Overview
Provide strategic technical assistance to governments, UNICEF offices and partners to strengthen public financing systems for child protection and violence prevention.
Key Responsibilities
- Support strategic planning and policy reform.
- Integrate child-sensitive public finance approaches into national systems.
- Lead financing assessments, costing and investment cases.
- Advance domestic resource mobilization and innovative financing.
- Strengthen public financial management.
- Support the development of costed workforce strategies for social service systems.
- Contribute to capacity development, global engagement and advocacy.
Required Experience
- A minimum of eight years of progressive, professional work experience in public financial management, and sector financing, in the applied, national and international social development settings is required.
- Hands-on experience and proven results in using PFM evidence to concretely generate change at the national level is required.
- Experience in budget analysis, costing and developing investment cases, PERs and PETS in key sectors for children an asset.
- Solid professional field experience in multiple country contexts with demonstrated technical leadership on child protection systems strengthening, social service workforce strengthening (including development and implementation of costed workforce strategies and financing plan), care reform and disability inclusion policy, advocacy, and programme design and implementation required.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Public Administration, Social Policy, Public Finance, Social Sciences, Social Work, International Relations, Political Science, Law, or a related field is required.
