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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, innovate…
UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.
The Office of Innovation is a creative, interactive, and agile team in UNICEF. We sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the start-up thinking, the technology, and the partners that turn this energy into scalable solutions.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation creates opportunities for the world’s children by focusing on where new markets, ideas and solutions can meet their vital needs. We do this by:
The Global Innovation Strategy 2.0 strategy and aims to achieve critical shifts in the way UNICEF currently works on innovation, building on what has been successful, while also addressing lessons learned and capitalizing on new opportunities. These critical shifts are:
These shifts will be enabled by:
Our team
The Portfolio, Culture & Scale team is an interdisciplinary team tasked with driving the programme-based, problem-led portfolio approach and discipline to drive the innovation culture and scale in countries. With our partners, we focus on convening and collaborating with stakeholders, Programme Group, Regional and Country offices, we identify, validate and scale solution including global initiatives.
About the Role:
Join UNICEF’s dedicated team in a pivotal role that combines mental health expertise and innovative skills. As an Innovation Portfolio Consultant, you will drive and elevate our current portfolio of mental health solutions, focusing primarily on children, adolescent, and youth well-being playing a role of continuity, ensuring flagship innovation efforts progress through an office mid-term review period. This role taps into deep innovation experience with focus on identifying, validating, and scaling innovative solutions in collaboration with stakeholders. You will be instrumental in driving a problem led portfolio discipline and fostering strategic relationships and providing clear direction to ensure smooth implementation of innovative solution and related global initiatives.
What We Seek:
Are you an adept innovation manager passionate about shifting systems to create an equitable mental health landscape for the younger generation? If you resonate with these qualifications and the mission, we urge you to apply. Transform, innovate, and make a difference with UNICEF.
How can you make a difference?
MHPSW innovation portfolio is supporting a pipeline of innovations, with an increasing number of innovations in the portfolio impacting over 1 million children (in line with UNICEF Strategic Plan Goal H6.1).
Key outputs
Your main responsibilities will be:
You will work under the general direction of the P5 Senior Advisor, Innovation (Portfolio, Culture and Scale) and supervision of the P4 Head, Innovation Portfolios & Governance
You will work in close collaboration with other Portfolio Managers, Partners, thematic Programme Group relevant divisions, Regional and Country Offices. The MHPSS Innovation Portfolio Consultant will:
Please find attached full ToR with related information
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Travel:
Payment details and further considerations
How to apply:
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
To view our competency framework, please visit 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.
UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.
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 also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.
Contact: For any queries, please contact: swe-ooi-recruitments@unicef.org
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