Apply: UNICEF Social Policy Specialist

By Development Diaries
May 17, 2021

Deadline: 25 May, 2021

Location: Bangui, Central African Republic

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is seeking to fill the role of Social Policy Specialist.

UNICEF works for a world in which every child has a fair chance in life.

Responsibilities

Establish the social protection section’s annual workplan
With the social protection team, set priorities/targets and performance measurement, monitor work progress and ensure results are achieved according to schedule and performance standards
Establish clear individual performance objectives, goals and timelines and provide timely guidance to enable the team to perform their duties responsibly and efficiently
Develop social protection policies, legislation and programmes with attention to increasing coverage of and impact on children, with special attention to the most marginalised children
In collaboration with partners, identify, generate and present evidence to support work
Design and ensure implementation of quality assurance strategies/processes for the implementation of integrated programme
Support the design, implementation and monitoring of an integrated national social protection programme in close collaboration with other partners (including World Bank, EU, FAO, WFP, Cash Working Group)
Manage and coordinate technical support around social protection, ensuring it is well planned, monitored, and implemented in a timely fashion to adequately support scaleup and delivery
Ensure risk analysis and risk mitigation are embedded into overall management of the support in close consultation with UNICEF programme sections, cooperating partners, and governments
Oversee the collection, analysis and user-friendly presentation of data on multidimensional and monetary child poverty, including strengthening national capacity to collect routine report and use data for policy decision making
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
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
Build and strengthen strategic partnerships with government counterparts, UN agencies, donor agencies, social protection and social policy institutions, NGOs, research institutes and the private sector to stimulate coordination and collaboration
Oversee the analysis of national budgets for social protection/social policy, cost analysis and value-for-money studies, to advocate improvements in sector efficiency

Requirements

Advanced university degree in Development Studies, Social Policy, Social Protection, International Development, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field
Ten years, minimum, of relevant professional experience in social protection, child protection and systems strengthening at national and international levels (including UN and/or developing country)
Development country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency will be a plus
Fluency in English and French
Knowledge of another official UN language will be a plus

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