Strengthening Child-Focused Social Protection Intern, Social Policy, UNICEF Lao PDR

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, in every single place, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each little one, assist

UNICEF Lao PDR Nation Workplace works intently with authorities and civil society companions to advertise the rights of each little one, making certain equitable entry to important social providers. Social Coverage programming goals to strengthen nationwide insurance policies and techniques to higher serve deprived kids, as outlined within the Conference on the Rights of the Little one (CRC).

Underneath the Social Coverage Part’s second programmatic output, UNICEF helps nationwide and sub-national governments in strengthening their capability to design, ship, and monitor equity-focused, child-centered, and complete social safety insurance policies and applications. A key initiative consists of the implementation of the Incapacity Little one Grant, which offers monetary assist to susceptible kids with disabilities. To boost future interventions, a stocktake of classes discovered from this implementation is essential.

To help on this effort, the part is recruiting an intern to assist documentation of classes discovered, contribute to social safety analysis and evaluation, conduct human curiosity tales, and supply normal help to the part’s work.

The intern will assist UNICEF Lao PDR’s Social Coverage Part by aiding within the assessment of disability-inclusive social safety programming, significantly the Incapacity Little one Grant implementation. The intern may even contribute to broader social safety initiatives, making certain efficient information administration and coordination.

How will you make a distinction? 

• Conduct a stocktake of classes discovered from the implementation of the Incapacity Little one Grant, figuring out key successes, challenges, and proposals.
• Help information assortment and documentation associated to social safety interventions, making certain that findings inform future coverage and programming.
• Help in synthesizing proof, experiences, and research on child-sensitive social safety in Lao PDR.
• Conduct human curiosity tales by interviewing beneficiaries of the Incapacity Little one Grant to doc their experiences, challenges, and affect of this system.
• Draft assembly minutes, experiences, and coverage briefs summarizing key social safety discussions and findings.
• Help on the whole administrative duties associated to the part’s work, together with organizing sources and monitoring ongoing initiatives.

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you’ll have… 

• Bachelor’s diploma in a related area, comparable to economics, social science, public administration, statistics, or one other self-discipline pertinent to the place.
• Proficiency in no less than certainly one of UNICEF’s working languages, significantly English, at a working information stage.
• Accustomed to and perceive Lao nationwide and/or financial improvement points.
• Accustomed to multi-culture setting could be an asset.
• Consciousness about gender points.

Please discover the complete TOR right here:  TOR_Strengthening Child-focused Social Protection Internship_UNICEF Lao PDR.pdf

For each Little one, you show… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) and core competencies in Communication, Working with Individuals and Drive for Outcomes.

View our competency framework at here

UNICEF is dedicated to variety and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, non secular and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals dwelling with disabilities, to apply to turn into a part of the group.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict little one safeguarding ideas. All chosen candidates shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas and can due to this fact bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further info to conduct a background check.

Remarks: Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.