CHARITY JOBS IN AFRICA

Organization: UN Children's Fund
Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 06 Jan 2015

Purpose of the Position

Conflict and insecurity are among the most significant development challenges of our time and considerable barriers to realising the right to education for all children and young people. UNICEF underlines the need for a more comprehensive approach to basic education for all children, irrespective of socio-economic status, location, ethnicity, gender, ability and other reasons that suggest that all children’s right to education is not being met.

Education has crucial linkages to a society's social, economic and political spheres. Education is central to identity formation, can promote cohesive societies and contribute to state-building. The goal of the Peacebuilding, Education and Advocacy (PBEA) project is to strengthen resilience, social cohesion and human security in conflict-affected contexts. Towards this end UNICEF works to invest in a more rigorous and comprehensive basic education system (both formal and non-formal) in South Sudan, one that advances the needs and rights of all children, including adolescents and working through a peacebuilding lens.

Accountable for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of Peacebuilding, Education and Advocacy project to ensure overall efficiency and effectiveness of the programme management, delivery and accomplishment of programme goals and objectives. Across the PBEA as part of the Education and Adolescent Development programme, accountable for implementing programmes and identifying peacebuilding, human rights and gender inequalities in Education and Adolescent development and for developing innovative approaches and programmes to eliminating these inequalities. Collaborates across the programme(s) to ensure conflict sensitivity education and gender mainstreaming. Ensures that monitoring mechanisms are in place to track progress towards disparity reduction goals and targets in Education and promotes holistic adolescent development. Commitment for enhancement of gender-sensitive teamwork and capacity building, in support of achievement of planned objectives of the work plan, aligned with country programme goals and strategy.

Provision of roaming (based in Juba but with 60% roaming support to various field locations) technical support to field colleagues in the areas of Peacebuilding, Education and Conflict Sensitive Education, Life Skills and Peace Education.

Promotes inter-sectoral partnerships in PBEA as part of the larger Education and Adolescent Development Programme in order to ensure that progress benefits mutually Education, Peacebuilding and Adolescent Development and other programmes, in particular Child Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Social Policy and Communications.

Contributes to synergize the work of United Nations agencies in Education for all Goals including in humanitarian actions, working closely with the Education cluster within the inter-agency standing committee (IASC). Contributes to synergize and strengthen local actions towards United Nations Youth sector wide approach (SWAP), Inter Agency Network on Youth.

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Key Expected Results**

1. Timely sectoral analysis, input, support and collaboration to the Situation Analysis and its periodic update made for effective PBEA project contributing toward the Education and Adolescent Development programme planning, development and management, using a conflict sensitive and gender-specific framework. Partnership with the stakeholders, including government and knowledge institutions strengthened to further understanding of barriers to and opportunities advancing in education, peacebuilding and comprehensive adolescent development.
2. Knowledge management effectively promoted through drafting/finalizing key Education, Peacebuilding and Adolescent Development and overall sectoral programme documents and reports, sharing good practice, lessons learned, and knowledge/information exchange, with partnerships and collaborative relationships with all stakeholders, capitalizing on the know-how and network of knowledge institutions.
3. Rights-based Education, Peacebuilding and Adolescent Development programming effectively promoted, and coherence, synergy and value added to programme management process through results-based management. The core partnerships as well as selective partnerships on specific issues and themes or regional concern, such as "Achieving results for adolescents" (R4A), education and HIV, life skills and Peace building in education exploited efficiently in order to formulate common advocacy position, develop policy guidance and influence allocation of resources on behalf of education.
4. Sectoral work plan and activities formulated, implemented and monitored, ensuring alignment with the defined programme strategies and approaches, and conflict sensitivity, gender mainstreaming across programmes. UNICEF contribution reflected as part of the coordinated support of external partners to national efforts to achieve the MDGs 2 and 3.
5. Programme delivery, evaluation and reporting carried out efficiently and transparently in compliance with the established guidelines and procedures in support of Education and Adolescent Development.
6. UNICEF's global goals effectively promoted through advocacy and policy dialogue in the Education and Adolescent Development programme.
7. Proper and timely UNICEF and Government accountability ensured regarding supply and non-supply assistance as well as disbursement of programme funds for the Education and Adolescent Development.
8. Participatory education and adolescent and youth policy dialogue conducted, engaging all stakeholders, government counterparts, children, adolescents and youth to ensure development of a favorable pro-children and adolescent and youth policy environment.
9. Effective communication and networking achieved through partnership and collaboration;-which reflect UNICEF comparative advantage and expectation that donors and partners have on UNICEF ability to help country to achieve the education and adolescent participation-related MDGs.

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Qualifications of Successful Candidate**

Education Background:
Advanced university degree in one or more of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: Education; Primary Education, Child and Adolescent Development, Behavioral or Social Sciences, Children Policy Development or another field relevant to international development assistance.
*A first University Degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and experience may be accepted in lieu of Advanced University Degree.

Work Experience:
Five years of progressively professional work experience at national and international levels in field programmes relevant to Education, life skills, peacebuilding, conflict-sensitive education, adolescent development and adolescent and youth programmes. Experience working in the UN or other international development organization an asset. Experience in national and sub-national level development assistance is an asset. Experience with addressing gender disparities and asset. Background/familiarity with Emergency. Field-level experience in conflict and humanitarian contexts for 2 years or more an asset.

Language Proficiency:
Fluency in English and local working language of the duty station

Competencies of Successful Candidate

i) Core Values:

• Commitment
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Integrity

ii) Core Competencies:

• Communication
• Working with People
• Drive for Results

iii) Functional Competencies:

• Leading and Supervising
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts
• Analyzing
• Relating and Networking
• Persuading and Influencing
• Creating and Innovating

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Remarks**

* The successful candidate for this emergency recruitment MUST be available to commence work within 31 days of receiving an offer.
Please note that Juba, South Sudan is a non-family duty station.

How to apply:

If you would like to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better world for children, please apply to the link below no later than 06 January, 2015.
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