UNICEF's Emergency Preparedness Platform (EPP) serves as the central online tool utilized by over 130 offices worldwide. Its primary role is facilitating preparedness planning and monitoring, thus fostering enhanced readiness for emergency response efforts. EPP guides UNICEF offices through a structured and standardized preparedness planning process, encompassing risk analysis, scenario definitions, and identifying necessary actions to prepare for an effective humanitarian response. Building on the successes of previous versions, the EPP 3.0 version aims to enable more efficient and accurate preparedness planning and monitoring, improved preparedness for response, enhanced collaboration and communication among team members, greater flexibility and accessibility for users, and the ability to analyze and utilize data for quick decision making. The Emergency Preparedness Specialist will during 60% of his/her time support EPP 3.0 platform development as Product Owner. He/she will represent RAPS and be accountable for the backlog and for the fluid liaison with ICTD and development teams on a daily/hourly basis. During the remaining 40% of his/her time, the Emergency Preparedness Specialist will support the work of the preparedness unit in ensuring notably the effective implementation of technical assistance related to preparedness in ROs and COs. Spearheading capacity-building initiatives for governments in priority countries, focusing on government preparedness/DRR together with Program Group and ROs will also be a priority working direction for the incumbent of the position.
The appointed service provider will conduct an evaluability assessment of the NSSF under the general supervision of the Adolescent Development Specialist (Education and Adolescent Development) with close technical inputs and insights from PMRE with overall guidance from Chief of Education. The assignment will also be delivered in close collaboration with the Department of Basic Education (Director: School Safety).
The UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia seeks a results driven Regional Advisor Polio to support and advise the Regional Director, the Regional Management Team and Pakistan and Afghanistan Country Offices in developing policies, strategies, programmes and systems for the UNICEF regional polio programme support. This is in the urgency to stop polio transmission in the remaining endemic areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Outposted to Islamabad, Pakistan the Regional Advisor Polio will facilitate greater insights to the program challenges and context, allow better alignment of support to the GPEI programme and partners in the two countries, and more rapid engagement and support to the two UNICEF country teams.
UNICEF Albania office will hire an Operations associate at GS6 level on a TA to support the office with budget management, financing and administration tasks
The consultant will develop and collaborate on content development that showcases UNICEF’s climate action successes, lessons learnt, best practices and innovations that contribute to advancing UNICEF’s mission to protect children and secure their rights in the face of the climate crisis.
UNICEF's Emergency Preparedness Platform (EPP) serves as the central online tool utilized by over 130 offices worldwide. Its primary role is facilitating preparedness planning and monitoring, thus fostering enhanced readiness for emergency response efforts. EPP guides UNICEF offices through a structured and standardized preparedness planning process, encompassing risk analysis, scenario definitions, and identifying necessary actions to prepare for an effective humanitarian response. Building on the successes of previous versions, the EPP 3.0 version aims to enable more efficient and accurate preparedness planning and monitoring, improved preparedness for response, enhanced collaboration and communication among team members, greater flexibility and accessibility for users, and the ability to analyze and utilize data for quick decision making. The Emergency Preparedness Specialist will during 60% of his/her time support EPP 3.0 platform development as Product Owner. He/she will represent RAPS and be accountable for the backlog and for the fluid liaison with ICTD and development teams on a daily/hourly basis. During the remaining 40% of his/her time, the Emergency Preparedness Specialist will support the work of the preparedness unit in ensuring notably the effective implementation of technical assistance related to preparedness in ROs and COs. Spearheading capacity-building initiatives for governments in priority countries, focusing on government preparedness/DRR together with Program Group and ROs will also be a priority working direction for the incumbent of the position.
The appointed service provider will conduct an evaluability assessment of the NSSF under the general supervision of the Adolescent Development Specialist (Education and Adolescent Development) with close technical inputs and insights from PMRE with overall guidance from Chief of Education. The assignment will also be delivered in close collaboration with the Department of Basic Education (Director: School Safety).
The UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia seeks a results driven Regional Advisor Polio to support and advise the Regional Director, the Regional Management Team and Pakistan and Afghanistan Country Offices in developing policies, strategies, programmes and systems for the UNICEF regional polio programme support. This is in the urgency to stop polio transmission in the remaining endemic areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Outposted to Islamabad, Pakistan the Regional Advisor Polio will facilitate greater insights to the program challenges and context, allow better alignment of support to the GPEI programme and partners in the two countries, and more rapid engagement and support to the two UNICEF country teams.
UNICEF Albania office will hire an Operations associate at GS6 level on a TA to support the office with budget management, financing and administration tasks
The consultant will develop and collaborate on content development that showcases UNICEF’s climate action successes, lessons learnt, best practices and innovations that contribute to advancing UNICEF’s mission to protect children and secure their rights in the face of the climate crisis.
