New Fellowship/Partnerships Recruitment – Health Section MENA Regional Office, Amman, Jordan

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Jordan is a middle-income country where UNICEF’s comparative advantage is technical assistance and evidence-based advocacy to support child-friendly Government programs and policies. With the recent humanitarian situation and greater attention to vulnerable children, it has become even more imperative and relevant for UNICEF to demonstrate and advocate for “what works” to achieve results effectively and efficiently for children.

UNICEF supports the Jordan Government, in partnership with NGOs and civil society, to strengthen capacities to address inequities and disparities in access to quality essential social services, especially basic education and protection of children. UNICEF focuses on generating and strengthening the management of information for optimal planning and implementation of inclusive and child friendly policies in health, education, and child protection. UNICEF's humanitarian response to the Syrian refugee crisis includes support to child protection, education, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), child cash grant and nutrition for children and families in camps and host communities. Public Finance for Children (PF4C) is a major work area for UNICEF under the social inclusion outcome with the goal “to contribute to the realization of

children’s rights by supporting the best possible use of public budgets.” In specific, working toward achieving the following objectives:

(a) Sufficient resources are allocated for child-related policies and programs, including by mobilizing additional funds, for full implementation,

(b) Spending for children is made more efficient by timely disbursement and reducing leakages,

(c) Result-based budging and value for money approaches are adopted for more effective spending for children,

(d) Resources are better distributed to promote equitable spending with greater attention to disadvantaged groups and areas,

(e) Citizens including children and adolescents are empowered to monitor and participate in budget process for more transparent and accountable spending.

Since 2009, UNICEF Jordan in partnership with the government and national partners engaged in child rights budgeting project to quantify allocations for children within the framework of the General Budget Law.

The project aimed at examining the government’s policies, plans and budgets associated with child rights and generated information for improving service delivery, especially for the most disadvantaged children.

UNICEF engagement also encompassed technical assistance to national partners, capacity building, and policy engagement with decision makers through budget briefs, investment cases, and other PF4C products.

The objective of this internship is to support the implementation of UNICEF MENARO security department.

How can you make a difference?

The Middle East and North Africa Regional Office Health team is setting up a regional database on Maternal Newborn Child Health so the Maternal Newborn and Child Health colleagues in the country offices can easily access and use the programmatic guidance/tools and experiences available across countries, regionally and globally to support their programme efforts.

Hence, based on the existing practice with the regional office, the intern is expected to assist the regional Health team in designing and setting up the database, collecting, and documenting promising practices from priority countries and finalizing a MENA Regional Maternal Newborn and Child Health advocacy brief. The intern should make sure all the maternal newborn child health related country, regional and global documents are collected and stored on share point. He / She will be provided with a checklist of the reference websites, essential documents and access to the share point to organize documents accordingly.

Supervision and guidance will be provided on a day-to-day basis, and regular meetings will be organized to provide guidance and advice, as necessary. The intern will also be exposed to take part in all UNICEF MENA RO Health team related activities.

The intern is expected to assist with the following:

1. Undertake literature search of published maternal newborn child health programmatic guidance/tools and experiences available across MENA countries, regionally and globally.
2. Support with the designing of the regional Maternal Newborn Child Health database on the SharePoint.
3. Support with the upload of the relevant published documents to the SharePoint.
4. Support with liaising with country offices in documenting promising practices on thematic areas related to maternal newborn and child health
5. Collate, analyze and compile the promising practices from the priority countries
6. Support with the development of documentation of promising practices on maternal and newborn health for the Middle East and North Africa Region
7. Support the design and layout of the regional advocacy brief on documentation of promises practices.

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

• Education: Be enrolled in an advanced/undergraduate university degree (bachelor/Master’s or higher) in /a relevant background in Medicine, Public health, Social Sciences, Environmental Sciences or any other related field.
• Language: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Arabic language is an asset.
• Strong research and writing skills.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency response is considered an asset.
• Have no immediate relatives (e.g., father, mother, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF office.
• Have no other relatives in the line of authority which the intern will report to (If an applicant has other relative(s) who work(s) in any UNICEF offices, the applicant must disclose this information to the hiring UNICEF office to enable the office to identify and mitigate any conflict of interest before finalizing the internship)

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, 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.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.
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. 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.

Remarks:

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable [Insert candidates from targeted underrepresented group] are encouraged to apply.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government 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 appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government 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.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

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