Child Protection Coordinator – Rapid Response Rosters

  • Short-Term
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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Since two years, countries in the ESA region have experienced an alarming increase in the number of new, or re-emerging humanitarian emergencies, including public health (including Ebola, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, wild poliovirus, and Cholera), armed conflicts and natural disasters emergencies.

UNICEF ESAR has prioritized the critical need to support countries to rapidly scale up capacity to prevent, mitigate, and manage ongoing and anticipated emergencies as well as to enhance capacity for preparedness and response to these emergencies.

Purpose

The purpose of this external announcement is to attract suitable Child Protection Coordinator candidates interested in working in any of the countries within UNICEF’s East and Southern Africa region to respond to emergencies for the next 36 months. The countries within each region are listed on the following website: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html.

How can you make a difference?

As part of UNICEF’s Core Commitment for Children in Humanitarian Action, the Child Protection Coordinator) is expected to provide leadership and support to the sub-regional and national child protection coordination structures within the Humanitarian Cluster Approach. To fulfill this function, a Child Protection Coordinator is needed to secure the overall cluster coordination of child protection responses at the national level.  in their efforts to respond to the current crisis.

Key activities & duties
  • Lead and/or support child protection coordination mechanisms promoting and facilitating active participation from key actors, including, where relevant, government.
  • Work with the Protection Cluster(s) and/or other key actors to: identify opportunities to integrate child protection into other protection and other sector activities and to avoid duplication; prevent unintentional harm to children as a result of inappropriate humanitarian assistance.
  • Work with child protection actors to assess the needs, coordinate and oversee inter-agency needs assessment about child protection issues to map out priority protection gaps and identify key resources and assets, including existing child protection systems (both formal and informal).
  • Facilitate the development of an agreed interagency child protection response strategy.
  • Facilitate the creation of processes to monitor achievement of agreed interagency goals.
  • Promote and support adherence to agreed, interagency Child Protection standards
  • Undertake advocacy on behalf of the interagency group as required
  • Collaborate with the Protection Cluster lead and OCHA to ensure that key child protection concerns are reflected in all documents and humanitarian initiatives.
  • Work with the Gender-based Violence and MHPSS working groups to ensure that CP and GBV actors work together to meet the comprehensive GBV-related needs of children.
  • Establish results-oriented, two-way communication channels between regional level, national level and sub-national Child Protection coordinator groups (as relevant), to promote, upgrade and strengthen a more standardized child protection response across all affected areas.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education-

  • Advanced university degree, or equivalent experience, in social work or child psychology, or other relevant field.

Work Experience- 

  • A minimum of 5-8 years’ experience with either the UN and/or NGO, especially in emergency settings.
  • Excellent commination and interpersonal skills, and proven success in facilitating interagency processes to achieve a common goal,

Language Requirement:-

  • Fluency in verbal and written English and/or French (depending on the country office’s official language). Knowledge of another UN language or a local language is an asset.
  • Good written and spoken skills in the language of the humanitarian operation in country of assignment.

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