A National Consultant as a Child Protection Officer, 6 Months, Marib (Open Only for Yemeni Nationals)

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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.

And we never give up.

For every child, Protection

In the 1970s UNICEF established presence in Yemen to respond to the urgent needs of children in the poorest country in the Middle East. In 1991, Yemen ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child and it was enacted immediately. Since then the country has been making steady progress for children until it plunged into a brutal conflict in 2015 but even before that, Yemen needed large amounts of humanitarian assistance.

In collaboration with local authorities, non-governmental organizations and community partners, UNICEF is working in all the governorates in Yemen to respond to the needs of children throughout the country with a continuum of services to help children survive and grow to their full potential through the following programmes: Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Basic Education, and Child protection.

For more on our work in Yemen, please visit our website: https://www.unicef.org/yemen/

How can you make a difference?

Under the supervision of the Child Protection specialist P3 in Aden, you will support the coordination of Child Protection AoR in Marib hub (70%) and design, implementation and monitoring of Child protection program (30%) at Marib hub. You will provide professional technical, operational, and administrative assistance throughout the coordination and programming process for the child protection programmes/projects in Marib.

Your tasks for this consultancy assignment include the following:

• Conduct periodical Child protection AoR meetings and share meeting actions with National CP AoR (possibly before National CP AoR meeting) and ensure CP representation into inter-agency meetings at the field level.
• Collect, analyze, verify, and synthesize information on child protection risks and needs of children in Marib.
• Facilitate inter-agency CP risks and needs assessment if required, in coordination with CP AoR.
• Conduct planned programmatic visit and upload the report in e-tool. Keep track of the completion rate of the HACT insurance activities.
• Participate in monitoring exercises, program reviews and annual sectoral reviews with government and other counterparts and prepare minutes/reports on results for follow up action by higher management and other stakeholders.

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To qualify for this national consultancy, you should have:

• A bachelor’s degree in social science, Social Work, Education, Law or a relevant field.
• At least three year of professional experience in social development planning and management in child protection or related areas including education.
• Proven experience working and coordinating project implementation with government partners
• Proven experience in developing activity implementation plan and budget
• Familiarity with the context and emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English & Arabic is required.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies are: Builds & Maintains Partnership; Demonstrates Self-Awareness & Ethical Awareness; Drive to Achieve Results for Impact; Innovates and Embraces Change; Manages Ambiguity and Complexity; Thinks and Acts Strategically and Works Collaboratively with Others.

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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 be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.