Re- Advertisement EOI Complimentary 2022 -Social Policy Specialist, P3, Dakar, Senegal Country Office

Contract

This is a P-3 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 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 108,241 USD and 141,733 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, Care

For 75 years UNICEF has been an unstoppable force for change in children’s lives. From short-term relief to long-term development programmes, we have been working tirelessly to save children’s lives, protect their rights and secure their futures.

In Senegal, the past years have been an exceptional journey for UNICEF. The country has made significant progress in advancing children’s and women’s rights.

Today, children in Senegal have a greater chance of reaching their fifth birthday than ever before. Child deaths have significantly declined over the past decades, a victory for children and women. Being able to go to school is now a reality for many more children.

UNICEF and its partners have led intensive advocacy efforts in the country, resulting in substantial progress in legislations, policies, strategies and national programming.

How can you make a difference?

Under the general guidance of the Chief of Social Policy, the incumbent is responsible for providing technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of social policy programing and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) social protection coverage and impact on children; (c) the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services. This encompasses both direct programme work with government and civil society partners as well as linkages and support to teams working on education, health, child protection, water and sanitation, and HIV.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

1.Strengthening partnerships

•Establishes constructive dialogue and partnerships between international and local social protection stakeholders, to provide effective protective environment for the most vulnerable children, including progressive compliance of principal policy documents and legislation regarding all aspects of child rights.

•Facilitate the sectoral dialogue and contribute to improve sector coordination mechanisms.

•Identifies opportunities for south-south and triangular cooperation, and establishes networks with other countries (through UNICEF offices) to facilitate the exchange of experiences and the collaboration among countries.

• Works with external prospects and partners to identify high potential opportunities for resource mobilization for social Protection.

•Develops proposals, prepares progress and utilization reports for donors including background situation.

•Supports programme monitoring to assure timely access to programme information for planning and management.

•Contributes to assuring quality on writing of the country office mid-year and annual reports (COAR, RAM, SMQ, Social Protection Thematic Group reports, UNDAF reports…) and quality of different management documents.

•Supports preparation of background information materials for visits of social protection donors and other special interest groups.

2.Support the implementation of child-focused cash transfer program and Universal Health Coverage

•Support the promotion of Key Family Practices in the context of the main social protection programs implementation.

•Support the definition and the implementation of a national exit strategy for the cash transfer program;

•Support the design, financing, monitoring and implementation of the national cash transfer program (PNBSF), linking cash transfers to development outcomes such as improved schooling, violence against children, immunization, health insurance coverage, nutrition and Early Childhood Development (cash plus);

•Regularly collect, summarize, disaggregate and report upon core social protection data (coverage, impact, exclusion, etc.).

3.Financing for social protection programmes

•Strengthening synergies between social protection and public finance.

•Supports the Country Office to monitoring the public expenditure and budget advocacy for the Social Protection sector;

•Support evidence generation work to guide the social protection system governance: sector review, impact evaluation, const effectiveness and efficiency analysis, costing and fiscal space analysis;

4.Building effective and child and gender-sensitive social protection systems

•Contribute in the definition of the national social protection floor and ensure it is child and gender sensitive;

•Support the social protection system review, contribute to define a social protection floor and a fiscal space analysis;

•Support the institutionalization of the major social protection programs. Support the development of the gender review of the social protection system.

•Provide technical support to generate evidence on efficiency and effectiveness of the Universal Health Coverage scheme and support the national dialogue to implement required reforms for more sustainability and effectiveness.

•Provides technical assistance to the national stakeholders for the development and application of child-sensitive, equitable and shock-responsive core social protection instruments (such as a management information system, targeting mechanisms, single registry, communication plan, monitoring and evaluation system, etc.);

•Actively participate in the social protection working group to ensure better harmonization and alignment of interventions and mechanisms.

•Strengthens national and decentralized coordination mechanisms for social protection.

•Supports national capacity development at national as well as decentralized level (training of stakeholders, South-south exchanges, meetings of the Community of Practice, etc.) that ensures equal participation of men and women.

•Supports the implementation of other child-sensitive social protection programmes (e.g.: free care policy coupled with the performance-based financing system, insurance scheme, free fees school policy).

5.UNICEF Programme Management

•Manages and coordinates technical support around child poverty, social protection, public finance and governance ensuring it is well planned, monitored, and implemented in a timely fashion so as to adequately support scale-up and delivery. Ensures risk analysis and risk mitigation are embedded into overall management of the support, in close consultation with UNICEF programme sections, Cooperating Partners, and governments.

•Supports and contributes to effective and efficient planning, management, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the country programme. Ensures that the social planning project enhances policy dialogue, planning, supervision, technical advice, management, training, research and support; and that the monitoring and evaluation component strengthens monitoring and evaluation of the social sectors and provides support to sectoral and decentralized information systems.

NB: Priority will be given to all the eligible UNICEF Staff participating in 2022 Mobility Exercise and Staff on Abolished post.

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

Education:

An advanced university (Master’s) degree in one of the following fields is required: Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or another relevant technical field.

Experience:

A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience is required.

Experience working in a developing country is considered as a strong asset.

Background and/or familiarity with emergency is considered as a strong asset.

Language Requirements:

Fluency in French and English required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF Core Values

• Care

• Respect

• Integrity

• Trust

• Accountability

• Sustainability

Core Competencies

§ Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)

§ Works Collaboratively with others (1)

§ Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)

§ Innovates and Embraces Change (1)

§ Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)

§ Drive to achieve impactful results (1)

§ Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

APPLICATIONS

Candidates are asked to attach with their applications:

• A cover letter
• A curriculum Vitae
• A P11 form completed and signed (P11 Form will be uploaded from
• http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/P11.doc)
• Copy of diploma and certificates
• Internal candidates should provide their two last Performance Evaluation Reports.

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 is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our 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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.