Details Mission and objectives UNICEF BTN organization mission TBD Context UNICEF Bhutan is a small to medium size Country Office (CO), supporting the Royal Government of Bhutan in advancing the wellbeing of children’s education, health, water, sanitation and hygiene, child protection, social protection, adolescent development and participation, and communication for development. The Social Policy Section is responsible for managing and supervising all stages of social policy programing and related advocacy from strategic planning and formulation to delivery of concrete and sustainable results. This includes programmes aimed at improving (a) public policies to reduce child poverty; (b) social protection coverage and impact on children; (c) transparency, adequacy, equity and efficiency of child-focused public investments and financial management; and (d) governance, decentralization and accountability measures to increase public participation and the quality, equity and coverage of social services. This encompasses both direct programme work with government and civil society partners as well as linkages and support to teams working on education, health, child protection, water and sanitation and social protection. Task description Under the direct supervision of the Social Policy Specialist, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: 1. Strengthening social protection coverage and impact for children • Contribute to situation analysis and landscaping of social protection system in Bhutan. • Support the identification of opportunities for national dialogue on social protection policy, legislation, and programmes with attention to increasing coverage of and impact on children, with special attention on 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 develop social protection policy/framework, including a financing strategy to implement comprehensive and child sensitive social protection. • Support the design and implementation of child sensitive social protection programmes, including cash transfers and child grants. • Undertakes improved monitoring and research around social protection impact on child outcomes, and use of data and research findings for strengthening programme results. 2. Improving use of public financial resources for children • Support undertaking budget and expenditure analyses to inform UNICEF’s advocacy and technical assistance to Ministries of Finance and social sector ministries to improve equitable allocations for essential services for children. • Support developing investment case and identify policy options for improved domestic financing of child-sensitive interventions. • Explore opportunities for a dialogue with the Ministry of Finance and sectoral agencies to introduce child budgeting system and budget and expenditure tagging of child specific investment (e.g. ECCD, nutrition, etc.) • Support capacity building of partners including local government officials on public finance for children. 3. Strengthening capacity of local governments to plan, budget, consult on and monitor child-focused social services • Support collaboration with central and local authorities to improve policies, planning, budgeting, consultation and accountability processes so that decisions and service delivery is more closely respond to the needs of children and their families. • Support capacity building of the local authorities on child focused planning and budgeting, implementation, coordination, monitoring of essential social services, with emphasis on community and child participation in the local planning and budgeting process. • Support the implementation of community-based integrated programming in a few selected districts to contribute to the realization of children’s rights by working with local government and other local actors to respond to the needs and priorities of children, adolescents, and their families in an inclusive and equitable manner. 4. Strengthened advocacy and partnerships for child-sensitive social policy • Supports the review and analysis 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. • Support efforts to 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. • Support development of project proposals in consultation with partners for resource mobilization for social policy programmes. • Support drafting donor reports, including human interest stories for social policy section. • Support the social policy unit facilitate knowledge sharing through webinars, brownbag sessions, and communication materials, while creating and distributing briefs and updates to keep Country Office and the Social policy and social protection network informed. • Support the Social Policy Section in day-to-day operations and programme implementation tasks. Others: UN Volunteer is encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within his/her assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities: • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day); • Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Provide annual and end of assignment self- reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities. • Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers; • Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.