Internships with UNICEF offer eligible candidates the opportunity to gain experience in UNICEF’s work and get familiar with its mandate. An internship is the perfect way to kick start your career. Through this internship, you can gain your first experience of daily working life. We offer you the opportunity to put into practice the knowledge you acquired during your studies. In addition to theoretical knowledge, you will also gain initial practical experience.
Under the responsibility of the Social Policy Specialist, the consultant provided technical and financial assistance to countries to carry out and disseminate the results of this transparency study, to strengthen the institutions involved and enable greater transparency and participation in the budget process from formulation to enactment, addressing the underlying causes of insufficient transparency and participation as well as issues related to budget allocation and a country's low and/or delayed budget execution
Under the supervision of the Child Protection Officer and the guidance of the international research team, the consultant(s) will carry out the transcription of qualitative interview recordings in Portuguese, including key informant interviews, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions, as per the technical guidance of the international research team and in compliance with the ethical requirements provided by UNICEF.
Over the past five years, UNICEF has made significant progress on integration of GBV risk mitigation into Nutrition programming, including building the evidence base both at global level and through operational research in humanitarian contexts. The advancements in this field of work will be presented during the 2024 Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Forum in Cape Town (South Africa) from 21 to 25 October 2024. The SVRI is the largest global network on research on violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC), providing a space where global role players in the field connect with one another, share and promote their research, work to influence policies and improve the lives of those who have experienced GBV.
As part of these efforts, an innovative multi-year study conducted jointly in South Sudan by UNICEF, the Ministry of Health and Action Against Hunger, has examined in depth the effectiveness of GBV risk mitigation actions within humanitarian nutrition programming. During the 3-month period of the contract, the consultant will be responsible for key deliverables building on the results of the study.
The purpose of this position is to support the acceleration of UNICEF regional and country level efforts in the area of public finance for children (PF4C), including in terms of enhancing the PFM capacity of staff across the Regional Office and in Country Offices in the West and Central Africa region. The Social Policy Specialist (PF4C) will provide oversight, quality assurance and technical support to the PF4C work carried out by UNICEF Country Offices and support their efforts to leverage greater, more effective, transparent, and equitable domestic public investments in children and ensure results in the areas of health, education, HIV, nutrition, child protection, social inclusion, and WASH. Further, the position entails providing staff capacity development, knowledge management, and strategic partnership support to UNICEF WCAR engagements related to budgets and public financial management, to improve the enabling environment and remove PFM related barriers to achieving results for children.
Internships with UNICEF offer eligible candidates the opportunity to gain experience in UNICEF’s work and get familiar with its mandate. An internship is the perfect way to kick start your career. Through this internship, you can gain your first experience of daily working life. We offer you the opportunity to put into practice the knowledge you acquired during your studies. In addition to theoretical knowledge, you will also gain initial practical experience.
Under the responsibility of the Social Policy Specialist, the consultant provided technical and financial assistance to countries to carry out and disseminate the results of this transparency study, to strengthen the institutions involved and enable greater transparency and participation in the budget process from formulation to enactment, addressing the underlying causes of insufficient transparency and participation as well as issues related to budget allocation and a country's low and/or delayed budget execution
Under the supervision of the Child Protection Officer and the guidance of the international research team, the consultant(s) will carry out the transcription of qualitative interview recordings in Portuguese, including key informant interviews, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions, as per the technical guidance of the international research team and in compliance with the ethical requirements provided by UNICEF.
Over the past five years, UNICEF has made significant progress on integration of GBV risk mitigation into Nutrition programming, including building the evidence base both at global level and through operational research in humanitarian contexts. The advancements in this field of work will be presented during the 2024 Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Forum in Cape Town (South Africa) from 21 to 25 October 2024. The SVRI is the largest global network on research on violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC), providing a space where global role players in the field connect with one another, share and promote their research, work to influence policies and improve the lives of those who have experienced GBV.
As part of these efforts, an innovative multi-year study conducted jointly in South Sudan by UNICEF, the Ministry of Health and Action Against Hunger, has examined in depth the effectiveness of GBV risk mitigation actions within humanitarian nutrition programming. During the 3-month period of the contract, the consultant will be responsible for key deliverables building on the results of the study.
The purpose of this position is to support the acceleration of UNICEF regional and country level efforts in the area of public finance for children (PF4C), including in terms of enhancing the PFM capacity of staff across the Regional Office and in Country Offices in the West and Central Africa region. The Social Policy Specialist (PF4C) will provide oversight, quality assurance and technical support to the PF4C work carried out by UNICEF Country Offices and support their efforts to leverage greater, more effective, transparent, and equitable domestic public investments in children and ensure results in the areas of health, education, HIV, nutrition, child protection, social inclusion, and WASH. Further, the position entails providing staff capacity development, knowledge management, and strategic partnership support to UNICEF WCAR engagements related to budgets and public financial management, to improve the enabling environment and remove PFM related barriers to achieving results for children.