Child Protection Specialist, P3, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

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 74,649 USD and 97,747 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, opportunity.

UNICEF has committed to ensure that by 2026, children, families and communities in Bangladesh have increased knowledge and understanding of violence against children and women and are empowered to prevent violence and other harmful practices, including in humanitarian settings and in areas affected by climate change. This is a key pillar of the Child Protection Programme in Bangladesh and is especially important in the context of Cox’s Bazar.

How can you make a difference?

The Child Protection Specialist (P3) will lead the pillar on Ending VACW in Cox’s Bazar. The Child Protection Specialist will spearhead and represent UNICEF’s work on ending VACW in the Rohingya refugee camps and other refugee relocation areas, and in the Bangladeshi host communities. The role and context bridge the humanitarian and development realms and call for a preventive lens that focuses on promoting positive social norms, attitudes and practices. In particular, the Child Protection Specialist will work with national level colleagues to ensure roll-out of UNICEF’s support to a national scalability programme “Accelerating Protection for Children (APC)” under the leadership of the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs (MoWCA) across Bangladesh. The objective of the APC initiative is to empower and develop marginalized adolescents through Adolescent Clubs which follow the Peer Education Model. UNICEF will strengthen the system of the government and make the adolescent empowerment programme sustainable in accordance with UNICEF Country Programme.

In this respect the Child Protection Specialist will be central to the achievement of the programme output and to the fabric of the child protection team in Cox’s Bazar; she/he will have excellent project management and technical skills that equate to strong leadership of the pillar in alignment with UNICEF’s Child Protection strategy nationally.

The Child Protection Specialist will be instrumental to every stage of the programme/project cycle. She/he will support the preparation and development of programmes/projects, and will be responsible for the management, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation related to output on Ending VACW in Cox’s Bazar. The Child Protection Specialist will facilitate the administration and achievement of concrete and sustainable contributions to national and international efforts to create a protective environment for children against all harm, and to protect their rights to survival, development and wellbeing, as established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, international treaties/frameworks and UN intergovernmental bodies.

The position will be supervised by the Child Protection Manager (P4) with technical oversight of the Chief of Child Protection (P5) and pillar leads at national level.

Major duties and responsibilities:

1. Support to programme/project planning and development

2. Programme management (including HACT), monitoring and delivery of results

3. Technical and operational support to programme implementation

4. Networking and partnership building

5. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

For details please see attached TOR: ToR_CP Specialist P3 TA CXB.pdf

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

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: international development, child rights, human rights, child protection, psychology, sociology, international law, or another relevant social science field.
• A minimum of five years of professional experience in child protection development, planning and management is required.
• Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
• Relevant experience in programme development in child protection related areas in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
• Experience in both development and humanitarian contexts is considered as an added advantage.
• 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 values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

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.

UNICEF does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.

Internal candidates may be given preference over external candidates. The term "Internal" refers to all staff members with fixed term, continuing or permanent appointments.

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

The complete vacancy announcements can be reviewed via UNICEF Careers website at https://jobs.unicef.org/en-us/listing/

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