Child Protection Officer, NO-A, Dnipro - Ukraine

Contract

This is a NO-1 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-1 contracts.

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

How can you make a difference?

The Sub-national coordinator is a core member of the child protection sub-cluster coordination team. The overall aim of the Child Protection Sub-national coordinator is to ensure comprehensive, efficient, and timely responses to the child protection concerns facing children affected by armed conflict and winterization in line with the National Child Protection Sub-Cluster Strategy, Child Protection Minimum Standard in Humanitarian Action (CPMS), the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and Case management SOPs and ISP, etc.

The Child Protection Officer reports to the Child Protection Sub-cluster coordinator for close guidance and supervision.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RELATED DUTIES

1. Support service delivery by:

• Conduct regular (weekly or bi-weekly) sub-national coordination and engage partners for coordinated response.
• Maintain a regular communication with partners, stakeholders and child protection authorities with/for updates related to child protection service provision.

• Document the sub-national cluster meetings and share with partners within agreed timeframe, and keep the partners and stakeholders updated with the cluster needs and gaps.

• Generate evidence-based data on emerging CP issues and concerns to inform advocacy communicate with the national CP Cluster coordinator to ensure appropriate support for interagency CP activities.

• Expand the coordination of child protection response to heard to reach children including newly accessible areas.

• Ensure timely and regular information-sharing, with Sub-national CPSC members, national CP SC coronation team, and other clusters/coordination forums, as appropriate.

• Promote Child Protection common approaches, standards, guidelines, and good practices and enforce field compliance with Child Protection policies, standards, and procedures, including identifying existing service gaps and opportunities for programming and funding.

• Seek complementarity and synergy with development actors and promote system-based approach.

• Assess the capacity of child protection actors to identify the needs in the capacity building of CPiE programming and coordination.

  2. Linkages with other working groups/coordination forums

• The Sub-national CPSC will establish and maintain close links and collaboration with other cluster working groups to improve the child protection response especially and represent CP SC at Sub-national ICCG, Area Humanitarian Country Team (AHCT) meetings.

• Sharing of information and analysis on coordinated assessments and provide weekly inputs to OCHA led humanitarian coordination and dissemination
• With the support of National CP SC, develop joint capacity building plans and activities with focus on child protection approaches, case management etc.
• Joint advocacy and raising awareness initiatives addressing key child protection concerns such as child marriage, child labor as well as other issues affecting children.

• Active participation of the co-chairs of the CPWG in the Protection and GBV WG meetings at state and regional level.

  3. On regular basis, review the progress against the state specific benchmarks and agreed results to identify gaps and find ways to address them.

• Promote the CP Sub-cluster situation and response (5Ws/Activity Info) monitoring tools to minimize duplication of service delivery and ensuring complementarity.

• Contribute to and widely disseminate of the CP Sub-cluster products and resources among the Sub-national CPSC members.
• Ensure that key child protection concerns are reflected in multi-sectoral assessments as well as other sectoral-specific assessments as far as possible.
• Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual sectoral reviews with the government and other counterparts and prepare minutes/reports on results for follow up action by higher management and other stakeholders.
• Report on issues identified to ensure timely resolution by management and stakeholders. Follow up on unresolved issues to ensure resolution.

• Prepare inputs for programme and donor reporting.

  4. Technical and operational, Strategic planning by:

• Undertake field visits and surveys and collect and share reports with partners and stakeholders.

• Based on the analysis of the situation, contribute to the development of the national CP SC inputs to the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), inclusive of analysis, objectives, indicators, activities, and funding requirements.
• Provide technical and operational support to government counterparts, NGO partners, UN system partners and other country office partners/donors on the application and understanding of child protection common approaches, standards, guidelines, and good

• Provision of updates, analysis and information relating to the response of child protection SC (monthly 5Ws, child protection partner presence map, child protection service mapping, web-based referral pathways dashboards, email directory) practices strategies, processes and best practices in child protection, to support programme implementation.

  5. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

• Identify, capture, synthesize, and share lessons learned for knowledge development and to build the capacity of stakeholders.

• Apply innovative approaches and promote good practices to support the implementation and delivery of concrete and sustainable programme results.

• Research, benchmark and report on best and cutting-edge practices for development planning of knowledge products and systems.

• Participate as a resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of clients and stakeholders.

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

• A university degree in one of the following fields is required: international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field.
• A minimum of one year of professional experience in social development planning and management in child protection related areas is required. Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
• Fluency in English and local language of the duty station is required. Knowledge of another official UN language is considered as 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: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

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. 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 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 be 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.

This position is based in Odesa, and the incumbent will be expected to work on-site. However, depending on the security conditions and advisory, s/he will be required to relocated within Ukraine.

Please note, this position is for Nationals of Ukraine only.