Deadline: 4 February 2021
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is currently seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of TA Social Policy Officer in Lome, Togo.
UNICEF works for a world in which every child has a fair chance in life.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The TA Social Policy Officer will perform the following functions:
- Provide timely, regular data-driven analysis for effective prioritization, planning, and development.
- Facilitate results-based management for planning, adjusting, and scaling-up specific social policy initiatives to reduce child poverty.
- Analyze the macroeconomic context and its impact on social development, emerging issues and social policy concerns, as well as implications for children, and proposes and promotes appropriate responses in respect of such issues and concerns, including government resource allocation policies and the effect of social welfare policies on the rights of children Supports the development of social protection policies, legislation and programmes with attention to increasing coverage of and impact on children, with special attention the most marginalized.
- Identify, generate and present evidence to support this 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 as well as complementary services and intervention related to nutrition, health, education, water and sanitation, child protection and HIV.
- 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 including through support to district level planning, budgeting and public financial management as well as facilitating community participation.
- Where national decentralization processes are taking place, collaborates with central and local authorities to improve policies, planning, budgeting, consultation and accountability processes so that decisions and child-focused service delivery more closely respond to the needs of local communities.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have:
- University Degree (Bachelor) in one of the following fields is required economics, public policy, social sciences, international relations, political science, or another relevant technical field.
- 2 year’s of professional experience in social development planning and management in child protection related areas is required.
- Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
- Fluency in French is required.
- Knowledge of English and of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications through online process.
For more information, visit UNICEF.
