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## Programme Manager (AAP), P4, Temporary Appointment (364 days), Port Sudan, Sudan #135754- (Open to non-Sudanese only)

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Job no:** 588962**
Contract type:** Temporary Appointment**
Duty Station:** Port Sudan**
Level:** P-4**
Location:** Sudan**
Categories:** Social and Behavior Change**

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

**For every child,* Hope.***

**Background and Strategic Context**

UNICEF provides humanitarian, peace, and development assistance to children, families, and communities in Sudan, focusing on health, nutrition, WASH, child protection, social protection, learning, and skills.

Children and young people affected by conflict, epidemics, and climate change are at the center of UNICEF’s work, including emergency response, preparedness, resilience-building, durable solutions for displaced populations, conflict prevention, social cohesion, and partnerships with civil society, NGOs, the private sector, frontline workers, and local institutions.

UNICEF Sudan is committed to integrating and scaling up Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) across all programmes, especially in the current Level 3 emergency. The AAP Programme Manager will lead the design, integration, and mainstreaming of AAP interventions, ensuring affected populations are central to UNICEF’s operations and partnerships.

Effective AAP implementation strengthens resilience, reduces vulnerability, and upholds the rights, dignity, and well-being of children and communities. It ensures programmes meet quality standards and are responsive to local needs, contributing to sustainable, locally owned results that improve child survival, development, and well-being.

UNICEF Sudan also leads the inter-agency AAP Working Group and the inter-agency complaints and feedback mechanism (CFM). While fully operational, systems are continuously enhanced, and data and feedback are regularly requested by the ICCG, UN agencies, INGOs, and donors.

All UNICEF programmes, systems, and procedures systematically include affected populations’ participation and accountability, ensuring feedback from girls, boys, women, and men informs decision-making and that staff and partners respect and act upon these inputs.

**How can you make a difference?**

Under the direct supervision of the Chief of Social Behavior Change and matrixed reporting to the Chief of Planning and Monitoring, and in collaboration with Section Chiefs, Chiefs of Field Offices, country office and field office AAP Program Manager is responsible for providing technical and operational support in the management, coordination and implementation of AAP interventions, ensuring views, preferences and priorities of affected populations are incorporated into all stages of the Country Office programme cycle and effectively inform the humanitarian response plans.

**Key functions/accountabilities:**

1.Lead the strategic design and implementation of all AAP pillars and action plans to scale up Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) interventions and processes across all country office programme interventions. Ensure improved understanding of and adoption of AAP principles and approaches at both country and field offices. (60%)

• Implement the Country Office strategy and programme section’s action plans to scale up AAP with has clear deliverables, indicators and timeframes to enable timely marked improvement in AAP performance, with a focus on closing the loop (by taking action and providing feedback to the community about how their views and inputs were addressed), based on operational modalities, community preferences and global best practice

• Review and update programme section AAP plans as necessary

• Overall management and oversight of the AAP team, including planning CFM budget and other associated planning and finances.

• Coordinate integration of AAP in Country and Field Office annual work plans and processes, ensuring that each programme (and operation) section has specific AAP outputs, activity and budgets for effective implementation.

• Convene a regular internal cross-sector group of focal points to share AAP experiences, develop and use common tools and approaches, and agree internal referral pathways for feedback management and resolution

• Ensure feedback, concerns and priorities from affected populations are consistently and systematically well highlighted during internal meetings and planning processes, especially but not limited to OMPs, CMT/PMTs, MYR/EYR.

• Facilitate development and use of harmonized tools and standards for staff and third-party monitoring and reporting of AAP activities, in accordance with agreed work plans and ensure corrective actions are taken as required

• Monitor the use of resources as planned and verify compliance with organizational guidelines, rules and regulations and standards of ethics and transparency

• Identify additional resources (human, financial, technical, etc.) needed to implement Sudan’s AAP strategy and explore options to mobilize these.

• Regularly monitor changes and emerging trends, including public perceptions that could impact access and acceptance of UNICEF and the programmes it supports, and recommend appropriate response measures

• Provide advice and guidance to UNICEF and interagency partners on AAP issues and approaches

2. Collective/inter-agency AAP: Representing and coordinating collective AAP approaches and initiatives in the humanitarian response. Analyze and synthesize inter-agency CFM feedback to inform targeted advocacy, networking and capacity building with external actors and powerholders, ensuring community priorities and concerns are presented to those best positioned to influence change. (30%)

• Serve as the primary focal point within the Country Office on AAP and regularly update on current AAP practices within the Country programme cycle

• Represent UNICEF at inter-agency Working Groups, clusters and other relevant groups or networks, formulating and articulating AAP plans and outcomes and disseminating key results, good practices and lessons learnt

• Lead for Sudan interagency AAP, represent UNICEF and AAP at the ICCG, build and sustain relationships with clusters to sustain uptake of AAP

• Work closely with OCHA, UNDP and RC/HC office on the use of AAP to inform responses across a multiplicity of contexts: humanitarian, development and resilience

• Represent UNICEF at inter-agency Working Groups, clusters and other relevant groups or networks, formulating and articulating AAP plans and outcomes and disseminating key results, good practices and lessons learnt.

3. Strengthening AAP linkages across cross cutting work streams: localization, gender, SBC, disability, climate change and all areas of community engagement. Ensure any evidence generation, innovation and knowledge management on AAP at UNICEF Sudan maintains external v...

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• Sudan

## Functional Area

Programme

• Social and Behavior Change

## Position level

• P-4

## Programme Manager (AAP), P4, Temporary Appointment (364 days), Port Sudan, Sudan #135754- (Open to non-Sudanese only)

Apply now
Job no:** 588962**
Contract type:** Temporary Appointment**
Duty Station:** Port Sudan**
Level:** P-4**
Location:** Sudan**
Categories:** Social and Behavior Change**

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

**For every child,* Hope.***

**Background and Strategic Context**

UNICEF provides humanitarian, peace, and development assistance to children, families, and communities in Sudan, focusing on health, nutrition, WASH, child protection, social protection, learning, and skills.

Children and young people affected by conflict, epidemics, and climate change are at the center of UNICEF’s work, including emergency response, preparedness, resilience-building, durable solutions for displaced populations, conflict prevention, social cohesion, and partnerships with civil society, NGOs, the private sector, frontline workers, and local institutions.

UNICEF Sudan is committed to integrating and scaling up Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) across all programmes, especially in the current Level 3 emergency. The AAP Programme Manager will lead the design, integration, and mainstreaming of AAP interventions, ensuring affected populations are central to UNICEF’s operations and partnerships.

Effective AAP implementation strengthens resilience, reduces vulnerability, and upholds the rights, dignity, and well-being of children and communities. It ensures programmes meet quality standards and are responsive to local needs, contributing to sustainable, locally owned results that improve child survival, development, and well-being.

UNICEF Sudan also leads the inter-agency AAP Working Group and the inter-agency complaints and feedback mechanism (CFM). While fully operational, systems are continuously enhanced, and data and feedback are regularly requested by the ICCG, UN agencies, INGOs, and donors.

All UNICEF programmes, systems, and procedures systematically include affected populations’ participation and accountability, ensuring feedback from girls, boys, women, and men informs decision-making and that staff and partners respect and act upon these inputs.

**How can you make a difference?**

Under the direct supervision of the Chief of Social Behavior Change and matrixed reporting to the Chief of Planning and Monitoring, and in collaboration with Section Chiefs, Chiefs of Field Offices, country office and field office AAP Program Manager is responsible for providing technical and operational support in the management, coordination and implementation of AAP interventions, ensuring views, preferences and priorities of affected populations are incorporated into all stages of the Country Office programme cycle and effectively inform the humanitarian response plans.

**Key functions/accountabilities:**

1.Lead the strategic design and implementation of all AAP pillars and action plans to scale up Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) interventions and processes across all country office programme interventions. Ensure improved understanding of and adoption of AAP principles and approaches at both country and field offices. (60%)

• Implement the Country Office strategy and programme section’s action plans to scale up AAP with has clear deliverables, indicators and timeframes to enable timely marked improvement in AAP performance, with a focus on closing the loop (by taking action and providing feedback to the community about how their views and inputs were addressed), based on operational modalities, community preferences and global best practice

• Review and update programme section AAP plans as necessary

• Overall management and oversight of the AAP team, including planning CFM budget and other associated planning and finances.

• Coordinate integration of AAP in Country and Field Office annual work plans and processes, ensuring that each programme (and operation) section has specific AAP outputs, activity and budgets for effective implementation.

• Convene a regular internal cross-sector group of focal points to share AAP experiences, develop and use common tools and approaches, and agree internal referral pathways for feedback management and resolution

• Ensure feedback, concerns and priorities from affected populations are consistently and systematically well highlighted during internal meetings and planning processes, especially but not limited to OMPs, CMT/PMTs, MYR/EYR.

• Facilitate development and use of harmonized tools and standards for staff and third-party monitoring and reporting of AAP activities, in accordance with agreed work plans and ensure corrective actions are taken as required

• Monitor the use of resources as planned and verify compliance with organizational guidelines, rules and regulations and standards of ethics and transparency

• Identify additional resources (human, financial, technical, etc.) needed to implement Sudan’s AAP strategy and explore options to mobilize these.

• Regularly monitor changes and emerging trends, including public perceptions that could impact access and acceptance of UNICEF and the programmes it supports, and recommend appropriate response measures

• Provide advice and guidance to UNICEF and interagency partners on AAP issues and approaches

2. Collective/inter-agency AAP: Representing and coordinating collective AAP approaches and initiatives in the humanitarian response. Analyze and synthesize inter-agency CFM feedback to inform targeted advocacy, networking and capacity building with external actors and powerholders, ensuring community priorities and concerns are presented to those best positioned to influence change. (30%)

• Serve as the primary focal point within the Country Office on AAP and regularly update on current AAP practices within the Country programme cycle

• Represent UNICEF at inter-agency Working Groups, clusters and other relevant groups or networks, formulating and articulating AAP plans and outcomes and disseminating key results, good practices and lessons learnt

• Lead for Sudan interagency AAP, represent UNICEF and AAP at the ICCG, build and sustain relationships with clusters to sustain uptake of AAP

• Work closely with OCHA, UNDP and RC/HC office on the use of AAP to inform responses across a multiplicity of contexts: humanitarian, development and resilience

• Represent UNICEF at inter-agency Working Groups, clusters and other relevant groups or networks, formulating and articulating AAP plans and outcomes and disseminating key results, good practices and lessons learnt.

3. Strengthening AAP linkages across cross cutting work streams: localization, gender, SBC, disability, climate change and all areas of community engagement. Ensure any evidence generation, innovation and knowledge management on AAP at UNICEF Sudan maintains external v...