Deadline: 31 January, 2021
Location: Mogadishu, Somalia
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is seeking to fill the role of Programme Specialist (Local Governance).
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, reaching the most disadvantaged children and saving their lives.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support for monitoring child rights indicators with emphasis on community and child participation
- Provide timely, regular data-driven analysis for effective prioritisation, planning, and development
- Facilitate results-based management for planning
- Establish effective partnerships with government authorities 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
- Where national decentralisation processes are taking place, collaborate with central and local authorities to improve policies, planning, budgeting, consultation and accountability processes to ensure decisions and child-focused service delivery more closely respond to the needs of local communities
- Collaborate with the central and local authorities to strengthen capacity on quality data collection, analysis for policy development, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring of essential social services with emphasis on community participation and accountability
- Undertake budget analysis to inform UNICEF’s advocacy and technical assistance to ministries of finance, planning commissions and social sector ministries to improve equitable allocations for essential services for children
- Work with sector colleagues to build capacity to undertake costing and cost effectiveness analysis on priority interventions to help inform policy decisions on child-focused investments
- Support the identification of policy options for improved domestic financing of child-sensitive social protection interventions
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or a relevant field
- Five years, minimum, of relevant professional experience in managing and implementing projects in local governance, community mobilisation and social development, preferably in the areas of participatory planning, social mobilisation and community empowerment
- Good understanding of the decentralisation, local governance and decentralised service delivery in Somalia
- Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency and willingness to spend time in the field
- Experience in project management and managing grants, delivering on results, monitoring, and reporting
- Experience in supporting multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder interventions targeting community and system capacity building
- Experience in coordinating with other organisations in the collation of information, analysis and development of recommendations
- Ability to analyse, synthesise information and communicate outcomes clearly to different stakeholders, especially at the community level
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work independently and in a team
- Nationality of Somalia
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