Summary
Date Posted: Monday, December 26, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Key function, accountabilities and related duties/tasks
Policy Direction:
• Guide UNICEF's regional strategies as they relate to Social and Behavior Change, in the context of the 2022-2025 Strategic Plan and the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Advocate for ESAR (RO and COs) prioritization of socially transformative, people-centered and community-led development both as a good in itself and as an accelerator of sectoral results.
• Assist the global efforts to elevate the SBC practice in UNICEF, including the repositioning and progressive transition of the existing Communication for Development (C4D) network towards increased expertise and practice in community engagement, behavioral and social sciences.
• Provide strategic advice to regional and country management to ensure impactful SBC programmes and sustained efforts for the agenda

Support to Regional and Country Offices on Program Design, Implementation, and provide oversight:
• Support the adoption of tailored and efficient SBC operational models in offices across the region in all country contexts.
• Bring coherence, complementarity and synergies between UNICEF’s sectoral and cross-cutting areas, promoting alignment of resources and uptake of quality programming standards.
• Ensure clear and pragmatic programme guidance is available and followed (where required through ESAR’s specific interpretation of global guidance/tools) to support UNICEF staff at all levels in particular focusing on:
• Behavioral diagnosis, research and analysis
• Accountability to Affected Populations
• Social listening, collection and analysis of community insights, public perceptions and needs
• Social research on key programmatic questions
• Design and implementation of civil society and community engagement, participation, mobilization, governance and accountability mechanisms
• Adoption of practices, uptake of services, norms-shifting programming

Partnerships and inter-sectoral alliances
• Build network of academic/research institutions in the region to strengthen to the knowledge base while contributing to innovation and capacity building.
• Ensure the SBC team is contributing to the thought leadership in SBC across the different sectors, with UN at large and as part of the social mobilization and community empowerment for social development and behavior and social change in the region
• Create new opportunities for and support regional resource mobilization, increase donors’ interest in quality SBC programmes and confidence in UNICEF’s ability to deliver them.
• Create opportunities for collaboration with civil society at large, especially community youth and women’s lead groups and religious leaders
• Strengthen UNICEF’s leadership in community and behavioral aspects of humanitarian action, through interagency humanitarian mechanisms

Management and Leadership Responsibilities:
• Provide direction and managerial support to the ESA Regional Office SBC team.
• Manage the sustainability of the RO SBC team and meet timely budgetary requirements
• Oversee and manage performance of direct report and ensure capacity development of the team to team to fulfill its roles and responsibilities.
• Ensure inclusive management and well-being of the SBC team
• Participate in the RO leadership team and contribute to CRITAS in the RO as in COs
• Support the wider Regional SBC network through capacity building and other support

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in the social/behavioral sciences (Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, health Education), with emphasis on participatory communication, communication planning, social mobilization, participatory research, training and impact evaluation of communication interventions.
• A minimum of twelve of relevant professional experience in the planning and management of social development programmes, including eight years in developing countries, with practical experience in the adaptation and application of communication planning processes to specific programmes.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 144

Level of Education: Associate Degree

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