UNICEF would like to engage consultants to provide simultaneous interpretation services and writing translation for UNICEF WCARO, ensuring clear and accurate translation (French to English and English to French) enabling accurate translations of various documents, effective communication during meetings, conferences, and events as well as facilitating communication with stakeholders, partners, and donors across the region.
The Programme Manager (Connectivity Credits Lead) is entrusted with spearheading the creation and strategic evolution of the Global Connectivity Marketplace. This role involves comprehensive responsibility for the marketplace's concept development, ensuring it is grounded in a solid understanding of the regulatory, legal, and financial landscapes.
The Programme Manager is the architect behind the platform's operational framework, harmonizing the efforts of a specialized team across geographies, notably in Geneva and Barcelona. In partnership with global tech leaders and governments, particularly the Swiss Government, the incumbent is instrumental in fostering relationships that enhance the marketplace's international functionality and influence.
The Market Development Specialist (Innovative Finance) at UNICEF's Giga initiative plays a crucial role in the establishment and operation of the Connectivity Credits Marketplace. Tasked with the intricate job of understanding and navigating unconventional asset markets, this position is central to developing a unique marketplace for connectivity credits. The role demands a deep dive into financial modeling, leveraging innovative technologies such as blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) to build a transparent and efficient trading platform.
In this position, the specialist is responsible for tailoring market strategies to diverse regulatory and economic landscapes across various countries. This involves close collaboration with in-country teams to understand local market dynamics and regulatory constraints. The success in this position not only advances Giga's goal of global connectivity but also bridges the digital divide, enabling enhanced educational and socioeconomic opportunities in underserved communities worldwide.
We are seeking an experienced Connectivity Credits Technical Expert to join Giga, an initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity and choice. The Technical Expert will work with a multidisciplinary team to provide technical expertise and strategic guidance for the development of the Giga Connectivity Credits Marketplace (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/how-connectivity-credits-could-help-billions-get-online/), a blockchain-based system designed to incentivize companies to provide sustained internet access to underserved communities.
If you have a passion for creating impact and a desire to contribute to closing the digital divide, join us as we empower every young person with information, opportunity, and choice. Your work will not only connect schools but also spark socio-economic growth by turning education into a gateway for community-wide advancement.
The UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) is now recruiting a full-time dedicated resource person to provide programmatic and operational support to priority countries in the region to strengthen social protection and HCT delivery in fragile settings and emergencies.
The regional office post is based in Dakar, Senegal. The post holder will be part of the regional Social Policy team, which provides technical support and oversight to UNICEF country programmes in the fields of social protection, including cash transfers, public finance for children, local governance, and child poverty. The post contributes critically to the unit’s work on social protection, with a special focus on fragile settings and emergencies.
The supervisor of the post is the Regional Social Policy Advisor. At the regional level, the staff member will work closely with the Emergency team, the RO’s Cash Task Force, and sector focal points. At global level, the team member will be part of UNICEF’s global Child Poverty and Social Protection team, and work closely with the global Humanitarian Cash Transfer Team. The staff member will support the RO to provide overall regional guidance as well as provide direct support to priority country offices in the region.
UNICEF would like to engage consultants to provide simultaneous interpretation services and writing translation for UNICEF WCARO, ensuring clear and accurate translation (French to English and English to French) enabling accurate translations of various documents, effective communication during meetings, conferences, and events as well as facilitating communication with stakeholders, partners, and donors across the region.
The Programme Manager (Connectivity Credits Lead) is entrusted with spearheading the creation and strategic evolution of the Global Connectivity Marketplace. This role involves comprehensive responsibility for the marketplace's concept development, ensuring it is grounded in a solid understanding of the regulatory, legal, and financial landscapes.
The Programme Manager is the architect behind the platform's operational framework, harmonizing the efforts of a specialized team across geographies, notably in Geneva and Barcelona. In partnership with global tech leaders and governments, particularly the Swiss Government, the incumbent is instrumental in fostering relationships that enhance the marketplace's international functionality and influence.
The Market Development Specialist (Innovative Finance) at UNICEF's Giga initiative plays a crucial role in the establishment and operation of the Connectivity Credits Marketplace. Tasked with the intricate job of understanding and navigating unconventional asset markets, this position is central to developing a unique marketplace for connectivity credits. The role demands a deep dive into financial modeling, leveraging innovative technologies such as blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi) to build a transparent and efficient trading platform.
In this position, the specialist is responsible for tailoring market strategies to diverse regulatory and economic landscapes across various countries. This involves close collaboration with in-country teams to understand local market dynamics and regulatory constraints. The success in this position not only advances Giga's goal of global connectivity but also bridges the digital divide, enabling enhanced educational and socioeconomic opportunities in underserved communities worldwide.
We are seeking an experienced Connectivity Credits Technical Expert to join Giga, an initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity and choice. The Technical Expert will work with a multidisciplinary team to provide technical expertise and strategic guidance for the development of the Giga Connectivity Credits Marketplace (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/how-connectivity-credits-could-help-billions-get-online/), a blockchain-based system designed to incentivize companies to provide sustained internet access to underserved communities.
If you have a passion for creating impact and a desire to contribute to closing the digital divide, join us as we empower every young person with information, opportunity, and choice. Your work will not only connect schools but also spark socio-economic growth by turning education into a gateway for community-wide advancement.
The UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) is now recruiting a full-time dedicated resource person to provide programmatic and operational support to priority countries in the region to strengthen social protection and HCT delivery in fragile settings and emergencies.
The regional office post is based in Dakar, Senegal. The post holder will be part of the regional Social Policy team, which provides technical support and oversight to UNICEF country programmes in the fields of social protection, including cash transfers, public finance for children, local governance, and child poverty. The post contributes critically to the unit’s work on social protection, with a special focus on fragile settings and emergencies.
The supervisor of the post is the Regional Social Policy Advisor. At the regional level, the staff member will work closely with the Emergency team, the RO’s Cash Task Force, and sector focal points. At global level, the team member will be part of UNICEF’s global Child Poverty and Social Protection team, and work closely with the global Humanitarian Cash Transfer Team. The staff member will support the RO to provide overall regional guidance as well as provide direct support to priority country offices in the region.