Job Title: Chief Field Office, (NO-3), Kibondo, Tanzania # 00108864
Job Number: 522194
Locations: Africa: Tanzania,Uni.Re
Work Type : Fixed Term Appointment
Opening Date Wed May 15 2019 14:30:00 GMT+0300 (East Africa Time) E. Africa Standard Time
Closing Date Fri May 31 2019 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (East Africa Time)
Closing Date Fri May 31 2019 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (East Africa Time)
Overview
If you are a committed, creative professional
and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the
world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from
you.
For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190
countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and
development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing
countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and
sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the
protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is
funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals,
businesses, foundations and governments.
The
fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child,
everywhere, in everything the organization does in programs, in advocacy
and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most
disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this
commitment to children's rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means
that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach
their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the
degree that any child has an unequal chance in life - its social,
political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions - her or his rights
are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health,
education and protection of a society's most disadvantaged citizens -
addressing inequity - not only will give all children the opportunity to
fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and
stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It
accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children,
which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention
on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable
development of nations.
Job organizational context
Reporting
to the Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Field Coordination, the CFO
Kibondo Field Office leads UNICEF response to a current caseload of
almost 300,000 refugees from nearby DRC and Burundi, oversees UNICEF
support to district development plans in the refugee hosting districts
of Kigoma Region, and leads UNICEF efforts in child protection. The
Kibondo Field office consists of a chief of field office (with child
protection oversight), three programme staff covering WASH,
Health/Nutrition, and Education as well as an operation assistant and
two drivers.
Purpose for the job
Under
the guidance of the Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Field
Coordination the Chief Field Office (CFO) is accountable for managing
and leading the total programme commitment of a field office within a
country programme. The CFO represents UNICEF in Kibondo Field Office,
oversees the various program sectors and operational service teams
ensuring the delivery of quality results in accordance with UNICEF's
programme of cooperation, country programme management plan and overall
vision set forward by the Representative. The CFO is also responsible
for the child protection portfolio in the field office. Programming
context spans a range from emergency response in refugee camps to long
term development in refugee hosting districts.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES and DUTIES & TASKS
Within
the delegated authority and the given organizational set-up, the
incumbent may be responsible for all or most of the following areas of
major duties and key end results.
1. Effective management of UNICEF presence, staff and assets
- Represent UNICEF in the region, by participating ensure sector staff attend relevant meetings and coordination fora as well as representing UNICEF and broader coordination foras and events, moving forward the agenda for children. This includes representation and participation at child protection meetings in the region.
- Facilitate, take and implement measures to ensure safety and security of UNICEF staff and assets.
Effectively lead the Field Office team and manage the performance and conduct of the staff members to deliver results for children.
- Coordinate and manage the child protection portfolio where it links across sectors covered by the team.
2. Knowledge Management for Programmes
- Ensure that area/country programmes are supported by knowledge management through data collection and analysis, complete and accurate reporting across sectors as well as participation in the Programme Knowledge Network system of "lessons learned" and other corporate-level databases.
- Provide technical input related to child protection into the knowledge management processes and participate in CP knowledge networks. Responsible for technical oversight of specific data, analysis and reporting for the child protection programme.
- Participate in information exchange through donor and media visits.
3. Programme Development and Management
- Identify critical intervention points and measures by administering a consistent and transparent monitoring system; analyse regional level socio-political-economic trends and their implications for ongoing programmes and projects including specific approaches to respond to humanitarian shifts in the region due to refugees and epidemics.
- Ensure the child protection portfolio has a technically strong monitoring system that is based on the regional context in both districts and the camps. Document lessons learned and bottlenecks in the implementation of the regional roll out of the National Plan of Action to prevent Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC) and feed into the wider sector fora.
- Prepare programme work plans as required ensuring all sector officer inputs are well linked and consistent Prepare program recommendations for inclusion in formal programme documentation, and new approaches, methods and practices. This includes coordinating and ensuring UNICEF inputs into UN response plans and plans within the UN Joint programme in Kigoma. Responsible for the technical content of child protection workplans and inputs to other child protection program documents.
- Establishes programme workplans, monitors compliance and provides training, support and guidance to the programme team to meet objectives. Identifies human resources requirements and on-going staff development needs.
- Support the emergency planning officer in Dar Es Salaam with inputs to relevant programme reports required for management, donors, budget reviews, programme analysis, annual reports, etc. This includes coordinating KFO inputs to periodic situation reports, weekly reports and input to annual reports. Responsible to ensure the technical quality of all input and reports related to child protection.
4. Programme Monitoring and Evaluations
- Undertakes field visits and ensures that his/her staff conduct field visits to monitor and assess programme implementation and decides on required corrective action.
- Leads technical field visits to specifically monitor and assess child protection programme implementation and adjust accordingly.
- Carry out a rigorous and transparent approach to evaluate and participate in the major programme evaluation exercises in consultation with the Representative, Chief of Field Coordination, the Operations Officer, the Evaluation Officer and others to improve efficiency and quality of programme delivery. Participate in annual sector review meetings with government counterparts as well as review of UNICEF support to humanitarian partners.
- Provide technical leadership in evaluations related to child protection and lead child protection sector reviews with partners.
- Provide authorities and service providers with technical support and guidance to plan and organize training programmes for the purpose of capacity building and programme sustainability.
- Ensure the building and reinforcing of the commitment and institutional capacities of the local partners starting with taking a strategic approach to the identification of these partners and partnerships.
- Lead the capacity building effort for child protection partners.
Conduct policy analysis from a children's and women's rights perspective and advocacy at the government, community and family levels for elevating credibility in local/regional debates ensuring inputs from all sector officers. Promote the organization goals of UNICEF through active advocacy and communication in line with UNICEF national advocacy guidelines and strategy. Provide specific technical input on child protection for advocacy efforts.
7. Partnership, Coordination and Collaboration
- Develop partnership and collaboration with internal and external counterparts, including those of the UN and national partners, to improve the ability to collect and disseminate development data and information, exchange information on programme/project status and implementation and movement/distribution of supplies. Linkage to the Regional Programme Knowledge Network to ensure the availability of current and accurate programme data.
- Collaborate with the Operations Section to establish and maintain sound internal controls supportive of programming endeavours and to coordinate financial and supply management requirements and accountability.
- Maintain close collaboration with heads of sectoral programmes in the CO, Regional and HQ advisers for effective overall coordination on programmes. Work closely with child protection section in the CO level to ensure partnerships are well linked to overall CO child protection objectives seeking technical advice and support as needed.
- Plans, develops and implements sectoral programme(s) by collaborating with the government and other partners. Provide leadership, with a specific focus on child protection, to provide technical advice, negotiation, advocacy and promotion of area/country level goals, leading to agreement on practicable and priority actions to be supported by UNICEF programme and country level cooperation.
- Making decisions on project management across sectors within the framework of objectives, supply and case needs, to ensure project delivery meets targeted goals and objectives. This includes technical decision-making on child protection issues to ensure delivery of results.
- Making recommendations of a technical nature on adjustments and changes on project implementation, to improve efficiency and effectiveness. This includes technical recommendations for adjustments to child protection programmes.
- To enhance better understanding of the local conditions, government planning and budgeting processes to facilitate correct programme approach which would lead to effectiveness of activities, and proper use of financial resources. Ensuring that there is strong relations with local government counterparts and other partners so as to make solid implementation and UNICEF credibility. Ensure understanding of the local child protection context and foster strong relations with local government and other partners in child protection.
- The incumbent interprets and applies the guidelines across programmes as well as applying technical knowledge on child protection guidance. The incumbent is expected to make recommendations when deviation from the guidelines is necessary, to ensure project efficiency and effectiveness.
- Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, program reviews and annual reviews with government and other counterparts to assess programs/projects and to report on required action/interventions at the higher level of program management. Provide technical support to monitoring and evaluation of child protections programs with counterparts and report to child protection section at country office level.
- Monitor and report on the use of sectoral program resources (financial, administrative and other assets), verify compliance with approved allocation/goals, organizational rules, regulations/procedures and donor commitments, standards of accountability and integrity. Report on critical issues/findings to ensure timely resolution by management/stakeholders. Follow up on unresolved issues to ensure resolution.
- Draft regular/mandated sectoral program/project reports for management, donors and partners to keep them informed of program progress.
Core Values
- Commitment
- Diversity and inclusion
- Integrity
Core competencies
- Communication [ II ]
- Working with People[ II ]
- Drive for Result [ II ]
Functional Competencies:
- Leading and Supervising [II]
- Formulating Strategies and Concepts [ II ]
- Analyzing [ II ]
- Applying Technical Expertise [ II ]
- Planning and Organizing [ III ]Â
Education:
Advanced Degree in Social Science or other social science field is required with a focus on child protection.
Experience:
Five years of progressively responsible professional work experience at the national and international levels in programme management, monitoring, and evaluation, with specific experience, skills and competencies in child protection. Experience in managing humanitarian response is beneficial.
Language Requirements:
Fluency in English and another UN language.
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Innovation Officer
Background
Organizational Context and Purpose for the job
The innovation Officer, with a portfolio including adolescent participation, will work with the innovation unit in UNICEF Tanzania providing cross-sectoral support to implement the innovation strategy in line with the 2016-2021 country programme. The innovation officer will report to the knowledge management specialist, P3. S/He will support innovative digital platforms including U-report, Rapidpro, internet of good things and others and also proactively seek out new ways for meaningful adolescent participation in Tanzania.
Purpose For The Job
The Innovation Officer reports to the Knowledge Management and Innovation Specialist for supervision.
The overall responsibility of this position is to provide technical level support to innovation and T4D initiatives in the country with a special focus on adolescent participation.
Reporting to the Knowledge Management Specialist, this position supports various activities related to the conceptualization and scale-up of T4D projects in addition to leveraging innovation and knowledge management to handle emerging youth and adolescent issues more effectively for UNICEF Tanzania including ensuring meaningful engagement and participation of adolescent boys and girls.
This function liaises with the stakeholders that include ICT, innovation, programme colleagues and various partners at the project and operations support level to facilitate the contextualization of learnings from innovative programming and pilots for country programme.
Key End Results
Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
Support to programme development, planning, and implementation
The incumbent will have substantive contribution on the scale up of innovation and T4D initiatives particularly those targeting youth and adolescents in Tanzania including platforms such as RapidPro, U-report, Youth for children innovation hub and others ensuring that youth and adolescent participation is meaningful. This will ensure that adolescent and youth programmes are better aligned to the actual need of beneficiaries.
V. Competencies And Level Of Proficiency Required
Core Values
VI. Recruitment Qualifications
Closing Date: 2019-06-02
The innovation Officer, with a portfolio including adolescent participation, will work with the innovation unit in UNICEF Tanzania providing cross-sectoral support to implement the innovation strategy in line with the 2016-2021 country programme. The innovation officer will report to the knowledge management specialist, P3. S/He will support innovative digital platforms including U-report, Rapidpro, internet of good things and others and also proactively seek out new ways for meaningful adolescent participation in Tanzania.
Purpose For The Job
The Innovation Officer reports to the Knowledge Management and Innovation Specialist for supervision.
The overall responsibility of this position is to provide technical level support to innovation and T4D initiatives in the country with a special focus on adolescent participation.
Reporting to the Knowledge Management Specialist, this position supports various activities related to the conceptualization and scale-up of T4D projects in addition to leveraging innovation and knowledge management to handle emerging youth and adolescent issues more effectively for UNICEF Tanzania including ensuring meaningful engagement and participation of adolescent boys and girls.
This function liaises with the stakeholders that include ICT, innovation, programme colleagues and various partners at the project and operations support level to facilitate the contextualization of learnings from innovative programming and pilots for country programme.
Key End Results
Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
Support to programme development, planning, and implementation
- Coordinate various activities for the implementation of the country office innovation strategy with a special focus on the online and offline meaningful participation of adolescents.
- Support work planning, bimonthly, annual reports and monitoring of results for the T4D initiatives and other innovative initiatives in the country.
- Prepare required programme documentations, reports, materials and data to facilitate programme review and approval processes.
- Support country office with the scale of innovative initiatives (RapidPro, U-report etc) including providing sectoral support to leverage innovation and T4D for meaningful participation of adolescent boys and girls.
- Collaboratively work with colleagues and partners to identify implementation issues, provide solutions, recommendations to alert officials and stakeholders of higher-level interventions or decisions.
- Provide support towards RFP, TA and contracting processes and coordinate with external suppliers for T4D and innovation projects.
- Continuously scan, curate and share best and cutting-edge innovative approaches for identifying and responding to emerging youth and adolescent issues more effectively.
- Contribute to and ensure that innovations knowledge base is up to date including research, analysis documents, and reports.
- Provide support to sections to develop mechanisms to effectively moderate existing or new forums for adolescents to ensure their meaningful participation.
- Manage content and user activity on various forums for adolescents including recommending, planning and implementing an effective mechanism for outreach to users by various sections.
- Support the documentation of learnings from innovative programming and pilots for the country programme by identifying, capturing, synthesizing and sharing lessons learned.
- Prepare one-pagers and presentation materials for various tools including RapidPro, T4D platforms and innovative programmes for orientation of staff and partners including government.
- Facilitate workshops together with UNICEF programs and partners, introducing RapidPro and developing real-time monitoring solutions.
- Support in building partnerships with government, national stakeholders, and private sector to facilitate scale and sustain results from innovation and T4D initiatives.
- Proactively research information on potential donors and contribute to the preparation of resource mobilization and fundraising efforts.
- Draft communication materials for country office programme advocacy to promote awareness and utilization of various innovative platforms for meaningful participation of adolescent boys and girls.
The incumbent will have substantive contribution on the scale up of innovation and T4D initiatives particularly those targeting youth and adolescents in Tanzania including platforms such as RapidPro, U-report, Youth for children innovation hub and others ensuring that youth and adolescent participation is meaningful. This will ensure that adolescent and youth programmes are better aligned to the actual need of beneficiaries.
V. Competencies And Level Of Proficiency Required
Core Values
- Commitment
- Diversity and inclusion
- Integrity
- Communication (I)
- Drive for results (II)
- Working with people (I)
- Analyzing (2);
- Applying Technical Expertise (2);
- Formulating Strategies and Concepts (1)
- Planning and Organizing (1)
VI. Recruitment Qualifications
- Advanced university degree in Information Systems Management, Computer Science, International Affairs, International Relations, International Development, Business Management, or related practical experience.
- Minimum two years’ experience managing, designing and implementing solutions for large-scale innovation/T4D projects, including supervising engineers and software developers/contractors, responsibility for budgets, contracts and procurement, etc.
- Experience with technology-related projects in a development context and/or the UN.
- Proven skills in training, management, and strategic thinking. Proven ability to conceptualize, plan, and execute ideas as well as transfer knowledge and skills
- Excellent communication skills; written and oral.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Kiswahili and another official UN language is considered as an asset.
Closing Date: 2019-06-02
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