Programme Manager - Gender and Immunization (P-4), PG - Gender Equality, New York HQ (Temporary Appointment 364days)

Overview

Provide technical leadership in gender and immunization programming.

You have:

• An advanced university degree (Master's or higher) in Social Science, Public Health, Immunization, Nutrition, health science and epidemiology, or in the field of international development is required.
• A minimum of 8 (eight) years of progressively responsible professional experience in gender and development programming including immunization is required.
• Experience in planning, designing, implementing, and delivering results-based programmes on gender and development in health, immunization, and nutrition sectors, is an asset.
• Professional experience in conducting or supporting rigorous gender analysis, including quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, and applied gender measurement, monitoring and evaluation, is an asset.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, or Spanish) is an asset.

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 159,743 USD and 205,956 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.

Developed in tandem with UNICEF’s new Gender Policy and Gender Action Plan (GAP), The UNICEF Strategic Plan for 2022-25 emphasizes structural and norms change to transform the underlying drivers of gender inequality and reflects an intersectional approach to the compounding social exclusion and marginalization related to factors like poverty, racism, disability and migration. With this new, transformative approach, UNICEF is strengthening the mainstreaming of gender equality throughout our programming and systems, while increasing investment in gender-related data.

Over the past years, global immunization coverage continued to backslide leaving 25 million children un- or under-vaccinated. This is the largest decline in child immunization coverage since the 1990s and a growing child health emergency.

Obstacles to equitable coverage of immunization are often driven by gender-related barriers. Gender impacts immunization both on the demand side, through people’s health seeking behaviours, and the supply side provision of health services.

To increase immunization coverage, and to sustainably reach “zero-dose” children for childhood preventive vaccines and most disadvantaged groups for new vaccines, it is necessary to understand and address the many ways in which gender interacts with additional socioeconomic, geographic, and cultural factors to influence access, uptake and delivery of vaccines.

As a leader in immunization, there is a pressing need for UNICEF to galvanize a movement, coordinate its effort and deploy its full capacity to fulfil its mandate of leaving no one behind. Ensuring that immunization services reach all children, adolescents and women equitably, including those in the poorest and most disadvantaged communities, remains the primary focus for UNICEF support.

For every child, a right….

In alignment with UNICEF GAP, the role of the Programme Manager (Gender and Immunization) is primarily technical and programmatic. The Programme Manager (Gender and Immunization) provides authoritative technical guidance/operational support throughout all stages of programming to facilitate the management and delivery of transformative results contributing to gender equality in health and nutrition sector with specific focus on immunization.

How can you make a difference?

Provide technical support to headquarter and regional offices in management and oversight function of gender and immunization portfolio and programming.

• Actively participate in programme coordination and management within HQ and regions; partnerships with global partners, and contract review committees; and other key leadership teams to ensure effective implementation of the programme.
• Coordinate with the Regional Gender and Immunization Advisors to plan, utilize, monitor and report on the Gender and Immunization Fund, or other programmatic funds with large gender components that are allocated to the country-specific interventions.
• In collaboration with sectoral colleagues, participate in the planning and monitoring of the utilization of the budget allocated to gender interventions at HQ, RO and country levels.
• Lead the gender component of the reporting of the programme expenditures, including the annual reporting and donor reporting.
• Provide technical input and review on the gender components in key funding proposal appeals and submissions and in the design of funded projects/programs so that gender technical components are clearly defined, and technical capacities are included.
• Contributing to milestone and grant reporting, maintaining a repository of gender-related knowledge materials and dashboard to track support to countries and status of their gender interventions etc.

Program development and planning (including emergency contexts):

• Support countries in conducting comprehensive gender analysis/ integrating gender as part of existing equity analysis and develop gender briefs for countries developing portfolio proposals or national immunization strategies.
• Provide technical leadership on integration of gender into programme design and strategic directions phases, including strategic planning, mid-term reviews, extended annual reviews,
• Deploying and using proxy indicators in identifying gender-related barriers to immunization and in the developing country specific gender responsive implementation plans
• Liaise with the implementation research team in planning and rolling out implementation research and qualitative assessments to identify and address gender equity barriers.
• Support countries to plan and implement evidence-based advocacy for gender, health and immunization reviews and planning

Prioritizing support for gender-responsive and gender-transformative interventions in reaching unvaccinated children, adolescents and women, and missed communities with vaccinations:

• In collaboration with sectoral colleagues, identify the areas of focus for gender transformative programming with the greatest potential for impact and scale, in alignment with zero dose, covid vaccination and new vaccines.
• Build capacity of regional and country gender focal persons to create a pool of master trainers in the RO and COs who will support gender integration into national Planning processes, health system strengthening (HSS), other planning or funding proposals including vaccine campaigns and new vaccine introductions.
• Test gender specific indicators and assist in incorporating technology such as GIS in monitoring and measuring gender interventions in national monitoring systems.
• Strategic technical assistance to RO & COs, supporting with the rollout of the interactive gender learning tool and gender checklist in select countries

Measuring and monitoring the effectiveness of gender related immunization interventions:

• Support the strengthening of data systems and collection, as well as accountability mechanisms to monitor and evaluate progress on gender results.
• Support countries to document lessons learned and good practices that reduce gender-related barriers on both the demand and supply sides.
• Facilitate gender-related knowledge management across countries including the documentation and dissemination of promising practices
• Assist with planning and rollout of interactive webinars to share lessons and good practices thereby building regional, national, and subnational capacities

Support integration of immunization in primary health care programmes:

• Identify opportunities to support community health workforce with focus on policy and programme support for female health workers.
• Support country examples to strengthen integration with Nutrition and maternal health programmes.
• Liaise and consult with sections, government, and other external partners (civil society, NGOs, private sector) to support convergence, and develop and reinforce partnerships in gender programming

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Social Science, Public Health, Immunization, Nutrition, health science and epidemiology, or in the field of international development is required.
• A minimum of 8 (eight) years of progressively responsible professional experience in gender and development programming including level is required.
• Experience in planning, designing, implementing, and delivering results-based programmes on gender and development in health, immunization, and nutrition sectors, is an asset.
• Professional experience in conducting or supporting rigorous gender analysis, including quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, and applied gender measurement, monitoring and evaluation, is an asset.
• Proven rigor in gender conceptual and programme design skills with an understanding of theories of change from intervention to results, and an understanding of achieving results at scale.
• Expertise in evidence-based advocacy and communication skills on gender equality.
• Professional experience in a developing country programme in one or more of the following areas is required: public health, immunization, nutrition, or maternal, infant and child health care, is an asset.
• Experience in demonstrating ability to work in a multi-cultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships, both within and outside the organization, is an asset.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal) is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, or Spanish) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

Please click Here to view UNICEF's core values and Here to view our competency framework.

UNICEF competencies required for this post are.

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

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 including 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, 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 promoting 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 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.

“UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”

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

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