Senior Planning Associate (Business Support), GS-7, Procurement Services Center, UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark, #113875

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

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For every child, commitment

The Nutrition Match Fund, now the Match Window, hosted in Supply Division, Procurement Services Centre, was launched in 2020 with support from the Government of the United Kingdom and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) and has expanded with further investments from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Chris Hohn Foundation and growing interest from other donors.

The Match Window increases the availability of life-saving supplies for the prevention and treatment of child wasting.  Since 2022 the mechanism has evolved to include a wider range of eligible nutrition products beyond RUTF and now including also preventive and maternal supplies (BEP, MMS, SQ-LNS, MQ-LNS and Vitamin A). In 2023 the Match Window became a part of the Child Nutrition Fund, a new financing mechanism designed to accelerate the scale-up of sustainable policies, programmes and supplies to end child wasting.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) commit all governments to comprehensive, integrated, and universal transformations, including ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030. Countries are required to mobilise efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind. Without adequate and sustained investments in health, the SDGs will not be realised. Countries are at different stages in their trajectory towards self-financing sustainability and Public Finance Management (PFM) obstacles often impact their ability to mobilize required resources and/or maximize investments for children and UNICEF is committed to influencing the mobilization, allocation, and utilization of domestic public financial resources, for greater, more equitable and sustainable results for children. UNICEF and partners (FCDO, CIFF, the Chris Hohn Foundation and BMGF) contribute to support countries in their efforts to strengthening the resilience of services to treat and prevent child wasting in the face of climate change through the Child Nutrition Fund and the Match Window.

How can you make a difference?

The incumbent will  be in charge of the day-to-day financial management, analysis and reporting of Country financing activities of the Match Window  project and support on financial and data management, reporting, analysis and evidence generation for the overall Financing and Resource Mobilization activities related to country financing with respect to other programmes; as well as provision of accurate and timely data to support analysis of the Procurement Services global supply function and generation of evidence to measure the impact of the provision of procurement services and supply financing solutions to governments.

1. Performs financial management, operational and data support, country engagement, analysis, monitoring and reporting for the Match Window, ensuring the operations are in compliance with capital limitations, operating procedures and agreements requirements.
2. Supports in the country application process and prepares Chief’s submissions for Match Window’s applications.
3. Supports in the oversight of Match Window’s contributions, close monitoring of Match Window’s transactions and country follows-up.
4. Designs and prepares financial and progress reports for internal management and external donors and other third parties using VISION (SAP) reports, as well as through the development of appropriate EXCEL spreadsheets or ACCESS databases.
5. Focused customer service and provides support to internal and external stakeholders through active participation in different fora and training of staff.
6. Provide required statistics for Procurement Services ensuring accuracy of the data and analysis, creating the required tools for data validation.
7. Develop, standardize and improve tools and models for data analysis, including tools for data-validation, end-to-end performance management and monitoring for both procurement and supply financing, planning and reporting.
8. Further develop supply financing tools to ensure real-time monitoring of supply financing interventions, evidence generation for planning, harmonization of tools and consolidation of country data to enable monitoring and triangulation with forecast, and historical data.
9. Assist in the preparation and implementation of comprehensive Procurement Services forecast exercises to secure quality projections for the proper resource planning of the Division and Country Offices, including the generation and maintenance of relevant historical databases, monitoring of forecast materialization in terms of country and commodity, and the regular demand updates and follow-up with procurement centres and Country Offices.
10. Prepare analysis and design tools for real-time availability of data to support activities like forecast monitoring, country missions/visits, supply financing interventions, PS funding exercise, and for advocacy for supply-related opportunities and priorities, savings generated on behalf of countries.
11. Prepare analysis and reports as per reporting requirements and ad-hoc requests received from Partners.
12. Collaborate with the Market Strategic Data and Evidence Unit and Communications unit on Procurement Services data.
13. Prepare and maintain user manuals and documentation for the standard Procurement Services reporting, monitoring, and planning tools, including supporting training to users as applicable, as well as for Country Office reports.
14. Act as a back-up and other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.

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

The following minimum requirements:

• Education: Completion of secondary education
• Work Experience: Minimum seven (7) years relevant working experience, public or private sector with proficiency in use of data processing systems.
  • A Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree from a recognized academic institution may be considered in lieu of three or four years of related work experience respectively.
• Language: Fluency in English and in particular excellent written communication skills

The following desirables:

• Education: University course work or diploma in business, procurement, financial management or related field
• Language: Working knowledge of another UN language (Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, Arabic).

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

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 does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). 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 promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will 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.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF’s active commitment to diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children.

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.

The closing date of this position is 22^nd August 2024.

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