Child Protection Manager, P4, Juba South Sudan, for non-South Sudanese only

Contract

This is a P-4 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 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 142,550 USD and 183,789 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

The UNICEF South Sudan Child Protection programme has developed an innovative integrated programme where Child Protection systems are being expanded and deployed to prevent and respond to ongoing child protection risks as well as scale up to meet cyclical emergencies and conflicts, as and when they arrive. This is based on learning and referencing the context in South Sudan where short term emergency focused child protection programmes have failed to meet the ongoing needs of children whose lives have been irrevocably affected through grave violations such as the loss of parents, rape, child recruitment, severe deprivation, neglect or other abuses.

How can you make a difference?

The Child Protection Manager(CPM) will provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process. This includes the whole programme cycle from development planning to delivery of results, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative tasks. It also includes progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting. A key function of this post is also the management of a partnership to rollout the Child Protection Information Management System across all 19 of UNICEF’s Local NGO partners which are providing case management services to children in grave situations – those arising as a consequence of emergency related events or children in grave vulnerability due to other factors.

Manager will be responsible for the continuous development and fine tuning of a strategy aimed at building a workforce, localized partnership base and the rolling out of a professionalization programme including scale up of case management systems, building a Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism reporting and response system that is defined by high quality services and case management with integrity.

The CPM contributes to achievement of results according to plans, allocation, results basedmanagement approaches and methodology (RBM) and UNICEF’s Strategic Plans, standards of performance and accountability framework.

Main Responsibilities and Tasks include;

1. Technical guidance on UNICEF’s integrated CPiE and CP Systems programme and results.
2. Oversee UNICEF’s rollout of the Child Protection Information Management System and related case management protocols and tools.
3. Support in resource mobilization, proposal development and planning.
4. Program management, monitoring and delivery of results
5. Technical and operational support to program implementation through capacity support to Child Protection staff outside of Juba. Position requires monthly travel to support child protection staff outside of Juba.
6. Networking and partnership building – ensuring strong relations with government line ministries, UN partners, key and emerging donors and support to senior management with talking points and relevant advocacy priorities as needed.
7. Innovation, learning, knowledge management and capacity building on programming in the nexus between CP Systems and CP in Emergencies

8. Principle Officer in Charge/Deputy for the Chief of Child Protection

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s) in development studies, human rights, social sciences, law, social work or other relevant field.
• A minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience in progressive experience in emergency and non-emergency locations.
• Experience supervising child protection officers and specialists.
• Experience designing and implementing child protection programmes – both systems and emergency programmes.
• Experience in resource mobilization and donor relations.
• Strong track record in maintaining honest, strong, transparent and collaborative relations with partners – government, donors, local partners and international NGOs.
• Proven track record in knowledge sharing and learning in respect of child protection and GBV programmes.
• Proven track record and knowledge of designing and implementing innovative child protection programmes. Experience in overseeing, implementing or supervising research programmes that assess impact and quality improvements in well being of children highly regarded.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, 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.

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.

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 are encouraged to apply.

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). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be cancelled.

All selected candidates will 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.

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.

Eligible UNICEF International Professional (IP) Staff Members on fixed-term, continuing or permanent contracts applying to a Temporary Appointment, which is dedicated to L3 (or L2) Response, may be able to retain a lien and their fixed-term entitlements. The conditions of the temporary assignment will vary depending on the status of their post and their current tour of duty, and relocation entitlements may be limited as per the relevant policies.