Programme Associate for 1 MiO

Contract

This is a UNV National Expert contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Expert contracts.

The initiative, One Million Opportunities (1MiO), was launched in October 2020 by UNICEF Brazil, offering quality education, connectivity, skills development, professional training, apprenticeship, internship, employment, and civic participation opportunities for vulnerable young people.

The 1MiO initiative is scaling rapidly since its launch and have created over 200.000 opportunities including 174.000 skills training opportunities and nearly 40.000 job placements for vulnerable young people together with more than 2.000 partners from the private sector, civil society, and governments.

The UN Volunteer will support the national coordination of 1MiO in the scaling up of the initiative integrated to the Generation Unlimited (GenU) Global initiative. They will develop the administrative, finance and planning implementation monitoring, and support to achieve the results expected.

Under the supervision of the Programme Officer, responsible for the connection of the 1MiO initiative to the UNICEF and partners global initiative Generation Unlimited, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for supporting efficient and effective programmatic planning and monitoring of the Annual Work Plan (AWP) by providing to the 1MiO initiative with quantitative and qualitative information on programme implementation, supporting the identification of issues and alternative courses of action to accelerate/improve programme delivery as well as provide the administrative and finance support to proceed according to UNICEF rules and standards. Those initiatives respond to the following outcome of the UNICEF Brazil Country Programme 2017-2021: . Quality information for AWP monitoring and implementation.

• Support planning activities providing quality information and maintaining the AWP updated according to the results of the teamwork and decision makers groups. • Prepare PCAs (Programme Cooperation Agreements), SSFAs (Small Scale Agreements) and contracts based on the inputs provided by the responsible for the respective modality.

Provide budget information, supporting identification of funding sources, and contributing to individual contractors, consultancies, institutional contracts, and other related documents ensuring payments according UNICEF rules and procedures

• Prepare individual contractors, consultancies, institutional contracts to the implementation of the initiative ensuring the follow up of their implementation upon presentation and approbation of the deliverables and respective payment after the approval by authorization officer, ensuring that contracts and payments are made without delay and providing all guidance and information to the collaborators about the process. • Prepare and follow up the budget preparation and supporting identification of funding sources, monitoring their implementation according grants conditions, deadlines, deliverable, and reports demanded.

Process and monitor 100% of transactions in VISION according to rules and procedures

• Process and monitor VISION transactions such as funds commitment, funds reservations, travel authorizations, FACE forms, payment requests and others to ensure effective programmatic planning, coordination, and monitoring.

Meetings, correspondence, administrative tasks, donor reports and related tasks

• Draft, format, edit and prepare all correspondence on routine and non‐routine tasks and templates, proofread and clear correspondence for supervisor’s signature, carry out informal translations from English to Portuguese and vice‐versa, elaborate meeting notes; • Coordinate all administrative, logistical arrangements for meetings, workshops, seminars and other events including transportation, hotel accommodations for staff, participants or visitors, venue, conference room reservations and audio‐visual equipment as required. • Control the delivery of donors reports, notifying those involved in the preparation in advance and ensuring that they are delivered within the agreed deadlines. Make a quality revision of donors reports based on RBM (results-based management) and upload them in the Fiori/Vision timely.

KEY COMPETENCES Builds and maintains partnerships; Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness; Drive to achieve results for impact; Innovates and embraces change; Manages ambiguity and complexity; Thinks and acts strategically; Works collaboratively with others.

CORE VALUES 1. Care 2. Respect 3. Integrity 4. Trust 5. Accountability

supporting secretarial processes, with business leaders, civil society organizations, UN, or governments. • Desirable knowledge on children’s rights issues, including the Convention of Rights of the Child and the Statute of the Child and the Adolescent.
• Teamwork skills and capacity to work with tight deadlines. • Availability to live in Brasília

The assignment will be in Brasília, the Federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. Brasilia is a family duty station and classified A (hardship). The living conditions in Brasilia are good as well as the access to health services. The accommodation facilities are in general good, and the choice is wide. As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging their own housing and other living essentials. National UN Volunteers are part of the malicious insurance plan. Brazil is security level 3 (moderate). United Nations Department of Safety and Security UNDSS Brazil advises to exercise a high degree of caution in Brazil due to high levels of serious and violent crime, particularly in major cities. Violent crime as muggings, armed robbery, kidnappings, and sexual assault, is very high. Avoid shanty towns (favelas) in the big cities and if you are attacked or robbed, do not resist. Demonstrations can occur at any time and may turn violent with little or no warning. All United Nations personnel must scrupulously comply with UNDSS procedures and recommendations during their assignment in Brazil. For missions in rural areas or indigenous reservations, special procedures may apply; UN personnel should consult with the local DSS office in advance.