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JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT UNICEF, IN KENYA AND TANZANIA JULY 2017




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BACKGROUND
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.

For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. 

Emergency Specialist (P-3), Temporary Appointment (364 days), ESARO, Nairobi, Kenya

Locations: Africa: Kenya
Work Type: Temporary Appointment | Level: 
Closing Date: Fri Aug 04 2017 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (E. Africa Standard Time)
Under the general guidance of the Regional Emergency Advisor, provide support to UNICEF Country Offices (CO) engaged in humanitarian action encompassing preparedness, response and post-crisis recovery. The Emergency Specialist will work as part of the Humanitarian Action Resilience and Peace Building (HARP) Section as well as with sectoral emergency focal points within the Regional Office (RO), inter-agency partners and Country Office staff.

Consultant - Diagnostics Financing Structure and Fiscal Sustainability of Social Protection in Tanzania - Zanzibar component

Locations: Africa: Tanzania,United Republic
Work Type: Consultancy | Level: 
Closing Date: Sat Jul 29 2017 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (E. Africa Standard Time)
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.

Consultancy: Graphic Designer, Nairobi, Kenya (Local Recruitment Only)

Locations: Africa: Kenya
Work Type: Consultancy | Level: 
Closing Date: Fri Jul 28 2017 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (E. Africa Standard Time)
To produce visual materials for the regional priorities on Heath, Education, Water and Sanitation, Child Protection and HIV and AIDS. The Consultant will also be expected to provide visual materials and one page documents on UNICEF’s emergency and programmatic response within the region. Additionally, the Consultant will provide remote support (design and production of visual material, maps and infographics) to Country Offices within the region.

Adolescent & HIV/AIDS Specialist, NO-C (Fixed Term), Nairobi, Kenya (Open to Kenyan Nationals Only)

Locations: Africa: Kenya
Work Type: Fixed Term Staff | Level: 
Closing Date: Wed Jul 26 2017 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (E. Africa Standard Time)
Under the Supervision of the Chief, HIV/AIDS, accountable for formulation, design, planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation of adolescent and HIV/AIDS project(s) to ensure overall efficiency and effectiveness of the project management, delivery and accomplishment of project goals and objectives; accountable for ensuring that all aspects of adolescents prevention, treatment and care projects promote equity, gender equality, with an emphasis on gender disaggregation, gender disparity identification and gender mainstreaming to guide policies, programmes monitoring and evaluations.

Emergency Specialist, NO-C, TA (364 days), Nairobi, Kenya (Open to Kenyan Nationals Only)

Locations: Africa: Kenya
Work Type: Temporary Appointment | Level: 
Closing Date: Tue Jul 18 2017 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (E. Africa Standard Time)
An Emergency and Programme support Specialist is required to support the Country Office in developing and maintaining performance monitoring mechanism for the zonal office, and follow up on programme management issues between field and Nairobi. He/She will also support capacity building of the zone office in the use of the system. Additionally, the deteriorating humanitarian environment compels KCO office to produce high quality humanitarian information and analysis for donors, Government and the general population, to support multi sectoral assessments.

Education Specialist (Early Learning), P-4, 6-month Temporary Appointment, ESARO, Nairobi, Kenya

Locations: Africa: Kenya
Work Type: Temporary Appointment | Level: 
Closing Date: Fri Jul 21 2017 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (E. Africa Standard Time)
In line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the UNICEF Strategic Plan, UNICEF ESARO has prioritized Early Learning and aims to support ESA countries to scale up access to quality early learning services for girls and boys aged 3 to 6 years, especially the most vulnerable. Significant progress has been achieved since 2014 to raise the profile of Early Learning. Using knowledge from other regional initiatives and rigorous empirical evidence, ESARO has been able to demonstrate technical leadership in the area of ECD and Early Learning and has leveraged strategic partners such as UNESCO (SDG 4), Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), African Early Childhood Network (AfECN), Hilton Foundation among others. Since 2014, when only two countries in the region had early learning enrolments over 50%, by 2017, four (4) countries - Angola, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania - have attained the 50% target and increasingly ESARO is called upon to provide technical support to COs and Ministries of Education to expand access to Early Learning.

Programme Assistant, G-6, Nairobi, Kenya (Kenyan Nationals Only)

Locations: Africa: Kenya
Work Type: Fixed Term Staff | Level: 
Closing Date: Mon Jul 24 2017 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (E. Africa Standard Time)
The purpose of this post is to provide programme support to the HIV and Early Childhood Development Programmes with UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office.

(Re-advertisement) Health Specialist, NO-C, Nairobi, Kenya (Fixed Term) Open to Kenyan Nationals Only

Locations: Africa: Kenya
Work Type: Fixed Term Staff | Level: 
Closing Date: Thu Jul 20 2017 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (E. Africa Standard Time)
Under the overall guidance of the Chief Health, and supervision of the Health Specialist, the incumbent is to manage the UNICEF support to the Nairobi County government and its partners to adopt and implement policy, strengthen capacities required for the provision of MNCH services, within the framework of the devolved system of governance.

Consultancy: Construction Engineer provide technical guidance for construction designs, implementation & supervision of construction works for UNICEF education interventions in target areas. Kakuma and Kalobeyi

Locations: Africa: Kenya
Work Type: Consultancy | Level: 
Closing Date: Thu Jul 20 2017 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (E. Africa Standard Time)
The construction engineers, contribute to assessment, design, planning and development of procedures, architectural design, all technical aspects, management and monitoring of rehabilitation/construction, in collaboration with respective programme staff in the section, as well as the Supply unit at KCO.

Education Officer, NOB, Mbeya, Tanzania (for Tanzanian Nationals only)
Locations: Africa: Tanzania,United Republic

Work Type: Fixed Term Staff | Level: 
Closing Date: Wed Jul 19 2017 23:55:00 GMT+0300 (E. Africa Standard Time)

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.