Child Protection AoR Coordinator, P3, TA, East Jerusalem, SOP, 364 days

Contract

This is a P-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 125,186 USD and 163,922 USD.

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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

UNICEF in the State of Palestine works to uphold the rights of children to access services and protection, from early childhood through to adolescence. Our objective is to ensure that every child in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, irrespective of background or circumstance, has an equal chance to fulfil their potential.

How can you make a difference?

The Child Protection Specialist, AoR reports to the Chief, Child Protection for guidance and the general supervision of the Emergency Specialist.

The Child Protection Specialist AoR Coordinator will provide leadership and representation of the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group. The incumbent will facilitate the processes that will ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by participants in the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group that is accountable to those who are affected by the emergency. In their effort to provide an efficient and effective response to the humanitarian crisis, the Child Protection Specialist AoR Coordinator is responsible for building relationships with stakeholders, for securing the overall coordination of sectoral responses and for ensuring inter-sectoral collaboration at the national level and for ensuring adequate coordination with the national level.

The Child Protection Specialist AoR coordinator will also be responsible for supporting UNICEF as a cluster lead agency to perform and strengthen its role as the last resort provider for the Child Protection sector to ensure an adequate and appropriate response.

As a result of the protracted nature of the situation in the State of Palestine, this position will combine the core AoR coordination functions with efforts to support UNICEF’s work on strengthening national systems, engaging communities, and planning and preparing for future emergencies in line with realization of the HDP nexus.

As an advocate for children, you will have the following duties/tasks:

1. Coordination, representation and leadership

• Establish/strengthen and maintain a coordination mechanism that facilitates the effective achievement of the cluster functions (as outlined by the IASC Reference Module) and the requirements of the HPC (HNO, HRP and CCPM) and which builds on pre-existing coordination structures where appropriate and furthers the development of current or future national and subnational capacities,
• Oversee the functioning of any sub-national AoR/ Sector/ Working Group, including thematic task forces, where they exist, ensuring alignment of work and priorities, effective communication, reporting, engagement, and coordination between the two levels,
• Coordinate with UNICEF Child Protection Programme section, ensuring alignment of work and priorities, effective communication, reporting and engagement, and overall coherence in light of UNICEF’s role as AOR Lead Agency
• Coordinate with the Protection Cluster and other AoRs (GBV, MA, Legal taskforce) to ensure mainstreaming of key child protection issues and collaboration on cross-cutting protection concerns, as well as alignment of work and priorities, effective communication, reporting and engagement,
• Supervise the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group coordination team,
• Ensure appropriate coordination and build partnerships with all relevant sector stakeholders including government counterparts and national authorities, local, national, and international organizations, other AoRs/ Clusters/Sectors/ Working Groups, inter-cluster-coordination fora, and affected populations as appropriate,
• Build complementarity of partner actions within AoR/ Sector/ Working Group, pro-actively negotiating with partners to avoid and resolve duplication and gaps

2. Needs assessment and analysis

• Lead the planning and implementation of child protection needs assessment and analysis, including representing the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group in multi-sectoral needs assessments and joint analysis of need, at national and subnational levels,
• Analyse needs assessment data and work collaboratively with the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group partners to create analytical products, including an evidence based HNO.

3. Strategic response planning

• Lead and coordinate strategic planning, response prioritization, and the development of the sectoral response plan that is based on the HNO and aligned with national priorities, policie,s and plans, and updated regularly according to emerging needs.
• Ensure all programme delivery modalities (in-kind, cash, voucher, and services) are given equal consideration in the strategic response planning and establish and implement systematic measures for supporting their consideration and use,
• Provide relevant technical expertise and advice to AoR/ Sector/ Working Group partners to ensure activities are aligned with national priorities and communities' needs,
• Ensure that sub-national AoR/ Sector/ Working Group response planning is updated regularly according to evolving needs and that it establishes indicators by which performance of the sub-national AoR/ Sector/ Working Group can be measured,
• Engage with OCHA and other AoRs/ Clusters/ Sectors/ Working Groups to contribute to the development of the HRP, advocating for a response that reflects and addresses the concerns of the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group.

4. Resource mobilization and advocacy

• Support and coordinate the mobilization of adequate resources to ensure effective functioning of the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group and its response as well as the HDP nexus and system strengthening components, and subsequent handing over and establishment of medium to long term capacities when the cluster approach is deactivated,
• Monitor, analyse and communicate information about AoR/ Sector/ Working Group’s financial situation and resource mobilization and identify appropriate actions to address gaps or constraints,
• Advocate for improved sectoral outcomes, network with advocacy allies and influence stakeholders' decision-making.

5. Implementation and monitoring

• Monitor, evaluate and report on the coverage, equity, quality and progress of the response against the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group strategy, priorities and agreed results, including system strengthening and HDP nexus.
• Plan and support gap and coverage analysis to identify spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps and coverage of the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group humanitarian response,
• Monitor the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group’s adherence to IASC cluster approach principles, relevant humanitarian and sectoral agreements, standards, initiatives and guidelines and encourage partners to make improvements.

6. Operational peer review and evaluation

• Lead the annual cluster coordination performance monitoring (CCPM) exercise and annual review and contribute to other sectoral and humanitarian evaluations as appropriate.

7. Accountability to affected populations

• Be accountable to the affected population by promoting inclusive and consultative feedback mechanisms and encouraging the involvement of affected population in the response,
• Ensure the inclusion of cross cutting issues (age, disability, gender, gender-based violence (GBV) mitigation and response and HIV & AIDS) in AoR/ Sector/ Working Group activities throughout the HPC,
• Encourage partners to demonstrate a positive and systematic approach to inclusion and diversity,
• Adhere to child safeguarding and PSEA policies including procedures for challenging and reporting incidents and ensure other members of the coordination team comply.

8. Strengthen national and local capacity

• Encourage participation of local and national actors in AoR/ Sector/ Working Group activities and strategic decision-making, removing barriers to access,
• Lead the development of a capacity assessment and capacity strengthening strategy for AoR/ Sector/ Working Group members and oversee implementation and harmonization of initiatives,
• Lead early warning, contingency planning, and emergency preparedness efforts for the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group, ensuring adequate participation in inter-cluster early warning, contingency planning and emergency preparedness activities.
• Be responsible for Supporting UNICEF as a cluster lead agency to perform and strengthen its role as the last resort provider for the cluster to ensure an adequate and appropriate response.
• Lead efforts to support UNICEF’s work on strengthening national systems, engaging national authorities, communities, humanitarian and development donors, and planning and preparing for future emergencies in line with the realization of the HDP nexus

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

Education:

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field.
• Extensive work experience relevant to this post may be considered as a replacement for formal qualifications.

Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in child protection planning and management is required. Relevant experience in programme management in child protection related areas in a UN system agency or organization is considered an asset.
• Experience of working in the humanitarian coordination system and protection or child protection coordination is required.

• Experience in effective management of human resources/teams in high stress/risk environments is an advantage.

  Language Requirements:

Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language, preferably Arabic, is considered an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others (8) Nurtures, leads and manages people.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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:

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

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