Technology for Development Officer, No1 (#: 116598) Fiji (364 days Temporary Appointment) **OPEN TO FIJI NATIONALS ONLY**

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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, a new life

UNICEF Pacific is a multi-country office that promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child in the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. The UNICEF Pacific Multi-country Office is located in Suva, Fiji. There are Field Offices in Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and Kiribati. These 14 Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) are home to 2.4 million people, close to one million children, living on more than 660 islands and atolls stretching across 17.2 million square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean.

UNICEF Pacific is committed to engaging children and youth as key actors in their own development, as well as improving access to basic child services, especially among the vulnerable populations. UNICEF Pacific aims to reinforce real-time information, two-way communication, and technology for development with program stakeholders and citizen engagement initiatives. Innovations is one of the cross-cutting strategies for UNICEF Pacific to achieve results for children.

For more information, please visit our website https://www.unicef.org/pacificislands/.

How can you make a difference?

The Technology for Development (T4D) Officer will assist UNICEF Pacific with the identification, assessment, and integration of digital technologies into UNICEF programming, strengthening internal capacity to lead and support T4D related projects, identifying and engaging with key partners, identifying reusable and replicable technical building blocks and maximizing potential for T4D scale-up and roll-out. The officer will also liaise with all stakeholders to build a preferred set of solutions with the aim to lower the barrier of entry and increase solution portability to allow for scale up.

Under the overall guidance of the Innovation Specialist (T4D and Youth), the T4D Officer works closely with sectoral programme colleagues and implementing partners to provide technical, support with the implementation of UNICEF innovation tools, including RapidPro, U-Report, ONA and Internet of Good Things, to gather real-time information among duty bearers and right holders and inform adjustments of program needs to achieve better results for children.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

1. Programme support for T4D and digital interventions
2. Knowledge Management, Research and Analysis
3. Technical Assistance for capacity development

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

• A University degree in information technology management, business administration, international relations, community development, or other related social science fields.

• A minimum of one year of professional experience in information technology management and business operations in a large international organization and/or corporation is required.

  Experience in designing or deploying tools appropriate to low-bandwidth environments and/or with RapidPro, OpenDataKit (ODK), DHIS2, and other open-source and digital public good technologies, and deploying, maintaining, and rolling out these technologies is highly desirable.

• Experience in a UN organization is an 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) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Formulating strategies and concepts (I)
• Analysing (II)
• Relating and networking (I)
• Planning and Organizing (I)
• Applying technical expertise (II)

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.