Country: Uganda
Closing date: 25 Nov 2018
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Uganda is one of the over 190 countries and territories around the world where we work to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease, and discrimination place in a child’s path.Together with the Government of Uganda and partners we work towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the objectives of the Uganda National Development Plan, and the planned outcomes of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework.
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Under the direct supervision of the Chief of Communication, and working closely with the Private Sector Engagement Specialist, the Consultant will provide technical support to draft UNICEF Uganda’s Adolescent Investment Proposition with a focus on providing skills and employment opportunities to young people across Uganda through a social entrepreneurship business model
Background
The Young People’s Agenda – rebranded as “Generation Unlimited” – was formally launched by the UN Secretary General at a High-Level Youth2030 Event during the UN General Assembly week in New York. Generation Unlimited is a new global public and private partnership which aims to ensure that every young person is in education, learning, training or employment by 2030. Generation Unlimited, for which UNICEF is a founding member and driving force, involves a broad alliance of actors and forms part of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Youth 2030 Strategy. The Generation Unlimited partnership brings together the Private Sector, governments, international and local organizations – and young people – to rally resources and co-ordinate efforts to identify and scale up the best solutions for three major challenges facing young people globally, namely:
With education, skills and empowerment, young people can make the most of their talents and potential, and contribute meaningfully to the peace and prosperity of their communities.
Investing in Uganda’s Young People
In Uganda, UNICEF is investing in adolescents through interventions to promote secondary level education, with a focus on ensuring that children in primary school complete the primary cycle and transit to secondary school. These include interventions to:
The above are in addition to ensuring that young people are equipped with basic literacy and numeracy skills for employability. UNICEF continues its support at the secondary school level by creating a conducive environment for children to stay in secondary school.
With strategic partners in Government and Uganda’s Private Sector – i.e. Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF) 3 and Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU), UNICEF is also working to establish an innovative financing mechanism – a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Blended Finance Facility - that will support adolescents and young people gain skills for employment as well as help break Uganda’s inter-generational cycle of multi-dimensional poverty. The Blended Finance Facility is intended to mobilize both domestic and international finances, especially by tapping into domestic and international capital markets, to provide start-up capital to adolescents and young people to establish Early Childhood Centres and other social entrepreneurship initiatives. The intention is to pilot this social entrepreneurship model and then, once proof of concept is achieved, attract the finances required to scale it up across Uganda.
This proposed social entrepreneurship business model has the potential to transform Uganda’s human capital development by simultaneously giving skills and employment opportunities to young people across Uganda, as well as providing the best foundation and start in life to Uganda’s 3-5-year-old population. It could, therefore, immediately address the two major demographics required for Uganda to achieve a demographic dividend in the coming decades: adolescents and young people by skilling and employing them, and young children (3-5 years) by providing the ideal environment they require to optimally develop and have the greatest chance at success in the future.
Operationalizing The “Impact Content Model”
In addition, the proposed social entrepreneurship business model provides UNICEF Uganda with a unique opportunity to operationalize PFP’s new “Impact Content Model” that was introduced to WCAR and ESAR’s Strategic Partnerships and Communication Staff at this year’s Africa Partnerships Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya in October 2018. The workshop focused on the theme “Developing Impact Content for Adolescent Programming” and introduced the Impact Content Model via which UNICEF’s Private Sector audiences (i.e. Business; high net worth individuals - HNWIs; Foundations; Individuals; and Governments in NatCom countries) would be presented with appropriately-packaged programme content using a “Building Block” approach
Key Tasks:
Toqualify asan advocate for every child you will have…
Education:
Work experience:
Other Skills required
Competencies:
i) Core Values (Required): • Commitment • Diversity and Inclusion • Integrity
ii) Core Competencies (Required): • Communication • Working with People • Drive for Results
iii) Functional Competencies (Required): • Formulating Strategies and Concepts • Persuading and Influencing; • Relating and Networking • Applying Technical Expertise
For every Child, you demonstrate…
Our core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
The technical competencies required for this post are….
View our competency framework at
http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf
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.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
How to apply:
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization. To apply, click on the following link http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=517970