Project Manager (Disability Inclusion), P-4, Culture and Diversity team in the Office of the Executive Director

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 171,387 USD and 220,969 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, inclusion

UNICEF is a leading humanitarian and development agency working globally for the rights of every child. Child rights begin with safe shelter, nutrition, protection from disaster and conflict and traverse the life cycle: pre-natal care for healthy births, clean water and sanitation, health care and education. UNICEF has spent nearly 75 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Working with and for children through adolescence and into adulthood requires a global presence whose goal is to produce results and monitor their effects. UNICEF also lobbies and partners with leaders, thinkers and policy makers to help all children realize their rights—especially the most disadvantaged.

The UN Secretary-General has made diversity, equity and inclusion a key part of his agenda and wider UN reform, and the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS) has put workplace disability inclusion at the forefront.

Centred on efforts to realize the rights of all children, UNICEF's 2022-2025 Strategic Plan complements and contributes to the 2030 Agenda by committing to improve the life of disadvantaged children and adolescents today and enhance prospects for their well-being tomorrow. Multiple references to disability inclusion and intersectionality are made throughout the Strategic Plan and disability is mainstreamed across all Goal Areas. Disability is very much present among the outcome indicators for all Goal Areas: on accessibility and assistive technology, disability-inclusive social protection and disability-inclusive humanitarian programming, office accessibility and inclusion, leadership training, and linked to UNDIS indicators both on programmes and operations. All this demonstrates UNICEF's renewed commitment to promote inclusion and accessibility from programmes to policies and practices throughout the organization.

While UNICEF has made considerable progress to strengthen disability inclusion both in programming and operations, the commitments in the new Strategic Plan and UNDIS require an intentional and sustainable effort to further advance disability inclusion as part of our collective work, especially with the roll out of UNDIS to UN Country Teams in 2020 in a context where very few staff have disability inclusion expertise.

The Project Manager (Disability Inclusion) is accountable for the overall coordination of UNDIS implementation and reporting within UNICEF. The incumbent will need to demonstrate their ability to work with numerous stakeholders in both programmes and operations, providing regular technical advice to headquarters, regional and country offices and contributing to an intersectional approach to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) within the Culture and Diversity team in the Office of the Executive Director (OED).

Learn more about the Culture and Diversity team and other jobs being advertised: UNICEF establishes a new Culture and Diversity team.

How can you make a difference?

1. Coordination and integration of disability issues across UNICEF’s areas

• Coordinate UNICEF’s interdivisional approach to UNDIS implementation through the Disability-inclusion Working Group (DIWG)
• Support the development of the Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy (DIPAS) 2022-2030 with regular input
• Support the dissemination and implementation of DIPAS and the current work to include children with disabilities in all facets of UNICEF’s programming using an intersectional approach
• Support the Disability Section in Programme Group (PG) with efforts to meet UNDIS requirements as needed and other activities to increase mainstreaming of disability issues into programming
• Guided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and aligned to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), support current work to include children with disabilities in all facets of UNICEF’s programming using an intersectional approach
• Support the implementation of the Recommendations of the Internal Task Team on Anti-Racism and Discrimination
• Support development of guidelines on accessibility of conferences/events/meetings and accessibility of digital documents
• Support the Division of Global Communications and Advocacy (DGCA) to roll out the UNICEF Procedure on Disability-Inclusive Communication and Advocacy and provide technical advice on inclusive communication practices to HQ, regional and country offices
• Support ICTD to remediate accessibility issues in UNICEF’s online platforms as per evaluation conducted in 2020
• Support Evaluation Office (EO) to develop disability-inclusive tools as per UNDIS recommendations and roll out good practices at regional and country level
• Support SD to make procurement procedures disability-inclusive, following UNDIS recommendations
• Support the Division of Financial and Administrative Management (DFAM) on implementation of accessibility projects in UNICEF premises globally
• Coordinate annual UNDIS reporting across divisions
• Participate in inter-agency fora and inter-agency capacity-building activities on disability inclusion, as needed
• Represent UNICEF in UNDIS coordination system, jointly with the PG Global Lead on Disability

2. Technical support to regional and country offices on disability inclusion

• Provide substantive advice to regional and country offices on disability programming with an intersectional lens in all areas
• Roll out the UNICEF Procedure on Disability-Inclusive HR management in regional and country offices
• Develop tailored resources on onboarding, recruitment and workplace disability-inclusion for regional and country offices
• Provide ongoing technical advice to regional- and office-level activities on accessibility of premises, security considerations and overall disability-inclusion elements in operations, working closely with Regional Offices, DGCA, the Information and Communication Technology Division (ICTD) and Supply Division (SD)
• Actively support and contribute to DEI initiatives at office level (on gender, anti-discrimination and anti-racism and others) with approaches that address disability-inclusion
• Coordinate capacity-building activities on disability inclusion for all personnel in regional and country offices Support regional and country offices to set up their own local working group on disability inclusion

3. Human Resources activities

• Provide ongoing support for onboarding to offices hiring employees with disabilities (i.e. focus on UN Volunteers with disabilities pilot programme in 2021/2022)
• Provide input to other activities carried out by the Culture and Diversity team, particularly on policy, performance management, learning, recruitment, wellbeing and mental health
• Continuously update the Inclusive Employment Guide and roll it out in HQ, regional and country offices
• Support UNICEF to increasingly hire employees with disabilities
• Manage and follow on reasonable accommodation (RA) requests from HR practitioners, applicants and employees with disabilities and support facilitation with RA Committee
• Participate in assessments conducted by the Special Constraints Panel to determine mobility of employees with disabilities
• Coordinate intersectional work on remedial actions stemming from the annual UNICEF UNDIS Report, the bi-annual Global Staff Survey (GSS), the annual Strategic Monitoring Questions (SMQs) and the Recommendations from the Internal Task Team on Anti-Racism and Discrimination
• Support talent outreach team and HR practitioners in regional and country offices with targeted or mainstream programmes for employees with disabilities, including UN Volunteers with disabilities
• Liaise with Employee Resource Groups and prioritize actions to increase wellbeing and engagement of employees with disabilities and employees with dependents with disabilities
• Develop tools to measure the engagement of employees with disabilities more accurately
• Keep abreast, research, benchmark, and implement best and cutting-edge practices in disability-inclusive HR management and contribute to the development of innovative global policies and initiatives

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

Education:

• An Advanced University Degree in occupational therapy, disability studies, human resource management, organizational psychology, social sciences, human rights or a related field is required

Experience:

• Eight (8) years of increasingly responsible professional experience in disability inclusion in an international organization and/or large corporation is required.
• Background as occupational therapist is an asset.
• UN experience, or experience working in the development/humanitarian community, is an asset.
• Language requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another language is a strong asset.

Skills:

Strategic

• Experience and ability to implement targeted, customized and innovative strategies to address the needs of clients and employees.
• Ability to implement innovative programmes within a fast-paced, evolving, and wide organizational setting.

Technical

• In-depth technical knowledge of the principles and concepts of disability inclusion in organizations.
• Ability to identify and analyze systemic issues, formulate opinions and make conclusions and recommendations to resolve them.
• Excellent knowledge of organizational systems and tools.

Interpersonal and Communication

• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in a diverse organization tailoring language, tone, style and format to match audience.
• Ability to empathize with senior leaders, clients, supervisors and staff while advocating for consistent and equitable applications of disability-inclusive policies and initiatives.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following a competency framework. Familiarize with our competency framework and its different levels: https://uni.cf/Competencies

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
• 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)

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. Learn more about UNICEF’s wellbeing offer: https://uni.cf/Wellbeing

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, culture, appearance, socio-economic status, ability, age, religious, and ethnic backgrounds, to apply to become a part of the organization. More information on UNICEF’s commitment to diversity and inclusion: https://uni.cf/InclusiveUNICEF

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:

This is a Temporary Appointment with a duration of 364 days.

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.