About UNICEF: Employment

Planning Officers

If you are a passionate and committed professional and want to make a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you.

UNICEF is looking for Planning Officers to be responsible for the programme planning function, and overseeing of monitoring and evaluating programmes within a country programme of cooperation.

Your Profile:

• Advanced university degree in social sciences or a related field.
• Depending on the level of the position, five to ten years of progressively responsible professional work experience at the national and international levels in social development, programme management, monitoring and evaluation.
• Current knowledge of development issues, policies as well as social programming policies and procedures in international development cooperation.
• Fluency in English and another UN language (i.e. Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) is required.
• Ability to work effectively in an international and multicultural environment.

To Apply:

To apply, please submit your application as soon as possible, quoting ‘Spain – Planning’ in the subject line.

All applications must contain:
• A cover letter explaining the reasons for applying. This letter must not be longer than one page.
• A completed Application form, which can be downloaded from this site.

Do not send any attachments or appendices other than the required documents.

Applications should be submitted to UNICEF no later than February 20, 2006. Candidates called for interviews will be contacted by UNICEF. Due to the high number of candidates, UNICEF will only contact candidates in whom we have a further interest.

Remuneration:

UNICEF’s salary and benefits package is based on the United Nations Common System. For further information on the UN Common System salaries and benefits, please visit the United Nations Web site at: http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/salaries_allowances/.

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