Programme Manager (Access Adviser), P-4, Fixed Term, Kabul, Afghanistan (eligibility non-Afghans)

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 134,636 USD and 173,585 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, a Hero

https://www.unicef.org/afghanistan/

How can you make a difference?

Under the supervision of UNICEF Afghanistan Representative, and in close coordination with the Deputy Representative for Programme and the Chief of Field Services, the Programme Manager (Access Adviser) will play a central role in advising, designing, and facilitating access and engagement related work, coordinate internally among sections an integrated access and engagement approach, and facilitate interaction with the relevant access and engagement counterparts within the UN and the larger humanitarian community, as well as support capacity building and development of risk assessments and analysis. S/he will play an advisory role to the Representative and senior country office leadership regarding access and engagement issues benefiting UNICEF programs in Afghanistan. The incumbent will support the strengthening and implementation of an integrated access and engagement framework in close cooperation with various program and operations sections. Coordinate, harmonize and integrate the different programmatic access and engagement work done by sections. Provide technical expertise on capacity building and trainings on humanitarian negotiations relevant to the Afghanistan context. Identify drivers of vulnerabilities, risks and mitigation strategies for UNICEF programs and their impact on delivery of service for children and women, and the development and testing of methods aiming at strengthening UNICEF independent partnerships with different actors and build resilience. The incumbent will also represent UNICEF during technical, management, and strategic planning meetings with UN agencies, donors, authorities, and other key humanitarian players at central and local levels. The incumbent will engage in negotiation with different authorities to facilitate access and strengthen acceptance for UNICEF programmes. S/he will support the Senior Management as the primary Office’s access and engagement focal point in interactions with relevant authorities, Governments, potential donors, UNCT/HCT, UNICEF’s Regional Office and Headquarters.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

1. Advise the Rep, Dep Rep Programmes, CFOs, section chiefs, and their respective teams on strategies and approaches to facilitate access to basic services throughout the country, with a special priority focus on women and girls. Particular emphasis will be put on adolescent girls’ access to education.
2. Support field offices to conduct detailed and living actor mappings (both at national and provincial levels) to identify power brokers for access issues across the DFA, their supporters and religious leaders.
3. Identify, establish, and maintain active engagement channels (at the central and provincial levels) with identified interlocuters in support of CO senior leadership and of technical level colleagues at field offices and substantive sections.
4. Directly engage and advocate with the Taliban leadership (DFA, religious leaders, and community leaders), as needed and in close consultation with section chiefs and chiefs of FO on the rights of children.
5. Conduct regular context analyses to advise on conflict dynamics, engagement opportunities and changes in the access environment, including appropriate and effective messaging to ensure cultural and social sensitivities are addressed, and the forms of engagement.
6. Strengthen and roll-out an office-wide approach for principled humanitarian engagement with the DFA and organizing access in-house and in an inter-agency setting, including the Afghanistan Access Working Group
7. Maintain and develop access and engagement related risk analysis and forecasting, escalating identified issues that would impact UNICEF operational presence, delivery capacity and response.
8. Provide periodic updates/reports on UNICEF’s access strategy as informed by the changing environment.
9. Provide capacity building for key positions in the country and field offices which require regular engagement with the DFA and are involved in access monitoring, analysis, strategy development, actor mapping, and access techniques to unblock constraints.
10. Represent UNICEF in key inter-agency fora on access and engagement and provide direct inputs into UN system-wide and inter-agency policy and position initiatives and discussions, briefing notes and reports

11. Provide advice and support to NGO implementing partners and cluster members (where UNICEF is the Cluster Lead Agency) on access and principled engagement as needed and requested.

    12. Provide frequent analyses/reports on implications on UNICEF of donors’ requirements on engagement with the DFA.

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

Education: An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: international relations, peace and security studies, conflict analysis, or another relevant technical field.

Work Experience: A minimum of 8 years of professional experience in programme planning, management, and/or research at the international level is required. Extensive experience in complex humanitarian settings including fragile states and engagement with non-state armed actors. Technical expertise in principled humanitarian action including access strategy development, stakeholder mapping and maintaining key interlocuter networks. Technical expertise and experience in operating in environments with applicable sanctions regimes and other conditionality's. Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization, including experience in UN integrated mission settings is considered as an asset.

Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Arabic and/ or a local languages are an advantage.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

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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:

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 may also be 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.