Regional Advisor Adolescents (Participation, Skills and Employability), P-5, Fixed-Term, ROSA, Kathmandu, Nepal

Contract

This is a P-5 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 10 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 150,560 USD and 188,686 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.

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The Regional Advisor provides leadership and advocacy to accelerate progress in the region, responding to the global imperative and elevating the skills and employability efforts across the region and enhancing opportunities for meaningful engagement and participation. ROSA will capitalize on the government’s ownership and partnerships fostered through GenU, such as youth-led organizations, and the private sector to significantly enhance opportunities for skills and employment for adolescents and young people. ROSA will also strengthen its focus on alternative pathways for out-of-school children and adolescents. Participation and empowerment will be one of the strategic pillars that are integrated into the skills agenda and will also cut across all thematic responses. The Participation, Skills and Employability unit is established and led by the Regional Advisor, Adolescents to drive the provision of quality support to COs, build new partnerships and raise more resources to advance the economic empowerment, participation and employable skills agenda.

How can you make a difference?

Reporting to the Deputy Regional Director, the Regional Adviser provides senior thought and programmatic leadership through evidenced-based advocacy to accelerate progress on adolescent skills development, participation, employability, empowerment, and participation across South Asia and plays a critical role in responding to global imperatives and the rollout of UNICEF’s Global Strategic Plan and advancing ROSA’s Areas for Acceleration that focus on Adolescents. The Regional Advisor provides senior-level technical assistance and capacity building to countries in designing and implementing activities related to assessing, monitoring, and improving adolescent and youth skill development, employability, empowerment, and participation with a focus on equity and gender. Working closely with key stakeholders, including the private sector to identify and support scaling-up multiple pathways for adolescents and young people to receive skills training and increase their preparedness for the 21st century labour market is critical to this role. There is a strong impetus and opportunities to engage with governments, CSOs and the private sector to drive the ethos of Generation Unlimited (Gen-U) across the region and achieve scalable results with and for adolescents and young people.

• Provide technical assistance, quality assurance and oversight to Country Offices in areas of adolescent development and participation, skills and employability by acting as the first port of call and a strategic sounding board in developing, implementing and evaluating programmes and initiatives focusing on adolescent participation, skills and employability,
• Provide technical leadership and engagement to the rollout of ROSA’s signature programme initiative for Adolescent Skills and Employability, provide technical support and guidance on the development of concept notes and proposals for resource mobilization and sustained partnership engagement around Adolescents and Young People, including on Participation, Skills and Employability.
• Ensure quality assurance of country programmes and strategies in the adolescent and youth skills development, employability, empowerment and participation, with a special focus on equity, gender dynamics/power relations and social norms, and ensure that adolescent and young people issues are mainstreamed and at the forefront of national and regional agendas.
• Lead strategic representation and partnerships through developing partnerships with related complementary institutions to ensure an increased focus on adolescent development and participation rights and issues. This includes partnerships to build the capacity of national and civil society organizations in programming for and with adolescents.
• Represent ROSA’s regional-specific viewpoints and policy positions on adolescent development and participation at regional and international meetings and ensure that " ground" realities are fed into global processes and discussions.
• Build partnerships with UN agencies at the regional level on adolescent development, participation, skills employability, and represent UNICE in Issue-Based Coalitions as requested and ensure that UNICEF concerns are mainstreamed into regional and country policy and initiatives and raise sensitive or cross-country issues.
• Lead knowledge leadership through review of literature and innovations/good practices to improve regional approaches and strategies to assure development and update of assessments and analyses of their lives, concerns and priorities in the countries of the region through the review of existing sources of evidence and additional research, involving adolescents themselves, identifying research gaps and initiate research to inform programming and UNICEF positioning within the sector and to feed the findings /results of programme evaluation and other empirical evidence into policy and programming advice.
• Promote a knowledge-based culture to help strategically improve results, as well as to promote –experience-sharing through the issuance of regional publications, research findings and statistical analyses by collaborating closely with other Regional Advisers concerning their specific responsibilities for adolescents and young people in education, gender, health, protection, social policy, communication and media, emergencies, monitoring and evaluation.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) with relevant specialization in Social Sciences, Economics, International Development, Adolescent Participation, skills and /or employability.
• Ten years of relevant professional work experience in a development context.
• Experience working with and for adolescents and young people is required.
• Results-driven with experience in leading the development and implementation of programmatic interventions, and advocacy strategies, with clear theories of change, with specific, measurable and time-bound objectives and performance indicators.
• Experience with programme planning, management and research in adolescent participation and youth engagement, skills development and employability at the international level, some of which preferably in a developing country.
• Demonstrated experience in the design and management of projects, including budget management and monitoring and evaluation of results.
• Experience in building and maintaining a network of stakeholders, and in working with coalitions, particularly the private sector.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language of the South Asia region is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others (8) Nurtures, leads and manages people

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

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 include 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, 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 promote 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.

Remarks:This is a Re-advertisement and candidates who have already applied do not need to Re-apply

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable men candidates are encouraged to apply.

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