Child Protection Officer NOB, Erbil-Iraq (for Iraqi National only)

Contract

This is a NO-2 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-2 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,

Inline with Goal 3 of the UNICEF Strategic Plan 2022-25, and ultimately, towards the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals the focus of Child Protection Programme is that children, adolescents and women, especially the most vulnerable, are protected from violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect, in accordance with international standards. Under the Output 3 of the Child Protection Workplan, the priority areas for this assignment is to ensure children affected by armed conflict benefit from a strengthened system for monitoring, reporting and responding to violations of child rights in armed conflict, including prevention, rehabilitation and reintegration into the community

This assignment is established to provide information management support to the children affected by armed conflict agenda within the Child Protection Programme with UNICEF Iraq Country Office.

The Child Protection Officer reports to the Child Protection Specialist in Baghdad for supervision. The Child Protection Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for child protection programmes/projects within the Country Programme from development planning to delivery of results. H/She prepares, executes, manages, and implements a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, evaluating and reporting

How can you make a difference?

Key activities and results for the period of the stretch include but are not limited to:

Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM)

• Support the Iraq CO and Syria CO MRM with documenting child rights violations.
• Update and input the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism information management system (MRMIMS) -currently a spreadsheet.
• Produce infographics/ presentations to support quarterly (and ad hoc) meetings related to MRM including: the monitoring and reporting mechanism technical working group (MRMTWG), country task force on the monitoring and reporting mechanism (CTFMR), and ad hoc CAAC briefings/ donor presentations.
• Ensure MRM IMS data is cleaned, concise and reliable to input into quarterly global horizontal notes (GHNs) and SG Annual Report on CAAC.
• Support coordination of meetings including MRMTWG, drafting meeting minutes, reviewing workplan, maintaining contact lists, circulating minutes.

Action Plan:

• Support information management to document implementation of the Action Plan, meeting minutes, ensuring data protection protocols observed.

Reintegration:

• Support the Child Protection Section with Reintegration Programming, especially organization of monthly meetings, workshops and support with related programme/grant monitoring visits.
• Manage reintegration information management system in coordination with IOM counterparts. This includes ensuring data on children tracked to capture their individual journey and continuum of care, including reintegration services received.
• Ensure children released from detention in need of reintegration services also captured in above IMS.
• Produce infographics on return data (individuals and areas of return). Ensure this is updated systematically.
• Produce visuals/infographics to map UNICEF reintegration programming (partners, donors, geographic locations, number of children reached).
• Support FOs in indicator tracking, ensuring alignment with AWP targets, and proposal targets.

Explosive Ordnance Risk Education:

• Ensure information management of explosive ordnance incidents recorded in MRM IMS, including response to children affected by EO.

Foreign Caseload:

• Maintain foreign caseload information management system (currently a spreadsheet). Ensure information updated and cleaned subsequent to each repatriation.
• Ensure limited spreadsheet linked to the foreign caseload dashboard, and ongoing functioning of this dashboard

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

• Education: A first level university degree in one of the following fields is required: social work, or another relevant field including international development, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, information management.
• Experience:
• A minimum of 2 years of solid professional work experience at the national level child protection development and emergency programming in developing countries.
• Experience managing data, databases and in developing dash boards and information sharing platforms.

• Emergency field experience working in humanitarian situations, including deployment missions (with UN-Govt-NGOs) is an asset.

• Language: Fluency in English and Arabic (written and verbal) is required.

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.

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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:

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[If applicable] This position has been assessed as an elevated risk role for Child Safeguarding purposes as it is:a role with direct contact with children, works directly with children, is a safeguarding response role. Additional vetting and assessment for elevated risk roles in child safeguarding (potentially including additional criminal background checks) applies.

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

[If Applicable] 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.