National Liaison Individual Contractor, Baku, Azerbaijan
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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, development
As governments develop national frameworks to monitor progress towards the SDGs and establish baselines, strategic planning and investments will be required to collect robust, more frequent, and timely data that requires strong coordination and partnership with all relevant stakeholders.
This profile provides a crucial liaison function for two-way communication flow between the Government, Non-Government partners and UNICEF to support major projects sponsored by the European Union Delegation (EUD) such as Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), Primary Health Care (PHC), Violence Against Children (VAC).
To support this UNICEF Azerbaijan Country Office will hire a full-time Liaison Individual Contractor to participate in relevant meetings and discussions and coordinate the actions and support UNICEF in implementing those actions.
How can you make a difference?
Under the overall supervision of the Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, the Liaison Individual Coordinator will support UNICEF Azerbaijan and the relevant partners in the following capacities:
Advocacy
• Represent the coordination and liaison work of communicating with the relevant partners including the State Statistical Committee (SSC) of the Republic of Azerbaijan and actively participate in all relevant meetings and discussions to identify critical needs for the effective projects implementation and to provide feedback on relevant production content;
• Strengthen collaboration between different partners including but not limited to the Government, Non-Government, and UN partners.
• Support the generation and/or re-purposing of knowledge products, communications and advocacy material, with a tailored focus on UNICEF resource partners and networks.
• Support development and dissemination of advocacy messages and strategies to enhance UNICEF’s visibility, with a particular focus on resource partners (donors), such as the preparation of 12 months of advocacy plans for priority donors including the EUD
• Provide guidance and support on UNICEF branding, production and publishing policies and processes
• Keep track of key global events/ advocacy opportunities to inform and follow up with colleagues and partners.
Strategic Social Media Engagement
• Support UNICEF's social media engagement, including management of UNICEF’s Twitter.
• Support drafting social media messages and engage donors and partners around key priorities/event.
• Support developing event-specific social media packages with a distribution strategy to amplify key messages.
Support to design and delivery of major events
• Support MICS team in the design and delivery of visibility and awareness raising activities.
• Support oversight of service providers including event management and other related procurement.
• Support MICS team in organization of the MICS Technical Committee meetings.
Knowledge Sharing
• In coordination with the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist and MICS Officer, ensure that feedback gained from the partners including SSC activities is reflected in action points.
• Compile regular updates on the implementation status of the MICS Action Plan.
Any other duties related to the advocacy, coordination and support in program management as required.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- University degree in Demography, Statistics, Social Sciences or any other related field is required.
- Proven minimum of 3 year experience in the relevant field.
- Very good working knowledge of the mandates and modalities of the international humanitarian sector including the UN cluster system.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and reporting skills, both written and oral.
- Interest in and familiarity with new media and new digital applications.
- Fluency in spoken and written English and Azerbaijani.
- Knowledge and skills on data generation and use of alternative data sources is advantage.
- Demonstrated leadership, managerial and supervisory ability.
- Ability and willingness to travel extensively in-country.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
To view our competency framework, please visit 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.
UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.
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:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.