Social Policy Officer at UNICEF, Cairo, Egypt

Deadline: 11 June 2023

United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is currently seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Social Policy Officer in Cairo, Egypt.

UNICEF works for a world in which every child has a fair chance in life.

Key Jobs Responsibilities

The Social Policy Officer will perform the following functions:

• Improve use of public financial resources for children
  • Undertake budget analysis to inform UNICEF’s advocacy and technical assistance to Ministries of Finance, planning commissions and social sector ministries to improve equitable allocations for essential services for children.  Works with sector colleagues to build capacity to undertake costing and cost effectiveness analysis on priority interventions to help inform policy decisions on child-focused investments.
  • Support the identification of policy options for improved domestic financing of child-sensitive social protection interventions
• Improve data on child poverty & vulnerability for increased use for policy and programme action
  • Support the collection, analysis and user-friendly presentation of data on multidimensional and monetary child poverty, including strengthening national capacity to collect routinely, report and use data for policy decision-making.
  • Provide timely, regular data-driven analysis for effective prioritization, planning, and development; facilitates results-based management for planning, adjusting, and scaling-up specific social policy initiatives to reduce child poverty.
• Strengthen social protection coverage and impact for children
  • Support the development of social protection policies, legislation and programmes with attention to increasing coverage of and impact on children, with special attention the most marginalized.  Identifies, generates and presents evidence to support this goal in collaboration with partners.
  • Support strengthening of integrated social protection systems, providing technical support to partners to improve the design of cash transfers and child grants and improve linkages with other social protection interventions such as health insurance, public works and social care services as well as complementary services and intervention related to nutrition, health, education, water and sanitation, child protection and HIV.
• Strengthen capacity of local governments to plan, budget, consult on and monitor child-focused social services.
  • Where national decentralization processes are taking place, collaborates with central and local authorities to improve policies, planning, budgeting, consultation and accountability processes so that decisions and child-focused service delivery more closely respond to the needs of local communities.
  • Collaborate with the central and local authorities to strengthen capacity on quality data collection, analysis for policy development, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring of essential social services, with emphasis on community participation and accountability.
• Strengthen advocacy and partnerships for child-sensitive social policy
  • Support correct and compelling use of data and evidence on the situation of children and coverage and impact of child focused services – in support of the social policy programme and the country programme overall.
  • Establish effective partnerships with the Government, bilateral and multilateral donors, NGOs, civil society and local leaders, the private sector, and other UN agencies to support sustained and proactive commitment to the Convention of the Rights of the Child and to achieve global UN agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals.

Eligibility Criteria

• University Degree in one of the following fields is required: Economics, Finance, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or another relevant technical field.
• Minimum 2 year’s relevant professional experience in public finance, social protection or poverty analysis, is required.
• Experience working in a developing country is considered as a strong asset
• Experience in working with Egyptian budget cycle, key budget documents and key actors of Public Finance is a strong asset
• Experience  with designing or implementing cash transfer programmes is an asset
• Experience in poverty analysis is an asset.
• Fluency in English and Arabic is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit their applications through online process.

For more information, visit UNICEF.