Technical Officer, Social Protection and Jobs

Under the overall guidance of the Director of the ILO Decent Work Team for East and South-East Asia/Country Office for Thailand, Cambodia and Lao PDR (DWT/CO-Bangkok), the Technical        Officer directly reports to the Senior Social Protection Specialist of DWT/CO-Bangkok. The Technical Officer receives technical backstopping from the Decent Work Team in Bangkok, including the Senior Social Protection Specialist, Employment and Skills Specialists, Gender and Inclusion Specialist, the Global Accelerator Technical Support Facility (TSF) in ILO Geneva and relevant technical departments in ILO Geneva. The incumbent works in coordination with project staff and national partners involved in the implementation of the projects.

Description of Duties:

• Ensure effective coordination, implementation, including elaboration of Annual Work Plan, corresponding budgets, monitoring and evaluation, communication of project activities, and production of technical progress reports and project implementation status in accordance with the policies, program strategies, programming guidelines, administrative financial procedures of the ILO, as well as of the monitoring and evaluation framework of the Global Accelerator.
• Support the implementation of the activities under the work plan of the projects by contributing to the drafting of relevant concept notes, strategy papers and terms of references for consultants and coordinate the development of policy-oriented research and publication.
• Provide policy support services to PUNOs, constituents and other national and regional institutions in the field of integrated approach to employment and social protection, with a particular emphasis on employment and social protection systems financing and integrated approaches to formalization, in close collaboration with technical specialists in the DWT/CO-Bangkok and reflecting gender- and inclusion-specific evidence and recommendations
• Provide technical advice to UNJP partners and constituents in Cambodia, on institutional strengthening and implementation of National Roadmap for implementation of Global Accelerator, taking into account LNOB principles, application of human rights instruments ratified by Cambodia and the application of International Labour Standards (ILS).
• Coordinate with other PUNOs to prepare, execute and monitor results of the integrated workplan, ensuring timely and efficient coordination and delivery of programme components, outputs, reporting, and monitoring and evaluation of the project activities in conformity with ILO/SDGF policies, project strategies, programming guidelines, and administrative and financial procedures.
• Review reports, publications and materials prepared by UNJP, in close collaboration with the PUNO’s, DWT-CO Bangkok, Global Accelerator TSF and the ILO Social Protection and Employment Departments to ensure that country and regional products feed the production of global products and that none of the material fails to provide gender and social inclusion information and perspective.
• Liaise with UNRCO on matters related to reporting to UN SDGF Secretariat and preparation and coordination of the UNJP Steering Committee meetings, Global Accelerator Steering Committee meetings. Prepare background documents for these meetings and meeting minutes.
• Develop and organise programmes of seminars, workshops, roundtables, technical meetings and training courses in consultation with the relevant specialists, PUNOs, UNRCO and national constituents including members of the Global Accelerator Steering Committee.
• Provide backstopping and technical inputs in the preparation of regional and country analyses, including training materials, reports and publications related to the projects particularly on coordination, advocacy, public debate, economic analysis/modelling, social protection and employment financing, and informal economy.
• Ensure that project activities, budgets, M&E, communication of project activities and production of technical reports and status updates is gender-responsive in line with ILO commitments. For example, ensuring that gender and inclusion is explicitly incorporated into research, analysis, training, advocacy etc., that quantitative data is disaggregated by sex and other social variables, and that policy-oriented research and publications are not gender neutral but rather reach a high standard of specificity related to inclusion.

Description of Duties:

• Support capacity building activities for tripartite partners and provide technical expertise and advice to the stakeholders of the projects including Employers’ and Workers’ representatives, in defining their potential role in supporting sectoral approaches to formalization and the development of sector campaigns, registration tools, support services, formalization package and respective training and incentives. Activities should include practical support to partners’ gender and inclusion capacity as part of their supporting formalisation and related activities.
• Explore synergies with other ILO programmes/projects to integrate social protection and formalization in relevant outputs and activities, aligned with the Decent Work Country Programmes and national development priorities in Asia-Pacific region.
• Support the coordination of the Global Accelerator initiative and Social Protection/Employment issues in Cambodia in collaboration with the Employment and Social Protection Specialists in HQs and DWT-Bangkok, the Global Accelerator TSF in HQ Geneva. 
• Serves as focal point for the ILO-IMF collaboration, liaising with IMF counterparts at country level; finalizing the outputs agreed (especially those linked to the Art. IV mission); reports to SOCPRO on the activities linked to the ILO-IMF collaboration; supports the internal evaluation process; and disseminates knowledge on financing and the results of the cooperation to national constituents.
• Support resource mobilization efforts, both financial and technical, necessary for the continuity and expansion of initiatives under National Roadmap for Global Accelerator for Cambodia, including exploring opportunities for collaboration with IFIs as well as bilateral and multilateral Public Development Banks and donors.
• Support communication and dissemination activities such as drafting news articles and sharing with partners’ institutions.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Required qualifications:

Education:

• Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in economics, social policy, public finance or relevant field with demonstrated focus on employment and social protection issues. Strong knowledge of development issues, particularly in the region of Asia and Pacific, including related to gender and inclusion.
• A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s or equivalent) in one of the afore-mentioned fields or other relevant field with an additional two years of relevant experience, in addition to the required experience stated below, will be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Experience:

• At least five (5) years of relevant international experience in social protection and/or employment promotion . Familiarity with international labour standards, experience of working in and with developing countries and with officials of ministries of labour, social protection or finance and social partners would be an advantage.

Languages:

• Excellent knowledge of English both written and verbal.

Source: https://jobs.ilo.org/job/Phnom-Penh-Technical-Officer,-Social-Protection-and-Jobs/1172384901/