been internally displaced and, to-date, over 6.8 million forced to flee the country in search of safety – the majority are women and children.

UNICEF is operating in Italy based on formal agreements with national authorities aimed at providing technical support for the protection and social exclusion of refugee and migrant children, including those arriving as a consequence of the crisis in Ukraine.

In Italy, a two-pronged approach combines humanitarian service delivery with capacity building, policy reform and technical assistance for the protection and social exclusion of refugee and migrant children and adolescents with partner organizations and governments. The response enables the target population to emergency protection interventions, alternative care solutions, and lifesaving information and skills-building opportunities.

How can you make a difference?

1. Developing and planning One UNICEF emergency response to the Refugee and in the countrie of responsibility; Responsible for the planning components such as financial, HR, programmatic and the establishment, implementation, monitoring and reporting on a concerted response with relevant government partners, NatCom and stakeholders.
2. Senior Coordination and external relations;

Act as a senior coordinator on behalf of UNICEF in public information/relations events and key meetings to discuss programming issues, participate in policy dialogue, discuss initiatives, report on progress achieved, present papers/ideas and/or advocate UNICEF's vision;

Participate in critical meetings and events to evaluate the impact and efficacy of UNICEF emergency response. Ensure timely and accurate reporting to donors/partners to maintain credibility and keep their interests and support to programs and projects. In parallel, ensure constant update and real time data sharing to the Geneva Crisis Coordination Cell Manager (Senior Emergency Manager)

3. Participate in critical meetings and events to evaluate the impact and efficacy of UNICEF emergency response;

Ensure timely and accurate reporting to donors/partners to maintain credibility and keep their interests and support to programs and projects. In parallel, ensure constant update and real time data sharing to the Regional Office in Geneva and keep management informed of all refugee response programme developments in Italy, in terms of policies, strategy, situation developments, potential issues and opportunities with partnerships;

4. Building alliance, resource mobilization and UN System and Refugee response coordination;

Build and strengthen strategic partnerships with government institutions, national stakeholders and global partners/allies/donors/academia to advocate UNICEF goals in emergency response, in line with the Child Rights Convention. Put into place a consultative process with the National Committee on the modalities of engagement with the country and ensuring proper linkage and articulation with their own activities. Negotiate and/or approve cost-related agreements with NatCom. Have a clear understanding of the Italian political system to influence in social policies

5. Strengthening capacities of key counterparts;

Strengthening of capacities of key counterparts through sharing the latest knowledge/ information/practices, providing leadership to network for coordination/collaboration of sectoral intervention, and supporting capacity-building efforts for UNICEF staff, national committee and external partners. Provide expert support for strengthening the capacities of UNICEF and key counterpart staff in the refugee response programme, maximizing the support for children in high-income countries, initially having the focus on refugee migrants then expands to include child guarantee.

6. Developing gender-sensitive emergency preparedness and response plans;

By addressing most predictable scenarios of the situation of vulnerable children and women in the refugee and migrant response.

7. Supporting the development and implementation of child protection standards in reception and transit centres, in close coordination with UNHCR, and other partners, and host government.

Impact of Results:

The successful development, planning and implementation of the UNICEF operational response to the most marginalized and vulnerable women and children affected by the refugee crisis. Clear benchmarks, monitoring metrics against a rolling response plan. This contributes to maintaining/enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to continue to provide services to protect the rights of children, promote greater social equality to enable children to survive, develop and reach their full potential in society.

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

• An Advanced University Degree in social sciences, international relations, government and public relations, public or social policy, sociology, social or community development or other related fields, is required.
• A minimum of 10 years of professional development experience that combines managerial and technical leadership in development cooperation at the international level. Experience working in high income countries is an asset.
• Previous experience in emergency contexts, humanitarian programming and operations is strongly desired.
• Excellent familiarity with Italian social systems, governmental structure and mechanisms
• Being a national of Italy will be highly considered as an asset due to the specific and unique nature of the job that requires working in Italian.
• Full fluency in English and Italian (verbal and written) is required. Knowledge of Ukrainian/Russian is an additional asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

Core Values:

• Care
• Respect
• Integrity
• Trust
• Accountability
• Sustainability

Competencies:

1. Builds and maintains partnership (3)
2. Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3)
3. Drive to achieve results for impact (3)
4. Innovates and embraces change (3)
5. Manages ambiguity and complexity (3)
6. Thinks and acts strategically (3)
7. Works collaboratively with others (3)
8. Nurtures, leads and manages people (3)

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. 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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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:

This position has been assessed as an elevated risk role for Child Safeguarding purposes as it is either: a role with direct contact with children, works directly with children, is a safeguarding response role or has been assessed as an elevated risk role for child safeguarding. Additional vetting and assessment for elevated risk roles in child safeguarding (potentially including additional criminal background checks) applies.

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 are also 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.