Child Protection Specialist, P4, Temp. Appointment for 364 days- EAPRO

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 128,995 USD and 166,313 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!

Stretching from Mongolia in the North to Tonga in the South, the UNICEF East Asia & Pacific Regional Office, based in Bangkok Thailand, covers one of the most diverse and dynamic areas in world.

The Child Protection section works to end violence against children at home, schools and online in the region, providing guidance, oversight and technical assistance to 14 Country Offices (COs) while leveraging regional partnerships and generating data and evidence, for child protection systems strengthening, violence prevention and strengthening access to justice for children.

Regional flagships include social service workforce strengthening, the roll out of Primero, and strengthening prevention and response to online exploitation and abuse.

How can you make a difference?

As Child Protection Specialist, you will lead the strategic, programmatic and advocacy efforts to strengthen prevention of violence against children, including online, and strengthen child protection systems in the East Asia and Pacific region.

You will be responsible for:

• Technical and programmatic leadership for priority actions of the East Asia and Pacific Regional Office for child protection systems strengthening (CPSS), including social service workforce strengthening (SSWS), violence prevention, including child online protection (COP) and strengthening linkages between CPSS, violence against children (VAC) and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) - Technical support to country offices and quality assurance for country programme development in the areas of child protection system strengthening and violence prevention - Management of the regional programme on online child exploitation and abuse.

Your main duties and responsibilities will include but not limited to:

1. Leading regional engagement and regional standards setting and implementation, including with ASEAN, on child protection systems strengthening and violence prevention
2. Providing technical support for the translation of global and regional standards and guidance on child protection systems strengthening, including the new system benchmarks, and violence prevention at national level
3. Coordinating, engaging donors and providing technical support for the regional child online protection programme

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

• An Advanced university degree, preferably in the social sciences, law, or other relevant field. A minimum of eight years of professional work experience at national and/or international levels in child protection systems strengthening including social service workforce strengthening and/or prevention of violence against children.
• Experience in programme management.
• Experience in child online protection and knowledge of applying child rights principles in technology contexts is desirable.
• Experience in the East Asia and Pacific Region is desirable.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the countries in EAP region is considered as 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 male candidates and those national of programme countries 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). 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.