Job Vacancies at UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund), Nigeria – 3 Positions

Job Number: 540640
Location: Nigeria
Contract Type: Consultancy
Level: Consultancy
Categories: Supply / Logistics, Consultancy

How Can You Make a Difference
Key Tasks:
Under the joint supervision of the UNICEF Country Offices Health/Immunization staff, Finance Specialist, Procurement Services Center, UNICEF Supply Division, and the Supply Manager, UNICEF WCA Regional Office, the consultant’s duties and responsibilities will include:

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• Revisit the previously conducted Mapping of the Vaccine Procurement Budgeting Process to verify which of the budgeting challenges haven’t yet been (fully) addressed and / or whether new challenges have occurred and propose a roadmap outlining short, medium and long-term recommendations to address them, including in the forecasting, quantification and costing of the procurement needs (including the development of the budgeting templates and methodology if necessary), cash flow timing issues and simplification of the budget release process;
• Support the development or review of the yearly and multi-year (2022-2026) vaccine procurement budget, including, if necessary, development of a standardized budgeting template and Standard Operating Procedure tailored to country needs, as well as capacity building of Government in vaccine procurement costing;
• Develop key messages and prepare advocacy materials to support advocacy efforts for ensuring enough Government budget to fund vaccine procurement needs (tailored to the MoH and MoF needs).

Deliverables:

• Revisit the previously conducted Mapping of the Vaccine Procurement Budgeting Process to verify which of the budgeting challenges haven’t yet been (fully) addressed and / or whether new challenges have occurred and propose a roadmap outlining short, medium and long-term recommendations to address them, including in the forecasting, quantification and costing of the procurement needs (including the development of the budgeting templates and methodology if necessary), cash flow timing issues and simplification of the budget release process (50% time allocation)
• In close collaboration with UNICEF Country Office, the MoH, the MoF, UNICEF SD and RO, the consultant will revisit the previously conducted Mapping of the Vaccine Procurement Budgeting Process to verify which of the budgeting challenges haven’t yet been (fully) addressed and / or whether new challenges have occurred and propose a roadmap outlining short, medium and long-term recommendations to address them, including in the forecasting, quantification and costing of the procurement needs (including the development of the budgeting templates and methodology if necessary), cash flow timing issues and simplification of the budget release process.
• Support the development or review of the yearly and multi-year (2022-2026) vaccine procurement budget, including, if necessary, development of a standardized budgeting template and Standard Operating Procedure tailored to country needs, as well as capacity building of Government in vaccine procurement costing (20% time allocation)
• In close collaboration with UNICEF Country Office, the MoH, the MoF, UNICEF SD and RO, the consultant will support development or review of the yearly and multi-year vaccine procurement budget, including, if necessary, development of a standardized budgeting template and Standard Operating Procedure tailored to country needs, as well as capacity building of Government in vaccine procurement costing (e.g. through a workshop / training).
• Develop key messages and prepare advocacy materials to support advocacy efforts for ensuring enough Government budget to fund vaccine procurement needs (tailored to the MoH and MoF needs) (20% time allocation)
• In close collaboration with UNICEF Country Office, the MoH, the MoF, UNICEF SD and RO, the consultant will -develop key messages and prepare advocacy materials to support advocacy efforts for ensuring sufficient Government budget to fund vaccine procurement needs (tailored to the MoH and MoF needs).
• Final reporting (10% time allocation)
• The consultant will prepare the final consultancy report.

To Qualify as an Advocate for Every Child You Will Have
Academic:

• Master's degree in Business, Development or Public Finance, (Health) Economics / or in another relevant discipline for health / supply financing. First University degree with additional two years of relevant work experience can also be considered.

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Professional Experience:

• Minimum seven years professional relevant work experience (or nine years in case of First University degree) in public finance, health budgeting, fiscal space analysis, health / immunization financing, setting up financial solutions for health (including trust funds etc).

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in written and spoken French and English is required.

Competencies:
Works collaboratively with others For every Child, you demonstrate…Core Values:

• Care
• Respect
• Integrity
• Trust
• Accountability

Core Competencies:

• Builds and maintains partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Innovates and embraces change
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Manages ambiguity and complexity

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

To view our competency framework, please visit here. Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

Application Closing Date
3rd June, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Qualified Candidates are Requested to Submit:

• Cover letter/application.
• Financial quote at a daily rate in US Dollars including all taxes.
• P11 Form (PDF) if not applying through UNICEF Employment site
• At least 3 Reference contacts.

Note

• 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.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
• Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage).
• Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors.
• Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

Job Number: 540439
Location: Abuja
Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment
Level: P-2
Categories: Nutrition, P-2

How Can You Make a Difference?

• Under the overall supervision of Chief of Nutrition, the IM Data, Analytics and Evidence Officer as an expert will collaborate with the government to strengthen Nutrition Information System, manage overall nutrition data/ information and provide support to the field teams and state partners for monitoring, evaluation, and supportive supervision, to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in nutrition programme.
• The officer will be required to generate appropriate analytics to strengthen policies, guidelines/ protocol and programmes for use within UNICEF, the UN, Implementing and Development Partners.
• The incumbent will be responsible to support designing of quality nutrition data collection methodologies, surveys, polling, KAPs, Peer Data Quality Reviews, including both qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
• S/he will initiate, update and or maintain nutrition section databases, while using a range of data platforms such as ODK platform, RapidPro, other monitoring tools and smart phone inventory for programme monitoring and supportive supervision. Further, the incumbent will be responsible for knowledge generation and development of the program appropriate products”.

Key Responsibilities
Data Systems Strengthening & Information Management:

• Provide leadership on strengthening nutrition data systems (routine, surveys and surveillance) at national and sub-national levels, including enabling interoperability and digitization of data platforms
• Strengthen existing in-country data approaches and platforms for collecting, analyzing and reporting high quality nutrition data at national and sub-national levels, particularly coverage data.
• Maintain information databases and general project tools and consolidate, analyse and report/disseminate data collected throughout various assessments
• Manage relevant Nutrition data sets, including humanitarian and development data sets. Coordinate and harmonize data with relevant cluster stakeholders.
• Work with field offices to have a well-prioritized plan of information management activities
• Co-ordinate with other sections and M4R to ensure data coherence across sections
• Provide support in planning and executing data collection activities, including reviewing documents, preparing survey protocols and adopting standardized approaches and tools for nutrition/Cash Based Transfer (CBT) programming
• Provide analytics, assess trends and measure outcomes relating to achievement of project targets to support evidence-based programming.
• As and when needed, coordinate and plan for meetings, develop agendas, document minutes and share action points with all relevant persons.
• Support other IMOs in the section to compile, clean and analyse nutrition/CBT data including Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM), Vitamin A supplementation, Maternal, Infant and Young Child Feeding Nutrition, Micronutrients etc.

Project Performance Monitoring, Reporting & Evidence Generation:

• Support complete, quality and timely reporting based on agreed monitoring frameworks.
• Generate high quality reports and knowledge products including presentations, publications, newsletters, etc.
• Support the preparation of quarterly, annual and adhoc reports and newsletters and share findings with stakeholders for informed decision making
• Consolidate data and draft relevant inputs for the progress and final reports for all nutrition reports and other UNICEF reports (mid-year and end-year activity monitoring, strategic monitoring questionnaires etc.).
• Conduct field visits to programme target areas to monitor the quality of data collection and reporting and provide supportive supervision as and when needed.
• Provide support for evaluation and documentation.
• Support resource mobilization activities for the nutrition section.
• Present information in understandable, effective and visually appealing tables, charts, graphs, maps, visuals and reports (such as snapshots, dashboards, gap analysis, etc.).
• Provide any other relevant support as requested by the Chief of Nutrition.

Requirements
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:

• Master's Degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Development Planning, Nutrition, Public Health, Epidemiology.
• Additional technical qualifications (supported with certificates) in geographic information system, information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, Statistics, Survey, data management or related field is required.
• More than five years of relevant professional work experience including field work. Experience in nutrition data management, monitoring and evaluation.  Proven statistical, analytic and technical skills including designing and administrating databases, database management and data analysis using statistical packages (SPSS, STATA, etc.), high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), ability to maintain basic websites, ability to produce data summaries and visualizations, GIS knowledge an advantage.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language is considered as an asset.

For Every Child, You Demonstrate:
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies listed below:

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Core Competencies:

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

The Functional Competencies required for this post are:

• Analyzing (2)
• Applying Technical Expertise (2)
• Planning and Organizing (1)

Click Here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

Application Closing Date
31st May, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• 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:

• Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Job no: 540103
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Level: NO-3
Categories: Education, NO-3

Key Responsibilities
Support to Programme Development and Dlanning:

• Support the preparation, design and updating of the situation analysis for the education programmes with a focus on non-formal education to ensure that current and comprehensive data on access to alternative learning and on education issues is available to guide UNICEF’s strategic policy, advocacy, intervention and development efforts on education programmes.
• Assist Education Manager to set priorities, strategies, design and implementation plans. Keep abreast of development trends to enhance programme management, efficiency and delivery.
• Participate in strategic programme discussion on the planning of education programmes. Formulate, design and prepare programme proposals for the sector, ensuring alignment with UNICEF’s Strategic Plans and Country Programme and coherence/integration with the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), regional strategies and national priorities, plans and competencies.
• Establish specific goals, objectives, strategies and implementation plans for the sector using results-based planning terminology and methodology (RBM). Prepare required documentations for programme review and approval.
• Work closely and collaboratively with internal colleagues and external partners to discuss strategies and methodologies, and to determine national priorities to ensure the achievement of concrete and sustainable results.
• Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of programming processes and to ensure integration, coherence and harmonization of programmes/projects with other UNICEF sectors and achievement of results as planned and allocated.

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Programme Management, Monitoring and Delivery of Results:

• Plan and collaborate with internal colleagues and external partners to establish monitoring benchmarks, performance indicators and other UNICEF/UN system indicators to assess/strengthen performance accountability, coherence and delivery of concrete and sustainable results for the assigned sector on education programmes.
• Collaborate with Government and local partners to establish community non-formal learning centers and support training and materials development for non-formal, integrated Qur’anic education (IQE) and accelerated education.
• Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual reviews with the government and other counterparts to assess progress and to determine required action/interventions to achieve results.
• Prepare and assess monitoring and evaluation reports to identify gaps, strengths and weaknesses in programme management.
• Identify lessons learned and use knowledge gained for development planning and timely intervention to achieve goals.
• Actively monitor programmes/projects through field visits and surveys, and exchange information with stakeholders to assess progress, identify bottlenecks and potential problems, and take timely decisions to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant officials for timely resolution.
• Monitor and verify the optimum and appropriate use of sectoral programme resources (financial, administrative and other assets) confirming compliance with organizational rules, regulations/procedures and donor commitments, standards of accountability and integrity, ensuring timely reporting and liquidation of resources.

Technical and Operational Support to Programme Implementation:

• Provide technical guidance and operational support to government counterparts, NGO partners, UN system partners and country office partners and donors on interpretation, application and understanding of UNICEF policies, strategies, processes and best practices and approaches on education and related issues to support programme management, implementation and delivery of results.
• In collaboration with relevant specialists, provide technical leadership for training development, including revision of existing training resources for teachers and facilitators on ALP, whether to be delivered through the formal or non-formal education systems and settings.
• Arrange / coordinate availability of technical experts with Regional Office/HQ to ensure timely and appropriate support throughout the programming process.
• Participate in education programme meetings including programme development and contingency planning to provide technical and operational information and analysis, advice and support.
• Draft policy papers, briefs and other strategic programme materials for management use.

Networking and Partnership Building:

• Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with relevant government counterparts, national stakeholders, global partners, donors, and academia through active networking, advocacy and effective communication to build capacity, exchange knowledge / expertise and to reinforce cooperation to achieve sustainable and broad results on education programmes.
• Prepare communication and information materials for CO programme advocacy to promote awareness, establish partnerships and support fund raising for education programmes.
• Participate and/or represent UNICEF in appropriate inter-agency discussions on non-formal and IQE education and related issues to collaborate with inter-agency partners/colleagues on the United Nations Sustainable Development Partnership Framework (UNSDPF)planning and preparation of programmes / projects ensuring organizational position, interests and priorities are fully considered and integrated in the UNSDPF process in development planning and agenda setting.
• Conduct stakeholder discussions around Non-Formal Education policy, curriculum, materials and transfer to formal education.

Innovation, Knowledge Management and Capacity Building:

• Apply and introduce innovative approaches and good practices to build the capacity of partners and stakeholders and to support the implementation and delivery of concrete and sustainable programme results.
• Keep abreast, research, benchmark, and implement best practices in education management. Assess, institutionalize and share best practices and knowledge learned.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure optimum efficiency and efficacy of sustainable programmes and projects.
• Organize and implement capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of clients/stakeholders to promote sustainable results on education and related programmes/projects.

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

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: education, economics, psychology, sociology, or another relevant technical field .
• A minimum of five years of professional and progressive experience in education programme planning, management, and/or research is essential.
• Relevant experience in an I/NGO, UN system agency  is considered as a strong asset.
• Experience working in developing countries and challenging environment is considered as an asset.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required.  Knowledge of local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.

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For Every Child, You Demonstrate
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and competencies including:

• Builds and maintains partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
• Innovates and embraces change
• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Manges ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others

Click Here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

Application Closing Date
24th May 2021 - W. Central Africa Standard Time.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• 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.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
• Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities.
• Qualified Female Candidates are especially encouraged

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