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Kenya has experienced an impressive economic growth over the last few years. The economy has been growing at about 6% yearly in a generally stable macro-economic environment.

Kenya, with a GDP per capita of US$1,366 in 2015 has shifted from low income country to lower middle income.

Despite such an enabling environment Kenya’s children remain disproportionately represented among the poor and vulnerable.

According to the 2015/2016 Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIBHS), 41.5% of children are living below the national poverty line while a recent Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analyses (MODA, 2014) revealed that 45% of children are deprived in three or more basic needs necessary to their wellbeing.

With a human development index of 0.555, Kenya is ranked 146 globally. The child poverty and deprivation findings indicates that in 2017, a total of 9.5 million children or 45% of all children under age 18 in Kenya experience severe child poverty.

In that context, UNICEF’s social policy programme aims to support child sensitive policies, strategies and financing to reduce monetary and non-monetary poverty, and vulnerabilities and to promote individual, household and community resilience to shocks and stress. In the last four years, UNICEF’s support to the Government has led to an improved inclusion of children in national and county plan which is a critical milestone.

How can you make a difference?

The Social Policy and economic specialist position will to lead the Public Finance for children (PF4C) work carried out by UNICEF Kenya Country Office. In this regard this position will provide technical and programmatic support with all sections/programmes to support the office in its efforts to leverage greater, more effective, and equitable domestic public investments in children and ensure results in the areas of health, education, HIV, nutrition, child protection, social protection, and WASH.

The Social Policy Specialist (Public Finance) will report to the Chief of Social Policy. The position will collaborate with: (i) government counterparts, including the Ministry of Finance (MoF), social sector ministries and Parliamentarians; (ii) external partners, including the World Bank, IMF, donors, other UN agencies and civil society organizations; and (iii) UNICEF technical staff from program sections as well as from UNICEF’s regional office.

Lead data and evidence generation to advocate for greater and better public investments in children (30%)

Provide technical leadership for the scaling up of UNICEF's PF4C work in Kenya in line with the Country Programme Document.

Develop and apply relevant PFM tools together with government counterparts and development partners, including budget briefs, thematic budget analyses, Citizens Budgets, the Open Budget Survey, subnational budget scorecards, subnational financial dashboards, Public Expenditure Reviews (PERs), Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys (PETS), cost efficiency and/or cost effectiveness analyses, expenditure incidence analyses, costing exercises, fiscal space analyses, financing and/or affordability studies, cost-benefit analyses, cost of inaction analyses, etc.

Serve as the country focal point of technical expertise in the area of PF4C. Monitor developments in technical area, as well as political and social developments, at the national and county levels.

Regularly disseminates national and county budget data as well as information on systems and socio-economic trends and their implications for national and county programming.

Provides support in analyzing child poverty and its impact on children and its determinants and proposes appropriate responses in terms of government resource allocation policies and social welfare policies.

Lead UNICEF engagement in the national and county