For every child, [insert tagline] for every child, the right to innovate
UPSHIFT is UNICEF's flagship programme for transferable skills and social entrepreneurship. Drawing on best practices from non-formal education, experiential learning, and business education, it creates a comprehensive learning journey comprised of workshops, mentorship, and entrepreneurial challenges. The programme is deeply rooted in Human Centered Design (HCD) principles and empowers young people to identify and analyze problems within their communities and develop products or services to address them.
Since its launch in 2014, UPSHIFT has expanded to 59 countries, graduating 7 million young people who have completed over 200 million hours of learning. To achieve sustainable scale, the programme focuses on integrating into formal education systems and utilizing digital
platforms for blended learning delivery. The primary blended delivery model, UPSHIFT Powered by Unisolve, was built from the grounds up to support UPSHIFT delivery in schools and has successfully graduated over 2 million secondary school students to date. To accelerate the scaling of this digital model, the UPSHIFT Global team has ported the Unisolve-based learning journey to Google Classroom providing a faster, cost-effective platform and has started to integrate Al into the adaptation, deployment and running of the programme inclusing the development of teacher focused tools access and utilize the learning journey at a much lower cost.
How can you make a difference?
Minimum requirements
Experience
The candidate should have:
- Strong experience with Microsoft Office/Google Workspace, particularly Excel/Sheets and PowerPoint/Slides.
- Experience organising and managing information, trackers or databases.
- Experience preparing presentations, summaries and briefing materials.
- Familiarity with digital learning, Al tools or emerging technologies is an asset.
- Experience working with international teams or multicultural environments is an asset.
- Experience using Al tools for research, productivity, content development or workflow automation is an asset.
- Basic data analysis and visualization skills are desirable.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills.
Languages:
Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
Proficiency in any other UN languages is considered an asset (French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese).
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.
UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference, safeguarding and background verification checks. These checks may include verification of academic credentials and employment history, screening against relevant United Nations misconduct databases, and requests for misconduct disclosures from current and former employers, professional associations, other relevant organizations and participating organizations under inter-agency safeguarding initiatives, including the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS), where applicable.
Appointment, selection and continued engagement are subject to the satisfactory completion of all required checks. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information and consent to enable UNICEF to undertake these checks.
Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially
Failure to comply with such requirements, where applicable and without a duly approved medical exemption from the relevant UN authority, will result in the cancellation of the selection or may lead to other administrative measures, including separation from service
Remarks
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.
UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce.
Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.
UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.
In this role, you will collaborate with colleagues across multiple locations. For effective collaboration, we encourage flexible working hours that accommodate different time zones while prioritizing staff wellbeing.
Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.
All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.