Deadline: 04 February, 2021
Location: Lome, Togo
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is seeking to fill the role of Social Policy Officer.
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, reaching the most disadvantaged children and saving their lives.
Responsibilities
- Provide timely, regular data-driven analysis for effective prioritisation, planning, and development
- Facilitate results-based management for planning, adjusting, and scaling-up of specific social policy initiatives to reduce child poverty
- Analyse the macroeconomic context and its impact on social development, emerging issues and social policy concerns, as well as implications for children, and propose and promote appropriate responses in respect of such issues and concerns
- Identify, generate and present evidence to support goal in collaboration with partners
- Support strengthening of integrated social protection systems, providing technical support to partners to improve the design of cash transfers and child grants and improve linkages with other social protection interventions such as health insurance, public works and social care services
- Support the identification of policy options for improved domestic financing of child-sensitive social protection interventions
- Undertake and build capacity of partners for improved monitoring and tracking of public expenditure to support transparency, accountability and effective financial flows for essential service delivery
- Where national decentralisation processes are taking place, collaborate with central and local authorities to improve policies, planning, budgeting, consultation and accountability processes
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or a relevant field
- Two years, minimum, of professional experience in social development planning and management in child protection-related areas
- Experience working in a developing country is considered an asset
- Fluency in French
- Knowledge of English and another official UN language or a local language of the duty station is considered an asset
To apply and for more information, click here.
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