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Deadline of these Jobs: 13 November 2022
UNICEF is the world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS.

Emergency Specialist

The Emergency Specialist will support the HARP section in the reporting requirement for the HARP section (for example donors, HAC, Sitrep, and Briefing Notes/Talking Points).

  • Provide high quality input to the development of critical analysis of emergency risk in the region and support Country Offices in developing capacity building strategies for national partners (government at the national and sub national levels, civil society, and community actors) to enhance their capacity for emergency preparedness and response guided by the Core Commitments for Children.
  • Directly support to L3 scale up countries as well as Greats Lakes, providing Technical Assistance support onsite/remote on programming/cross cutting strategies including access, Humanitarian Performance Monitoring, Accountability to Affected Population, peace building, resilience.
  • Support Country Offices (CO) to adopt adequate emergency preparedness and response measures through the development and updating of EPP, country contingency plans, and follow up on compliance of CO with the implementation of agreed MPAs. Ensure the multi-country emergency preparedness and response plan is well supported and coordinated, especially in the Great Lake and Horn of Africa, and the development of Country and Regional chapters of the Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) as well.
  • Provides advice to the country office in the implementation of emergency preparedness measures in the field to strengthen preparedness and response mechanisms in the country faced with impending emergencies. Ensure proper in person support is provided to COs to scale up their response to any emergency.
  • Provide dedicated support to the preparation, documentation, and follow-up of emergency management mechanism within the RO including Emergency Management Team, Humanitarian Action Group, and other mechanisms as required.
  • Plans, organizes, and conducts training for CO staff capacity building in emergencies preparedness and response. Assists in developing and conducting emergency training courses (EPP 2.0; CCCs; Emergency Procedures; Access strategy). Provides training and/or briefing, as required.
  • Regular reporting of UNICEF Country Offices using the Humanitarian Performance Management System (HPMS) and regular Situation Reports (SITREPs)
  • Timely and priority operational and programmatic support is provided by ESARO to designated Country Offices affected by emergencies by:
    • Mobilizing, coordinating and deploying technical support to COs to respond to short-term surges in demand; mobilizing and facilitating technical advisors to support COs meet the CCCs in the framework of the UNICEF Strategic Plan
  • Participates in the implementation of plans of action and work plans for emergency and resilience projects.
  • Coordinate with ESARO program sections and management to mobilize donor response and recovery/rehabilitation-related funding, including annual or multiannual humanitarian appeals and documents (e.g., pitch documents, HAC, ...).
  • Maintains coordination, communication, consultation, and liaison with regional bodies, UN agencies, NGOs, donors.
  • In coordination with the Emergency Specialist, participates in humanitarian and resilience-related forum and keeps management informed of all humanitarian developments in the region in terms of policies, strategy, situation developments, potential threats, and opportunities/issues in partnership. Support Risk informed programming, resilience, and Humanitarian development nexus regional work and support for CO based on programmatic needs, and regional resilience priorities.

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

  • Education:
    • Advanced University degree in International Relations, Public Administration/Public Policy, Humanitarian Affairs, Development, Social Sciences, or a related technical field.
    • 8 years professional work experience at national and international levels in humanitarian response. Preferred experience in preparedness, complex emergencies, including experience in early recovery in the East and southern Africa region.
    • Excellent written reporting skills.
    • Fluency in French is an asset

Experience

  • At least eight years of progressively responsible professional work experience at the national and international levels in humanitarian action, emergency preparedness, research, and analysis and/or UN interagency level coordination and advocacy.
  • Developing country work experience required, emergency experience in the Southern Africa region /Horn of Africa is highly desirable.

Language Requirements

  • Specialized training/experience in emergency response management is required.
  • Fluency in written and spoken English is required. Knowledge of French is an asset.

Budget Specialist (Polio)

The Budget Specialist will support the RRT and countries offices in managing polio campaign resources provided by donors including the development of a consolidated outbreak budget for the outbreak response activities as per the outbreak SOPs. The Budget Specialist will also provide active support for budgetary monitoring, compliance with donors’ conditionalities and internal UNICEF rules and processes and other functions as required.

  • Support to financial planning and management
  • Support the country team to develop consolidated outbreak budget for polio SIA rounds 0-2, as per the polio outbreak SOPs.
  • Assist RRT and ESARO in the collation of data and analysis of Polio Grant/s and Progress Reports.
  • Support RRT and ESARO in maintaining the Polio Grants overview table of project with income and expenditure/ disbursement, undisbursed balance vs. the grant age.
  • Serve as the focal person for contribution management in all matters relating to the multiple number of contributions received by ESAR and RRT for Polio.
  • Support to financial Monitoring and Reporting
  • Ensure preparation of accurate, complete and timely financial reports (including reconciliations); co-ordinate internal financial reporting deadlines and requirements for the programme. This will include planning deadlines, formats for information and consolidation of financial data for timely and quality reports submission with donors.
  • Ensure compliance of project financial arrangements and reporting in line with UNICEF's and relevant donor regulations.
  • Monitor project budgets versus actual expenditure; ensure that expenditure recorded meets donor requirements for eligible expenditure items and that the level of documentation meets their specified requirements and advice on budget performance and, if applicable, suggest budget revisions.
  • Control of Accounts
  • Examine transactions (transfer, adjustments, reconciliations, reprogramming and liquidation) supporting documents to ensure the expenditure is reasonable and in accordance with policy
  • Monthly review of terms of expenditure charged to the ESARO Polio Grants ensuring coding is correct and that any discrepancies are investigated and resolved.
  • Verify and quality control of the reprogramming, extension and pull back cash requests submitted by teams and Countries Offices through UNICEF ESARO.
  • Plan and monitor disbursements and control of appropriate use of Polio Grants (financial, administrative and other assets) confirming compliance with organizational rules, donor commitments, standards of accountability and integrity and ensuring timely reporting and liquidation of resources.
  • Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building
  • Keep up to date all polio grants income and expenditure budgets and supporting documents for each project component.
  • Ensure compliance with the closure of projects, including final financial reporting, external audit, and updating UNICEF financial accounts.
  • Periodically visit UNICEF COs to provide on-site face-to-face support to country colleagues and partners where required.
  • Facilitate efficient communication and coordination between the COs, RO, and HQ finance teams.

Contribute to capacity building of country colleagues and partners and strengthen their management capacity by facilitating training, following the growth in the staffing structure and partners, providing one-on-one follow-up support and knowledge sharing

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have

Education

  • An advanced university degree (master’s or higher) in Business Administration or Finance/Accounts Management; or a first university degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and 2 additional years of minimum experience.

Experience

  • At least five years of progressively responsible professional work experience at the national and international levels in in Finance and Budget Management and the development of donor reports and proposals.
  • Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is required.
  • Experience in Polio Budget and Grant reporting would be an asset.
  • Knowledge of Polio Donors procedures (USAID, Rotary, CDC, BMGF, NpT) would be an asset.

Language Requirements

  • Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of a second UN and/or local working language of the duty station an asset
Job Info
Job Category: Several Jobs in one Advert jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 13 November 2022
Duty Station: several locations
Posted: 01-11-2022
No of Jobs: 2
Start Publishing: 31-10-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 31-10-2066
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