External Vacancy announcement: Temporary Appointment: Chief Adolescent Empowerment and Community Resilience (AECR) – Adolescent empowerment, skills development, C4D and RCCE), (P-4), 6 Months, Bujumbura, Burundi BCO

 TDRs TA Chief AECR.pdf

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, Empowerment

The Chief AECR reports to the Deputy Representative for general guidance and direction. The Chief supports country office programming processes by providing expert technical advice and operational support to country office colleagues and internal and external partners and stakeholders to ensure that children and adolescent development and participation established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/framework and UN intergovernmental bodies, are integrated in UNICEF’s advocacy, policies, programmes and humanitarian work. The Chief contributes to the achievement of sustainable and scalable results on adolescent and C4D related programmes/projects according to plans, allocation, results based-management approaches and methodology (RBM) and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.

How can you make a difference?

• Country Programme planning and development
• Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
• Advocacy, networking and partnership building
• Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

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

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: anthropology, psychology, sociology, political science, communication for development, education or another relevant technical field.
• A minimum of eight years of professional experience in development, planning and management of adolescent young people’s participation, skills development, entrepreneurship or the creation of employment opportunities for adolescents.  
• Additional experiences in social development planning, social and behavior change communication/communication for development will be an asset.
• Familiarity with UNICEF procedures and systems
• Experience in inclusion and equity approaches including on gender equality and children with disabilities or other minority groups will be an asset
• Proven track record in working with a diverse range of partners including NGOs, other UN agencies
• Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset
• Fluency in French and English is required. 

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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:

https://www.unicef.org/careers/media/1041/file/UNICEF%27s_Competency_Framework.pdf

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.