Programme and Planning Manager, P-4, LACRO, Panama City, Panama

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 132,634 USD and 171,004 USD.

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For every child, results.

Under the supervision of the Regional Chief of Programme and Planning, the Programme and Planning Manager is accountable for quality assurance, oversight, and technical assistance in strategic planning, programming, and implementation to 24 Country Offices (COs) in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

How can you make a difference?

The position supports UNICEF LACRO and country offices to maintain high-quality planning process and products, while systematically strengthening how evidence-based and risk-informed are anchored in core established planning, implementation, and review processes. The specialist supports country offices in the preparation of relevant planning documents, including UNSDCF, CPD and CPMP. The Planning Manager will also be the section focal point for all RRBM related processes for all sections in the regional office and COs (including periodic programme reviews, quality assurance of planning related documents, peer reviews and strategic partnership review). As part of the preparedness and response to humanitarian and emergency, the Manager will provide technical support to COs in the preparation and review of programmes for the implementation according to humanitarian context.

You can consult the complete job description for this post at the following link: Specific Job Description, Programme and Planning Manager, P-4 (Classified).pdf

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

• An advanced university degree (master’s degree or higher) in one of the following fields is required: Social Sciences, International Relations, Public Administration, Public Policy, Social Policy, or another relevant technical field.
• Eight years of relevant professional work experience at the national and international levels in programme management, strategic planning and programming, programme implementation.
• Proven ability to mainstream child-rights focused result-based management approach into strategic planning processes.
• Proven track record of excellent presentation and drafting skills is required.
• Previous hands-on experience in a supervisory/managerial capacity is considered an asset.
• Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
• Work experience in emergency duty station is considered as an asset.
• Fluency in English and Spanish is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian) and/or Portuguese is considered as an asset.

For every child, you demonstrate…

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

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.

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

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.

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 International Professional positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). 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.

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