Social Policy Specialist

Under the general guidance of the Chief of Social Policy, you will be responsible for providing technical support to the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of all stages of public finance for children programing and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. As Iraq transitions from a phase of humanitarian response to a focus on building and improving domestic systems, UNICEF has committed to strengthening the public financial management system and ensuring it is used to enhance child rights. Work to strengthen public finance will focus on ensuring the transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and governance, decentralization, and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality and equity of social spending at local level. This encompasses both direct programmes work with government and civil society partners as well as linkages and support to teams working on early childhood development, skilling of young people, case management support and climate change action.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Improving use of public financial resources for children.
• Implementing office-wide Public Finance for Children (PF4C) to support improved use of public resources across office priority areas.
• Strengthening capacity of local governments to plan, budget, consult on and monitor child-focused social services.
• Strengthened advocacy and partnerships for child-sensitive budgeting.
• UNICEF Programme Management.

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

Minimum requirements:

Education:

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or another relevant technical field. A first University degree in a relevant field combined with (2) additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree in the above fields.

Work Experience: 

• A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience is required.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and Arabic is required. Knowledge of Kurdish is an asset.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/575389