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For every child, the right to a Voice

How can you make a difference

UNICEF Supply Division (SD) works to ensure equitable and inclusive access to essential supplies and services for children and their families, in development, humanitarian and fragile contexts. These supplies are critical to saving lives, supporting children’s health and education, and protecting them from abuse, exploitation, and neglect. As the UN’s largest end-to-end supply chain entity, UNICEF leverages its global reach, market influence, supply chain expertise and partnerships with governments, civil society, private sector, industry, and other stakeholders to meet children’s needs and protect their rights around the world.

SD focuses on three result areas to maximize impact, scale, and effectiveness: strategic procurement; supply preparedness and response in humanitarian and fragile contexts; and supply chain optimization. To facilitate and accelerate progress toward these results, SD employs three change strategies: financing for supply and services, supply chain digitalization and supply chain localization.

MSDC collects, analyzes and shares supply intelligence for informed decision making. It generates and shares supply chain and logistics data, statistics and analysis, and provides normative support on supply data and intelligence. It leads supply performance monitoring, forecasting and demand planning, end-to-end supply chain monitoring and intelligence, and evidence generation for continuous process improvement.

The Last Mile Supply Monitoring (LMSM) solution addresses a long-standing challenge of lack of visibility to the last mile of UNICEF’s supply chain, and it strengthens accountability, delivery assurance, and monitoring of supplies in the last mile. When partners receive supplies, they use the LMSM solution to report supply movements within their supply chain and the data is transformed into information available to both partners and UNICEF. Based on the increased visibility, UNICEF and the partner can strengthen programme implementation and identify potential inconsistencies so supplies reach the intended beneficiaries.

Under the supervision of the Monitoring Specialist within the In-country Visibility Unit in MSDC and in the framework of UNICEF Supply Chain Digitalization Initiative, the incumbent will support the global LMSM initiative with a particular focus on ensuring CO adoption and continued use, as well as institutionalization of the solution.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

Under the supervision of the Monitoring Specialist:

Actively engage in the LMSM team by attending regular and ad-hoc project meetings, contributing with ideas, cases from past experience, and flagging potential challenges, to support the successful delivery of the LMSM global initiative.
Support the engagement with the COs from the first contact and through institutionalization in view of facilitation their adoption of LMSM. This includes but is not limited to supporting the establishment of the first contact, the preparation of the LMSM adoption Concept Note, the scoping and the identification of key variables, the agreement on the calendar of adoption, and the activities linked to pre and post ToT work
Based on existing information, including queries from COs and Implementing Partners, compile user feedback to understand required platform, materials and analytics enhancements. As appropriate, support implementation of the enhancements.
Support improvements to the training approach and proactively support the development of training material. Maintain the existing platform to share relevant guidance and training materials with the LMSM users and trainers.
Support the delivery of Training of Trainers’ in-country or online, including the preparatory steps, ensuring readiness of both CO and solution, and support COs in their delivery of trainings to Implementing Partners users.
Collect learnings from the experiences of countries already using LMSM to inform the global scale up of the LMSM initiative through observations, surveys or app feedback mechanisms.
Perform any other duties or assignments as requested by the supervisor.

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

Minimum requirements:

Education: A first level university degree in Business Administration, Public Health, Supply Chain Management, Social Sciences, or other related disciplines. A relevant Master’s degree is highly desirable.
Work Experience: At least 2 years of relevant work experience in Supply chain management, Project management, development of training materials and facilitation of trainings, experience with development of procedures such as standard operating procedures.
Skills: Analytical skills, good planning and organizing skills, ability to work in a team, excellent communication (written, numeric and oral), ability to formulate strategies and concepts and transmit them, ability to work in a multi-cultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships.
Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.

Desirables:

Fluency in French is highly desirable. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
Specific UNICEF experience and knowledge of internal systems and processes is a strong asset.
Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

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

The 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 promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

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 based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

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 are conditional on the selected candidates willingness to comply with current or future vaccination requirements, should UNICEF mandate it for personnel. Failure to comply with such requirements, where applicable and without a duly approved medical exemption from the relevant UN authority, will result in the cancellation of the selection or may lead to other administrative measures, including separation from service.

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 is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates are encouraged to apply.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

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.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF's Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

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.

Monitoring Officer, P-2, Temporary Position, 364 days, Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark, #00138107