Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, September 08, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, Human Resources…
The UNICEF Programme of Cooperation with the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) is designed to address and mitigate the threat of poverty the country’s children face, while responding to the needs with interventions addressing the multiple causative factors.
To find out more about UNICEF’s work in Zambia, please visit https://www.unicef.org/zambia/.

How can you make a difference?
UNICEF Zambia country office is starting a new Country Programme for 2022-2025. To enable the country office to deliver results for children efficiently and effectively, it is important that staff are equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge, and competencies to perform their duties. UNICEF, through its staff, needs to be strategically placed to respond and align itself with the dynamic changes arising from the macro-environmental factors prevailing in the country, including the COVID and other emergencies, and be able to respond to the emerging issues affecting women and children. Whilst UNICEF is fully supportive of staff training and development initiatives, this must be focused, structured and relevant so that efforts benefit both individual staff and the country programme, and there is a meaningful return on the time and resources invested.

Objectives / Target
The consultancy will assist the country office in defining key skills and competencies, assessing staff knowledge and skills in specific technical and competency areas that contribute to meeting the country programme goals and objectives of the new Country Programme. The consultancy will also assist in drafting the 5 years learning strategy of the Country Office.
The process will provide management with a clear picture of current staff capacity as well as a roadmap for investing in learning and staff development over the new Country Programme.
Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Representative, Operations and in close collaboration with the Representative, Section Chiefs and the Staff Development Committee, the consultant will facilitate focused discussions with each section, and one-on-one discussions with staff members to determine the required skills, experience, technical knowledge, and competencies to deliver the programme, and assess current skills profiles within the office.
Please see Detailed TOR for more information on the tasks and deliverables, here Terms of Reference- Skill Assessment Zambia CO- Advert.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
The consultant must possess the following:
• Advanced degree or equivalent professional qualification in HR Management, Organizational Development, Psychology, or related field
• 10 Years working experience in organizational development, HR management and HR development
• Experience in training analysis and delivery as well as coaching, focusing on strategic alignment to organizational objectives.
• Work experience with the UN would be an asset
• High motivation/commitment to proactively support the team
• Ability to express clearly and concisely ideas in written and oral form
• Ability to work in an international and multi-cultural environment with good interpersonal skills
• Ability to organize and prioritize work
• Excellent report writing and facilitation skills (in English)

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.
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 also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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.

Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.
Please remember to express your financial proposals (and/or professional consultancy fees) in Zambian Kwacha for Zambian Nationals for local consultancies and USD for Non-Zambian applicants for international consultancies.
Advertised: 07 Sep 2022 South Africa Standard Time
Deadline: 21 Sep 2022 South Africa Standard Time
To apply for this job please visit jobs.unicef.org.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Associate Degree

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