Child Protection Officer at the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: TA Child Protection Officer (Harmful Practices), NOB

Job Number: 521064
Location: Abuja
Work Type: Temporary Appointment

For every child, Protection
How can you make a difference?

• Under the supervision of the Child Protection Specialist (HPs), the Child Protection Officer (HPs) will coordinate the implementation of the Spotlight Initiative Programme activities in the focus states and will contribute to the overall work of the Child Protection section which includes ending all forms of violence against children, girls and women.

Major Responsibilities
Technical support for Social Norms change to ensure children, women and girls, who are victims or at significant risk of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation, including those in humanitarian settings, receive quality preventive and responsive services from a functioning child protection system at federal level and in targeted states by contributing to the following outcomes:

• Strengthening the Legislative and policy frameworks on all forms of violence against women and girls and harmful practices are in place and translated into plans
• Supporting the development of systems at national and sub-national levels to deliver evidence-based programmes that prevent and respond to violence against women and girls and harmful practices, including in other sectors.
• Strengthening gender equitable social norms, attitudes and behaviours change at community and individual levels to prevent violence against women and girls and harmful practices
• Strengthening access to quality essential services including for women and girls who experience violence
• Collect and analyze quality, disaggregated and globally comparable data on different forms of violence against women and girls and harmful practices,

More specifically, the incumbent will:
Design and develop programme strategies for ending violence against children, women, girls including child marriage:

• Design and formulate project proposals and initiatives;
• Draft inputs to country strategy documents, briefs, policy dialogues and other documents related to ending violence against children, women and girls and child marriage.

Implement activities related to ending violence against children, women and girls including child marriage:

• Technical implementation of the programme ensuring synergy with other teams;
• Provide technical advice and guidance and capacity building to implementing partners and manage the submission of financial and narrative reports;

Ensure quality monitoring and reporting of the programme:

• Manage the monitoring of programme implementation and finance using result-based management tools;
• Contribute to project and donor reports
• Provide technical support to the Child Protection Specialist/Project Team Leader on inter-agency coordination related activities by attending meetings, events, and participating in working groups and committees as needed;
• Coordinate with other UN agencies, government departments and implementing partners to ensure the projects capacity development programme is harmonized and aligned with other in-country efforts.

Provide advocacy, knowledge management and communication on violence against children, girls and women:

• Identify best practices and lessons learned to guide programme improvement and strategy planning;
• Develop knowledge management strategies, products and methodologies on ending violence against women and girls.

Qualifications, Experience and Competencies Required

• University degree in Social/Behavioural Sciences (Child development, Gender/women studies, Community development, Sociology, Anthropology).
• Minimum of five years progressively responsible work experience in planning and management of social development programmes at State and community levels.
• Proven skills in partnership building, networking, advocacy, negotiation and organising community dialogues, campaigns and special events around social norm changes especially on ending Harmful Practices including child marriage at community levels would be an advantage.
• Good understanding and experience in the field of social norms, gender and gender-based violence, community dynamics.
• Ability to express clearly and concisely ideas and concepts in written and oral forms.
• Knowledge of issues related to violence against children and women, child protection and other harmful practices is required
• Leadership and participation in previous assignment and in capacity similar or higher than this assignment
• Expertise in community mobilization and engagements, and sociocultural relations in the selected areas.
• Proven ability to work independently.

Competencies:

• Analytical, conceptual ability.
• Networking and partnership skills.
• Communication, documenting and report writing skills.
• Fluency in English- and local language of respective states of assignment.
• Computer skills, including various office applications and internet navigation skills

For every Child, you demonstrate:

• UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

View our competency framework at http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

Application Closing Date
23:55:00 GMT+0100 (W. Central Africa Standard Time); 15th April, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
• UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.