UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

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For every child, the right to a Future

How can you make a difference?

The objective of the post is to provide households with sustainable food security and livelihoods that enable them to produce, access and afford nutritious food. In addition, these interventions will help communities produce sufficient food to sell their surplus, and to add value and connect with higher value markets to boost household income and savings. This in turn will further improve their access to education, health, and WASH services.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

1. Support The technical coordination - Focal point for the Joint Resilience Programme, currently KFW funded and implemented jointly by UNICEF, and WFP.
2. Serve as the link between technical teams and Resilience Unit to follow up on recommendations from technical specialists on implementation progress, challenges, best practices, and identification of new opportunities are shared and discussed.
3. Support quality of resilience and climate change programming through collection of evidence and data to organize them to highlight resilience challenges, best practices, and identification of new opportunities. Work with sections on implementation of integrated solutions throughout the programme cycle.
4. Provide support to the Resilience Coordinator and Climate specialist to maintain broader partnerships on climate change and resilience and ensure coordination of UNICEF’s work across sectors with relevant partners.
5. Support knowledge management, monitoring, evaluation, and lessons learnt arising from implementation of resilience approaches through, with a focus on the upcoming Impact Evaluation and end of phase I and II evaluation.
6. Support compilation and review of donor reports as outlined in the donor agreement. Support internal follow up on technical feedback and specific request from donor.
7. Optimum use of Resilience and climate change Programme Funds by monitoring section’s expenditure patterns are within the approved budgets.
8. Provide support to sections on climate change and resilience Programme planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation and follow up to ensure complementary programming and transitions is followed up.
9. Support organizing and Participate in technical working groups, steering committee and other joint Programme meetings, review meetings and evaluation exercises in consultation with, Chief Field Operations, Programme Managers, other UN agencies and government partners.
10. Carry out other related duties as required by the Resilience Specialist in support of the Programme.
11. Work with different UNICEF sections to ensure climate-sensitive and resilience-focused approaches across the Programme cycle and Coordinate with partners, and withing UNICEF sections.
12. Support sector Climate change and resilient focal points in technical relationships with relevant ministries and government counterparts in order to support national priorities and promote UNICEF's portfolio of action on climate change.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:  JD -TOR Resilience and Climate Change Programme Officer Mogadishu.pdf

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

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in Social Science, International Relations, Community Development and any other related fields.
• Work Experience: At least 2 years of relevant professional work experience.
  Experience in coordination, grants and project management, reporting.
  Strong communication skills, including an ability to build rapport with individuals and groups and maintain an effective network of individuals across organizational departments, agencies, and governments.
• Skills: network building, coordination, grants management, project management, reporting, monitoring and evaluation.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.

Desirables:

• Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language
• Experience working with a KFW grant is an asset
• Experience in proposal development is an asset
• Understanding of the socio-political context of Somalia would be an advantage
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts. 

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). 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 based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants' bank account information.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF's Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

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