UNICEF Chief Social Policy Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs

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UNICEF Chief Social Policy Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.

UNICEF Ethiopia looking for “Chief Social Policy”.

Applicants with an Advanced University Degree may apply on or before 26th April, 2024.

UNICEF, originally called the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children’s Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. The organization is one of the most widely known and visible social welfare entities globally, operating in 192 countries and territories.

The UNICEF has published a job vacancy announcement on 20th April, 2024 for qualified Ethiopia’s to fill in the vacant post of Chief Social Policy to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

UNICEF Job Vacancy 2024

How Can You Make a Difference:

Establish the section’s annual work plan with the social policy team. Set priorities and targets and monitor work progress to 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. Plan and ensure timely performance management and assessment of the team.
Supervise team members by providing them with clear objectives and goals, direction and guidance to enable them to perform their duties responsibly, effectively and efficiently.
Improving data on child poverty & vulnerability for increased use for policy and programme action.
Oversees the collection, analysis and user-friendly presentation of data on multidimensional and monetary child poverty, including strengthening national capacity to collect routinely, report and use data for policy decision-making.
Provides timely, regular data-driven analysis for effective prioritization, planning, and development; facilitates results-based management for planning, adjusting, and scaling-up specific social policy initiatives to reduce child poverty.
Strengthening social protection coverage and impact for children.
Develops social protection policies, legislation and programmes with attention to increasing coverage of and impact on children, with special attention the most marginalized. Identifies, generates and presents evidence to support this goal in collaboration with partners.
Promotes 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 as well as complementary services and intervention related to nutrition, health, education, water and sanitation, child protection and HIV.
Undertakes improved monitoring and research around social protection impact on child outcomes, and use of data and research findings for strengthening programme results.
Strengthening private sector linkages (including financial inclusion and income-generating activities) that aims to positioning social protection as a platform for humanitarian-development nexus programming and resilience building.
Improving use of public financial resources for children.
Identifies 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.
Strengthening capacity of local governments to plan, budget, consult on and monitor child- focused social services.
Where the national decentralization processes are taking place, collaborates with central and local authorities to improve policies, planning, budgeting, consultation and accountability processes so that decisions are child-focused and service delivery more closely respond to the needs of local communities.
Collaborates 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.
Strengthened advocacy and partnerships for child-sensitive social policy.

Position in Organization:

Job Title: Chief Social Policy
Job no: 571269
Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
Duty Station: Addis Ababa
Level: P-5
Location: Ethiopia
Categories: Social Policy
Application Deadline: 26th April, 2024

Minimum Requirements:

Education:

An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or another relevant technical field.

Work Experience: