UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest places, to reach the world’s most impeded children. To spare their lives. To guard their rights. To offer assistance them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 nations and domains, we work for each child, all over, each day, to construct a superior world for everyone.

And we never allow up.

For each child, mental health

UNICEF is endeavoring for a work environment where staff wellness, versatility, and work-life adjust are coordinates parts of the organizational culture.

The UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Locale (ESAR) is excessively influenced by different dangers driving 12 to18 of the 21 nations in the locale to react to announced and undeclared crises each year. In expansion, and due to the nature and area of their work, UNICEF staff are as often as possible uncovered to tall levels of day-to-day, total stretch, counting those stressors related to their workload as well as the requests related to living and working in multicultural, regularly unsteady, and uncertain environments.

The Staff Advocate (P-4) will contribute towards the advancement of a corporate system for Staff Well-Being and advance its usage at the Territorial level. The system will distinguish exercises pointed at: raising mindfulness approximately sound work hones; progressing the work-life adjust of UNICEF staff; encouraging the arrangement of help to staff/family encountering work-related and/or individual issues; and encouraging the arrangement of prompt back taking after a traumatic incident.

ESARO right now has a cadre of three Staff Advocates over the whole locale, with one devoted to a nation office (Somalia nation office). Given the tall number of crises, there is a require for visit back over the locale, counting in French and Portuguese-speaking countries.

The Territorial Staff Advisor will work in coordination with the arrange of UN counselors universally. Visit field and virtual missions and near collaboration with Nation Workplaces are required.

How can you make a difference?

Under the coordinate supervision of the Territorial Chief and the Specialized Supervision of the Appointee Territorial Chief the Territorial Staff Advisor (P-4) is anticipated to give mastery to the administration and staff of the territorial and nation workplaces, to bolster the by and large well-being of UNICEF staff and their families, as well as groups in UNICEF workplaces in the region.

1. Beneath the specialized direction of the Chief Staff Prosperity, and the supervision of the Agent Territorial Executive, the Territorial Staff Guide will encourage the advancement, usage, and coordination of a corporate system pointing at progressed Staff Well-Being globally.

2. Encourage the arrangement of successful psycho-social bolster to staff, authority, supervisors and person staff, prioritizing crisis areas with the point to relieving stretch and boosting defensive factors.

3. Give Basic Occurrence Stretch Administration to bunches and/or person staff taking after basic occurrences. A all encompassing approach to basic occurrence administration is utilized and may incorporate administrations such as commonsense bolster, psycho-education, mental to begin with help, key counsel to authority, family bolster and person or bunch interventions.

4. Preparing and mindfulness raising on Staff Well-Being related topics.

5. Checking and oversight: Give on a quarterly premise, an outline of insights and patterns on issues related to staff well-being, while keeping up secrecy. Alarm the Agent Territorial Chief on patterns that may be of concern in workplaces or workplaces requiring focused on back or Administrative intercession. Capture lessons learned and best hones for dispersal as appropriate.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you will have:

Advanced College degree in counseling, clinical brain research, or related mental wellbeing calling. Least eight a long time of worldwide proficient encounter in staff bolster, mental wellbeing, cross-cultural communications, counseling, and related zones, ideally picked up inside the UN framework or worldwide development/humanitarian help division. A to begin with college degree, or proficient certification, in expansion to ten a long time of significant encounter may be considered in lieu of an progressed college degree. Substantial and unlimited licenses or certifications, or registrants/members in great standing of genuine proficient organizations, and whose proceeded worldwide work exterior their purviews does not jeopardize their licenses, certificates, or organizational participation; Experts who are directly without a permit but seem be qualified for licensure or enrolled participation in an suitable organization with thought to their instruction, preparing, encounter, and ability but may require additional back and/or supervision and/or advance preparing, or work in nations where enlistment, licensure, and certification are not accessible. Extra preparing or certification in staff back and traumatic/critical occurrence stretch administration, as well as a wide extend of related areas, such as alcohol/substance manhandle, family counseling, preparing, and inaccessible counseling. Information of Differing qualities, Value, and Incorporation is alluring. Encounter of the Eastern and South African locale or African landmass is an resource Creating nation work encounter and/or recognition with crises is considered an resource. Familiarity in composed and talked English and French is required. An middle level in French can be considered. Working information of Portuguese or another UN dialect is an resource.

For each Child, you demonstrate:

UNICEF’s Center Values of Care, Regard, Keenness, Believe and Responsibility and Supportability (CRITAS) support everything we do and how we do it. Get familiar with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are ;

(1) Builds and keeps up organizations (2) Illustrates self-awareness and moral mindfulness (3) Drive to accomplish comes about for affect (4) Innovates and grasps alter (5) Oversees uncertainty and complexity (6) Considers and acts deliberately (7) Works collaboratively with others (8) Supports, leads and oversees people.

During the enrollment handle, we test candidates taking after the competency system. Familiarize yourself with our competency system and its diverse levels: competency system here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most distraught children and our worldwide workforce must reflect the differences of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to incorporate everybody, independent of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, sex character, sexual introduction, religion, nationality, socio-economic foundation, or any other individual characteristic. We offer a wide run of benefits to our staff, counting paid parental take off, breastfeeding breaks and sensible convenience for people with incapacities. UNICEF unequivocally energizes the utilize of adaptable working courses of action. UNICEF has a zero-tolerance arrangement on conduct that is incongruent with the points and targets of the Joined together Countries and UNICEF, counting sexual misuse and mishandle, sexual badgering, mishandle of specialist and segregation. UNICEF is committed to advance the assurance and shielding of all children. All chosen candidates will, in this manner, experience thorough reference and foundation checks, and will be anticipated to follow to these measures and standards. Foundation checks will incorporate the confirmation of scholarly credential(s) and business history. Chosen candidates may be required to give extra data to conduct a foundation check.

Remarks:

UNICEF’s dynamic commitment to differing qualities and consideration is basic to convey the best comes about for children. For this position, qualified and appropriate guys from mechanical nations are energized to apply.

Mobility is a condition of universal proficient business with UNICEF and an fundamental preface of the worldwide gracious service.

UNICEF arrangements are subject to therapeutic clearance. Issuance of a visa by the have nation of the obligation station, which will be encouraged by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Arrangements are too subject to vaccination (immunization) prerequisites, counting against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government workers that are considered for business with UNICEF are ordinarily required to leave from their government some time recently taking up an task with UNICEF. UNICEF saves the right to pull back an offer of arrangement, without recompense, if a visa or restorative clearance is not gotten, or vital vaccination necessities are not met, inside a sensible period for any reason.

Only shortlisted candidates will be reached and development to the following organize of the choice handle.