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UNICEF works in over 190 nations and territories to save lots of youngsters’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood via adolescence.

At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and pleased with what we do for so long as we’re wanted. Promoting the rights of each baby isn’t just a job – it’s a calling.

UNICEF is a spot the place careers are constructed. We supply our employees various alternatives for skilled and private growth that may assist them reinforce a way of goal whereas serving youngsters and communities the world over. We welcome everybody who needs to belong and develop in a various and passionate tradition, coupled with a lovely compensation and advantages bundle.

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How are you able to make a distinction?

The age of know-how and the web have introduced super advantages, together with for youngsters. Digital entry gives alternatives for studying, communication, play, and social interplay, creating huge potential for realizing youngsters’s rights. However, the unfold of digital applied sciences additionally comes with a broad spectrum of dangers and harms to which youngsters may be notably susceptible. 

 Children could also be impacted instantly as customers of know-how services or products; or on account of the event, deployment, and use of digital applied sciences on this planet round them. For instance, youngsters may be victims, targets, individuals, and initiators of dangerous or dangerous on-line behaviour. Children can also encounter know-how design options or limitations which can be related to impacts on their proper to privateness and freedom of expression, amongst different rights.

The advisor will contribute to precedence workstreams spanning EU digital coverage advocacy, world thought management, help to regional efforts together with the African Task Force on Child Online Protection, and responsive knowledgeable evaluation throughout rising points in baby on-line safety. This consists of advancing UNICEF’s positions inside key EU legislative processes, strengthening multisector engagement via excessive‑visibility convenings, and supporting strategic world discussions on slicing‑edge developments affecting youngsters’s rights and security within the digital setting.

Across all workstreams, the advisor will ship high-quality outputs that strengthen UNICEF’s affect on regulatory and governance debates associated to synthetic intelligence, platform regulation, and rising subjects in on-line baby safety. The function can even present strategic and technical help to UNICEF employees and companions at regional and nation ranges. This TOR outlines section 1 of the project, with section 2 and a costed extension foreseen as soon as funding is secured.

If you wish to know extra about this consultancy, please overview the entire Terms of Reference right here:  TMC0002688 ToR.pdf

• Minimum necessities:
• Education: Master’s diploma in regulation, social sciences, anthropology or associated discipline
• Work Experience: 8 years {of professional} expertise in related discipline(s), together with baby safety, baby rights, digital rights, digital governance, on-line safety or belief and security
• Demonstrated knowledgeable and up-to-date information of kid on-line safety frameworks, developments, and greatest practices.
• Proven expertise partaking with personal sector stakeholders, together with know-how firms, business companions, or company networks.
• Skills: Strong organizational and time-management expertise, with the power to handle a number of priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal expertise, with a demonstrated means to collaborate successfully with various stakeholders.
• Proven high-quality writing expertise, together with fluency in English, and glorious verbal communication expertise.
• Desirables: Experience organizing boards, workshops, consultations, or multi-stakeholder occasions.
• Fluency in Spanish or French might be a bonus.
• Demonstrated expertise offering technical help and advisory providers to authorities counterparts.Knowledge of digital governance frameworks and baby rights rules.
• Demonstrated capacity-building and coaching facilitation expertise.
• Experience or familiarity with governance requirements, authorized frameworks, and authorized reform processes.

For each Child, you show…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the things we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the safety of the rights of each baby, in all places, in all the things it does and is remitted to help the belief of the rights of each baby, together with these most deprived, and our world workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or every other standing.

UNICEF encourages purposes from all certified candidates, no matter gender, nationality, spiritual or ethnic backgrounds, and from individuals with disabilities, together with neurodivergence. We supply cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. all through the recruitment course of. If you require any lodging, please submit your request via the accessibility e-mail button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in contact with the recruiter on to share additional particulars, enabling us to make the mandatory preparations prematurely.

UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals underneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based mostly on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, spiritual or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer further info to conduct a background examine, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the next paperwork through the net recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate monetary proposal (solely acceptable within the format of the linked template)  Financial proposal TMC0002688.docx

Remarks:  If the TOR or monetary proposal paperwork should not seen on sure recruitment platforms, please go to our official web page Vacancies | UNICEF Careers.  

UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing price at any stage of its recruitment, choice, and hiring processes (i.e., software stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and coaching). UNICEF is not going to ask for candidates’ checking account info.

All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.

Additional details about working for UNICEF may be discovered here.