Social Policy Officer, NO-A, Tripoli Libya- Libya Nationals Only

Contract

This is a NO-1 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-1 contracts.

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 Chance

How can you make a difference?

1. Strengthening Humanitarian Cash Transfer programme for children in the context of Libya:

 Promotes the vision of the Core Commitments for Children in humanitarian actions to implement unconditional and unrestricted humanitarian cash transfers. Ensure UNICEF Libya Country Office Standards Operating Procedures for Cash Transfer programme are disseminated and used by all programme staff. Ensure that all preparedness activities and capacities for cash programme are in place so HCTs can be triggered by the CO in case of shocks and emergencies.

 Represents UNICEF in the Cash and Market Working Group and support technical discussion as well as advocacy with cash partners to improve child sensitive cash programming. Ensure that UNICEF Libya implements cash transfer programme in line with the CMWG tools and guidelines.

 Ensure cross-sectoral and synergies and support the implementation of Humanitarian Cash Transfers with Education and Child Protection programmes.

 Support, with operations, the selection of Financial Services Providers (FSPs) and act as a liaison officer between programme, operations and the FSPs to ensure the delivery of cash assistance to identified beneficiaries.

 Support programmes implementing HCTs in all stages from planning to monitoring activities such as targeting and registration using the Vulnerability Score Cards, Post Distribution Monitoring activities to document monitoring and evaluation activities and impacts.

 Ensure linking humanitarian cash transfer and the national social protection system by fostering coherence and complementarity between humanitarian and development programming. Design and implement risk-informed and conflict-sensitive humanitarian cash transfers programmes that build and strengthen national and local capacities and systems from the start of humanitarian action to reduce needs, vulnerabilities of and risks to affected populations; and contribute to social cohesion and peace.

2. Strengthening social protection coverage and impact for children:

 Supports the development of social protection policies, legislation and programmes with attention to increasing coverage of and impact on children, with special attention to the most marginalized. Identifies, generates and presents evidence to support this goal in collaboration with partners.

 Supports strengthening of integrated social protection systems, especially synergies with child protection and education, providing technical support to all partners to improve the design of cash transfers and the “children and wives grant” programmes and improve linkages with other social protection interventions such as social care services and basic services as well as complementary services and intervention related to nutrition, health, education, water and sanitation, child protection.

 Supports improved monitoring and research around social protection impacts on child outcomes and use of data and research findings for strengthening programme results.

3. Improving use of public financial resources for children:

 Support national budget analysis to inform UNICEF’s advocacy with Ministry of Finance, planning and social sector ministries to improve equitable allocations for essential services for children.

 Supports the identification of policy options for improved domestic financing of child-sensitive social protection interventions.

 Undertakes and builds capacity of partners for improved monitoring and tracking of public expenditure to support transparency, accountability and effective financial flows for essential service delivery, including through support to district level planning, budgeting and public financial management as well as facilitating community participation.

4. Strengthened advocacy and partnerships for child-sensitive social policy:

 Supports correct and compelling use of data and evidence on the situation of children and coverage and impact of child focused services – in support of the social policy programme and the country programme overall.

 Establishes effective partnerships with the Government, bilateral and multilateral donors, NGOs, civil society and local leaders, the private sector, and other UN agencies to support sustained and proactive commitment to the Convention of the Rights of the Child and to achieve global UN agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals.

 Identifies other critical partners, promotes awareness and builds capacity of partners, and actively facilitates effective collaboration within the UN family.

5. UNICEF Programme Management:

 Helps manage and coordinate 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 Government.

 Supports and contributes to effective and efficient planning, management, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the country programme. Ensures that the social policy 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.

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

• Education: A university degree in one of the following fields is required: Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or another relevant technical field.
• A minimum of one year of relevant professional 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
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

Core competencies:

 Builds and maintains partnerships (II)

 Manages ambiguity and complexity (II)

 Thinks and acts strategically (I)

 Works collaboratively with others (I)

 Drive to achieve results for impact (I)

 Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (I)

 Innovates and embraces change (1)

Functional Competencies:

 Formulating strategies and concepts (I)

 Analyzing (II)

 Applying Technical Expertise (II)

 Learning & Researching (II)

 Planning & Organizing (II)

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

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:

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

This position is not considered an elevated risk role. However, UNICEF reserves the right to conduct further vetting/ assessment within the scope of child safeguarding as appropriate