Deadline: 5 May 2016
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Senior Programme Specialist in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Senior Programme Specialist will provide oversight, quality assurance and technical support Governments and Country Offices for strengthening national child sensitive social protection systems, including social cash transfers and other social protection mechanisms.
UNICEF works for a world in which every child has a fair chance in life.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Senior Programme Specialist will perform the following functions-
- Provide support to Country Offices on developing, implementing and evaluating policy development, frameworks, strategies and programs for social protection with a focus on building national and sustainable social protection systems. This includes:
- Support and recommendations on programme strategic planning; situation analyses; and mid-term reviews to accelerate achievement of results.
- Create/expand a roster of institutions and experts to provide technical support at country and regional levels.
- Identify capacity building needs, provide in-country technical assistance, and organize trainings and other means of addressing gaps.
- Ensure that COs have the capacity to protect and reduce the risk and vulnerability faced by vulnerable children, adolescents and their families, in both development and emergency situations.
- Keep abreast of latest methods, ideas and research findings in social protection across sectors, including HIV/AIDS, health, education, and nutrition, through close contact and exchanges with UNICEF Office of Research, as well as external, professional organizations, universities, research institutes.
- Digest, disseminate and raise the profile of this evidence and knowledge among staff in UNICEF and other agencies and partners, through the maintenance and updating of a knowledge base on social protection.
- Ensure COs have access to this knowledge in order to develop evidence based advocacy and interventions for UNICEF supported programming and broader strategic planning and budgeting instruments such as National Development Plans, Poverty Reduction Strategic Plans, and CCA/UN Development Assistance Frameworks, etc.
- Promote and support systematic data collection on social protection interventions including innovative research methodologies and impact evaluations.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Advanced university degree in Economics or other relevant field in the social sciences.
- Ten years of progressively responsible professional work experience in the development, implementation, management, research, analysis and evaluation of social protection programs, including social cash transfer programs in developing countries.
- Experience in policy development, advocacy and social mobilization is also essential.
- Fluency in English and another UN working language required.
- Knowledge of the working language of one or more countries of the region is an asset.
- Experience in the region will be considered an asset.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications through online process.
For more information, please visit UNICEF.
